Maya Vella, MD

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Dr. Vella completed her MD, residency and fellowship at UCSF while also serving as a T32 scholar during 2020-21.

As a clinician scientist, Dr. Vella has published research on the use of PET/CT in lung cancer staging in the veteran population, on MRI sequences in screening for cerebral arteriovenous malformations in Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia patients and on gender disparities between education leadership and other forms of leadership in academic radiology.

Current projects include the creation and evaluation of an imaging-based criteria for the diagnosis of hypersensitivity pneumonitis, analysis of medical student grading schema, and evaluation of the natural history of pulmonary metastases in gastrointestinal tumors.

Publications

Development and validation of a risk nomogram predicting pneumothorax requiring chest tube placement post-percutaneous CT-guided lung biopsy.

Multidisciplinary Approach to Familial Pulmonary Fibrosis.

An open-source fine-tuned large language model for radiological impression generation: a multi-reader performance study.

Arterial Spin-Labeling MR Imaging in the Detection of Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations in Patients with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia.

Characterizing Risk Factors Associated With Recurrent Pleural Effusions in the Lung Transplant Recipients.

Application of a Domain-specific BERT for Detection of Speech Recognition Errors in Radiology Reports.

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