Brian Haas, MD
Associate Professor
Radiology
School of Medicine

Dr. Haas finished his diagnostic radiology residency at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, followed by a Cardiac and Pulmonary Imaging fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to joining the faculty at UCSF, Dr. Haas was an Associate Physician with The Permanente Medical Group.

Dr. Haas studies the use of CT, MRI, and image guided biopsies in evaluating disease of the heart, lungs, and mediastinum. In particular, Dr. Haas explores the impact on clinical decision making of uncertainty following radiologic examinations. He also has an interest in quality improvement and patient safety, and studying how as a health system we can develop more robust practices so that patients receive the very best treatment the first time and every time.

Dr. Haas is an active member of the Society of Thoracic Radiology, North American Society of Cardiovascular MRI, the Radiological Society of North America, the American Roentgen Ray Society, and the American College of Radiology. Additionally, Dr. Haas is a manuscript reviewer for the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Expertise: Cardiac and Pulmonary Imaging

Specialty: Thoracic Imaging

Professional Interests: Quality improvement and patient safety, clinical decision-making following indeterminate test results, cancer screening, radiation dose standardization

Education and Training:

• Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Internship: Albert Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Residency: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
• Fellowship: University of California, San Francisco – Cardiac and Pulmonary Imaging

• Editorial Comment: Report Extent of Consolidation and Pulmonary Artery Diameter in Patients With Interstitial Lung Disease Who Are Undergoing Initial Evaluation of Lung Cancer.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2021 Haas BM
• Low-Volume and High-Volume Readers of Neurological and Musculoskeletal MRI: Achieving Subspecialization in Radiology.
  Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR 2019 Trinh B, Calabrese E, Vu T, Forman HP, Haas BM
• Peer learning on a shoe string: success of a distributive model for peer learning in a community radiology practice.
  Clinical imaging 2019 Haas BM, Mogel GT, Attaya HN
• What is the added sensitivity of non-lateral cervical spine radiographs in the evaluation of acute cervical spine trauma?
  Emergency radiology 2018 Haas BM, Hahn LD, Oliva I
• CT-Guided Percutaneous Lung Biopsies in Patients With Suspicion for Infection May Yield Clinically Useful Information.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2016 Haas BM, Clayton JD, Elicker BM, Ordovas KG, Naeger DM
• Cost-Effectiveness of Tomosynthesis in Annual Screening Mammography.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2016 Kalra VB, Wu X, Haas BM, Forman HP, Philpotts LE
• Nondiagnostic Computed Tomography-guided Percutaneous Lung Biopsies Are More Likely When Infection Is Suspected.
  Journal of thoracic imaging 2016 Haas BM, Elicker BM, Nguyen J, Ordovas KG, Jones KD, Henry TS, Naeger DM
• Early clinical experience with digital breast tomosynthesis for screening mammography.
  Radiology 2014 Durand MA, Haas BM, Yao X, Geisel JL, Raghu M, Hooley RJ, Horvath LJ, Philpotts LE
• Comparison of tomosynthesis plus digital mammography and digital mammography alone for breast cancer screening.
  Radiology 2013 Haas BM, Kalra V, Geisel J, Raghu M, Durand M, Philpotts LE
• Progressive dyspnea complicated by fever and massive hemoptysis in a 61-year-old man with extremity chondrosarcoma.
  Chest 2013 Haas BM, Haines GK, Shin MS
• Large-bore tunneled central venous catheter insertion in patients with coagulopathy.
  Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR 2010 Haas B, Chittams JL, Trerotola SO
• Abstract No. 89: Tunneled Central Venous Catheter Insertion in Patients with Coagulopathy and Thrombocytopenia.
  Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 2009 B. Haas, S. Trerotola, M. Itkin, A. Patel, S. Stavropoulos, R. Shlansky-Goldberg, M. Soulen, J. Solomon