David Avrin, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Radiology
School of Medicine

Before completing his medical degree, Dr. Avrin received a PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Avrin’s research is focused on creating the infrastructure and applications for seamless clinical system integration, and support for education and research. Dr. Avrin is a member of the Medical Center informatics team that seeks to improve quality of care, safety and efficiency through IT. To date, he has written fifty-five papers on these topics, and five book chapters on the clinical applications of digital medical imaging, and the investment and role of these various systems in the academic missions of education and research.

He is a fellow of the American College of Radiology and the Society of Imaging in Medicine. He has served in several university and national leadership positions, most recently as the program director of the UCSF Clinical Informatics Fellowship, and the chairman of the RSNA Steering Committee for Digital Roadmap Content.

Expertise: Abdominal Imaging and Interventional Radiology

Specialty: Abdominal and pelvic CT, CT portion of PET/CT, CTA and abdominal MR including MRCP and MRA

• Correlate: A PACS- and EHR-integrated Tool Leveraging Natural Language Processing to Provide Automated Clinical Follow-up.
  Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2017 Kovacs MD, Mesterhazy J, Avrin D, Urbania T, Mongan J
• The Economic and Social Value of an Image Exchange Network: A Case for the Cloud.
  Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR 2016 Mayo RC, Pearson KL, Avrin DE, Leung JW
• Patient Radiation Dose Reduction during Transarterial Chemoembolization Using a Novel X-Ray Imaging Platform.
  Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR 2015 Kohlbrenner R, Kolli KP, Taylor AG, Kohi MP, Fidelman N, LaBerge JM, Kerlan RK, Agarwal VK, Lehrman ED, Nanavati S, Avrin DE, Gould R
• Faculty scheduling: it should be easy.
  Academic radiology 2014 Avrin D
• Providing formal reports for outside imaging and the rate of repeat imaging.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2014 Lu MT, Tellis WM, Avrin DE
• Can hospital-based cellular phones improve on-call communication?
  Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR 2014 Naeger DM, Jafri NF, Webb EM, Avrin D, Qayyum A
• Demise of film.
  Academic radiology 2014 Avrin DE, Urbania TH
• Meaningful use for radiology: current status and future directions.
  Radiology 2013 Morgan TA, Avrin DE, Carr CD, Dreyer KJ, Flanders AE, Khorasani R, Langlotz CP, Arenson RL
• Cross-specialty integrated resident conferences: an educational approach to bridging the gap.
  Academic radiology 2012 Naeger DM, Phelps A, Kohi M, Patel A, Elicker B, Ordovas K, Urbania T, Avrin D, Qayyum A
• Reducing the rate of repeat imaging: import of outside images to PACS.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2012 Lu MT, Tellis WM, Fidelman N, Qayyum A, Avrin DE
• Enterprise imaging: planning and business justification.
  Academic radiology 2012 Avrin D, Hou SW
• Moving the mission forward: annual report from the RSNA Radiology Informatics Committee for 2010.
  Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2011 Avrin DE, Flanders AE
• Perforation of the IVC: rule rather than exception after longer indwelling times for the Günther Tulip and Celect retrievable filters.
  Cardiovascular and interventional radiology 2011 Durack JC, Westphalen AC, Kekulawela S, Bhanu SB, Avrin DE, Gordon RL, Kerlan RK
• Clinician-educator pathway for radiology residents.
  Academic radiology 2011 Naeger DM, Phelps A, Shah V, Avrin D, Qayyum A
• Annual Report from the RSNA Radiology Informatics Committee for 2009.
  Radio Graphics 2010 David E. Avrin, Adam E. Flanders
• Using applet-servlet communication for optimizing window, level and crop for DICOM to JPEG conversion.
  Journal of digital imaging 2008 Kamauu AW, DuVall SL, Wiggins RH, Avrin DE
• Informatics in radiology: IHE teaching file and clinical trial export integration profile: functional examples.
  Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2008 Kamauu AW, Whipple JJ, DuVall SL, Siddiqui KM, Siegel EL, Avrin D
• HIPAA privacy and DICOM anonymization for research.
  Academic radiology 2008 Avrin D
• Using Java to generate globally unique identifiers for DICOM objects.
  Journal of digital imaging 2007 Kamauu AW, Duvall SL, Avrin DE
• Translating the IHE Teaching File and Clinical Trial Export (TCE) profile document templates into functional DICOM structured report objects.
  Journal of digital imaging 2007 Kamauu AW, DuVall SL, Liimatta AP, Wiggins RH, Avrin DE
• Informatics in radiology (infoRAD): Vendor-neutral case input into a server-based digital teaching file system.
  Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2006 Kamauu AW, DuVall SL, Robison RJ, Liimatta AP, Wiggins RH, Avrin DE
• Storage, transmission, and retrieval of digital mammography, including recommendations on image compression.
  Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR 2006 Avrin D, Morin R, Piraino D, Rowberg A, Detorie N, Zuley M, Seibert JA, Pisano ED
• Development of a dedicated hepatopancreaticobiliary program in a university hospital system.
  Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 2005 Granger SR, Glasgow RE, Battaglia J, Lee RM, Scaife C, Shrieve DC, Avrin D, Mulvihill SJ
• infoRAD 2005: your best resource for informatics education.
  Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2005 Avrin DE
• CT and MRI of hepatic contour abnormalities.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2005 Lipson JA, Qayyum A, Avrin DE, Westphalen A, Yeh BM, Coakley FV
• RadioGraphics, informatics, bill G, and open source.
  Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2004 Avrin DE
• infoRAD 2004: why you need informatics education at RSNA 2004.
  Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2004 Avrin DE, Arenson RL
• Beyond PACS: getting images to referring physicians.
  Seminars in ultrasound, CT, and MR 2003 Avrin D, Wiggins RH, Bahr C
• Informatics at RSNA 2003: evolution and maturation on all fronts.
  Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2003 Avrin DE, Arenson RL
• Informatics at RSNA 2002: Information Technology Moves to the Mainstream at RSNA 2002.
  Radio Graphics 2002 Ronald L. Arenson, David E. Avrin
• RIS minus PACS equals film.
  Journal of digital imaging 2002 Tellis WM, Andriole KP, Jovais CS, Avrin DE
• Automated examination notification of emergency department images in a picture archiving and communication system.
  Journal of digital imaging 2001 Andriole KP, Avrin DE, Weber E, Luth DM, Bazzill TM
• What Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) could look like in common object request broker (CORBA) and extensible markup language (XML).
  Journal of digital imaging 2001 Van Nguyen A, Avrin DE, Tellis WM, Andriole KP, Arenson RL
• A hierarchical storage management (HSM) scheme for cost-effective on-line archival using lossy compression.
  Journal of digital imaging 2001 Avrin DE, Andriole KP, Yin L, Gould RG, Arenson RL
• Computers in imaging and health care: now and in the future.
  Journal of digital imaging 2000 Arenson RL, Andriole KP, Avrin DE, Gould RG
• Relevant priors prefetching algorithm performance for a picture archiving and communication system.
  Journal of digital imaging 2000 Andriole KP, Avrin DE, Yin L, Gould RG, Luth DM, Arenson RL
• Secure, web-accessible call rosters for academic radiology departments.
  Journal of digital imaging 2000 Nguyen AV, Tellis WM, Avrin DE
• Simulation of disaster recovery of a picture archiving and communications system using off-site hierarchal storage management.
  Journal of digital imaging 2000 Avrin DE, Andriole KP, Yin L, Gould R, Arenson RL
• PACS databases and enrichment of the folder manager concept.
  Journal of digital imaging 2000 Andriole KP, Avrin DE, Yin L, Gould RG, Arenson RL
• The future of teleradiology in medicine.
  The Western journal of medicine 1998 Avrin DE, Andriole KP
• Continuing quality improvement procedures for a clinical PACS.
  Journal of digital imaging 1998 Andriole KP, Gould RG, Avrin DE, Bazzill TM, Yin L, Arenson RL
• Web technology in the integration of a digital teaching file at the diagnostic workstation.
  Journal of digital imaging 1998 Tellis WM, Andriole KP, Avrin DE, Arenson RL
• The Society for Computer Applications in Radiology.
  Journal of digital imaging 1997 Avrin D
• Optimization of a low-cost truly preemptive multitasking PC diagnostic workstation.
  Journal of digital imaging 1997 Ghosh S, Andriole KP, Avrin DE, Arenson RL
• The Society for Computer Applications in Radiology.
  Journal of Digital Imaging 1997 David Avrin
• Viewport: an object-oriented approach to integrate workstation software for tile and stack mode display.
  Journal of digital imaging 1997 Ghosh S, Andriole KP, Avrin DE
• The Society of Computer Applications in Radiology.
  Journal of Digital Imaging 1997 David Avrin
• The Society for Computer Applications in Radiology.
  Journal of Digital Imaging 1997 David Avrin
• Cost benefits of picture archiving and communications systems.
  Academic radiology 1996 Arenson RL, Burnside ES, Avrin DE, Gould RG, Huang HK, Marco RP
• Multimedia in the radiology environment: current concept.
  Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society 1994 Huang HK, Arenson RL, Lou SL, Wong AW, Andriole KP, Bazzill TM, Avrin D
• Real-time analysis of myocardial contractility.
  Surgery 1973 Brody WR, Arvin DE, Angell WW