Derek Sun, MD
Associate Professor
Radiology
School of Medicine

Derek Sun, MD, is an Associate Clinical Professor of Radiology in the Abdominal Imaging subspecialty at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Sun received his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, in 2008. In 2009, he completed a one-year internship at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

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In 2013, Dr. Sun completed a four-year Diagnostic Radiology residency, serving as chief resident in 2012-2013 at Jacobi Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. This was followed by an Abdominal Imaging fellowship at UCSF, completed in 2014. In August 2014, Dr. Sun accepted the Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology in the Abdominal Imaging section at UCSF. In 2017, Dr. Sun accepted the Associate Fellowship Director position for the Abdominal Imaging and Ultrasound Fellowship at UCSF and in 2020, accepted the Fellowship Director and Director of Clinical Operations positions for Abdominal Imaging and Ultrasound. Dr. Sun is a strong advocate for intersectionality and equity in medicine for patients and healthcare workers.

Awards

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• Henry J. Kaiser Award Finalist for Excellence in Teaching, University of California, San Francisco, 2023
• Henry J. Kaiser Award Finalist for Excellence in Teaching, University of California, San Francisco, 2022
• Hideyo Minagi Outstanding Teacher Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2022
• Hideyo Minagi Outstanding Teacher Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2019

Interests

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• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Neuroendocrine Tumors
• Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
• Dual Energy CT
• Intersectionality
• Contrast Agents
• Clinical MRI Physics
• Elastography
• Gynecology Oncology
• Colorectal Cancer
• Pancreatic Cancer
• Gender Affirmation Health
• Professionalism
• Education
• Liver Disease
• Penile imaging
• LGBTQIA+ Health
• Endometriosis
• Prostate

Websites

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• @@makethemsayahh on Twitter (twitter.com)

Publications (9)

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Contrast MediaMentorsTranssexualismEmploymentRadiography, Dual-Energy Scanned ProjectionDermoid CystGranulomatous MastitisMesenteryDiverticulitis, ColonicPelvisSex Reassignment SurgeryUrethraTeratomaFellowships and ScholarshipsInternship and Residency

• How to choose an abdominal imaging fellowship.
  Abdominal radiology (New York) 2021 Sun DC, Lee JH
• Bowel Wall Visualization Using MR Enterography in Relationship to Bowel Lumen Contents and Patient Demographics.
  Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2021 Zhang TT, Chang WC, Wang ZJ, Sun DC, Ohliger MA, Yeh BM
• Imaging in Gender Affirmation Surgery.
  Current urology reports 2021 Hassan O, Sun D, Jha P
• Boba sign: a novel sign for floating balls within a mature cystic teratoma.
  Abdominal radiology (New York) 2020 Chang AY, Sun DC, Ohliger MA, Abuzahriyeh T, Choi HH
• Acute diverticulitis: Key features for guiding clinical management.
  European journal of radiology 2020 Sugi MD, Sun DC, Menias CO, Prabhu V, Choi HH

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• Updated guidelines for intravenous contrast use for CT and MRI.
  Emergency radiology 2020 Huynh K, Baghdanian AH, Baghdanian AA, Sun DS, Kolli KP, Zagoria RJ
• Association between misty mesentery with baseline or new diagnosis of cancer: a matched cohort study.
  Clinical imaging 2017 Marcus SG, Candia S, Kohli MD, Mongan J, Zagoria RJ, Behr SC, Sun D, Westphalen AC
• Pelvic Beam-Hardening Artifacts in Dual-Energy CT Image Reconstructions: Occurrence and Impact on Image Quality.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2016 Winklhofer S, Lambert JW, Sun Y, Wang ZJ, Sun DS, Yeh BM
• Granulomatous mastitis: changing clinical and imaging features with image-guided biopsy correlation.
  European radiology 2014 Handa P, Leibman AJ, Sun D, Abadi M, Goldberg A