Dorothy Shum, MD
Associate Professor
Radiology
School of Medicine
Dorothy Shum, MD, is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Ultrasound Section in the Department of Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco, and she is also the chief of the ultrasound section at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG). Dr. Shum is fellowship trained in abdominal imaging with additional subspecialty training in ultrasound.
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Dr. Shum received her medical degree from Brown Medical School, Rhode Island in 2005, and completed her residency at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Department of Diagnostic Imaging in Los Angles, California in 2010, followed by a fellowship in Advanced Body Imaging at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles in 2011.
Clinically, Dr. Shum’s time is divided between UCSF and SFGH where she practices diagnostic ultrasound, obstetrical care including participation with the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center assisting in imaged-guided procedures and intraoperative localization. She is the co-author of a significant publication that has appeared in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Expertise: Ultrasound
Specialty: Diagnostic ultrasound, obstetrical care, diagnostic ultrasound, obstetrical care
Professional Interests: Body MRI and ultrasound for onocologic imaging, hepatobiliary imaging, female pelvis imaging
Education and Training:
- Medical School: Brown Medical School, Rhode Island
- Internship: Kaiser Permanente Medical Center
- Residency: Kaiser Permanente Medical Center Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Los Angeles - Chief Resident
- Fellowship: Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California - Advanced Body Imaging
- ABR Board Certified in Diagnostic Radiology
- CA X-Ray/Fluoroscopy Supervisor and Operator
- DEA License
- CA Medical License
- NPI
Awards
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- Summa Cum Laude Award, University of California, Los Angeles, 1998
Interests
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- onocologic imaging
- female pelvis imaging
- ultrasound
- Body MRI
- hepatobiliary imaging
Websites
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- Ultrasound (radiology.ucsf.edu)
Publications (11)
Top publication keywords:
UltrasonographyAirway ObstructionEndometriumMouth NeoplasmsStruma OvariiDermoid CystTracheal StenosisOvarian DiseasesGenital Diseases, FemaleAdnexal DiseasesPlacenta AccretaMyometriumTeratomaFetal DiseasesAorta, Thoracic
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Assessing Adherence to US LI-RADS Follow-up Recommendations in Vulnerable Patients Undergoing Hepatocellular Carcinoma Surveillance.
Radiology. Imaging cancer 2024 Choi HH, Kim S, Shum DJ, Huang CY, Shui A, Fox RK, Khalili M -
Boba sign with a twist - A variant presentation of a mature cystic teratoma complicated by torsion and rupture.
Clinical imaging 2021 Ye AQ, Reyes MF, Lester F, Ye J, Umetsu S, Poder L, Shum DJ, Choi HH -
US-guided Interventions to Diagnose and Treat Gynecologic and First-Trimester Disease.
Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2021 Morgan TA, Jha P, Feldstein VA, Shum DJ, Poder L -
Pearls and Pitfalls in Imaging of Pelvic Adnexal Torsion: Seven Tips to Tell It's Twisted.
Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2021 Strachowski LM, Choi HH, Shum DJ, Horrow MM -
Pearls and Pitfalls in Imaging of Pelvic Adnexal Torsion: Seven Tips to Tell It's Twisted.
Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2021 Strachowski LM, Choi HH, Shum DJ, Horrow MM
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Ultrasound features help identify patients who can undergo noninvasive management for suspected retained products of conception: a single institutional experience.
Abdominal radiology (New York) 2021 Vyas S, Choi HH, Whetstone S, Jha P, Poder L, Shum DJ -
Congenital Oral Masses: An Anatomic Approach to Diagnosis.
Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2019 Chapman MC, Soares BP, Li Y, Shum DJ, Glenn OA, Glastonbury CM, Courtier JL -
Placenta accreta spectrum: value of placental bulge as a sign of myometrial invasion on MR imaging.
Abdominal radiology (New York) 2019 Jha P, Rabban J, Chen LM, Goldstein RB, Weinstein S, Morgan TA, Shum D, Hills N, Ohliger MA, Poder L -
Prenatal tracheal obstruction due to double aortic arch: a potential mimic of congenital high airway obstruction syndrome.
AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2007 Shum DJ, Clifton MS, Coakley FV, Hornberger LK, Joe BN, Goldstein RB, Harrison MR -
Interaction of the Vp3 nuclear localization signal with the importin alpha 2/beta heterodimer directs nuclear entry of infecting simian virus 40.
Journal of virology 2002 Nakanishi A, Shum D, Morioka H, Otsuka E, Kasamatsu H -
Simian virus 40 Vp1 DNA-binding domain is functionally separable from the overlapping nuclear localization signal and is required for effective virion formation and full viability.
Journal of virology 2001 Li PP, Nakanishi A, Shum D, Sun PC, Salazar AM, Fernandez CF, Chan SW, Kasamatsu H