Maya Vella, MD
Assistant Professor
Radiology
School of Medicine

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

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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 (10)

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Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungGastrointestinal NeoplasmsPositron Emission Tomography Computed TomographyRadiologyPatient SafetyChromosome DuplicationTextbooks as TopicAngiography, Digital SubtractionMagnetic Resonance AngiographyDissent and DisputesVeterans HealthLung NeoplasmsNeuroimagingCentral Nervous System Vascular MalformationsTelangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic

• Radiologists staunchly support patient safety and autonomy, in opposition to the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v Wade.
  Clinical imaging 2022 Karandikar A, Solberg A, Fung A, Lee AY, Farooq A, Taylor AC, Oliveira A, Narayan A, Senter A, Majid A, Tong A, McGrath AL, Malik A, Brown AL, Roberts A, Fleischer A, Vettiyil B, Zigmund B, Park B, …
• Application of a Domain-specific BERT for Detection of Speech Recognition Errors in Radiology Reports.
  Radiology. Artificial intelligence 2022 Chaudhari GR, Liu T, Chen TL, Joseph GB, Vella M, Lee YJ, Vu TH, Seo Y, Rauschecker AM, McCulloch CE, Sohn JH
• Characteristics and Growth Rate of Lung Metastases in Patients With Primary Gastrointestinal Malignancies and Lung-dominant Metastatic Disease: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis.
  American journal of clinical oncology 2022 Burns S, Vella M, Paciorek A, Zhang L, Atreya CE, Feng M, Kelley RK, Tempero MA, Van Loon K, Ko AH
• Comparison of MRI, MRA, and DSA for Detection of Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations in Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia.
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2020 Vella M, Alexander MD, Mabray MC, Cooke DL, Amans MR, Glastonbury CM, Kim H, Wilson MW, Langston DE, Conrad MB, Hetts SW
• Are Women Disproportionately Represented in Education Compared to Other Roles in Academic Radiology?
  Academic radiology 2020 Webb EM, Kallianos KG, Vella M, Straus CM, Bucknor MD, Galvan J, Scoutt LM

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• Association of Receipt of Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Mortality in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System.
  JAMA network open 2019 Vella M, Meyer CS, Zhang N, Cohen BE, Whooley MA, Wang S, Hope MD
• Metastatic cervical paravertebral solitary fibrous tumor detected by fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography.
  Radiology case reports 2018 Cheung H, Lawhn-Heath C, Lopez G, Vella M, Aparici CM
• Interpretive versus noninterpretive content in top-selling radiology textbooks: what are we teaching medical students?
  Academic radiology 2015 Webb EM, Vella M, Straus CM, Phelps A, Naeger DM
• Contrast staining on CT after DSA in ischemic stroke patients progresses to infarction and rarely hemorrhages.
  Interventional neuroradiology : journal of peritherapeutic neuroradiology, surgical procedures and related neurosciences 2014 Amans MR, Cooke DL, Vella M, Dowd CF, Halbach VV, Higashida RT, Hetts SW
• Studies of TBX4 and chromosome 17q23.1q23.2: an uncommon cause of nonsyndromic clubfoot.
  American journal of medical genetics. Part A 2012 Lu W, Bacino CA, Richards BS, Alvarez C, VanderMeer JE, Vella M, Ahituv N, Sikka N, Dietz FR, Blanton SH, Hecht JT