Omar Hassan, MD
Assistant Professor
Radiology
School of Medicine

Dr. Hassan earned his medical degree at Chicago Medical School in, North Chicago, IL, receiving a distinction in basic sciences. He completed a general surgery internship, diagnostic radiology residency, and fellowship in abdominal imaging and diagnostic sonography all at UCSF.

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During residency, Dr. Hassan co-led the radiology section’s quality improvement initiative at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, examining delays in morning turnaround times of overnight, resident-read radiology examinations and implemented a system to improve the time from wet read to final attending reads of reports.

Dr. Hassan conducts research as part of the Cirrhosis & Hepatocellular Carcinoma Working Group, establishing a database of over 200 patients with treated HCC for the current largest radiologic-pathologic correlation of treatment modalities in a multidisciplinary collaboration of diagnostic and interventional radiologists and transplant hepatologists. Dr. Hassan has published papers imaging in gender affirmation surgery, organic cation transporter-mediated clearance of cardiovascular drugs, and currently has a paper in progress on the imaging reliability of liver tumor grading (LI-RADS)

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