Research profiles
Ali Harb, M.D.

Dr. Harb graduated with his M.D. from Ross University School of Medicine in 2005 before completing diagnostic radiology residency at Ascension Providence Hospital Novi in Novi, Michigan in 2010. He then completed a vascular and interventional radiology fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2011. His research focuses on patient outcomes following vascular interventions and atypical presentaions of patients undergoing radiological procedures.
Selected Publications
- Image Guided Preoperative Abdominal Wall Botox Injection for Large Ventral Hernia Repair: A Case Series
- Superior Hypogastric Nerve Blockade for Uterine Artery Embolization: A Systematic Review
- ACE in the Hole: Adhesive Capsulitis Embolization for the Treatment of Frozen Shoulder
Gulcin Altinok, M.D.

Dr. Altinok graduated from medical school before pursuing pathology residency at Henry Ford Hospital and completing a fellowship in pediatric pathology at Detroit Medical Center in 2003. She went on to complete a residency in diagnostic radiology at Detroit Medical Center in 2013. She continued fellowship training in cross-sectional imaging at John Hopkins University. Her research focuses on cross-sectional imaging and nuclear medicine with a recent focus on graduate medical education after becoming the program director of the diagnostic radiology residency training program.
Selected Publications
- Take Your Leave: Our Recommendation for an inclusive and Equitable Parental Leave Policy in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
- Women in Radiology (WiR) and turning of the tide
- The new diagnostic radiology oral exam: challenges, opportunities, and future directions
Foaz Kayali, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Kayali completed a combined M.D. and Ph.D. physician-scientist training program at Wayne State University School of Medicine in 2009 before continuing post-doctoral research at Mount Sinai in New York City in 2010 and the University of Chicago in 2011. He then completed two years of general surgery residency at Baystate Health in Springfield, Massachusetts, and went on to complete diagnostic radiology residency at Richmond University Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia in 2017. He then completed an interventional radiology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York in 2018. Dr. Kayali’s research is in the basic, translational, and clinical sciences, and includes a recent focus on graduate medical education in the radiological sciences.
Selected Publications
- Metabolic effects of intermittent hypoxia in mice: steady versus high-frequency applied hypoxia daily during rest period
- Disrupted sleep without sleep curtailment induces sleepiness and cognitive dysfunction via the tumor necrosis factor-alpha pathway
- Conservative management of iatrogenic esophageal perforation in head and neck cancer patients with esophageal stricture
Samuel Johnson, M.D.

Dr. Johnson received his M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1982 before completing a diagnostic radiology residency at Stony Brook Medicine / University Hospital in 1986. He completed a fellowship in computed tomography and ultrasonography at Stony Brook in 1987. Dr. Johnson’s primary area of research is ultrasonography.
Selected Publications
- Dynamic maneuvers: a useful augmentation for pelvic sonography
- The "speckle sign" in the diagnosis of posterior compartment endometriosis
- Sonovaginagraphy: a useful technique in the assessment of the lower genital tract
Jeffrey Critchfield, M.D., F.S.I.R

Dr. Critchfield received his M.D. from Wayne State University School of Medicine in 2000 and went on to do diagnostic radiology residency at Detroit Medical Center / Wayne State University, followed by vascular and interventional radiology fellowship at Northwestern University which he completed in 2007. Dr. Critchfield’s research interests are in interventional oncology.
Selected Publications
- Hepatocellular carcinoma: surveillance, diagnosis, evaluation, and management
- Locoregional therapy for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: the role of intra-arterial therapies
- 90Y radioembolization of colorectal hepatic metastases using glass microspheres: safety and survival outcomes from a 531-patient multicenter study