Title: Radiology Education and Capacity Development Projects in Haiti
Speakers: Berndt Schmit, MD, Nicholas Cassuto, MD, and Michelle Hershman, MD
The Department of Medical Imaging is pleased to have Berndt Schmit, MD, Nicholas Cassuto, MD, and Michelle Hershman, MD, presenting at our Grand Rounds on Wednesday, March 7th, in the College of Medicine, Room 2117 at 12:00 pm.
Dr. Berndt Schmit is an assistant professor of radiology at the Banner University Arizona Medical Center. He is board certified in radiology and is fellowship trained in musculoskeletal imaging.
Dr. Schmit graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, completed two years in the emergency medicine residency at The University of Arizona and his diagnostic radiology residency at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge Massachusetts. Dr. Schmit then returned to Boston to complete his musculoskeletal fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s hospital. He also earned a Masters in Business Operational Excellence degree from Ohio State University, focusing on Lean health care management and process improvement.
He was given ‘Faculty of the Year’ award by the radiology residents at University of Utah in 2000. Dr. Schmit is co-author of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors, A Multidisciplinary Review with Case Presentations, 2014. He has extensive experience with sarcoma imaging, 3 tesla musculoskeletal imaging, joint and epidural injections. He has broad experience in private practice radiology, including building three successful teleradiology practices, health quality consulting, and imaging center development and management.
Dr. Schmit is passionately committed to radiology global health improvement and holds a senior management position with Rad-Aid International. He has active educational and development projects in Haiti, Guyana and Nicaragua.
Dr. Nicholas Cassuto received his BS degree with a dual major in Exercise Physiology and Liberal Studies Honors and a minor in chemistry from Northern Arizona University. After college, he managed a research lab at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy studying lung fluid regulation in different disease states including Cystic Fibrosis, Asthma, and Diabetes.
He graduated from medical school at The University of Arizona College of Medicine. During medical school, he completed a research fellowship at the Mayo Clinic collecting preliminary data for a study aiming to prevent or minimize the detrimental effects of high altitude on military personnel. He completed an intern year in the Tucson Hospitals’ Medical Education Program (THMEP).
Dr. Cassuto is currently in his final year of residency and is one of the chief residents in the radiology resident program at Banner University Medical Center. His future plans include completing a one-year fellowship-training program at the University of Illinois in Interventional Radiology. Dr. Cassuto’s current research interests involve utilizing integrative physiology and genetic makeup to unlock the potential of pharmacogenetics and personalized medicine for a new startup company called Geneticure.
Dr. Michelle Hershman received her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Miami during which she was a research assistant in botany research. She earned her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and then completed a transitional year internship at Yale New Haven Hospital before coming to Banner University Medical Center for her radiology residency. Dr. Hershman is currently in her final year of residency at the Department of Medical Imaging and has been accepted for a cardiothoracic radiology fellowship program at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia starting in July of this year.
Her recent publications include an article on hyperammonic encephalopathy related to ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency published in Radiology. Dr. Hershman’s current research includes a collaboration with Siemens and UA faculty for lung CAD software development. She has an interest in global health and is currently the project manager for the GHESKIO center site for imaging capacity development in Port au Prince, Haiti.
College of Medicine, Room 2117