Jinha M. Park, MD, PhD

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Title:

  • Assistant Professor

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Specialties:

  • Radiology

Sub-specialties:

  • Body Imaging
  • Interventional Oncology

Background:

Dr. Jinha Park is an assistant professor in the Department of Radiology at the Keck School of Medicine. He completed the combined M.D./Ph.D. Program at the Keck School of Medicine after receiving a B.A. from UC Berkeley in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.  Dr. Park has extensive experience in radiology and oncology research. His Ph.D. dissertation work, targeting the HER-2/neu breast cancer receptor with monoclonal antibodies, will be extended to his current research focus in imaging. Dr. Park’s laboratory will also be targeting other tumor-specific agents for early diagnosis and detection of recurrence in cancer patients.

He completed his clinical diagnostic radiology residency at the UCLA Medical Center.  He has performed clinical trials imaging research during his body imaging fellowship at Stanford University.  Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) and Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI) are two of the newest MRI methods he has investigated for imaging cancer recurrence. Dr. Park has been validating these MRI methods with PET/CT and with standard CT size measurements in oncology clinical trials. His clinical interests also include minimally invasive, image-guided therapies for tumor ablation including radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and cryotherapy.

Education:

  • B.A. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California at Berkeley, 1988 - 1992
  • M.D., Ph.D. (Pathobiology), USC Keck School of Medicine, 1992 - 2001

Internships:

  • Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Los Angeles, 2001 - 2002

Residencies:

  • UCLA Medical Center, Diagnostic Radiology, 2002 - 2006

Fellowships:

  • Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS) (Post-Doctoral Research), 2004 - 2005
  • Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford University, National Cancer Institute Body Imaging Fellowship, 2006 - 2008

Board Certification:

  • American Board of Radiology

Professional Society Memberships:

  • Radiological Society of North America
  • Los Angeles Radiological Society
  • International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • Society for Molecular Imaging
  • International Cancer Imaging Society
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology
  • Society of Interventional Radiology

Awards:

  • RSNA Roentgen Resident / Fellow Research Award, 2006
  • Irving I. Lasky Award for Medical Student Research, 2001
  • Dean's Scholar, 2001
  • Phi Beta Kappa, 1991
  • National Merit Scholar, 1988

Languages:

  • English
  • Korean
  • Spanish