ANZSPR Annual Scientific Meeting 2011
International Speaker: Diego Jaramillo
Radiologist-in-Chief
Professor of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine
Dr. Diego Jaramillo obtained his MD in 1981 at the Pontificia
Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia, followed by an
internship in Internal Medicine at the University of Miami.
Between 1983 and 1987, he was a resident in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Texas in Houston, serving as Chief Resident in 1986-87. He then obtained further training in Pediatric Radiology (1987-89) at the Children’s Hospital in Boston where he served as Chief Fellow in Radiology. He was a member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School from 1990 to 2004 where he became an Associate Professor of Radiology (1997-2004). He obtained a Masters in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2002. Between 1990 and 2000, Dr. Jaramillo served as a radiologist at Boston’s Children’s Hospital, eventually becoming Chief of the Section of Body MRI and CT (1994-99), Associate Director of MRI (1997-99), and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Research and Director of the Kresge Pediatric Imaging Laboratory (1999-00). In 2000, he was recruited to be Division Chief of Pediatric Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). In 2004 he became Radiologist-in-Chief and Van Alen Chair of Radiology at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Dr. Jaramillo is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Pediatric Radiology and has served on committees of several radiological societies and various editorial boards.
Dr. Jaramillo’s greatest expertise and scientific contributions are in the areas of pediatric magnetic resonance imaging and the imaging of musculoskeletal disorders of childhood. Dr Jaramillo has published in the field of pediatric radiology and musculoskeletal imaging with 100 peer-reviewed publications, 34 reviews, and 13 book chapters and has been the principal investigator of two NIH grants for the imaging evaluation of growth disorders.