Rate My Professor Roozbeh Houshyar

Roozbeh Houshyar, MD, is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Radiological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. He holds the positions of Vice Chair of Imaging Informatics in Radiological Sciences and Director of the Clinical Trials Imaging Core Lab. He also serves as Lab Director of the Computational Abdominal Radiology Lab. Board certified in Diagnostic Radiology by the American Board of Radiology, Dr. Houshyar specializes in abdominal and pelvic imaging for adults using MRI, CT, ultrasound, and X-ray technologies. His clinical interests encompass genitourinary and liver diseases, pancreatic cancer, and prostate cancer.

Dr. Houshyar obtained his MD from Ross University School of Medicine in Dominica, West Indies, in 2006. He completed his residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Baystate Medical Center, a Tufts University affiliate in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 2012, followed by a fellowship in Abdominal Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco, in 2013. His research interests focus on prostate cancer, kidney cancer, and artificial intelligence in medicine. Key publications include "Variability of the Positive Predictive Value of PI-RADS for Prostate MRI across 26 Centers: Experience of the Society of Abdominal Radiology Prostate Cancer Disease-focused Panel" in Radiology (2020); "Artificial Intelligence for Improved Hepatosplenomegaly Diagnosis" in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology (2023); "Evaluation of a novel Re-VASC score to differentiate malignant and benign T1a renal masses" in Journal of Clinical Oncology (2023); "Revenue and Cost Analysis of a System Utilizing Natural Language Processing and a Nurse Coordinator for Radiology Follow-up Recommendations" in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology (2023); and "Chemotherapy induced liver abnormalities: an imaging perspective" in Clinical and Molecular Hepatology (2014). He has received numerous awards, including Radiology Teacher of the Year from UCI Department of Radiology (2015-2016), Magna Cum Laude Award from the Society of Abdominal Radiology (2016), Cum Laude Award from the Society of Body Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance (2017), Top Doctor Orange County (2019-2023), Super Doctors Rising Stars Los Angeles Region (2019-2022), and Physicians of Excellence from the Orange County Medical Association (2020-2023). His contributions advance diagnostic accuracy and informatics in radiology.