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Janet H. Pollard, MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology-Division of Nuclear Medicine

Current Positions

  • Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology - Division of Nuclear Medicine
  • Director, Nuclear Medicine Residency Program
  • Director, Nuclear Oncology Fellowship Program
  • Director, 16-month Nuclear Medicine DR Program

Education

  • BS in Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States
  • BA in Letters, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States
  • BS in Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States
  • MD, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States
  • Resident in Diagnostic Radiology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
  • Fellow in Body Imaging, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
  • Resident in Nuclear Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
  • Resident in Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear Medicine Resident, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
  • Internship in Internal Medicine, University of Kansas at Wichita, Wichita, Kansas, United States

Licenses & Certifications

  • Certifying Board of Cardiovascular CT, CBCCT
  • Nuclear Medicine, American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM)
  • Diagnostic Radiology, American Board of Radiology (ABR)
  • Iowa Medical License (Permanent), Iowa Board of Medicine

Selected Publications

  • Akay S, Pollard JH, Saad Eddin A, Alatoum A, Kandemirli S, Gholamrezanezhad A, Menda Y, Graham MM, Shariftabrizi A. PET/CT Imaging in Treatment Planning and Surveillance of Sinonasal Neoplasms. Cancers (Basel). 2023 Jul 25;15(15):3759. doi: 10.3390/cancers15153759. PMID: 37568575; PMCID: PMC10417627.
  • Averill S, Pollard J, Aswani Y, Frank C. Let's Talk, Not Mock: Everyone Has an Accent. J Am Coll Radiol. 2023 Jun;20(6):610-612. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2022.09.029. Epub 2022 Oct 20. PMID: 36273498.
  • Morris MJ, Rowe SP, Gorin MA, Saperstein L, Pouliot F, Josephson D, Wong JYC, Pantel AR, Cho SY, Gage KL, Piert M, Iagaru A, Pollard JH, Wong V, Jensen J, Lin T, Stambler N, Carroll PR, Siegel BA; CONDOR Study Group. Diagnostic Performance of 18F-DCFPyL-PET/CT in Men with Biochemically Recurrent Prostate Cancer: Results from the CONDOR Phase III, Multicenter Study. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Jul 1;27(13):3674-3682. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-4573. Epub 2021 Feb 23. PMID: 33622706; PMCID: PMC8382991.
  • Seifert R, Sandach P, Kersting D, Fendler WP, Hadaschik B, Hermann K, Sunderland JJ, Pollard JH. Repeatability of 68Ga-PSMA-HBED-CC PET/CT-derived total molecular tumor volume. J Nucl Med. 2021 Aug 26:jnumed.121.262528. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.121.262528. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34446454.
  • Pollard JH, Menda Y, Zamba KD, Madsen M, O’Dorisio MS, O’Dorisio T, Bushnell D. Potential for increasing uptake of 68Ga-DOTATOC and 123I-MIBG in patients with mid-gut neuroendocrine tumors using a histone deacetylase inhibitor vorinostat. Cancer Biother Radiopharm 2021 Jul 12. 10.1089/cbr.2020.4633. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34252288.
  • Shariftabrizi A, Pillenahalli Maheshwarappa R, Kahn D, Pollard JH. 18F-Fluciclovine-avid mediastinal lymph node metastasis of cutaneous malignant melanoma. Clin Nucl Med 2020 Oct 7. DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000003319 PMID: 33031240
  • Pollard JH, Raman C, Zakharia Y, Tracy CR, Nepple KG, Ginader T, Breheny P, Sunderland J. Quantitative test-retest measurement of 68Ga-PSMA-HBED-CC (PSMA-11) in tumor and normal tissue. J Nucl Med. Published online 2020 Aug;61(8):1145-1152. PMID: 31806776
  • Pollard, J., McNeely, P. & Menda, Y. (2020). Nuclear Imaging of Neuroendocrine Tumors. Surgical oncology clinics of North America 29 (2) 209-221. DOI: 10.1016/j.soc.2019.11.007. PMID: 32151356.
  • Elhelf IAS, Pillenahalli Maheshwarappa, R., Hodgson, J., Hodgson, C. K., Pollard, J. & Menda, Y. (2019). Giant vertebral hemangioma masquerading as aggressive tumor: Tc-99m tagged RBC scan can help to solve the diagnostic conundrum!. (Vols. 14). (11), pp. 1360-1363. Radiology case reports. DOI: 10.1016/j.radcr.2019.08.016. PMID: 31516653. PMCID: PMC6734535.
  • Pollard, J. H., Graham, M. M., Menda, Y., McNeely, P. & Sunderland, J. J. (2018). Gallium DOTATOC Image Interpretation Training. Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMI) Website.