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Lillian M. Lai, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology-Division of Pediatric Radiology

Current Positions

  • Clinical Assistant Professor - Division of Pediatric Radiology

Education

  • Fellow in Neuroradiology, LAC+USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
  • Fellow in Pediatric Radiology, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, CA
  • Resident in Diagnostic Radiology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA
  • MD, University of California - San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA
  • BS in General Biology, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Licenses & Certifications

  • American Board of Radiolgy
  • Neuroradiology Certificate of Added Qualification, American Board of Radiology
  • Pediatric Radiology Certificate of Added Qualification, American Board of Radiology

Selected Publications

  • Goldsmith KC, Park JR, Kayser K, Malvar J, Chi YY, Groshen SG, Villablanca JG, Krytska K, Lai LM, Acharya PT, Goodarzian F, Pawel B, Shimada H, Ghazarian S, States L, Marshall L, Chesler L, Granger M, Desai AV, Mody R, Morgenstern DA, Shusterman S, Macy ME, Pinto N, Schleiermacher G, Vo K, Thurm HC, Chen J, Liyanage M, Peltz G, Matthay KK, Berko ER, Maris JM, Marachelian A, Mossé YP. Lorlatinib with or without chemotherapy in ALK-driven refractory/relapsed neuroblastoma: phase 1 trial results. Nat Med. 2023 May;29(5):1092-1102. doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02297-5. Epub 2023 Apr 3. PMID: 37012551; PMCID: PMC10202811.
  • Abramson ZR, Nagaraj UD, Lai LM, Liu CC, Schroeder JW, Khanna PC, Chuang NA, Strauss S, Gomez G, Clarke R, Singh S, Choudhri AF, Whitehead MT. Imaging of pediatric head and neck tumors: A COG Diagnostic Imaging Committee/SPR Oncology Committee/ASPNR White Paper. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2023 Jun;70 Suppl 4:e30151. doi: 10.1002/pbc.30151. Epub 2022 Dec 22. PMID: 36546312.
  • Lai LM, Gropman AL, Whitehead MT. MR Neuroimaging in Pediatric Inborn Errors of Metabolism. Diagnostics (Basel). 2022 Mar 30;12(4):861. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics12040861. PMID: 35453911; PMCID: PMC9027484.
  • Acharya PT, Ponrartana S, Lai L, Vasquez E, Goodarzian F. Imaging of congenital genitourinary anomalies. Pediatr Radiol. 2021 Nov 5. doi: 10.1007/s00247-021-05217-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34741177.
  • Lai L, Mikhchi A, Ryabets-Lienhard A, Geffner ME, Cheung C, Giuffre D. Reversible severe ovarian enlargement in an infant with significant insulin resistance. Radiology Case Reports. Volume 16, Issue 7. 2021. Pages 1760-1765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2021.03.067.
  • Dai H, Zhang Y, Lai L, Hu S, Wang X, Li Y, Hu C, Shen H. Brain functional networks: correlation analysis with clinical indexes in patients with diabetic retinopathy. Neuroradiology. 2017 Nov;59(11):1121-1131. doi: 10.1007/s00234-017-1900-5. Epub 2017 Aug 22. PMID: 28831531.
  • Muehe AM, Theruvath AJ, Lai L, Aghighi M, Quon A, Holdsworth SJ, Wang J, Luna-Fineman S, Marina N, Advani R, Rosenberg J, Daldrup-Link HE. How to Provide Gadolinium-Free PET/MR Cancer Staging of Children and Young Adults in Less than 1 h: the Stanford Approach. Mol Imaging Biol. 2018 Apr;20(2):324-335. doi: 10.1007/s11307-017-1105-7. PMID: 28721605; PMCID: PMC5773418.
  • Lai LM, Cheng JY, Alley MT, Zhang T, Lustig M, Vasanawala SS. Feasibility of ferumoxytol-enhanced neonatal and young infant cardiac MRI without general anesthesia. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2017 May;45(5):1407-1418. doi: 10.1002/jmri.25482. Epub 2016 Sep 28. PMID: 27678106; PMCID: PMC5373922.
  • Lai LM, Lachman RS. Early characteristic radiographic changes in mucolipidosis II. Pediatr Radiol. 2016 Nov;46(12):1713-1720. doi: 10.1007/s00247-016-3673-0. Epub 2016 Aug 15. PMID: 27525427.
  • Capizzano AA, Lai L, Kim J, Rizzo M, Gray L, Smoot MK, Moritani T. Atypical Presentations of Intracranial Hypotension: Comparison with Classic Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2016 Jul;37(7):1256-61. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A4706. Epub 2016 Mar 3. PMID: 26939631; PMCID: PMC7960336.

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