Faculty Biography

Varaha Sai Tammisetti, M.D.

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Board Certifications:

Oct 2004: Diplomate of National Board (DNB) in Radiodiagnosis National Board of Examinations, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (Govt. of India), New Delhi, India

Dec 2002: M.D RADIODIAGNOSIS: Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India

Honors and Awards:

”Best Resident” from the Department of Radiology in Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad during Junior Residency for Academic year 2000-2001

First Prize in Film Reading Session in KREST CME at Hyderabad 2002 India

Publications and Presentations:

1. Salskov A, Tammisetti V, Grierson J, Vesselle H F-18 Flourothymidine (FLT), “PET Imaging with Non-FDG F-18 agents” Seminars in Nuclear Medicine 2007 November: Volume 37, Nos. 6.

2. Tammisetti VS, Gensch E, Lewis DH “Fusing Tc-99m MDP SPECT Imaging with CT or MRI Leads to Substantially Increased Diagnostic Certainty and Specificity in the Spine” at 54th Annual Meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) at Washington DC June 2-6 2007 (Oral Presentation)

3. Tammisetti VS, Vangipurappu Shantaram, Chirala Sundarakrishna, S Rammurti ‘Clinically Suspected Pulmonary Thromboembolism – Prospective Comparison of Spiral CT Angiography and Perfusion Scintigraphy as Initial Diagnostic Modalities’ at 56th Annual congress of Indian Radiological and Imaging Association January 2003 Jaipur India (Oral presentation)

Scientific Exhibits/Posters:

1. Tammisetti VS, Potthast S, Dubinsky TJ, Wilson GJ, Maki JH ‘Combining Sensitivity Encoding (SENSE) and Foldover Suppression to Overcome FOV Restrictions In Thoracic 3D CE-MRA’ at ISMRM 17th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, April 18-24, 2009 in Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA.

2. Tammisetti VS, Potthast S, Dubinsky TJ, Maki JH ‘COMBINING SENSITIVITY ENCODING (SENSE) AND FOLDOVER SUPPRESSION TO OVERCOME FOV RESTRICTIONS IN THORACIC 3D CE-MRA’ at 36th Annual Meeting of North American Society for Cardiac Imaging (NASCI), October 11-14, 2008 in Scottsdale, AZ, USA.

3. Tammisetti VS, M. Umadevi ‘Pictorial Essay of Neurocutaneous Syndromes’ at 56th Annual congress of Indian Radiological and Imaging Association January 2003 Jaipur India.

4. Tammisetti VS, M. Umadevi, J. Jagan Mohan Reddy ‘MR Imaging of Meningeal Pathologies’ at 5th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (ISVIR), and Indian Society of NeuroRadiology (ISNR) November 2002 Hyderabad India.

5. Tammisetti VS, Digumarthi SR, Sridevi ‘Pulmonary and Cutaneous Coccidiodomycosis – An Unusual Manifestation of a Rare Infection in India’ at Annual Congress of Indian Radiological and Imaging Association January 2001 Manipal India.

Graduate/Medical Degrees:

DNB (Diplomate of National Board (DNB) in Radiodiagnosis National Board of Examinations, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (Govt. of India), New Delhi, India Oct 2004 M.D (Doctor of medicine) in Radio-diagnosis Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences Hyderabad India Dec 2002.

MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) Andhra Medical College Visakhapatnam India: Dec 1992 – May 1997.

Postgraduate Training:

Jul 2007 - Jun 2008: Fellowship Abdominal Imaging
                              University of Washington
                              Seattle, WA

Jul 2006 - Jun 2007: Fellowship (residency) in Nuclear Medicine (ACGME accredited)
                              University of Washington
                              Seattle, WA

Jul 2005 - Jun 2006: Senior Fellow & Acting Instructor in Emergency and Trauma Radiology
                              Harborview Medical Center
                              University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003: Residency in Radiology
                                Department of Radiology
                                Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences
                                Hyderabad, India

Oct 1999 – Jan 2000: M.D. in Pediatrics
                                 Andhra Medical College
                                 Visakhapatnam, India

Jun 1997 – Jul 1998: Internship
                               King George Hospital
                               Visakhapatnam, India

Staff Assistant:

Cheryl Campbell

Office Address: The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
                       The Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
                       6431 Fannin, MSB 2.130B
                       Houston, Texas 77030

Office Phone: 713-500-7625
Office Fax:     713-500-7639

E-mail Address: Varaha.S.Tammisetti@uth.tmc.edu

Faculty Biography

• Varaha Sai Tammisetti, M.D.
  Title: Assistant Professor


• Dept. of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
  
• University of Texas Medical School at Houston
  
  6431 Fannin Street
  MSB 2.130B
  Houston, Texas 77030



• Phone: 713-500-7700
  Fax:       713-500-7639
  E-mail: Varaha.S.Tammisetti@
  uth.tmc.edu