SIKER IMAGING - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Professor of Radiology at the University

Donald L. Resnick, M.D., is Professor of Radiology at the University of California, San Diego. He has been at UCSD for over thirty years. His interests are in the area of musculoskeletal imaging, particularly magnetic resonance imaging. He has authored over 1100 original scientific articles and has authored and co-authored sixteen books, including a multi-volume textbook dealing with bone and joint imaging. Dr. Resnick and his colleagues offer a year-long fellowship in musculoskeletal imaging, which has been training radiologists for almost thirty years. UCSD provides interpretation of musculoskeletal CT and MRI by expert subspecialty musculoskeletal radiologists.

Dr. David A. Siker completed his radiology residency and neurointerventional fellowship at Georgetown University Hospital and the National Institute of Health. He completed medical school at the University of Florida, and received his bachelors degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University. Dr. Siker was the first physician to bring neurointerventional therapies from the university setting to the community hospitals of Oregon and Southwest Washington in the late 1990's. He is the director of neurointerventional services for Legacy Healthcare Systems, based at Emanuel Hospital. Dr. Siker performs many of the latest advances in neuro-angiography, including aneurysm coiling, embolization and carotid stenting. AS COMPETITION AMONG IMAGING CENTERS INTENSIFIES, providers seek technology that gives them an edge. David A. Siker, MD, managing partner of Siker Medical Imaging and Intervention, Portland, Ore, found just such an advantage in the form of 3T. "The best way to compete is to offer the best imaging studies possible, and that's precisely what a 3T magnet delivers," Siker says. It was the desire to produce studies of the highest quality that led Siker to acquire a Siemens Trio with Total imaging matrix (Tim), making Siker Medical Imaging and Intervention first in the United States among freestanding centers to install the 3T system for clinical (as opposed to research) applications. Dr. David A. Siker completed his radiology residency and neurointerventional fellowship at Georgetown University Hospital and the National Institute of Health. He completed medical school at the University of Florida, and received his bachelors degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University. Dr. Siker was the first physician to bring neurointerventional therapies from the university setting to the community hospitals of Oregon and Southwest Washington in the late 1990's. He is the director of neurointerventional services for Legacy Healthcare Systems, based at Emanuel Hospital. Dr. Siker performs many of the latest advances in neuro-intervention, including aneurysm flow diversion with Pipeline, aneurysm stent/coiling, AVM/Tumor embolization, intracranial and carotid stenting. As director of Neurointerventional services, he runs the acute neurointervention team for emergent treatment of problems such as ruptured aneurysms and acute ischemic strokes. Besides neurointerventional therapy, Dr. Siker's other main focus is applying state of the art 3T MRI techniques such as CSF Flow analysis for Chiari 1 and Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, DTI (tractography) for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI), and MR neurography, and dynamic imaging for patients with issues of their spine or associated nerve roots. These techniques are used to capture nerve tract locations in the brain, subtle neurological abnormalities throughout the nervous system, and multi-positional images of the spine.

Valerie Hunter, MD, has been a Women's Imaging professional for 26 years, bringing a personal hands-on approach to patient care. After graduating from University of Texas Medical Branch in 1983, she completed Diagnostic Radiology residency training at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, followed by a fellowship in cross sectional imaging at University of California Irvine Medical Center. After that she was Director of Ultrasound at UCI, where she developed her love of women's imaging. She trained both radiology and OBGYN residents and received several teaching awards. In 1996 she was recruited to Providence Portland Medical Center to develop a Women's Imaging service. At PPMC she was instrumental in developing the Interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Conference, introduced cystodefecography for pelvic floor functional imaging, and was a valued consultant to breast surgeons and OB/GYN specialists. Dr. Hunter joined the Siker Imaging and Intervention team in March, 2015, bringing her skills in breast diagnosis and biopsy, OB/GYN ultrasound, infertility imaging, pelvic floor imaging, and thyroid ultrasound and aspiration. She is passionate about patient care and women's imaging issues.