Kenneth L. Pierce, M.D.

Associate Professor

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA:

MEDICAL SCHOOL: Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL,  1990

RESIDENCY: Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's, Chicago, IL,  7/90 to 6/91; Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, 7/91 to 6/95

CERTIFICATION: Diagnostic Radiology, June 1995

SUBSPECIALTY: Interventional Radiology, CT and MR

CLINICAL AND ACADEMIC INTERESTS: CT angiography, venous access, GI/GU intervention, uterine artery embolization, varicose vein ablation, regional cancer therapy

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: American Roentgen Ray Society, RSNA, Society of Interventional Radiology

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS :

Pierce KL. Carcinoid syndrome; ileal carcinoid tumor. Radiology Today. 1992; 9(12):3,18.

Vade A, Hayani A, Pierce KL. Congenital Histiocytosis X. Pediatric Radiology (1993)23:181-182.

Posniak HV,  Olson MC, Demos TC, Pierce KL, Kalbhen CL.  CT of the Chest and Abdomen in Patients on Mechanical Pulmonary Ventilators:  Quality of images made at 0.6 vs. 1.0 Sec.  AJR 1994;163:1073-1077.

Sam R, Chebrolu SB, Reyes CV, Pierce KL, Molnar Z, Dhand R, Ing TS.  Transjugular renal biopsy in an unconscious patient maintained on mechanical ventilation.  In Clinical Nephrology