Dr. Diego Jaramillo is a board certified radiologist and Director of Pediatric Imaging at HSS. He has been the principal investigator of 3 major NIH grants and authored over 270 publications. His research focuses on imaging of growth disorders in children, and he has NIH R01 funding for the study "Understanding Skeletal Growth Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Physis and Metaphysis".
Prior to joining HSS, Dr. Jaramillo had been the President and Board Chair of the Society for Pediatric Radiology, Radiologist-in-Chief at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Interim Chair of Radiology at Columbia University Medical Center. He has been involved with medical education and mentorship at the undergraduate and graduate levels for many years.
Pediatric musculoskeletal imaging
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Director, Pediatric Imaging, Hospital for Special Surgery
Attending Radiologist, Hospital for Special Surgery
Professor of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College
Diagnostic Radiology
Pediatric Radiology
John Caffey Award, Society for Pediatric Radiology, 1995, 2023
Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research, Distinguished Investigator Award, 2022
Fellow, American College of Radiology, 2020
Distinguished Alumnus, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Radiology, 2019
Pioneer Award, Society for Pediatric Radiology, 2014
Medical: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 1981
Internship: University of Miami, 1983
Residency: University of Texas at Houston, 1987
Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 1989
English, Spanish
For all publications, please see the PubMed listing.
Books:
Siegel MJ, Jaramillo D (editors and authors). Pediatric MR. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America., Vol 16, No.3. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2008.
Jaramillo D (editor and author). Pediatric MR Imaging. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America, Vol. 6, No. 3. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1998.
Laor, T., Jaramillo, D, Oestreich, A.E.(authors): Bone. In: Kirks, D.R., Griscom, N.T., (eds.) Practical Pediatric Imaging, (3rd ed.) Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1998, pp. 327-510.
Selected Chapters:
Caine D, Rosenberg A, Jaramillo D, Laor T. The Skeleton: structure, growth and development and basis of skeletal injury. In: Strouse P (ed). Kleinman's Imaging of Child Abuse. In press.
Tsai A, Rosenberg A, Jaramillo D, Laor T, Kleinman P. Skeletal trauma: general considerations. In: Strouse P (ed). Kleinman's Imaging of Child Abuse. In press.
Fenlon EP, Karmazyn B, Kim JY, Jaramillo D. Hematogenous Osteomyelitis and Septic Arthritis in Children. In: Otero, H.J., Kaplan, S.L., Medina, L.S., Blackmore, C.C., Applegate, K.E. (eds) Evidence-Based Imaging in Pediatrics. Evidence-Based Imaging. 2022. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38095-3_87-1
Fenlon EP, Vachhani N, Peña, AH, Jaramillo D. Imaging of Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease in Children. In: Otero, H.J., Kaplan, S.L., Medina, L.S., Blackmore, C.C., Applegate, K.E. (eds) Evidence-Based Imaging in Pediatrics. Evidence- Based Imaging. 2022. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38095-3_83-1
2024 Imaging of the physeal-metaphyseal complex: insights into normal & abnormal growth
2023 Imaging of the Growth Plate Karolinska Institute, Sweden
2023 Pediatric cartilage disorders: not always so smooth Radiological Society of North America/Chicago, IL
2023 Kenneth Fellows Honorary Lecture, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, "Leadership in Pediatric Radiology"
2022 Godfrey Hounsfield Lecture, Atualiza22, National Circuit of Radiology, Brazil. "MRI of the pediatric musculoskeletal system: what is normal"
2019 2019 Distinguished Alumnus Award Lecture, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. "New Perspectives in the Evaluation of Bone Growth"
2017 Michael DiPietro Lecture, Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. "Imaging of Growth Disorders in Children"
2017 Carlos Manzano Sierra Memorial Lecture, Mexican Society of Radiology, Mexico City, Mexico. "Tumors of the bones and soft tissue in Children".
Dr. Jaramillo's research is centered on "Understanding Skeletal Growth using Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) of the Physis and Metaphysis (5R01HD104720-03), using a technique he helped pioneered. He seeks to clarify the dynamics of growth during the growth spurt and subsequent physeal closure, by establishing predictors of height velocity and final height and to evaluate response to growth hormone before it is apparent clinically. DTI metrics increase during fastest growth and decrease with growth failure.
His grant prior work on "Early Diagnosis of Growth Disorders using MRI" clarified the MRI characteristics of the normal and injured physis by correlating imaging with histology in animal models of direct and indirect insults to the physis, and resulted in the development of diffusion and perfusion MR imaging for evaluation of epiphyseal ischemia and its secondary physeal damage. Recently, his research has also focused on using AI tools to create standards for the prediction of tibial and femoral length, and AI for evaluation of pediatric upper extremity fractures.
HSS has a long history of supporting appropriate relationships with industry because they advance HSS's mission to provide the highest quality patient care, improve patient mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all, and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related disciplines through research and education.
As of June 28, 2024, Dr. Jaramillo reported no relationships with the healthcare industry.
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