Biography

Biography

Patricia Svolos received her PhD in Medical Physics from the University of Thessaly in Greece in 2013. She completed her diagnostic imaging physics residency at Henry Ford Health, Michigan in 2018, and joined the imaging physics team at UTHealth McGovern Medical School the same year. Her graduate research work focused on brain tumor differentiation using MR diffusion and perfusion weighted imaging. Patricia serves as the assistant program director for diagnostic physics at the UTHealth McGovern medical physics residency program. She is an active member of the AAPM, working in committees focused in residency education and training, as well as medical physics education at a national and international level. Patricia also volunteers with RAD-AID International and serves as the Program Manager for diagnostic imaging under RAD-AID’s medical physics program. The focus of her global outreach activities, is didactic education and training in medical physics to ensure safe practices in radiology and implementation of image quality assurance programs.

Certifications

  • American Board of Radiology (ABR), Diagnostic Medical Physics (2019)
  • Board certified Medical Physicist (Ministry of Health, Athens, Greece) (2009)
  • Board certified Medical Physicist (Non-Ionizing Radiation applications) (Ministry of Health, Athens, Greece) (2008)

Education

Undergraduate School
University of Thessaly (Greece), Ph.D. in Medical Physics
Graduate School
University of Thessaly (Greece), Ph.D. in Medical Physics
Postgraduate Training
Research Fellow. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Postgraduate Training
Imaging Physics Residency, Henry Ford Health

Areas of Interest

Clinical Interests

Areas of Interest

  • State and ACR required equipment testing in General Radiography, Dental, Fluoroscopy, Mammography, Ultrasound, Computer Tomography, MRI and Nuclear Medicine.
  • Radiation safety for patient and clinical personnel in Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine.
  • Shielding design and verification for imaging equipment.
  • Protocol review and optimization
  • Quality and safety policy development
  • Medical physics education and training

Publications

Publications

Refereed Original Articles in Journals

  • Tsitsia V, Svolou P, Kaspalaki E, Theodorou K, Vassiou K, Valotassiou V, Georgoulias P, Fezoulidis I, Tsougos I.: Multimodality – multiparametric brain tumor evaluation. Hellenic J Nucl Med, 20(1): 57-61, 2017.
  • Svolos P, Reddick WE, Edwards A, Sykes A, Li Y, Glass JO, Patay Z.: Measurable Supratentorial White Matter Volume Changes in Patients with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Treated with an Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Agent, Steroids, and Radiation. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol, 38(6): 1235-1241, 2017.

Book Chapters

  • Tsivaka D, Svolos P, Kapsalaki E and Tsougos I., The role of Diffusion Weighted and Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Epilepsy. Epilepsy Surgery and Intrinsic Brain Tumor Surgery: A Practical Atlas, Fountas K. and Kapsalaki E. (eds). Springer International Publishing, 2019.

Other Professional Communications

  • Svolos P., Vanderhoek M., Harkness B.: Physics Case of the Day. RSNA 104th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, November 25, 2018.
  • Rubinstein A, Ahmad M, Feng J, Codina R, Svolos P.: An evaluation of automated quality assurance and physics testing of mobile CT units. AAPM 61st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, July 14-19, 2019 (Poster).
  • Osunbayo O, Svolos P, Feng J: Evaluation of the displayed average glandular dose of Hologic digital breast tomosynthesis systems. AAPM 63rd Annual Meeting, Virtual, July 25-29, 2021 (e-Poster).

Honors and Awards

  • Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award (2018-2019), McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Houston.
  • Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award (2020-2021), McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Houston.
  • Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award (2021-2022), McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Houston.
  • Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award (2022-2023), McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Houston.