Leon Lenchik, MD

Education: MD, Northwestern University Medical School, 1990
Internship: SURGERY, Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, 1991
Residency: Diagnostic Radiology, Bridgeport Hospital, 1995
Fellowship: Osteoarticular Radiology, UCSD Medical Center, 1996
Board Certifications: American Board of Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology; American Board of Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology, Special Competence in Nuclear Radiology
Memberships: Southern Medical Association; Society of Skeletal Radiology; American College of Radiology; National Osteoporosis Foundation; Society of Clinical Densitometry; American Society of Bone and Mineral Research; Radiological Society of North America
Positions: Vice Chair, Radiology (Winston-Salem); Section Head, Radiology (Winston-Salem); Assistant Dean, Wake Forest University School of Medicine; Professor, Muscleoskeletal Imaging, Radiology (Winston-Salem)
Departments and Affiliations: Radiology (Winston-Salem); Wake Forest University School of Medicine; Muscleoskeletal Imaging, Radiology (Winston-Salem); Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention (CHAAP); Advancing Academics in Medicine and Science

Research

Imaging of Sarcopenia. Boutin RD, Houston DK, Chaudhari AS, Willis MH, Fausett CL, Lenchik L. Radiol Clin North Am. 2022 Jul; 60(4):575-582.
Change in Lumbar Muscle Size and Composition on MRI with Long-Duration Spaceflight. Greene KA, Tooze JA, Lenchik L, Weaver AA. Ann Biomed Eng. 2022 Jul; 50(7):816-824.
ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Inflammatory Back Pain: Known or Suspected Axial Spondyloarthritis: 2021 Update. , Czuczman GJ, Mandell JC, Wessell DE, Lenchik L, Ahlawat S, Baker JC, Cassidy RC, Demertzis JL, Garner HW, Klitzke A, Maynard JR, Pierce JL, Reitman C, Thiele R, Yost WJ, Beaman FD. J Am Coll Radiol. 2021 11; 18(11S):S340-S360.
ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Plexopathy: 2021 Update. , Boulter DJ, Job J, Shah LM, Wessell DE, Lenchik L, Parsons MS, Agarwal V, Appel M, Burns J, Hutchins TA, Kendi AT, Khan MA, Liebeskind DS, Moritani T, Ortiz AO, Shah VN, Singh S, Than KD, Timpone VM, Beaman FD, Corey AS. J Am Coll Radiol. 2021 11; 18(11S):S423-S441.
The QIBA Profile for MRI-based Compositional Imaging of Knee Cartilage. Chalian M, Li X, Guermazi A, Obuchowski NA, Carrino JA, Oei EH, Link TM. Radiology. 2021 11; 301(2):423-432.

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