Todd R. Hazelton, MD, was named Chairperson of Radiology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine effective Jan. 1. Todd R. Hazelton, MD, was named Chairperson of Radiology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine effective Jan. 1. Dr. Hazelton will be responsible for building the department as USF gets ready to open its Morsani Center for Advanced Healthcare. Harvey Greenberg, MD, who served as the department's interim chair for the last year, will continue as a senior faculty member in the department.

Dr. Hazelton, associate professor of radiology at USF, served most recently as chief of radiology service at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute. An attending thoracic radiologist at Moffitt for the last ten years, he was also associate director and then director of the USF Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program.

Carlos Martinez, MD, clinical professor of radiology at USF, is expected assume the role of program director of USF's radiology residency with the next few months, Dr. Hazelton said.

"A key requisite for department's success will be someone who is dedicated to radiology education and able to creatively leverage the diverse hospital and outpatient partnerships at USF," said Stephen K. Klasko, MD, MBA, vice president for USF Health and dean of the College of Medicine.

"Dr Hazelton has been a mentor to countless numbers of students and residents," Dr. Klasko said. "He will provide stability for our residency program and lead a dedicated group of academic radiologists at a time where imaging will have a greater impact on our educational and outpatient program than ever before."

"I look forward to helping shape, rebuild and expand our Department of Radiology as we strengthen our relationships with Tampa General Hospital and Radiology Associates of Tampa and other hospital partners," Dr. Hazelton said. "Having grown up at USF as an undergraduate, medical student, resident and faculty member at the College of Medicine and Moffitt, I'm excited about this new opportunity."

Radiology faculty and residents will provide all diagnostic imaging services at the new Carol and Frank Morsani Center for Advanced Healthcare when the ambulatory facility opens on the USF Tampa campus later this year. In addition, Dr. Hazelton, who specializes in imaging of the heart and lungs, said radiology faculty plan to work with USF cardiologists to develop an outpatient cardiac imaging program at the USF Health South Tampa Center for Advanced Healthcare and the Morsani Center.

The recipient of numerous awards for teaching excellence, Dr. Hazelton is a member of the American College of Radiology, a senior member of the Society of Thoracic Radiology, and a past president of the Florida West Coast Radiological Society. At Moffitt, he was the local principal investigator for the National Cancer Institute's National Lung Screening Trial - a study comparing whether chest X-rays or CT scans may be better at reducing deaths from lung cancer in current or former smokers.

A 1993 graduate of the USF College of Medicine, Dr. Hazelton conducted his residency in diagnostic radiology at USF. He completed fellowship training in thoracic imaging at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver and a visiting fellowship in cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville.

Dr. Hazelton and his wife Lisa have eight children - Andy, 17; Josh, 15; Matt, 12; Anna, ten; Noah, eight; Sara, five; Adam, three; and Leah, 15 months - so he knows all about multi-tasking. "Not much fazes me," he said, "especially not noise."


Source: USF Health