Melissa Price, MD
Department of Thoracic Imaging, Division of Diagnostic Imaging
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Associate Professor, Department of Thoracic Imaging, Division of Diagnostic Imaging, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2009 | University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, US, MD |
| 2004 | Johns Hopkins University, US, Pre-Medicine |
| 2003 | University of Notre Dame, US, Psychology, Bachelor of Arts |
Postgraduate Training
| 2015-2016 | Fellow, Diagnostic Radiology, Division of Thoracic Imaging and Intervention |
| 2014-2015 | Fellow, Diagnostic Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 2010-2014 | Resident, Diagnostic Radiology, UCLA School of Medicine |
| 2009-2010 | Intern, Internal Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital |
Experience & Service
Academic Appointments
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities
Chief Resident, UCLA School of Medicine Department of Radiology, 2012 - 2014
Institutional Committee Activities
Thoracic Radiology Fellow Member, Team Operations Committee, 2015 - 2016
Resident Champion representative, Care Connect Committee, 2012 - 2013
Resident Committee Member, UCLA Radiology Credentials/Quality of Care Committee, 2012 - 2014
Honors & Awards
| Outstanding Nighthawk Radiology Resident Award, Santa Monica – UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital | |
| Outstanding Nighthawk Radiology Resident Award, Santa Monica – UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital | |
| Certificate of Merit, Cryoablation of Chest Wall Tumors: Scientific Exhibit, ARRS Annual Meeting | |
| Education Exhibit: CT-Guided Fiducial Placement for Preoperative Localization of Small Pulmonary Nodules: How We Do it, RSNA Annual Meeting | |
| McGovern Award Nominee, Massachusetts General Hospital | |
| McGovern Award Nominee, Massachusetts General Hospital |
Professional Memberships
Selected Publications
Other Articles
- Shah SJ, Price MC, Kanjilal S Case 29-2024: A 47-Year-Old Man with Confusion and Kidney Failure. N Engl J Med 391(11):1039-1048, 2024. PMID: 39292931.
- Savage TE, Geenen KR, Price MC, El-Chemaly SY, Henske EP, Sharma A, Thiele EA A Comparison of Clinical and Radiological Presentations of Sporadic and Tuberous Sclerosis Complex-Associated Lymphangioleiomyomatosis. Am J Med Genet A None(None):e63871, 2024. PMID: 39243170.
- Jo NC, Shroff GS, Ahuja J, Agrawal R, Price MC, Wu CC Radiation Recall Pneumonitis: Imaging Appearance and Differential Considerations. Korean J Radiol 25(9):843-850, 2024. PMID: 39197829.
- Graur A, Saenger JA, Mercaldo ND, Simon J, Abston ED, Price MC, Lanciotti K, Swisher LA, Colson YL, Willers H, Lanuti M, Fintelmann FJ Multimodality Management of Thoracic Tumors: Initial Experience With a Multidisciplinary Thoracic Ablation Conference. Ann Surg Oncol 31(5):3426-3436, 2024. PMID: 38270827.
- Dagogo-Jack I, Manoogian A, Jessop N, Georgantas NZ, Fintelmann FJ, Farahani A, Digumarthy SR, Price MC, Folch EE, Keyes CM, Do A, Peterson JL, Mino-Kenudson M, Pitman M, Rivera M, Nardi V, Dias-Santagata D, Le LP, Iafrate AJ, Heist RS, Ritterhouse LR, Lennerz JK Integrated Radiology, Pathology, and Pharmacy Program to Accelerate Access to Osimertinib. JCO Oncol Pract 19(9):786-792, 2023. PMID: 37437226.
- Zippi ZD, Cortopassi IO, Johnson EM, McDermott S, Mergo PJ, Petranovic M, Price MC, Stowell JT, Little BP U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Lung Cancer Screening From 2010 to 2022. AJR Am J Roentgenol 221(2):258-271, 2023. PMID: 36919884.
- Sanger JA, Graur A, Tahir I, Price MC, Keane FK, Lanuti M, Sharma A, Fintelmann FJ Outcomes following cryoablation of stage IA non-small cell lung cancer in patients with and without interstitial lung disease: A retrospective single-center cohort study. Lung Cancer 181(None):107231, 2023. PMID: 37172368.
- Villalba JA, Hilburn CF, Garlin MA, Elliott GA, Li Y, Kunitoki K, Poli S, Alba GA, Madrigal E, Taso M, Price MC, Aviles AJ, Araujo-Medina M, Bonanno L, Boyraz B, Champion SN, Harris CK, Helland TL, Hutchison B, Jobbagy S, Marshall MS, Shepherd DJ, Barth JL, Hung YP, Ly A, Hariri LP, Turbett SE, Pierce VM, Branda JA, Rosenberg ES, Mendez-Pena J, Chebib I, Rosales IA, Smith RN, Miller MA, Rosas IO, Hardin CC, Baden LR, Medoff BD, Colvin RB, Little BP, Stone JR, Mino-Kenudson M, Shih AR Vasculopathy and Increased Vascular Congestion in Fatal COVID-19 and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 206(7):857-873, 2022. PMID: 35671465.
- Reddy KP, Price MC, Barnes JA, Rigotti NA, Crotty RK Case 26-2022: A 48-Year-Old Woman with Cystic Lung Disease. N Engl J Med 387(8):738-747, 2022. PMID: 36001715.
- Little BP, Gagne SM, Fintelmann FJ, McDermott S, Mendoza DP, Petranovic M, Price MC, Stowell JT, Narayan AK, Flores EJ United States lung cancer screening program websites: radiology representation, multimedia and multilingual content. Clin Imaging 86(None):83-88, 2022. PMID: 35367867.
- Snyder A, Lanuti M, Muniappan A, Price MC, Som A, Little BP Assessing Public Interest in Elective Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Google Trends Analysis. Ann Surg Open 3(1):e142, 2022. PMID: 37600105.
- McDermott S, Frenk NE, Fintelmann FJ, Price MC, Ott HC, Muniappan A, Shepard JO, Sharma A Preoperative CT-guided Fiducial Marker Placement for Surgical Localization of Pulmonary Nodules. Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging 4(1):e210194, 2022. PMID: 35782764.
- McDermott S, Frenk NE, Fintelmann FJ, Price M, Ott HC, Muniappan A, Shepard JO, Sharma A Preoperative CT-guided Fiducial Marker Placement for Surgical Localization of Pulmonary Nodules. None 10(4):e210194, 2022. PMID: None.
- Delijani K, Price MC, Little BP Community and Hospital Acquired Pneumonia. Semin Roentgenol 57(1):3-17, 2022. PMID: 35090707.
- Ackman JB, Chintanapakdee W, Mendoza DP, Price MC, Lanuti M, Shepard JO Longitudinal CT and MRI Characteristics of Unilocular Thymic Cysts. Radiology 301(2):443-454, 2021. PMID: 34427460.
- Gagne SM, Fintelmann FJ, Flores EJ, McDermott S, Mendoza DP, Petranovic M, Price MC, Stowell JT, Little BP Evaluation of the Informational Content and Readability of US Lung Cancer Screening Program Websites. JAMA Netw Open 3(1):e1920431, 2020. PMID: 32003825.
- Fintelmann FJ, Troschel FM, Kuklinski MW, McDermott S, Petranovic M, Digumarthy SR, Sharma A, Troschel AS, Price MC, Hariri LP, Gilman MD, Shepard JO, Sequist LV, Piotrowska Z Safety and Success of Repeat Lung Needle Biopsies in Patients with Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-Mutant Lung Cancer. Oncologist 24(12):1570-1576, 2019. PMID: 31152082.
- McDermott S, Fintelmann FJ, Bierhals AJ, Silin DD, Price MC, Ott HC, Shepard JO, Mayo JR, Sharma A Image-guided Preoperative Localization of Pulmonary Nodules for Video-assisted and Robotically Assisted Surgery. Radiographics 39(5):1264-1279, 2019. PMID: 31419188.
- Digumarthy SR, Padole AM, Rastogi S, Price M, Mooradian MJ, Sequist LV, Kalra MK Predicting malignant potential of subsolid nodules: can radiomics preempt longitudinal follow up CT?. Cancer Imaging 19(1):36, 2019. PMID: 31182167.
- Tongbai T, McDermott S, Fintelmann FJ, Price MC, Sharma A, Gilman MD Complications and Accuracy of Computed Tomography-guided Transthoracic Needle Biopsy in Patients Over 80 Years of Age. J Thorac Imaging 34(3):187-191, 2019. PMID: 30817502.
- Kiranantawat N, McDermott S, Fintelmann FJ, Montesi SB, Price MC, Digumarthy SR, Sharma A Clinical role, safety and diagnostic accuracy of percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy in the evaluation of pulmonary consolidation. Respir Res 20(1):23, 2019. PMID: 30704502.
- Neilan TG, Price MC, Sanborn DY, Gainor JF, Chen A Case 33-2018: A 57-Year-Old Man with Confusion, Fever, Malaise, and Weight Loss. N Engl J Med 379(17):1658-1669, 2018. PMID: 30354952.
- Price M, Wu CC, Genshaft S, Sadow PM, Xie L, Shepard JO, McDermott S Imaging and Management of Intrathoracic Renal Cell Carcinoma Metastases. AJR Am J Roentgenol 210(6):1181-1191, 2018. PMID: 29629809.
- Canellas R, Ackman JB, Digumarthy SR, Price M, Otrakji A, McDermott SS, Sharma A, Kalra MK Submillisievert chest dual energy computed tomography: a pilot study. Br J Radiol 91(1082):None, 2018. PMID: 29125334.
- Letourneau AR, Price MC, Azar MM Case 26-2017. N Engl J Med 377(8):770-778, 2017. PMID: 28834480.
- Oliveira IS, Kilcoyne A, Price MC, Harisinghani M MRI features of perianal fistulas: is there a difference between Crohn's and non-Crohn's patients?. Abdom Radiol (NY) 42(4):1162-1168, 2017. PMID: 27885389.
- Kilcoyne A, Price MC, McDermott S, Harisinghani MG Imaging on nodal staging of prostate cancer. Future Oncol 13(6):551-565, 2017. PMID: 27785926.
- Price M, Gilman MD, Carter BW, Sabloff BS, Truong MT, Wu CC Imaging of Eosinophilic Lung Diseases. Radiol Clin North Am 54(6):1151-1164, 2016. PMID: 27719981.
- Price M, Patino M, Sahani D Computed Tomography Angiography of the Hepatic, Pancreatic, and Splenic Circulation. Radiol Clin North Am 54(1):55-70, 2016. PMID: 26654391.
- Clavijo-Alvarez JA, Price M, Stofman GM Preserved neurologic function following intraneural fascicular dissection and nerve graft for digital and median nerve lipofibromatous hamartoma. Plast Reconstr Surg 125(3):120e-2e, 2010. PMID: 20195096.
- Dumur CI, Lyons-Weiler M, Sciulli C, Garrett CT, Schrijver I, Holley TK, Rodriguez-Paris J, Pollack JR, Zehnder JL, Price M, Hagenkord JM, Rigl CT, Buturovic LJ, Anderson GG, Monzon FA Interlaboratory performance of a microarray-based gene expression test to determine tissue of origin in poorly differentiated and undifferentiated cancers. J Mol Diagn 10(1):67-77, 2008. PMID: 18083688.
- Delijani K, Price M, Little B Community and Hospital Acquired Pneumonia. Semi in Roen 57(1):3-17. PMID: None.
Book Chapters
- Price M, Gilman MG, Wu CC. Eosinophilic Lung Diseases. In: Müller’s Imaging of the Chest. None. Elsevier, None, 2019.
- Price M, Shepard JO, Abbott GF. Normal Anatomy and Atelectasis. In: The Requisites: Thoracic Imaging. 3rd. Elsevier, None, 2019.