From the cover of the RSNA's journal to the AMA's fee schedule

A local news segment on bone cancer treatment options named him as the interventional radiologist performing minimally invasive tumor ablation.

Media · NBC 7

Spreading lung cancer screening awareness

On-camera NBC 7 interview on lung cancer awareness and low-dose CT screening.

Mark Schechter, MD · Nuclear Medicine

Media · Podcast

Explaining how radiologists actually get paid

Guest on the closing episode of the Texas Radiological Society's five-part series on reimbursement, breaking down practice expense — the part of the payment formula almost nobody outside the committee rooms understands.

Michael Booker, MD MBA · Body Imaging

ACR Moorefield Fellow in Economics and Health Policy; RSNA Advisor to the AMA committee that sets the value of physician work.

Primary architect of the dose-reduction initiative, and co-author of imaging guidelines used for utilization review.

Founded and built the Interventional Radiology Advanced Practice Provider program at Scripps Mercy.

Publications · 600+ citations

Interventional oncology research program

Sixty-plus indexed research works spanning image-guided biopsy technique and interventional oncology, carried from an academic cancer center into private practice.

Sharjeel Sabir, MD · Interventional Radiology

Publications · Imaging, quality, and economics

Publishes across the reading room and the fee schedule

Peer-reviewed work ranging from post-treatment evaluation of brain tumors and abbreviated MRI for liver cancer screening, to simulation modeling for radiology quality improvement, to the economics of practice expense and how imaging is reimbursed.

Michael Booker, MD MBA · Body Imaging

Publication · 2017

Cut unnecessary CT scans in the emergency department

Two of our radiologists measured CT pulmonary angiogram ordering in a community emergency department, fed the results back to each clinician, and published what changed — less radiation, less cost, same care.

Michael Booker, MD MBA and John Johnson, MD

Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2017

A Scripps Mercy trauma study in the Journal of Trauma finding that routine repeat head CT is unnecessary for anticoagulated patients whose first scan is clear — still cited in the literature more than a decade later.

Dr. Cooper illustrates RadioGraphics, the RSNA's education journal, and designed the cover of its 2014 cardiothoracic monograph.

Alumni · Violinist since 1994

President of the group, concertmaster of the symphony

A past president of the group, violinist with the Camarada chamber ensemble since 1994, and longtime co-concertmaster of the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus. Outside lives survive in this practice.

David Buckley, MD · Past President