Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine
Radiology
Dr. Maria I. Boechat, MD
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Maria Boechat is an expert in the field of Radiology. She over the years received 20 awards: "Southern Californias Top Doctors", "Honorary Membership", "Southern Californias 2011 Top Women Southern California Super Doctors", "Founding President, Chair Council of Directors", "Americas Top Radiologists", "Southern Californias Super Doctors", "Diplomatic Honor", "Honorary member", "President", "Research Fellow Trainee Prize", "Fellowship Degree", "Service Award", "Chicano Medical Student Association (CMSA) Service Award", "Professional Leadership Award", "Fellow", "Best Poster", "Gold Medal Prize for Best Poster Presentation", "Editor's Certificate of Recognition", "Bronze Medal" and "Certificate of Merit". Doctor Maria I. Boechat, MD is a published MD. She published 38 publications, including: 'Bilateral choanal narrowing as a presentation of craniometaphyseal dysplasia.' She is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- High-field MR imaging in pediatric congenital heart disease: initial results.
- Massive liver mass and parenteral nutrition extravasation secondary to umbilical venous catheter complications.
- Encouraging women of color to enter academic medicine.
- Thymic volume, T-cell populations, and parameters of thymopoiesis in adolescent and adult survivors of HIV infection acquired in infancy.
- Outcomes of bladder neck closure for intractable urinary incontinence in patients with neurogenic bladders.
- Immune dysregulation after cardiothoracic surgery and incidental thymectomy: maintenance of regulatory T cells despite impaired thymopoiesis.
- Paediatric radiologists rise up and reach out: The World Federation of Paediatric Imaging.
- Women in pediatric radiology.
- Graphic representation of skeletal maturity determinations.
- Cardiac MR imaging and MR angiography for assessment of complex tetralogy of Fallot and pulmonary atresia.
- Idiopathic infantile arterial calcification: imaging evaluation and the usefulness of MR angiography.
- Pulmonary emboli following therapeutic embolization of cerebral arteriovenous malformations in children.
- Decreased cortical and increased cancellous bone in two children with primary hyperparathyroidism.
- Avascular necrosis of the femoral head in children with chronic renal disease.
- Three-dimensional helical CT of pulmonary arteries in infants and children with congenital heart disease.
- Osteomalacia in a hemodialysis patient receiving an active vitamin D sterol.
- MR imaging of the pediatric pelvis.
- Noonan syndrome associated with neuroblastoma: a case report.
- Skeletal age determinations in children of European and African descent: applicability of the Greulich and Pyle standards.
- Normal US appearance of ovaries and uterus in four patients with Turner''s syndrome and 45,X karyotype.
- MR imaging in Drash syndrome.
- Chronic radiographic lung changes in children with vertically transmitted HIV-1 infection.
- Radiographic appearance of pediatric cardiovascular transcatheter devices.
- Contrast-enhanced MR angiography of the chest and abdomen with use of controlled apnea in children.
- Bilateral choanal narrowing as a presentation of craniometaphyseal dysplasia.
- Performance characteristics and image fidelity of gray-scale monitors.
- False-negative duplex Doppler studies in children with hepatic artery thrombosis after liver transplantation.
- MR imaging of the abdomen in children.
- Cranial arteriovenous malformations in neonates: color Doppler imaging with angiographic correlation.
- Hepatic masses in children.
- The effect of limping on vertebral bone density: a study of children with tarsal coalition.
- Renal malformations in patients with Turner syndrome: imaging in 141 patients.
- Effect of sex steroids on peak bone density of growing rabbits.
- Osteoporosis in cystic fibrosis.
- Imaging in pediatric liver transplantation.
- Pediatric intracranial vascular malformations: evaluation of treatment results with color Doppler US. Work in progress.
- Parasitic omphalopagus complicated by omphalocele and congenital heart disease.
Schools
Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais Faculdade De Medicina
Institute De Rad Med Nuclear
University Of California Los Angeles
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Radiology
- Radiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Southern California’s Top Doctors
- Honorary Membership
- Southern California’s 2011 Top Women Southern California Super Doctors
- Founding President, Chair Council of Directors
- America’s Top Radiologists
- Southern California’s Super Doctors
- Diplomatic Honor
- Honorary member
- President
- Research Fellow Trainee Prize
- Fellowship Degree
- Service Award
- Chicano Medical Student Association (CMSA) Service Award
- Professional Leadership Award
- Fellow
- Best Poster
- Gold Medal Prize for Best Poster Presentation
- Editor's Certificate of Recognition
- Bronze Medal
- Certificate of Merit
Education
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UCLA Medical Center -
Boston Children's Hospital -
Federal University of Minas Gerais
Hospital
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Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center -
Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1659320406 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BOECHAT |
| First Name Of The Provider | MARIA |
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