Mohammad Eghtedari, M.D., Ph.D.
- Diagnostic Radiology
- Clinical Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology
- Section Chief, Women’s Imaging, Department of Diagnostic Radiology
Mohammad Eghtedari, M.D., Ph.D., is a clinical professor and the section chief of women’s imaging in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at City of Hope® Cancer Center Duarte. A dedicated researcher and clinician, Dr. Eghtedari has more than two decades of experience working with cancer patients and conducting leading-edge biomedical research on breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. He specializes in challenging breast biopsies and complex localizations, especially in those with recurrent breast cancer. He has expertise in various diagnostic imaging modalities such as contrast-enhanced mammography, tomosynthesis, ultrasound, MRI and breast-specific gamma imaging.
Dr. Eghtadari earned his medical degree from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in Shiraz, Iran and his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He then completed a surgery internship at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, an National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded radiology research residency at the University of California, San Diego, and a breast imaging fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Dr. Eghtedari is a physician-scholar with a strong commitment to research, which is evident in his more than 30 peer-reviewed publications. He has been a member of the breast cancer screening committee of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network®, an organization that defines national guidelines for breast cancer screening and is a current member of the prevention committee in the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). He has presented his research in the United States, Iran and China.
Location
Duarte Cancer Center
Duarte, CA 91010
Education & Experience
Board Certifications
- 2013–Present, American College of Radiology
Degrees
- 2002–2008, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Medical Branch, Center for Biomedical Engineering, Galveston, Texas
- 1990–1997, M.D., Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Fellowship
- 2013–2014, Breast Imaging, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Residency
- 2008–2013, T-32 Research Track Residency, University of California, San Diego, Department of Radiology, San Diego, California
Internship
- 2007–2008, Surgery, The Methodist Hospital, Department of Surgery, Houston, Texas
Professional Experience
- 2024–Present, Clinical Professor and Section Chief of Women's Imaging, Division of Woman's Imaging, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, City of Hope, Duarte, California
- 2020–2024, Associate Professor of Radiology and Fellowship Director of Breast Imaging, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California
Awards & Memberships
Awards
- 2023, Resident Teaching Award
- 2018, Certificate of Merit awarded to educational exhibit “Diagnostic Breast Imaging and Interventions in the Age of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis: How We Do It” Radiological Society of North America 2018 Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois
- 2018, Certificate of Merit, National Center of Leadership in Academic Medicine at U.C. San Diego School of Medicine (NCLAM)
- 2018, Academy of Clinician Scholar Award for the project titled” Employing Backscatter X-Ray in Medicine”
- 2017, Clinical Care Award, Section Award: Breast Imaging — UCSD, Radiology Department
- 2015, collaborator on an R21 grant titled ”Gold nanoparticles for sentinel node biopsy,” Primary Investigator Dr. Sara Blair, Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, California
- 2014, consultant, NIH/NCI SBIR Phase I, TOPIC 331, Title: Optical Spectroscopy Capable Biopsy Needle Tip to Seek High Tumor Content Areas
- 2013, Recipient of Roentgen Resident/Fellow Research Award
- 2012, Participating in a grant awarded by Calit2 Strategic Research Opportunities Program on a project titled "Optically-Assisted Needle Guidance." Primary investigator is Dr. Sadik Esener
- 2009, Recipient of RSNA Research Resident/Fellow grant, #RR0917, Oak Brook, Illinois
Memberships
- Member, American College of Radiology
- Member, Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program of the NCI
- Member, American Roentgen Ray Society
- Member, Radiological Society of North America
- Member, Society of Breast Imaging
Publications
- Onishi N, Bareng TJ, Gibbs J, Li W, Price ER, Joe BN, Kornak J, Esserman LJ, Newitt DC, ,.. Eghtedari M, …Hylton NM; I-SPY 2 Imaging Working Group; I-SPY 2 Investigator Network. Effect of Longitudinal Variation in Tumor Volume Estimation for MRI-guided Personalization of Breast Cancer Neoadjuvant Treatment. Radiol Imaging Cancer. 2023 Jul;5(4). PMID: 37505107.
- Retson TA, Eghtedari M. Expanding Horizons: The Realities of CAD, the Promise of Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning's Role in Breast Imaging beyond Screening Mammography. Diagnostics (Basel). 2023 Jun 21;13(13):2133. PMID: 37443526.
- Hosseini-Bensenjan M, Haghpanah S, Sayadi M, Eghtedari M. Correlation of Serum Ferritin Level with Heart T2 MRI in Transfusion Dependent Thalassemia: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Clin Lab. 2023 Jun 1;69(6). doi: 10.7754/Clin.Lab.2022.220916. Review. PubMed PMID: 37307121.
- Haghpanah S, Hosseini-Bensenjan M, Sayadi M, Karimi M, Ramzi M, Movahed H, Eghtedari M. Risk Factors for the Occurrence of Asymptomatic Brain Lesions in Patients with β-Thalassemia: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Clin Lab. 2023 Jun 1;69(6). doi: 10.7754/Clin.Lab.2022.221111. Review. PubMed PMID: 37307134.
- Hu H, Ma Y, Gao X, Song D, Li M, Huang H, Qian X, Wu R, Shi K, Ding H, Lin M, Chen X, Zhao W, Qi B, Zhou S, Chen R, Gu Y, Chen Y, Lei Y, Wang C, Wang C, Tong Y, Cui H, Abdal A, Zhu Y, Tian X, Chen Z, Lu C, Yang X, Mu J, Lou Z, Eghtedari M, Zhou Q, Oberai A, Xu S. Stretchable ultrasonic arrays for the three-dimensional mapping of the modulus of deep tissue. Nat Biomed Eng. 2023 May 1;. doi: 10.1038/s41551-023-01038-w. PMID: 37127710.
- Manning P, Fazeli S, Lim V, Ladd WA, Eghtedari M, Chong A, Rakow-Penner R, Ojeda-Fournier H. Invasive Lobular Carcinoma: A Multimodality Imaging Primer. Radiographics. 2022 Jul-Aug;42(4):E115-E116. doi: 10.1148/rg.210058. Epub 2022 Jun 10. PubMed PMID: 35687521.
- Onishi N, Li W, Newitt DC, Harnish RJ, Strand F, Nguyen AA, Arasu VA, Gibbs J, Jones EF, Wilmes LJ, Kornak J, Joe BN, Price ER, Ojeda-Fournier H, Eghtedari M, Zamora KW, Woodard S, Umphrey HR, Nelson MT, Church AL, Bolan PJ, Kuritza T, Ward K, Morley K, Wolverton D, Fountain K, Lopez Paniagua D, Hardesty L, Brandt KR, McDonald ES, Rosen M, Kontos D, Abe H, Sheth D, Crane E, Dillis C, Sheth P, Hovanessian-Larsen L, Bang DH, Porter B, Oh KY, Jafarian N, Tudorica LA, Niell B, Drukteinis J, Newell MS, Giurescu ME, Berman E, Lehman CD, Partridge SC, Fitzpatrick KA, Borders MH, Yang WT, Dogan B, Goudreau SH, Chenevert T, Yau C, DeMichele A, Berry DA, Esserman LJ, Hylton NM. Breast MRI during Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Lack of Background Parenchymal Enhancement Suppression and Inferior Treatment Response. Radiology. 2021 Nov;301(2):295-308. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2021203645. Epub 2021 Aug 24. PubMed PMID: 34427465; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8574064.
- Eghtedari M, Chong A, Rakow-Penner R, Ojeda-Fournier H. Current Status and Future of BI-RADS in Multimodality Imaging, From the AJR Special Series on Radiology Reporting and Data Systems. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2021 Apr;216(4):860-873. doi: 10.2214/AJR.20.24894. Epub 2021 Feb 24. Review. PubMed PMID: 33295802.
- Sefidbakht S, Askarian M, Bijan B, Eghtedari M, Tahmasebi S, Zarei F, Jalli R, Iranpour P. Resuming Breast Imaging Services in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Safety and Beyond. Clin Breast Cancer. 2021 Feb;21(1):e136-e140. doi: 10.1016/j.clbc.2020.10.009. Epub 2020 Oct 30. PubMed PMID: 33257273; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7834332.
- Porzani SJ, Lorenzi AS, Eghtedari M, Nowruzi B. Interaction of Dehydrogenase Enzymes with Nanoparticles in Industrial and Medical Applications, and the Associated Challenges: A Mini-review. Mini Rev Med Chem. 2021;21(11):1351-1366. doi: 10.2174/1570193X17666201119152944. Review. PubMed PMID: 33213343.