Rony V. Kampalath
Biography
Rony V. Kampalath, M.D., is Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Radiologic Science at the University of California, Irvine. He received his medical degree from UT Southwestern Medical School at Dallas and completed residencies in Internal Medicine at Washington University/Barnes Jewish Hospital and in Radiology at the University of Chicago, followed by a fellowship in Abdominal Imaging at MD Anderson Cancer Center. His clinical and research focus centers on abdominal imaging, with particular emphasis on hepatocellular carcinoma treatment response assessment and inflammatory bowel disease imaging.
Kampalath serves as Fellowship Director for the Abdominal Imaging Fellowship at UC Irvine and holds several national committee positions within the Society for Abdominal Radiology, including co-chair of the Disease Focused Panel on Assessment of Response to Therapy in HCC and member of the Disease Focused Panel on Inflammatory Bowel Disease. He serves on the editorial committees for Radiology-TEACHES and ACR Case in Point and is a reviewer for Abdominal Radiology. His work on developing systems for managing incidental findings in radiology received the Linda Strangio Editor's Award from the Journal of Radiology Nursing in 2022.
Kampalath has been recognized for his teaching and patient care contributions, receiving the UC Irvine Resident Teacher of the Year Award in both 2019 and 2020, and the Outstanding Patient Care Faculty Award in 2024. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications on topics including LI-RADS treatment response criteria, rectal cancer imaging, and the implementation of clinical systems for radiology follow-up recommendations. He has also served as a volunteer physician with Doctors Without Borders in Moldova and continues to provide volunteer radiology services at Lestonnac Free Clinic.
Return to topEducation
- M.D., UT Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, 2003
- B.A. in Chemistry, University of St. Thomas, 1999
Distinctions
- Linda Strangio Editor's Award, Journal of Radiology Nursing, 2022
- Distinguished Reviewer Acknowledgement, Abdominal Radiology Journal, 2019-2020
- Outstanding Patient Care Faculty Award, UCI Radiology, 2024
- Resident Teacher of the Year Award, UC Irvine Radiology, 2019-2020
- Power of Professionalism Award, Baylor College of Medicine, 2018
Areas of Expertise
- Abdominal Imaging
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment Response
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Imaging
- LI-RADS Diagnostic Criteria
- Rectal Cancer MRI Staging
- Incidental Findings Management
- Emergency Radiology Trauma Grading
Recent Publications
- Kimberly Phong, Lauro Nathaniel Avalos, Giovanna Giannico, Rony Kampalath, “All pain, no gain: When epididymitis drops the ball” (opens in new tab), Radiology Case Reports, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 1904-1908, 2025.
- Roth, B., Meraz, J., Bui, T.-L., Lebby, E., Fanucci, L., Kakish, D., Houshyar, R., Kampalath, R., “Solid organ injury grading in the abdomen: A Primer for Emergency Radiology” (opens in new tab), Contemporary Diagnostic Radiology, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 1-7, 2023.
- Yuval, J. B., Patil, S., Gangai, N., Omer, D. M., Akselrod, D. G., Fung, A., Harmath, C. B., Kampalath, R., Krehbiel, K., Lee, S., Liu, P. S., Millet, J. D., O'Malley, R. B., Purysko, A. S., Veniero, J. C., Wasnik, A. P., Garcia-Aguilar, J., Gollub, M. J., “MRI assessment of rectal cancer response to neoadjuvant therapy: A multireader study” (opens in new tab), European Radiology, vol. 33, pp. 5761-5768, 2023.
- Hong CW, Chernyak V, Choi JY, Lee S, Potu C, Delgado T, Wolfson T, Gamst A, Birnbaum J, Kampalath R, Lall C, Lee JT, Owen JW, Aguirre DA, Mendiratta-Lala M, Davenport MS, Masch W, Roudenko A, Lewis SC, Kierans AS, et al., “A Multicenter Assessment of Interreader Reliability of LI-RADS Version 2018 for MRI and CT” (opens in new tab), Radiology, vol. 307, no. 5, 2023.
- Roth B, Kampalath R, Nakashima K, Shieh S, Bui TL, Houshyar R, “Revenue and Cost Analysis of a System Utilizing Natural Language Processing and a Nurse Coordinator for Radiology Follow-up Recommendations” (opens in new tab), Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 367-371, 2023.
- Lo A, Le B, Colin-Escobar J, Ruiz A, Creps J, Kampalath R, Lee S, “Disparities in Diagnostic Imaging for Initial Local Staging for Rectal Cancer” (opens in new tab), Journal of the American College of Radiology, vol. 21, pp. 154-164, 2023.
- Kampalath R, Mendiratta-Lala M, Lewis S, Benefield T, Yaghmai V, Burke L, “Society of abdominal radiology survey of practice patterns in using LI-RADS treatment response criteria in the evaluation of hepatocellular carcinoma post-locoregional treatment” (opens in new tab), Abdominal Radiology, vol. 48, no. 11, pp. 3401-3407, 2023.
- Rony Kampalath, Bradley Roth, Kayla Nakashima, Sonia Lee, Roozbeh Houshyar, Stephanie Shieh, “The Incidental Findings Coordinator: How a Radiology Nurse can Add Value and Promote Patient Safety” (opens in new tab), Journal of Radiology Nursing, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 28-32, 2022.
- Kampalath R, Tran-Harding K, Do RKG, Mendiratta-Lala M, Yaghmai V, “Evaluation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment Response After Locoregional Therapy” (opens in new tab), Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 389-403, 2021.
- Masch WR, Kampalath R, Parikh N, Shampain KA, Aslam A, Chernyak V, “Imaging of treatment response during systemic therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma” (opens in new tab), Abdominal Radiology, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 3625-3633, 2021.
- Ram R, Kampalath R, Shenoy-Bhangle AS, Arora S, Kielar AZ, Mendiratta-Lala M, “LI-RADS treatment response lexicon: review, refresh and resolve with emerging data” (opens in new tab), Abdominal Radiology, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 3549-3557, 2021.
- Houshyar R, Tran-Harding K, Glavis-Bloom J, Nguyentat M, Mongan J, Chahine C, Loehfelm TW, Kohli MD, Zaragoza EJ, Murphy PM, Kampalath R, “Effect of shelter-in-place on emergency department radiology volumes during the COVID-19 pandemic” (opens in new tab), Emergency Radiology, vol. 27, pp. 1-4, 2020.
- Corwin MT, Altinmakas E, Asch D, Bishop KA, Boge M, Curci NE, Ebada M, Elkassem AA, Fananapazir G, Fetzer DT, Gaballah AH, Gandhi D, Kampalath R, Lee S, Markese M, McInnes MD, Patel NU, Remer EM, Rosasco S, Schieda N, et al., “Clinical importance of incidental homogeneous renal masses 10-40 mm and 21-39 Hounsfield Units at portal venous-phase CT: A 12-institution retrospective cohort study” (opens in new tab), AJR American Journal of Roentgenology, vol. 217, pp. 135-140, 2020.
- Wong, V. K., Bahouth, S. M., Kampalath, R. V., Lin, J., Mankowski-Gettle, L., “US Findings of First-Trimester Pregnancy RadioGraphics Fundamentals” (opens in new tab), RadioGraphics, vol. 38, no. 7, pp. 2193-2194, 2018.
- Liao, Shengri, Penney, Bill C., Wroblewski, Kristen, Zhang, Hao, Simon, Cassie A., Kampalath, Rony, Shih MC, Shimada, N., Chen, S., Salgia R., Appelbaum DE., Suzuki, K., Chen CT., Pu, Y., “Prognostic Value of Metabolic Tumor Burden on 18F-FDG PET in Nonsurgical Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer” (opens in new tab), European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, vol. 39, pp. 27-38, 2012.
Contact Information
Email: rkampala@uci.edu
Address: 101 The City Drive South, Bldg, 1, Room 0115, Orange, CA 92868
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