Gillen joins Department of Radiology

Marijo A. Gillen joined the Department of Radiology Abdominal Imaging Section as an assistant professor, effective Aug. 15. Gillen received her doctorate in theoretical physical chemistry from New York University in 1978, and her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York in 1981.

She was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1985 and the American Board of Radiology in 1990. Gillen also completed fellowship training in abdominal imaging at Emory University in Atlanta. Her clinical interests focus on abdominal and pelvic imaging (including MRI, CT and ultrasound), MRI and CT angiography, genitourinary and gastrointestinal CT and MRI, biopsies, abscess drainages, radiofrequency ablation of tumors, and Thrombin treatment of pseudoneurysms.

Gillen is doing research in the areas of abdominal MRI for the liver and pancreas, abdominal and pelvic MR and CT angiography, early detection of pancreatic neoplasms with MR and CT, and pelvic MRI (including infertility, stress incontinence and pelvic floor dysfunction). She is a member of the American College of Radiology, American Roentgen Ray Society, Radiological Society of North America, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and American Association for Women Radiologists.