Sara K. Meibom, MD

Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Sara K. Meibom, MD is a Clinical Associated Professor of Radiology in Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. She was a long-time Associate Editor for the case based continuing medical education website Case-in-Point since 2011 (Case-in-Point has an average of 500,000 annual users per year that get credit for completing the educational cases). She is the 2017 Bruce J. Hillman JACR Fellow in Scholarly Publishing and she created an on-line journal article based Quality and Safety curriculum for the JACR. She interprets diagnostic nuclear and PET with diagnostic CT and nuclear cardiology. She has experience treating cancer patients with therapeutic radioisotopes including Pluvicto, Lutathera, Y90 SirSpheres, Radium 223 and I 131. She participates in weekly multidisciplinary tumors board and has a special interest in head and neck cancer imaging. She participates in research, trains and lectures Boston University radiology residents, cardiology fellows and medical students. She occasionally lectures nuclear technology students and physicians assistant students at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences where she is the Medical Advisor. She is double boarded in Nuclear Cardiology and Nuclear Medicine.

Publications

  • Published 8/6/2021

    Fujima N, Andreu-Arasa VC, Meibom SK, Mercier GA, Truong MT, Hirata K, Yasuda K, Kano S, Homma A, Kudo K, Sakai O. Prediction of the local treatment outcome in patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma using deep learning analysis of pretreatment FDG-PET images. BMC Cancer. 2021 Aug 06; 21(1):900. PMID: 34362317.

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  • Published 4/30/2021

    Fujima N, Andreu-Arasa VC, Meibom SK, Mercier GA, Salama AR, Truong MT, Sakai O. Prediction of the treatment outcome using machine learning with FDG-PET image-based multiparametric approach in patients with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma. Clin Radiol. 2021 Sep; 76(9):711.e1-711.e7. PMID: 33934877.

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  • Published 2/27/2021

    Chen J, Staziaki PV, Zheng H, Burks EJ, Meibom S, Litle VR, Natcheva HN. 68Ga-DOTATATE-avid pulmonary sclerosing pneumocytoma in a man of North African descent: Case report, imaging findings and pathology. Clin Imaging. 2021 Sep; 77:175-179. PMID: 33725576.

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  • Published 9/4/2020

    Ito K, Takumi K, Meibom SK, Qureshi MM, Fujima N, Andreu-Arasa VC, Truong MT, Salama AR, Kaneda T, Sakai O. Risk assessment of osteoradionecrosis associated with periodontitis using 18F-FDG PET/CT. Eur J Radiol. 2020 Nov; 132:109259. PMID: 33012550.

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  • Published 6/10/2020

    Fujima N, Andreu-Arasa VC, Meibom SK, Mercier GA, Salama AR, Truong MT, Sakai O. Deep learning analysis using FDG-PET to predict treatment outcome in patients with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma. Eur Radiol. 2020 Nov; 30(11):6322-6330. PMID: 32524219.

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Education

  • University of Wisconsin Madison, MD
  • University of Wisconsin Madison, BS