McKenney, a diagnostic medical physicist at UC Davis and associate professor, has expertise in medical application of all forms of X-ray emitting devices. She specializes in pediatric imaging, and her research interests include image quality and patient dose optimization. McKenney obtained her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from UC Davis and completed her medical physics residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.
McKenney succeeds John Boone, who stepped down from the role after six years to take a yearlong sabbatical and focus his efforts on his continued research into CT breast imaging.
Corwin, a professor in the Department of Radiology, is the director of Body MRI. His clinical areas of interest include abdominal MRI and CT technology, with his research focusing on abdominal imaging studies. Corwin completed medical school at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina; his radiology residency at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island; and an abdominal imaging fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
Corwin joins the Department of Radiology’s research leadership team of Ramsey Badawi and Guobao Wang, the department’s vice chair of research and associate vice chair of research, respectively.
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