Megan K. Mills

Megan K. Mills, MD

Languages spoken: English

Clinical Locations

University of Utah Hospital

Radiology
801-581-8699

  • Megan Mills, MD, serves as the Associate Vice Chair for Clinical Operations and Chief of the Musculoskeletal section in the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences. Dr. Mills provides diagnostic and imaging-guided procedural expertise in a range of disorders affecting the musculoskeletal system. Her research focuses on innovating techniques for training future radiologists.

    Specialties

    Board Certification

    National Board of Medical Examiners

  • Megan Mills, MD, serves as the Associate Vice Chair for Clinical Operations and Chief of the Musculoskeletal section in the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences. Dr. Mills provides diagnostic and imaging-guided procedural expertise in a range of disorders affecting the musculoskeletal system. Her research focuses on innovating techniques for training future radiologists.

    Education history

    Fellowship Musculoskeletal Radiology - University of Colorado Fellow
    Diagnostic Radiology - University of Utah, School of Medicine Chief Resident
    Chief Resident Diagnostic Radiology - University of Utah, School of Medicine Junior Chief Resident
    Diagnostic Radiology - University of Utah, School of Medicine Resident
    Internship Riverside Methodist Hospital Transitional Internship
    Medicine - University of Utah M.D.
    Undergraduate Business Administration - Utah State University B.S.

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Caragea M, Woodworth T, Curtis T, Blatt M, Cheney C, Brown T, Carson D, Kuo KT, Randall D, Huang EY, Carefoot A, Teramoto M, Mills M, Cooper A, Burnham T, Conger A, McCormick ZL (2023). Genicular Nerve Radiofrequency Ablation for the Treatment of Chronic Knee Joint Pain: A Real-world Cohort Study with Evaluation of Prognostic Factors. Pain Med.
    2. Aru MG, Davis JL, Stacy GS, Mills MK, Yablon CM, Hanrahan CJ, McCallum R, Nomura EC, Hansford BG (2022). Beyond schwannomas and neurofibromas: a radiological and histopathological review of lesser-known benign lesions that arise in association with peripheral nerves. Skeletal Radiol, 52(4), 649-669.
    3. Auffermann WF, Mills MK (2023). Perceptual training and teaching medical students how to window and level chest radiographs. J Med Imaging (Bellingham), 10(Suppl 1), S11907.
    4. Ivy S, Rohovit T, Stefanucci J, Stokes D, Mills M, Drew T (2023). Visual expertise is more than meets the eye: an examination of holistic visual processing in radiologists and architects. J Med Imaging (Bellingham), 10(1), 015501.
    5. Komori S, Cross DJ, Mills M, Ouchi Y, Nishizawa S, Okada H, Norikane T, Thientunyakit T, Anzai Y, Minoshima S (2022). Deep-learning prediction of amyloid deposition from early-phase amyloid positron emission tomography imaging. Ann Nucl Med.
    6. Tomasevich KM, Mills MK, Allen H, Crawford AM, Mortensen AJ, Presson AP, Zhang C, Aoki SK (2021). Magnetic Resonance Arthrogram Improves Visualization of Hip Capsular Defects in Patients Undergoing Previous Hip Arthroscopy. Arthrosc Sports Med Rehabil, 4(2), e471-e478.
    7. Chalmers PN, Christensen GV, Ishikawa H, Henninger HB, Kholmovski EG, Mills M, Tashjian RZ (2021). Can magnetic resonance imaging accurately and reliably measure humeral cortical thickness? JSES Int, 6(2), 297-304.
    8. Mills MK, Leake RL, Crawford AM, Soltanolkotabi M, Hansford BG (2021). Concepts in Musculoskeletal Bone and Soft Tissue Biopsy. Semin Musculoskelet Radiol, 25(6), 711-724.
    9. Maxfield CM, Montano-Campos JF, Chapman T, Desser TS, Ho CP, Hull NC, Kelly HR, Kennedy TA, Koontz NA, Knippa EE, McLoud TC, Milburn J, Mills MK, Morgan DE, Morgan R, Peterson RB, Salastekar N, Thorpe MP, Zarour JG, Reed SD, Grimm LJ (2021). Factors Influential in the Selection of Radiology Residents in the Post-Step 1 World: A Discrete Choice Experiment. J Am Coll Radiol, 18, 1572-1580.
    10. Williams LH, Carrigan AJ, Mills M, Auffermann WF, Rich AN, Drew T (2021). Characteristics of expert search behavior in volumetric medical image interpretation. J Med Imaging (Bellingham), 8(4), 041208.
    11. Williams L, Carrigan A, Auffermann W, Mills M, Rich A, Elmore J, Drew T (2020). The invisible breast cancer: Experience does not protect against inattentional blindness to clinically relevant findings in radiology. Psychon Bull Rev, 28(2), 503-511.
    12. Li NP, Wingfield MA, Mills MK, Beckett BR, Hansford BG (2020). Percutaneous image-guided sternal biopsy: a cross-institutional retrospective review of diagnostic yield and safety in 50 cases. Skeletal Radiol, 50(3), 495-504.
    13. Schlickewei C, Krhenbhl N, Dekeyser GJ, Mills M, Priemel M, Rammelt S, Frosch KH, Barg A (2021). [Unstable injuries of the deltoid ligament complex in ankle fractures : How to diagnose, how to treat?]. Unfallchirurg, 124(3), 190-199.
    14. Steadman J, Sripanich Y, Rungprai C, Mills MK, Saltzman CL, Barg A (2020). Comparative assessment of midfoot osteoarthritis diagnostic sensitivity using weightbearing computed tomography vs weightbearing plain radiography. Eur J Radiol, 134, 109419.
    15. Fawver B, Thomas JL, Drew T, Mills MK, Auffermann WF, Lohse KR, Williams AM (2020). Seeing isn't necessarily believing: Misleading contextual information influences perceptual-cognitive bias in radiologists. J Exp Psychol Appl, 26(4), 579-592.
    16. Sripanich Y, Steadman J, Krhenbhl N, Rungprai C, Mills MK, Saltzman CL, Barg A (2020). Asymmetric lambda sign of the second tarsometatarsal joint on axial weight-bearing cone-beam CT scans of the foot: preliminary investigation for diagnosis of subtle ligamentous Lisfranc injuries in a cadaveric model. Skeletal Radiol, 49(10), 1615-1621.
    17. Leake RL, Mills MK, Allen H, Crawford AM, Kobes PH, Soltanolkotabi M (2020). MRI of the Wrist Ligaments. Top Magn Reson Imaging, 29(5), 209-220.
    18. Chan BY, Crawford AM, Kobes PH, Allen H, Leake RL, Hanrahan CJ, Mills MK (2020). Septic Arthritis: An Evidence-Based Review of Diagnosis and Image-Guided Aspiration. AJR Am J Roentgenol, 215(3), 568-581.
    19. Banerjee S, Drew T, Mills MK, Auffermann WF (2019). Perceptual training: learning versus attentional shift. J Med Imaging (Bellingham), 7(2), 022407.
    20. Sripanich Y, Weinberg MW, Krhenbhl N, Rungprai C, Mills MK, Saltzman CL, Barg A (2019). Imaging in Lisfranc injury: a systematic literature review. Skeletal Radiol, 49(1), 31-53.
    21. Weintraub MD, Hansford BG, Stilwill SE, Allen H, Leake RL, Hanrahan CJ, Chan BY, Soltanolkotabi M, Kobes P, Mills MK (2020). Avulsion Injuries of the Hand and Wrist. Radiographics, 40(1), 163-180.
    22. Meek RD, Mills MK, Hanrahan CJ, Beckett BR, Leake RL, Allen H, Williams DD, Tommack M, Schmahmann S, Hansford BG (2020). Pearls and Pitfalls for Soft-Tissue and Bone Biopsies: A Cross-Institutional Review. Radiographics, 40(1), 266-290.
    23. Hansford BG, Mills MK, Hanrahan CJ, Yablon CM (2019). Pearls and pitfalls of fluoroscopic-guided foot and ankle injections: what the radiologist needs to know. Skeletal Radiol, 48(11), 1661-1674.
    24. Krhenbhl N, Weinberg MW, Davidson NP, Mills MK, Hintermann B, Saltzman CL, Barg A (2018). Currently used imaging options cannot accurately predict subtalar joint instability. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc, 27(9), 2818-2830.
    25. Hansford BG, Mills MK, Stilwill SE, McGow AK, Hanrahan CJ (2019). Naviculocuneiform and Second and Third Tarsometatarsal Articulations: Underappreciated Normal Anatomy and How It May Affect Fluoroscopy-Guided Injections. AJR Am J Roentgenol, 212(4), 874-882.
    26. Stilwill SE, Mills MK, Hansford BG, Allen H, Mahan M, Moore KR, Hanrahan CJ (2018). Practical Approach and Review of Brachial Plexus Pathology With Operative Correlation: What the Radiologist Needs to Know. Semin Roentgenol, 54(2), 92-112.
    27. Leake RL, Mills MK, Hanrahan CJ (2018). Spinal Marrow Imaging: Clues to Disease. Radiol Clin North Am, 57(2), 359-375.
    28. Mills MK, Putbrese B, Allen H, Stilwill SE (2018). Lymphangiomatosis: a rare entity presenting with involvement of the sacral plexus. Skeletal Radiol, 47(9), 1293-1297.
    29. Krhenbhl N, Weinberg MW, Davidson NP, Mills MK, Hintermann B, Saltzman CL, Barg A (2017). Imaging in syndesmotic injury: a systematic literature review. Skeletal Radiol, 47(5), 631-648.

    Review

    1. Soltanolkotabi M, Mills MK, Nixon DC, Shomal Zadeh F, Chalian M (2023). Postoperative Imaging of the Ankle Tendons. [Review]. Semin Ultrasound CT MR, 44(4), 309-318.
    2. Mills MK, Allen H (2022). Knee Plical Pathology and Impingement Syndromes. [Review]. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am, 30(2), 293-305.
    3. Soltanolkotabi M, Mallory C, Allen H, Chan BY, Mills MK, Leake RL (2022). Postoperative Findings of Common Foot and Ankle Surgeries: An Imaging Review. [Review]. Diagnostics (Basel), 12(5).

    Case Report

    1. Johnson TZ, Annis T, Kennedy A, Kobes P, Mills M (2019). Intramuscular Placement of Birth Control Device: A Multimodality Case and Review. Cureus, 11(1), e3835.