Megan K. Mills
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Megan K. Mills, MD

Languages spoken: English

Clinical Locations

Primary Location

Farmington Health Center

165 N. University Ave.
Farmington , UT 84025
801-213-3200
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University of Utah Hospital

Radiology
50 N Medical Dr
Salt Lake City , UT 84132
801-581-7553
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University Orthopaedic Center

590 Wakara Way
Salt Lake City , UT 84108
801-587-7109
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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.

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Radiology & Imaging Sciences -Associate Professor
Board Certification
National Board of Medical Examiners

Education history

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

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Expert Panel on Musculoskeletal Imaging, Blankenbaker DG, Nacey NC, French CN, Frick MA, Garza-Gongora RD, Hattrup SJ, Kresin M, Lowry MK, Mills M, Fox MG (2026). ACR Appropriateness Criteria Imaging After Shoulder Arthroplasty: Updated 2026. J Am Coll Radiol, 23(8), 1717-1737.
  2. Fandio L, Simpson M, Wright B, Kobes P, Soltanolkotabi M, Mills M, Noo F, Dunn DP (2026). Occult fractures of the tibial plateau: 3D augmented X-ray pilot study. Emerg Radiol.
  3. Eatough ZJ, Lisonbee RJ, Peterson AC, Elhabian SY, Mills MK, Krhenbhl N, Lenz AL (2026). Morphologic assessment of peritalar compensation in patients with advanced varus ankle osteoarthritis. Skeletal Radiol.
  4. Expert Panel on Musculoskeletal Imaging, Blankenbaker DG, Nacey NC, French CN, Frick MA, Garza-Gongora RD, Hattrup SJ, Kresin M, Lowry MK, Mills M, Fox MG (2026). ACR Appropriateness Criteria Imaging After Shoulder Arthroplasty: Updated 2026. J Am Coll Radiol, 23(8), 1717-1737.
  5. Safazadeh G, Simpson MT, Al-Dulaimi R, Mills MK, Noo F, Soltanolkotabi M (2026). Evaluating the diagnostic performance of 3D radiographs in emergency department extremity imaging: an early comparative study. Emerg Radiol, 33(3), 571-578.
  6. Kussow SJ, Lisonbee RJ, Braun B, Zitnay JL, Mills MK, Aoki SK, Maak TG, Atkins PR, Anderson AE (2026). Standing anterior pelvic tilt is correlated with the proximal femur shape of individuals with cam morphology. Clin Biomech (Bristol), 133, 106767.
  7. Sakelaris P, Quintana D, Barber N, Mills M, Allen H, Ernat J, Aoki S, Maak T (2025). Novel Hip MRI Sequence Provides Consistent Osseous Morphology Dimensions for FAI Evaluation Compared With CT. Clin Orthop Relat Res, 484(2), 262-269.
  8. Kendell AE, Yost S, Yang K, Mills M, Winkler N (2025). Prevalence of Axillary Arch Variant Anatomy on Breast MRI and Impact on Axillary Lymph Node Assessment. J Breast Imaging.
  9. Mortensen AJ, Johnson BT, Featherall J, Mills MK, Metz AK, Froerer DL, Aoki SK (2025). Increased Labral Height Is Associated With Greater Distractive Stability of the Hip. Arthroscopy, 41(10), 3975-3981.
  10. Lisonbee RJ, Peterson AC, Mills MK, Anderson AE, Lenz AL (2025). Dynamic subtalar joint space measurement analysis following tibiotalar arthrodesis and total ankle replacement. Clin Biomech (Bristol), 123, 106464.
  11. Da Silva A, Moverman MA, Mills MK, Cushman DM, Myhre LA, Yelton MJ, Joyce CD, Chalmers PN, Tashjian RZ (2025). Short-term functional, imaging, and electrodiagnostic outcomes of arthroscopy-assisted lower trapezius transfer. J Shoulder Elbow Surg.
  12. Brown TK, Caragea MA, Beckwith M, Ni A, Chen L, Woodworth T, Blatt M, Cheney C, Carson D, Kuo K, Randall D, Huang EY, Carefoot A, Mills M, Cooper AN, Przybysz AG, Burnham T, Conger AM, McCormick ZL (2025). Evaluating the effectiveness of genicular radiofrequency ablation for chronic knee pain using the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS) global health-physical health domain: Results of a cross-sectional cohort study. Interventional Pain Medicine, 4(1), 100539.
  13. Gunawan R, Tran Y, Zheng J, Nguyen H, Carrigan A, Mills MK, Chai R (2024). Combining Multistaged Filters and Modified Segmentation Network for Improving Lung Nodules Classification. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform, 28(9), 5519-5527.
  14. Perchik JD, Maxfield C, Mills M, Agarwal A, Hull NC, Darrow A, Wang M, Cooke E, Seekins J, Marx M, Wassef H, Gould J, Grimm L (2024). Status of LGBTQ+ inclusion: Multi-institution Assessment of US Radiology Residencies. J Am Coll Radiol.
  15. Cole HA, Grimm LJ, Omofoye TS, Cooke EA, Heitkamp DE, Mills MK, Wang M, Maxfield CM, Chapman T (2024). Women in leadership matters: Achieving diversity in radiology residency recruitment. Clin Imaging, 111, 110144.
  16. Gunawan R, Tran Y, Zheng J, Nguyen H, Carrigan A, Mills MK, Chai R (2025). Comparing Inclusion Methods on Juxta-pleural into Lung Parenchyma. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2024, 1-4.
  17. Braun S, Mascoe J, Caragea M, Woodworth T, Curtis T, Blatt M, Cheney C, Brown T, Carson D, Kuo K, Randall D, Huang EY, Carefoot A, Teramoto M, Cooper A, Mills M, Burnham T, Conger A, McCormick ZL (2024). The association of payer type on genicular radiofrequency neurotomy treatment outcomes: Results of a cross-sectional study. Interventional Pain Medicine, 3(2), 100407.
  18. Hansford BG, Li NP, Stacy GS, Mills MK, Tommack M, Yablon CM (2023). Cubonavicular Coalition: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings and Associated Pathology of a Rarely Reported Condition in 27 Patients. Acad Radiol.
  19. 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, 24(12), 1332-1340.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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, 36(10), 913-921.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. Banerjee S, Drew T, Mills MK, Auffermann WF (2019). Perceptual training: learning versus attentional shift. J Med Imaging (Bellingham), 7(2), 022407.
  38. 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.
  39. 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.
  40. 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.
  41. 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.
  42. 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.
  43. 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.
  44. 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.
  45. Leake RL, Mills MK, Hanrahan CJ (2018). Spinal Marrow Imaging: Clues to Disease. Radiol Clin North Am, 57(2), 359-375.
  46. 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.
  47. 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. Nguyen JC, Gorbachova T, Flores DV, Casagranda BU, Chalian M, Kani KK, Mills MK, Nwawka OK, Shea KG, Spindler KP, Stevens KJ, Weaver JS, Zoga AC, Boutin RD (2026). Standardized MRI nomenclature for knee meniscal lesions: SSR consensus panel report. [Review]. Skeletal Radiol, 55(8), 1711-1732.
  2. Nguyen JC, Patel VS, Abrams GD, Alaia EF, Casagranda BU, Chalian M, Chang EY, Crepeau AE, Davis KW, Farrow LD, Flemming D, Flores DV, Fritz RC, Ganley TJ, Gorbachova T, Guermazi A, Kani KK, Krych AJ, Lawrence JTR, Link TM, Mills MK, Mitchell BC, Palmer W, Rubin DA, Saluan PM, Shea KG, Sheean AJ, Spindler KP, Stevens KJ, Weaver JS, Winalski CS, Zoga AC, Boutin RD (2026). Standardized Knee Meniscus MRI Reporting: An Interdisciplinary Delphi Consensus. [Review]. Radiology, 319(3), e251833.
  3. Nguyen JC, Yaya-Quezada C, Lerebo WT, Patel VS, Chalian M, Flores DV, Gorbachova T, Kani KK, Mills MK, Stevens KJ, Weaver JS, Boutin RD (2026). MRI Diagnosis of Meniscus Tears in the Knee: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. [Review]. Radiology, 319(1), e252288.
  4. Miro P, Crawford A, Mills MK, Schffl V (2024). Imaging of primary periphyseal finger stress injuries in climbers. [Review]. Skeletal Radiol.
  5. Requist MR, Mills MK, Carroll KL, Lenz AL (2024). Quantitative Skeletal Imaging and Image-Based Modeling in Pediatric Orthopaedics. [Review]. Curr Osteoporos Rep, 22(1), 44-55.
  6. 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.
  7. Mills MK, Allen H (2022). Knee Plical Pathology and Impingement Syndromes. [Review]. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am, 30(2), 293-305.
  8. 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.

Other

  1. Kussow SJ, Lisonbee RJ, Braun B, Zitnay JL, Mills MK, Aoki SK, Maak TG, Atkins PR, Anderson AE (2026). Corrigendum to "Standing anterior pelvic tilt is correlated with the proximal femur shape of individuals with cam morphology" [Clinical Biomechanics 133 (2026) 106767]. Clin Biomech (Bristol) (136, p. 106807). England.
  2. Brown TK, Caragea MA, Beckwith M, Ni A, Chen L, Woodworth T, Blatt M, Cheney C, Carson D, Kuo K, Randall D, Huang EY, Carefoot A, Mills M, Cooper AN, Przybysz AG, Burnham T, Conger AM, McCormick ZL (2025). Corrigendum to "Evaluating the effectiveness of genicular radiofrequency ablation for chronic knee pain using the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS) global health-physical health domain: Results of a cross-sectional cohort study" [Intervent Pain Med 4 (2025) 100539]. Interventional Pain Medicine (4(2), p. 100570). United States.