Yoshimi Anzai

Yoshimi Anzai, MD, MPH

Languages spoken: English, Japanese

Clinical Locations

Clinical Neurosciences Center

801-585-7575

  • Dr. Anzai is Professor of Radiology at the University of Utah. She completed her Diagnostic Radiology residency and neuroradiology fellowship training at the University of Michigan. In 2000, she moved to the University of Washington, Seattle where she had served as the neuroradiology fellowship director from 2004-2008, subsequently became the section chief in 2008. In 2005, she obtained her MPH from the University of Washington in Health Services funded by GERRAF program and AHRQ K08 award.

    Dr. Anzai currently serves as Associate Chief Medical Quality Officer of the University of Utah Health Care. The major goals as the Associate Chief Medical Quality Officer are to improve safety and quality of patient care, to facilitate the process standardization and coordination of care, to implement patient centered outcomes measures that are relevant for each service line, and connect the costs of delivering care with outcome measures in the entire healthcare enterprise. She received the AAMC (Associations of American Medical College) Award for the implementation of Value Driven Outcome tool in 2016.

    Dr. Anzai has been a longstanding member of many academic organizations, including ASNR, ASHNR, RSNA, AUR, ACR, and AAWR. She also participated in the large clinical trial including ACRIN trial. She has over 16 years of experience in working as a neuroradiologist in leading academic institutions with a background of health services research. Her area of primary imaging research interest includes head and neck cancer imaging, traumatic brain injury, and neurodegenerative disease. She is also involved in the cost effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of diagnostic tests in various conditions.

    Specialties

    Board Certification

    American Board of Radiology
    American Board of Radiology (Neuroradiology)
    Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
    Federal Licensing Examination
    Japanese Board of Radiology (Diagnostic Radiology)

  • Dr. Anzai is Professor of Radiology at the University of Utah. She completed her Diagnostic Radiology residency and neuroradiology fellowship training at the University of Michigan. In 2000, she moved to the University of Washington, Seattle where she had served as the neuroradiology fellowship director from 2004-2008, subsequently became the section chief in 2008. In 2005, she obtained her MPH from the University of Washington in Health Services funded by GERRAF program and AHRQ K08 award.

    Dr. Anzai currently serves as Associate Chief Medical Quality Officer of the University of Utah Health Care. The major goals as the Associate Chief Medical Quality Officer are to improve safety and quality of patient care, to facilitate the process standardization and coordination of care, to implement patient centered outcomes measures that are relevant for each service line, and connect the costs of delivering care with outcome measures in the entire healthcare enterprise. She received the AAMC (Associations of American Medical College) Award for the implementation of Value Driven Outcome tool in 2016.

    Dr. Anzai has been a longstanding member of many academic organizations, including ASNR, ASHNR, RSNA, AUR, ACR, and AAWR. She also participated in the large clinical trial including ACRIN trial. She has over 16 years of experience in working as a neuroradiologist in leading academic institutions with a background of health services research. Her area of primary imaging research interest includes head and neck cancer imaging, traumatic brain injury, and neurodegenerative disease. She is also involved in the cost effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of diagnostic tests in various conditions.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Neurosurgery -Adjunct
    Population Health Sciences -Adjunct
    Board Certification
    American Board of Radiology
    American Board of Radiology (Neuroradiology)
    Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
    Federal Licensing Examination
    Japanese Board of Radiology (Diagnostic Radiology)

    Education history

    Graduate Training University of Washington School of Public Health M.P.H.
    Neuroradiology - The University of Michigan Hospital Fellow
    Residency Radiology - The University of Michigan Hospital Resident
    Head and Neck Radiology - University of California, Los Angeles Fellow
    Doctoral Training Chiba University School of Medicine D.Sc.
    University of California, Los Angeles Research Fellow
    Residency Otolaryngology - Chiba University Hospital Resident
    Radiology - Chiba University Hospital Resident
    Professional Medical Medicine - Chiba University School of Medicine M.D.
    Chiba University Pre Med

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Peckham ME, Anzai Y, Shah LM, de Gennaro G, Costello JA, Hutchins TA (2021). Shifting Spine Interventional Pain Injections From the Hospital to a Clinic Setting: Increased Efficiency and Decreased Health System Costs. J Am Coll Radiol, 18(9), 1229-1234.
    2. Johnson PT, Anzai Y (2021). Radiology at the Helm of Value-Based Care Transformation: From Stewardship to Leadership. J Am Coll Radiol, 18(9), 1226-1228.
    3. Cross CG, Payne AH, Hawryluk GW, Haag-Roeger R, Cheeniyil R, Brady D, Oden H, Minoshima S, Cross DJ, Anzai Y (2021). Technical Note: Quantification of blood-spinal cord barrier permeability after application of magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound in spinal cord injury. Med Phys, 48(8), 4395-4401.
    4. Aggarwal A, Lazarow F, Anzai Y, Elsayed M, Ghobadi C, Dandan OA, Griffith B, Straus CM, Kadom N (2020). Maximizing Value While Volumes are Increasing. Curr Probl Diagn Radiol, 50(4), 451-453.
    5. Baradaran H, Foster T, Harrie P, McNally JS, Alexander M, Pandya A, Anzai Y, Gupta A (2020). Carotid artery plaque characteristics: current reporting practices on CT angiography. Neuroradiology, 63(7), 1013-1018.
    6. Hsu D, Rath TJ, Branstetter BF, Anzai Y, Phillips CD, Juliano AF, Mosier KM, Bazylewicz MP, Poliashenko SM, Kulzer MH, Rhyner PA, Risk B, Wiggins RH, Aiken AH (2021). Interrater Reliability of NI-RADS on Posttreatment PET/Contrast-enhanced CT Scans in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Radiol Imaging Cancer, 3(3), e200131.
    7. Delaney RK, Locke A, Pershing ML, Geist C, Clouse E, Precourt Debbink M, Haaland B, Tanner AJ, Anzai Y, Fagerlin A (2021). Experiences of a Health System's Faculty, Staff, and Trainees' Career Development, Work Culture, and Childcare Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Netw Open, 4(4), e213997.
    8. Anzai Y, Nishizawa S, Shinke T, Takesono S, Asai T, Okada H (2020). Prospective Employer-Initiated Whole-Body Cancer Screening-Costs and Outcomes of a Cancer Screening Program in Japan. J Am Coll Radiol, 18(1 Pt B), 140-147.
    9. Vilendrer SM, Asch SM, Anzai Y, Maggio P (2020). An Incentive to Innovate: Improving Health Care Value and Restoring Physician Autonomy Through Physician-Directed Reinvestment. Acad Med, 95(11), 1702-1706.
    10. Elsayed M, Kadom N, Ghobadi C, Strauss B, Al Dandan O, Aggarwal A, Anzai Y, Griffith B, Lazarow F, Straus CM, Safdar NM (2020). Virtual and augmented reality: potential applications in radiology. Acta Radiol, 61(9), 1258-1265.
    11. Heilbrun ME, Poss B, Boi L, Anzai Y, Hu N, Kaplan RS (2019). Assessing the Training Costs and Work of Diagnostic Radiology Residents Using Key Performance Indicators - An Observational Study. Acad Radiol, 27(7), 1025-1032.
    12. Pfister DG, Spencer S, Adelstein D, Adkins D, Anzai Y, Brizel DM, Bruce JY, Busse PM, Caudell JJ, Cmelak AJ, Colevas AD, Eisele DW, Fenton M, Foote RL, Galloway T, Gillison ML, Haddad RI, Hicks WL, Hitchcock YJ, Jimeno A, Leizman D, Maghami E, Mell LK, Mittal BB, Pinto HA, Ridge JA, Rocco JW, Rodriguez CP, Shah JP, Weber RS, Weinstein G, Witek M, Worden F, Yom SS, Zhen W, Burns JL, Darlow SD (2020). Head and Neck Cancers, Version 2.2020, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. J Natl Compr Canc Netw, 18(7), 873-898.
    13. Costello JE, Shah LM, Peckham ME, Hutchins TA, Anzai Y (2019). Imaging Appropriateness for Neck Pain. J Am Coll Radiol, 17(5), 584-589.
    14. Sherrod BA, Yoon NK, Anzai Y, Schmidt RH, Couldwell WT, Hawryluk GWJ (2018). Delayed Cerebrospinal Fluid Cleft Formation Through the Midbrain and Thalamus Following Hemicraniectomy and Cranioplasty for Acute Subdural Hematoma. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown), 18(3), E88-E94.
    15. Shankar PR, Hayatghaibi SE, Anzai Y (2019). Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing in Radiology: An Overview. J Am Coll Radiol, 17(1 Pt B), 125-130.
    16. Anzai Y, Delis K, Pendleton RC (2019). Price Transparency in Radiology-A Model for the Future. J Am Coll Radiol, 17(1 Pt B), 194-199.
    17. Johnson SM, Hutchins T, Peckham M, Anzai Y, Ryals E, Davidson HC, Shah L (2019). Effects of implementing evidence-based appropriateness guidelines for epidural steroid injection in chronic low back pain: the EAGER (Esi Appropriateness GuidElines pRotocol) study. BMJ Open Qual, 8(4), e000772.
    18. Baradaran H, Gupta A, Anzai Y, Mushlin AI, Kamel H, Pandya A (2019). Cost Effectiveness of Assessing Ultrasound Plaque Characteristics to Risk Stratify Asymptomatic Patients With Carotid Stenosis. J Am Heart Assoc, 8(21), e012739.
    19. Aiken AH, Rath TJ, Anzai Y, Branstetter BF, Hoang JK, Wiggins RH, Juliano AF, Glastonbury C, Phillips CD, Brown R, Hudgins PA (2018). ACR Neck Imaging Reporting and Data Systems (NI-RADS): A White Paper of the ACR NI-RADS Committee. J Am Coll Radiol, 15(8), 1097-1108.
    20. Benito P, Alonso-Vega P, Aguado C, Lujan R, Anzai Y, Hirsch AM, Trujillo ME (2017). Monitoring the colonization and infection of legume nodules by Micromonospora in co-inoculation experiments with rhizobia. Sci Rep, 7(1), 11051.
    21. Koontz NA, Wiggins RH 3rd, Mills MK, McLaughlin MS, Pigman EC, Anzai Y, Shah LM (2017). Less Is More: Efficacy of Rapid 3D-T2 SPACE in ED Patients with Acute Atypical Low Back Pain. Acad Radiol, 24(8), 988-994.
    22. Costa-Mallen P, Gatenby C, Friend S, Maravilla KR, Hu SC, Cain KC, Agarwal P, Anzai Y (2017). Brain iron concentrations in regions of interest and relation with serum iron levels in Parkinson disease. J Neurol Sci, 378, 38-44.
    23. Anzai Y, Heilbrun ME, Haas D, Boi L, Moshre K, Minoshima S, Kaplan R, Lee VS (2017). Dissecting Costs of CT Study: Application of TDABC (Time-driven Activity-based Costing) in a Tertiary Academic Center. Acad Radiol, 24(2), 200-208.
    24. Anzai Y, Meltzer CC, DeStigter KK, Destounis S, Pawley BK, Oates ME (2016). Entrepreneurial Women in Radiology: Role Models of Success. J Am Coll Radiol, 13(11), 1378-1382.
    25. Gaddikeri S, Hippe DS, Anzai Y (2016). Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI in the Evaluation of Carotid Space Paraganglioma versus Schwannoma. J Neuroimaging, 26(6), 618-625.
    26. Lee VS, Kawamoto K, Hess R, Park C, Young J, Hunter C, Johnson S, Gulbransen S, Pelt CE, Horton DJ, Graves KK, Greene TH, Anzai Y, Pendleton RC (2016). Implementation of a Value-Driven Outcomes Program to Identify High Variability in Clinical Costs and Outcomes and Association With Reduced Cost and Improved Quality. JAMA, 316(10), 1061-72.
    27. Ishiyama M, Richards T, Parvathaneni U, Anzai Y (02/03/2015). Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Head and Neck Cancer: Differentiation of New H&N Cancer, Recurrent Disease, and Benign Post Treatment Changes. Epub ahead of print. Clin Imaging, S0899-7071(15), 00041-8.
    28. Gaddikeri S, Andre JB, Benjert J, Hippe DS, Anzai Y (2015). Impact of model-based iterative reconstruction on image quality of contrast-enhanced neck CT. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol, 36(2), 391-6.
    29. Wintermark M, Sanelli PC, Anzai Y, Tsiouris Aj, Whitlow CT (02/01/2015). Imaging Evidence and Recommendations for Traumatic Brain INjury: Advanced Neuro- and Neurovascular Imaging Techniques. Epub 2014 Nov 25. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol, 36(2), E1-E11.
    30. Mathes DW, Edwards JA, Anzai Y, Neligan PC (2014). A functional periorbital subunit allograft: vascular, anatomic, and technical considerations for future subunit facial transplantation. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg, 67(10), 1371-7.
    31. Furukawa M, Dillon JK, Futran ND, Anzai Y (2014). The prevalence of lymph node metastases in clinically N0 necks with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma: is CT good enough for nodal staging? Acta Radiol, 55(5), 570-8.
    32. Bresnahan BW, Alfonso-Cristancho R, He H, Mendez E, Goulart B, Parvathaneni U, Kramer B, Anzai Y (05/01/2014). Assessment of Imaging Utilization and Treatment Patterns for Head and Neck Cancer Patients in the United States. Value Health, 17(3), A 98.

    Review

    1. Kabadi SJ, Fatterpekar GM, Anzai Y, Mogen J, Hagiwara M, Patel SH (2018). Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MR Imaging in Head and Neck Cancer. [Review]. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am, 26(1), 135-149.

    Editorial

    1. Anzai Y, Minoshima S (2021). Why We Need to Sleep: Glymphatic Pathway and Neurodegenerative Disease. Radiology, 300(3), 669-670.
    2. Anzai Y (2019). ADC on Diffusion Imaging: The MR Analog of SUV on FDG-PET: Perfect Is the Enemy of Good. J Magn Reson Imaging, 51(1), 286-287.

    Letter

    1. Heilbrun ME, Poss B, Boi L, Anzai Y, Hu N, Kaplan RS (2020). Authors Response to: "The Profitability of Graduate Medical Education in Radiology". [Letter to the editor]. Acad Radiol, 28(2), 295.

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