Yoshimi Anzai
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Yoshimi Anzai, MD, MPH

Languages spoken: English, Japanese

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Primary Location

University of Utah Hospital

Radiology
50 N Medical Dr
Salt Lake City , UT 84132
801-581-7553
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  • 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 (Neuroradiology)
    Japanese Board of Radiology (Diagnostic Radiology)
    Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
    American Board of Radiology
    Federal Licensing Examination

  • 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 Professor
    Population Health Sciences -Adjunct Professor
    Radiology & Imaging Sciences -Professor
    Board Certification
    American Board of Radiology (Neuroradiology)
    Japanese Board of Radiology (Diagnostic Radiology)
    Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
    American Board of Radiology
    Federal Licensing Examination

    Education history

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

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Gaddikeri S, Andre JB, Benjert J, Hippe DS, Anzai (2015). Impact of model-based iterative reconstruction on image quality of contrast-enhanced neck CT. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology, 36(2), 391-6. (Read full publication)
    2. Wintermark M, Sanelli PC, Anzai Y, Tsiouris Aj, Whitlow C (2015). Imaging Evidence and Recommendations for Traumatic Brain INjury: Advanced Neuro- and Neurovascular Imaging Techniques. Epub 2014 Nov 25. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology, 36(2), E1-E11.
    3. Vilendrer SM, Asch SM, Anzai Y, Maggio (2020). An Incentive to Innovate: Improving Health Care Value and Restoring Physician Autonomy Through Physician-Directed Reinvestment. Academic medicine, 95(11), 1702-1706. (Read full publication)
    4. Furukawa M, Dillon JK, Futran ND, Anzai (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 radiologica (Stockholm, Sweden, 55(5), 570-8. (Read full publication)
    5. Elsayed M, Kadom N, Ghobadi C, Strauss B, Al Dandan O, Aggarwal A, Anzai Y, Griffith B, Lazarow F, Straus CM, Safdar N (2020). Virtual and augmented reality: potential applications in radiology. Acta radiologica (Stockholm, Sweden, 61(9), 1258-1265. (Read full publication)
    6. Gaddikeri S, Hippe DS, Anzai (2016). Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI in the Evaluation of Carotid Space Paraganglioma versus Schwannoma. Journal of neuroimaging, 26(6), 618-625. (Read full publication)
    7. Ishiyama M, Richards T, Parvathaneni U, Anzai (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. Clinical imaging, S0899-7071(15), 00041-8.
    8. Aggarwal A, Lazarow F, Anzai Y, Elsayed M, Ghobadi C, Dandan OA, Griffith B, Straus CM, Kadom (2021). Maximizing Value While Volumes are Increasing. Current problems in diagnostic radiology, 50(4), 451-453. (Read full publication)
    9. Costa-Mallen P, Gatenby C, Friend S, Maravilla KR, Hu SC, Cain KC, Agarwal P, Anzai (2017). Brain iron concentrations in regions of interest and relation with serum iron levels in Parkinson disease. Journal of the neurological sciences, 378, 38-44. (Read full publication)
    10. 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 R (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. (Read full publication)
    11. Cross CG, Payne AH, Hawryluk GW, Haag-Roeger R, Cheeniyil R, Brady D, Odéen H, Minoshima S, Cross DJ, Anzai (2021). Technical Note: Quantification of blood-spinal cord barrier permeability after application of magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound in spinal cord injury. Medical physics, 48(8), 4395-4401. (Read full publication)
    12. Baradaran H, Foster T, Harrie P, McNally JS, Alexander M, Pandya A, Anzai Y, Gupta (2021). Carotid artery plaque characteristics: current reporting practices on CT angiography. Neuroradiology, 63(7), 1013-1018. (Read full publication)
    13. Anzai Y, Heilbrun ME, Haas D, Boi L, Moshre K, Minoshima S, Kaplan R, Lee V (2017). Dissecting Costs of CT Study: Application of TDABC (Time-driven Activity-based Costing) in a Tertiary Academic Center. Academic radiology, 24(2), 200-208. (Read full publication)
    14. Koontz NA, Wiggins RH 3rd, Mills MK, McLaughlin MS, Pigman EC, Anzai Y, Shah L (2017). Less Is More: Efficacy of Rapid 3D-T2 SPACE in ED Patients with Acute Atypical Low Back Pain. Academic radiology, 24(8), 988-994. (Read full publication)
    15. Heilbrun ME, Poss B, Boi L, Anzai Y, Hu N, Kaplan R (2020). Assessing the Training Costs and Work of Diagnostic Radiology Residents Using Key Performance Indicators - An Observational Study. Academic radiology, 27(7), 1025-1032. (Read full publication)
    16. Bresnahan BW, Alfonso-Cristancho R, He H, Mendez E, Goulart B, Parvathaneni U, Kramer B, Anzai (2014). Assessment of Imaging Utilization and Treatment Patterns for Head and Neck Cancer Patients in the United States. Value in health, 17(3), A 98.
    17. 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 S (2020). Head and Neck Cancers, Version 2.2020, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, 18(7), 873-898. (Read full publication)
    18. Mathes DW, Edwards JA, Anzai Y, Neligan P (2014). A functional periorbital subunit allograft: vascular, anatomic, and technical considerations for future subunit facial transplantation. Journal of plastic, reconstructive & aesthetic surgery, 67(10), 1371-7. (Read full publication)
    19. Johnson PT, Anzai (2021). Radiology at the Helm of Value-Based Care Transformation: From Stewardship to Leadership. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 18(9), 1226-1228. (Read full publication)
    20. Peckham ME, Anzai Y, Shah LM, de Gennaro G, Costello JA, Hutchins T (2021). Shifting Spine Interventional Pain Injections From the Hospital to a Clinic Setting: Increased Efficiency and Decreased Health System Costs. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 18(9), 1229-1234. (Read full publication)
    21. Anzai Y, Nishizawa S, Shinke T, Takesono S, Asai T, Okada (2021). Prospective Employer-Initiated Whole-Body Cancer Screening-Costs and Outcomes of a Cancer Screening Program in Japan. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 18(1 Pt B), 140-147. (Read full publication)
    22. Costello JE, Shah LM, Peckham ME, Hutchins TA, Anzai (2020). Imaging Appropriateness for Neck Pain. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 17(5), 584-589. (Read full publication)
    23. Anzai Y, Delis K, Pendleton R (2020). Price Transparency in Radiology-A Model for the Future. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 17(1 Pt B), 194-199. (Read full publication)
    24. Shankar PR, Hayatghaibi SE, Anzai (2020). Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing in Radiology: An Overview. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 17(1 Pt B), 125-130. (Read full publication)
    25. Aiken AH, Rath TJ, Anzai Y, Branstetter BF, Hoang JK, Wiggins RH, Juliano AF, Glastonbury C, Phillips CD, Brown R, Hudgins P (2018). ACR Neck Imaging Reporting and Data Systems (NI-RADS): A White Paper of the ACR NI-RADS Committee. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 15(8), 1097-1108. (Read full publication)
    26. Anzai Y, Meltzer CC, DeStigter KK, Destounis S, Pawley BK, Oates M (2016). Entrepreneurial Women in Radiology: Role Models of Success. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 13(11), 1378-1382. (Read full publication)
    27. Benito P, Alonso-Vega P, Aguado C, Lujan R, Anzai Y, Hirsch AM, Trujillo M (2017). Monitoring the colonization and infection of legume nodules by Micromonospora in co-inoculation experiments with rhizobia. Scientific reports, 7(1), 11051. (Read full publication)
    28. Baradaran H, Gupta A, Anzai Y, Mushlin AI, Kamel H, Pandya (2019). Cost Effectiveness of Assessing Ultrasound Plaque Characteristics to Risk Stratify Asymptomatic Patients With Carotid Stenosis. Journal of the American Heart Association, 8(21), e012739. (Read full publication)
    29. Sherrod BA, Yoon NK, Anzai Y, Schmidt RH, Couldwell WT, Hawryluk GW (2020). Delayed Cerebrospinal Fluid Cleft Formation Through the Midbrain and Thalamus Following Hemicraniectomy and Cranioplasty for Acute Subdural Hematoma. Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.), 18(3), E88-E94. (Read full publication)
    30. Johnson SM, Hutchins T, Peckham M, Anzai Y, Ryals E, Davidson HC, Shah (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 quality, 8(4), e000772. (Read full publication)
    31. Delaney RK, Locke A, Pershing ML, Geist C, Clouse E, Precourt Debbink M, Haaland B, Tanner AJ, Anzai Y, Fagerlin (2021). Experiences of a Health System's Faculty, Staff, and Trainees' Career Development, Work Culture, and Childcare Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA network open, 4(4), e213997. (Read full publication)
    32. 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 A (2021). Interrater Reliability of NI-RADS on Posttreatment PET/Contrast-enhanced CT Scans in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Radiology. Imaging cancer, 3(3), e200131. (Read full publication)
    33. Wintermark M, Allen JW, Anzai Y, Das T, Flanders AE, Galanaud D, Gean A, Haller S, Lv H, Hirvonen J, Jordan JE, Lee R, Lui YW, Sundgren PC, Mukherjee P, Moen KG, Muto M, Ng K, Niogi SN, Rovira A, de Bruxellas NL, Smits M, Tsiouris AJ, Van Goethem J, Vyvere TV, Whitlow C, Wiesmann M, Yamada K, Zakharova N, Parizel P (2024). Standardized reporting for Head CT Scans in patients suspected of traumatic brain injury (TBI): An international expert endeavor. Neuroradiology, (Read full publication)
    34. Peckham ME, Shah LM, Meeks HD, Fraser A, Galvao C, Safazadeh G, Hutchins TA, Anzai Y, Fritz JM, Kean J, Carlos R (2024). Disparities in Provider Ordering Practices of Image-Guided Interventions and Surgery for Patients With Low Back Pain: A Cohort Study. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 21(7), 1010-1023. (Read full publication)
    35. Kim SE, Roberts JA, Kholmovski EG, Hitchcock Y, Anzai (2024). T1 mapping for Head and Neck Cancer Patients undergoing Chemoradiotherapy: Feasibility of 3D Stack of Star Imaging. Magnetic resonance imaging, 112, 38-46. (Read full publication)
    36. Liao JM, Anzai Y, Sadigh G, Fendrick AM, Lee C (2024). JACR Health Policy Expert Panel: Health Equity and Out-of-Pocket Payments for Imaging Studies. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 21(4), 688-690. (Read full publication)
    37. Andre JB, Oztek MA, Anzai Y, Wilson GJ, Mossa-Basha M, Hippe DS, Hoff MN, Cross DJ, Minoshima (2023). Evaluation of 3-dimensional stereotactic surface projection rendering of arterial spin labeling data in a clinical cohort. Journal of neuroimaging, 33(6), 933-940. (Read full publication)
    38. Roberts J, Kim SE, Kholmovski EG, Hitchcock Y, Richards TJ, Anzai (2023). The arterial input function: Spatial dependence within the imaging volume and its influence on 3D quantitative dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI for head and neck cancer. Magnetic resonance imaging, 101, 40-46. (Read full publication)
    39. Anzai Y, Chang CP, Rowe K, Snyder J, Deshmukh V, Newman M, Fraser A, Smith K, Date A, Galvao C, Monroe M, Hashibe (2023). Surveillance Imaging with PET/CT and CT and/or MRI for Head and Neck Cancer and Mortality: A Population-based Study. Radiology, 307(2), e212915. (Read full publication)
    40. Komori S, Cross DJ, Mills M, Ouchi Y, Nishizawa S, Okada H, Norikane T, Thientunyakit T, Anzai Y, Minoshima (2022). Deep-learning prediction of amyloid deposition from early-phase amyloid positron emission tomography imaging. Annals of nuclear medicine, 36(10), 913-921. (Read full publication)
    41. Yoshimi Anzai, Troy Hutchin (2024). Online Patient Ratings of Radiologists: Point-Why We Should Embrace Them. AJR. American journal of roentgenology,
    42. Anzai Y, Hutchins (2024). Online Patient Ratings of Radiologists: Point-Why We Should Embrace Them. AJR. American journal of roentgenology, (Read full publication)

    Review

    1. Kabadi SJ, Fatterpekar GM, Anzai Y, Mogen J, Hagiwara M, Patel S (2018). Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MR Imaging in Head and Neck Cancer. Magnetic resonance imaging clinics of North America, 26(1), 135-149. (Read full publication)
    2. Wangaryattawanich P, Anzai Y, Mead-Harvey C, Almader-Douglas D, Rath T (2024). Does Long-term Surveillance Imaging Improve Survival in Patients Treated for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma? A Systematic Review of the Current Evidence. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology, (Read full publication)
    3. Ibad HA, Ghotbi E, Kasaeian A, Levin AS, Jones LC, Anzai Y, Soltanolkotabi M, Kapoor N, Johnson PT, Demehri (2024). Screening for Asymptomatic Osteonecrosis of the Hip in Systemic Lupus Erythematous: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of MRI-Based Prevalence. Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 14(3), (Read full publication)
    4. Norris CD, Anzai (2022). Anatomy of Neck Muscles, Spaces, and Lymph Nodes. Neuroimaging clinics of North America, 32(4), 831-849. (Read full publication)
    5. Lee H, Choi SH, Anzai (2022). Glymphatic MRI techniques in sleep and neurodegenerative diseases. Current opinion in pulmonary medicine, 28(6), 499-510. (Read full publication)
    6. Heller RE 3rd, Sadigh G, Rao VM, Anzai Y, Moriarity A (2022). Current Controversies in Radiology on Cost, Reimbursement, and Price Transparency: AJR Expert Panel Narrative Review. AJR. American journal of roentgenology, 219(1), 5-14. (Read full publication)
    7. Riley K, Anzai (2022). Imaging of Treated Thyroid and Parathyroid Disease. Neuroimaging clinics of North America, 32(1), 145-157. (Read full publication)

    Editorial

    1. Anzai (2020). ADC on Diffusion Imaging: The MR Analog of SUV on FDG-PET: Perfect Is the Enemy of Good. Journal of magnetic resonance imaging, 51(1), 286-287. (Read full publication)
    2. Anzai Y, Minoshima (2021). Why We Need to Sleep: Glymphatic Pathway and Neurodegenerative Disease. Radiology, 300(3), 669-670. (Read full publication)
    3. Haller S, Anzai (2024). PRES Meets ARIA: Overlapping Versus Distinct Diseases. Radiology, 310(2), e233381. (Read full publication)
    4. Haller S, Moy L, Anzai (2024). Evaluation of Diffusion Tensor Imaging Analysis Along the Perivascular Space as a Marker of the Glymphatic System. Radiology, 310(1), e232899. (Read full publication)
    5. Anzai Y, Ertl-Wagner (2023). Neuroradiology 2040: A Glimpse into the Future. Radiology, 308(3), e231267. (Read full publication)
    6. Anzai (2023). Editorial for "Influence of Different Measurement Methods of Arterial Input Function on Quantitative Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Parameters in Head and Neck Cancer". Journal of magnetic resonance imaging, 58(1), 133-134. (Read full publication)
    7. Anzai Y, Moy (2022). Point-of-Care Low-Field-Strength MRI Is Moving Beyond the Hype. Radiology, 305(3), 672-673. (Read full publication)

    Letter

    1. Heilbrun ME, Poss B, Boi L, Anzai Y, Hu N, Kaplan R (2021). Authors Response to: "The Profitability of Graduate Medical Education in Radiology". Academic radiology, 28(2), 295. (Read full publication)

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