Omar Hassan, MD

Assistant Professor
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Biography

Dr. Hassan earned his medical degree at Chicago Medical School in, North Chicago, IL, receiving a distinction in basic sciences. He completed a general surgery internship, diagnostic radiology residency, and fellowship in abdominal imaging and diagnostic sonography all at UCSF.

During residency, Dr. Hassan co-led the radiology section’s quality improvement initiative at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, examining delays in morning turnaround times of overnight, resident-read radiology examinations and implemented a system to improve the time from wet read to final attending reads of reports.

Dr. Hassan conducts research as part of the Cirrhosis & Hepatocellular Carcinoma Working Group, establishing a database of over 200 patients with treated HCC for the current largest radiologic-pathologic correlation of treatment modalities in a multidisciplinary collaboration of diagnostic and interventional radiologists and transplant hepatologists. Dr. Hassan has published papers imaging in gender affirmation surgery, organic cation transporter-mediated clearance of cardiovascular drugs, and currently has a paper in progress on the imaging reliability of liver tumor grading (LI-RADS)

Publications

Hassan OT, Behr SC, Ohliger MA, Fowler KJ, Gill RM, Fidelman N, Mehta N, Choi HH. Per-patient Negative Predictive Value of the CT and MRI Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System Version 2018 Treatment Response Algorithm for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Radiology. 2023 Dec; 309(3):e222776.
Henderson MN, Mantopoulos D, Wheatley EI, Hassan OT, Prenner JL, Fine HF. Efficacy of Perioperative Intravenous Dexamethasone on Postoperative Analgesia in Scleral Buckle Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina. 2023 04; 54(4):238-242.
Hassan O, Sun D, Jha P. Imaging in Gender Affirmation Surgery. Curr Urol Rep. 2021 Jan 30; 22(2):14.
Livshetz I, Meghpara MB, Karam JA, Salem HS, Mont MA, Hassan OT, Goldberg BA. Do Demographic or Anthropometric Factors Affect Lateralization of the Tibial Tubercle in a Diverse Population? A Magnetic Resonance Imaging Analysis. Surg Technol Int. 2020 May 28; 36:304-308.
Hassan OT, Hassan RT, Arora RR. Organic Cation Transporter-Mediated Clearance of Cardiovascular Drugs: A Pharmacological Perspective. Am J Ther. 2016 May-Jun; 23(3):e855-61.