Department: Radiology

Email: Rafael.JimenezRiveros@vcuhealth.org

Address/Location:
West Hospital, West Wing

SPECIALTIES

• Musculoskeletal imaging 
• Musculoskeletal intervention

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Musculoskeletal imaging

EDUCATION

• M.D. – Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá D.C.,  Colombia
• Internship, Internal Medicine - Hospital of Saint Raphael, New Haven, CT 
• Residency, Radiology – Radiology Department, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• Fellowship, Musculoskeletal Radiology – Radiology Department, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

PUBLICATIONS

Jaimes C, Jimenez M, Marin D, Ho-Fung V, Jaramillo D. The trochlear preossification center: a normal developmental stage and potential pitfall on MR images. Pediatr Radiol. 2012 Jul 19.

Jaimes C, Jimenez M, Shabshin N, Laor T, Jaramillo D. Taking the stress out of evaluating stress injuries in children. Radiographics. 2012 Mar-Apr;32(2):537-55.

Shapiro F, Connolly S, Zurakowski D, Menezes N, Olear E, Jimenez M, Flynn E, Jaramillo D. Femoral head deformation and repair following induction of ischemic necrosis: a histologic and magnetic resonance imaging study in the piglet. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2009 Dec;91(12):2903-14.

Baskin KM, Jimenez RM, Cahill AM, Jawad AF, Towbin RB. Cavoatrial junction and central venous anatomy: implications for central venous access tip position. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2008 Mar;19(3):359-65.

Menezes NM, Connolly SA, Shapiro F, Olear EA, Jimenez RM, Zurakowski D, Jaramillo D. Early ischemia in growing piglet skeleton: MR diffusion and perfusion imaging. Radiology. 2007 Jan;242(1):129-36.

Jimenez RM, Jaramillo D, Connolly SA. Imaging of the pediatric hand: soft tissue abnormalities. Eur J Radiol. 2005 Dec;56(3):344-57.

Salamipour H, Jimenez RM, Brec SL, Chapman VM, Kalra MK, Jaramillo D. Multidetector row CT in pediatric musculoskeletal imaging. Pediatr Radiol. 2005 Jun;35(6):555-64.

BOOK CHAPTER

Jimenez RM, Connolly SA, Diagnostic Imaging-Volume Radiological Imaging of the Digestive tract in Infants and in Children. Springer-Verlag Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, Accessory Organs of Digestion, Radiological Imaging, 2008.

POSTER

Salamipour H, Jimenez RM, Brec S, Jaramillo D, Annual Meeting of the society for Pediatric Radiology, Multidetector Row CT in Pediatric Musculoskeletal Imaging. April 2004.

Jimenez RM, Shabshin N, Kim W, Dalinka M, Stress Fractures of the Upper Extremity: Imaging Findings in the Athlete and Non-Athlete Population. RSNA 2009.

Jimenez RM, Shabshin N, Laor T, Jaramillo D, Stress fractures in Pediatrics-Taking the Stress out of Evaluating Stress Fractures in Children. RSNA 2009.

ABSTRACTS

Jimenez RM, A Hernandez, D Marin, S Henesch; D Jaramillo, MRI Identification and characterization of the trochlear preossification center, an area of cartilaginous change that precedes the appearance of the secondary ossification center, May 2008.

Menezes NM, Olear EA, Connolly SA, Jimenez RM, Shapiro F, Jaramillo D, Annual Meeting of the Society for Pediatric Radiology, Evaluating Epiphyseal Ischemia Using Diffusion MRI, April 2004.

Jaramillo D, Menezes NM, Olear EA, Venkatesan A, Jimenez RM, Kim YJ, Annual Meeting of the Society for Pediatric Radiology, Line scan Diffusion shows Epiphyseal and Metaphyseal Abnormalities in Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease, April 2004.

Menezes NM, Olear EA, Jimenez RM, Shapiro F, Connolly SA, Jaramillo D, Proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of the international society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Combined Diffusion and Perfusion MRI in Evaluating skeletal ischemia. 2004.

Jimenez RM, Baskin KM, Cahill AM, Towbin R. The True Cavoatrial Junction. Implications for Central Venous Access Tip Position. Annual Meeting of the society for Pediatric Radiology. April 2005.

Marin D, Jimenez RM, Jaramillo D. Preossification Centers of the Developing Elbow: MRI-radiographic Correlation. European Society of Paediatric Radiology 42nd Annual Meeting, ESPR 2005. Pediatric Radiology. 2005 May;35 Suppl 2:S97-165.

PRESENTATIONS

Jimenez RM, A Hernandez, D Marin, S Henesch; D Jaramillo, MRI Identification and characterization of the trochlear preossification center, an area of cartilaginous change that precedes the appearance of the secondary ossification center. RSNA 2008.

Jimenez RM, Baskin KM, Cahill AM, Towbin R. The True Cavoatrial Junction. Implications for Central Venous Access Tip Position. Annual Meeting of the society for Pediatric Radiology. April 2005.

BOARD CERTIFICATION

• American Board of Radiology

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