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Co-chair of Radiology at St Mary’s Hospital
Secretary of St Mary’s Hospital Medical Staff

Fellow of the American College of Radiology
Fellow of the Society of Abdominal Imaging
Chairman of Radiology at St. Mary’s Hospital

graduated from the Jefferson Medical College and completed a rotating internship at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and a diagnostic radiology residency at the Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Szucs is board certified by the American Board of Radiology and a fellow of the American College of Radiology and the Society of Abdominal Radiology. He remained on the faculty at VCU as Assistant Professor of Radiology in the abdominal imaging section and director of genitourinary radiology for 10 years before joining Commonwealth Radiology in 2000. He has an appointment as Clinical Assistant Professor of radiology at VCU. He served for a number of years as the book review editor of Radiology. He is a past President of the Richmond Radiological Society, the Virginia chapter of the ACR and the Richmond Academy of Medicine. He is presently the Vice-President of Commonwealth Radiology and past President of the Medical Executive Committee where he continues to serve on the executive committee of the medical staff as well as numerous other hospital committees. His special interests include gastrointestinal radiology and abdominal imaging and he is a member of the Society of Abdominal Radiology and the Society of Body CT and MRI. Dr. Szucs is a Richard is a Councilor and is the Chairman of the Legislative and Public Relations Committee for the Virginia chapter of the American College of Radiology. Dr. Szucs is also the President Elect for the Medical Society of Virginia.

Medical Director for Bon Secours Midlothian Imaging Center, Bon Secours West End MRI, and Bon Secours Short Pump Imaging Center

graduated from the University of Florida College of Medicine and finished a transitional internship at Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He completed both a diagnostic radiology residency and magnetic resonance imaging fellowship at Northwestern University. Dr. Sleeker is board certified by the American Board of Radiology and has been with Commonwealth Radiology since 2008. He is a past president and president elect of the Richmond Radiological Society. His special interests include MRI, musculoskeletal imaging, musculoskeletal ultrasound, joint injections, body imaging, and spine imaging.

Medical Director for Bon Secours Imaging Center at Reynolds Crossing

completed his surgical internship, diagnostic radiology residency and fellowship in cross-sectional imaging at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He is board certified by the American Board of Radiology. He served as a clinical instructor at Brown before joining Commonwealth Radiology in January 2006.  His special interests include abdominal diagnostic imaging as well as ultrasound and CT guided interventional procedures.

graduated from Jefferson Medical College with the distinction of Alpha Omega Alpha and The J.Woodrow Savacool Prize in Medical Ethics. Completed a diagnostic radiology residency at Temple University Hospital and an interventional radiology fellowship at the University of Virginia. Dr. Berliner is board certified by the American Board of Radiology. Her special interests include mammography, breast ultrasound, breast interventional procedures, DXA (certification), CT and ultrasound guided procedures, and nuclear medicine, including PET/CT.

Medical Director of MRI at St Mary’s Hospital
MRI Director for Bon Secours Imaging Center at Reynolds Crossing

graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine and completed a surgical internship at the Medical University of South Carolina, diagnostic radiology residency at the Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation and a neuroradiology fellowship at the University of Virginia. Dr. Beskin is board certified by the American Board of Radiology, has earned a Certificate of Additional Qualification in neuroradiology and is a senior member of the American Society of Neuroradiology. His special interests include MRI, interventional neuroradiology, vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty, and spine interventions.

graduated from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, TX. He completed his internship in surgery at Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX and his diagnostic radiology residency at the Jackson Memorial Medical Center University of Miami School of Medicine. Dr. Cameron completed his fellowship in body imaging at Wake Forest Baptist University Medical Center. He is board certified by the American Board of Radiology. His special interests include abdominal and pelvic MRI and breast radiology.

graduated from the Medical College of Virginia (Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine). She remained at MCV-VCU for her internship in internal medicine, diagnostic radiology residency, and MRI fellowship.  Her fellowship year included additional training in musculoskeletal imaging and procedures, neuroradiology, abdominal imaging, and cardiothoracic imaging. Dr. Cockrell is board certified by the American Board of Radiology. She has a special interest in abdominal imaging. Dr. Cockrell is the President of the Richmond Radiological Society for the 2017-2018 term.

Medical Director for Bon Secours Imaging Center at Innsbrook

graduated from Thomas Jefferson University Medical School, Philadelphia, PA.  He completed his radiology residency at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, and his fellowship in pulmonary and cardiac radiology at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University.  He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is board certified by the American Board of Radiology. His special interests include chest radiology and acute care radiology.

graduated from the Medical College of Virginia and completed an internal medicine internship at the University of Maryland. He completed both a diagnostic radiology residency and body imaging fellowship at the Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Cook is board certified by the American Board of Radiology. His special interests include nuclear medicine including PET imaging, MRI, and body imaging. Dr. Cook is the Radiation Safety Officer for the Richmond Bon Secours facilities.

Fellow of the American College of Radiology

Graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1988. He completed his internal medicine internship at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, and his radiology residency and musculoskeletal fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Disler is board certified by the American Board of Radiology and is a fellow of the American College of Radiology. He is a member of the International Skeletal Society and the Society of Skeletal Radiology. He is the author of many articles in the field of bone and joint imaging, and has written two books on the subject . Dr. Disler was formerly deputy editor of Radiology, and currently reviews for several journals. A former board examiner and member of the ABR Board Examination Committee, his interests include imaging of articular cartilage, musculoskeletal tumor imaging, and musculoskeletal interventions including radiofrequency ablation.

Medical Director at Bon Secours Imaging at Westchester
Medical Director at St. Mary’s Women’s Imaging Center
Co-director for Breast Imaging, Commonwealth Radiology

graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and completed an internship in Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia. He returned to the University of Virginia, where he completed a Diagnostic Radiology residency, serving as a chief resident. He went on to complete a fellowship in Breast Imaging at the University of Virginia and joined Commonwealth Radiology in July, 2009. Dr. Dixon is board certified by the American Board of Radiology. His special interests include mammography, breast ultrasound, breast MR, and breast interventional procedures. 

graduated from the University Libre De Bruxel les School of Medicine and completed a diagnostic radiology residency at Wayne State University and a neuroradiology fellowship at the Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Dufour is board certified by the American Board of Radiology and has earned a Certificate of Additional Qualification in neuroradiology. He is the Chairman of the Credentials Committee at Memorial Regional Medical Center and served as the Chairman of Radiology at Memorial Regional Medical Center from 1998-2001. He is a past president of the Richmond Radiological Society. He has an appointment as clinical professor of radiology at Medical College of Virginia. His special interests include neuroradiology, CT guided procedures, and MRI.

graduated from the Medical College of Virginia and went on to complete a surgical internship at Charity Hospital in Louisiana, a diagnostic radiology residency at the Medical College of Virginia and a vascular and interventional fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Finnegan is board certified by the American Board of Radiology and has earned Certificates of Additional Qualification in both neuroradiology and vascular interventional radiology. He served as Chairman of the St. Mary’s Hospital Institutional Review Board from 1997 to 1998. His special interests include vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty, radiofrequency ablation, and pain management.

Fellow of the American College of Radiology

graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School and went on to complete an internship in pediatrics, diagnostic radiology residency and ultrasound and CT fellowship at the Medical College of Virginia. He served as Chief Resident while in residency. Dr. Goldschmidt is board certified by the American Board of Radiology and has earned a Certificate of Additional Qualification in pediatric radiology. He is the immediate past president of Commonwealth Radiology, P.C. and is a past Chairman of Radiology at St Mary’s Hospital. His special interests include pediatric radiology and MRI.

graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine, Charleston, SC and went on to complete an Internal Medicine internship at University Medical Center, Tucson, AZ, a Diagnostic Radiology residency at Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY where he was Chief Resident, and an Interventional Fellowship at the Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC. Dr. Habib is board certified in Diagnostic Radiology by the American Board of Radiology. His special interest is interventional radiology, including uterine fibroid embolization, biliary interventions, vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty, and oncologic interventions such as radiofrequency ablation, chemo-embolization, and port-a-cath placement.

CoChairman for Radiology at St. Francis Medical Center

completed his diagnostic radiology residency at the Medical College of Virginia where he served as the chief resident. He then completed his fellowship in diagnostic neuroradiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He is board certified by the American Board of Radiology and has achieved a Certificate of Additional Qualification in neuroradiology. His special interests are neuroradiology, MRI, and interventional radiology.

CoChair of Radiology at St. Mary’s Hospital

graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine. He completed his internship at St. Vincent Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN and his diagnostic radiology residency at Northwestern University where he was chief resident. Dr. Musick completed a fellowship in pediatric radiology at the Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, IL. He is board certified by the American Board of Radiology. Dr. Musick serves at the Medical Director for Pediatric Imaging for Bon Secours Richmond facilities. His special interests include pediatric imaging and women’s imaging including mammography and breast ultrasound. He is a member of the American College of Radiology and the Society for Pediatric Radiology.

graduated from the University of Virginia Medical School and went on to complete a transitional internship at the Medical College of Virginia. She completed both a diagnostic radiology residency and ultrasound/CT cross-sectional fellowship at Temple University Hospital. Dr. Newsome is board certified by the American Board of Radiology. Her main interests include cross-sectional imaging and women’s imaging.

Co-chair of Radiology at Memorial Regional Medical Center

graduated from Georgetown University Medical School, completed a transitional internship at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Oakland, California and a diagnostic radiology residency at St Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco, California. Dr. Pacious is board certified by the American Board of Radiology and has earned a Certificate of Additional Qualification in pediatric radiology. He is a member of the Society of Pediatric Radiology and a Registered Vascular Technologist (RVT). His special interests include pediatric radiology and nuclear medicine.

graduated from the University of Virginia, School of Medicine with the distinction of Alpha Omega Alpha, and stayed to complete his surgery internship and diagnostic radiology residency. Dr. Padgett served as chief resident at the University of Virginia. He completed a fellowship in bone and joint imaging at University of Virginia and joined Commonwealth Radiology in July, 2005. He is a councilor of the American College of Radiology and serves on the board of the Virginia chapter of the ACR. Dr. Padgett is the Medical Director of Information Technology for CR and the Medical Director of Musculoskeletal Radiology for Bon Secours Richmond facilities. He is an Alternate Councilor for the Virginia chapter of the American College of Radiology.

graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and finished a transitional surgery internship at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. He completed both a Diagnostic Radiology residency and a Musculoskeletal Imaging fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. Dr. Peat is board certified by the American Board of Radiology. His special interests include MRI, musculoskeletal imaging, and body imaging.

Fellow of the American College of Radiology (FACR)

Chair of Radiology, Richmond Community Hospital 
Medical Director, Laburnum Diagnostic Imaging Center

graduated from the Boston University School of Medicine and went on to complete a transitional internship at Metrowest Medical Center. She started her diagnostic radiology residency at Hartford Hospital and finished at Eastern Virginia Medical School. She completed a fellowship in bone and joint imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Caley is board certified by the American Board of Radiology and is a fellow in the American College of Radiology. During her fellowship, Dr. Caley coauthored a musculoskeletal imaging book. She was a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School and assistant clinical professor of radiology at Brown University prior to joining Commonwealth Radiology. Dr. Caley served as the President for the Medical Staff at Richmond Community Hospital during 2018 and 2019, and continues to serve on the Medical Executive Committee and the Credential’s committee. She is a past president of the Richmond Radiological Society.  She has been a certified densitometrist with the International Society of Clinical Densitometry since 1998. Her special interests include MRI, orthopedic radiology including musculoskeletal ultrasound, bone densitometry, and women’s imaging.

Co-director for Breast Imaging, Commonwealth Radiology

graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University as the first combined degree recipient with a Medical Doctor/Master of Health Administration. He completed an internship in Internal Medicine and trained for 2 years in Radiation Oncology at VCU. He then transferred to Wake Forest University in North Carolina where he completed a residency in Diagnostic Radiology and remained to complete a fellowship in Breast Imaging. He is Board certified by the American Board of Radiology. His special interests include breast imaging including mammography, breast ultrasound, breast MR and breast interventional procedures.

graduated from the Medical College of Virginia and remained there to complete both her diagnostic radiology residency and fellowship in neuroradiology. Dr. Smithson is board certified by the American Board of Radiology, has earned a Certificate of Additional Qualification in neuroradiology, and is a senior member of the American Society of Neuroradiology. She is a past president of the Richmond Radiological Society. Her special interests include neuroimaging and body imaging.

Dr. Somerville graduated from the Medical College of Virginia (Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine). He stayed at MCV-VCU for an internship in internal medicine and received the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award. He completed radiology residency at the West Penn Allegheny Health System in Pittsburgh, PA, where he served as chief resident. Following this, Dr. Somerville completed a fellowship in abdominal imaging and intervention at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is board certified by the American Board of Radiology. Dr. Somerville serves as our Director of Ultrasound at all Commonwealth Radiology facilities. His special interests include chest and abdominal imaging.

Fellow of the American College of Radiology (FACR)

Co-Chairman of Radiology at St. Francis Medical Center

graduated from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, completed an internal medicine internship at Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center, a diagnostic radiology residency at Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke’s Medical Center and a vascular and interventional fellowship at the University of California at San Diego. Dr. Weinberg is board certified by the American Board of Radiology and earned a Certificate of Additional Qualification in vascular and interventional radiology. His special interest is interventional radiology, including uterine fibroid embolization, vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty, and oncologic interventions such as radiofrequency ablation, chemo-embolization, and port-a-cath placement.

graduated from the Medical College of Virginia and stayed to complete an internship in internal medicine at the Medical College of Virginia. She then traveled to the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology where she completed a diagnostic radiology residency and abdominal imaging fellowship. She is board certified by the American Board of Radiology has maintained a Certificate of Additional Qualification (via MOC) in pediatric radiology. She developed the breast MRI program at St Mary’s Hospital and has served on the hospital’s Credentials Committee. She is an active member in the Society of Pediatric Radiology. Her special interests include pediatric radiology and women’s imaging, including breast MRI.

graduated from the George Washington University Medical Center with Alpha Omega Alpha honors. During medical school she completed a one year research fellowship at the National Institute of Health for which she received a Cancer Research Training Award. She then completed her internship, diagnostic radiology residency and breast imaging fellowship at the University of Virginia Medical Center. She is board certified by the American Board of Radiology.

Co-chair of Radiology, Memorial Regional Medical Center

graduated from Boston University with a BA in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and from the Georgetown University School of Medicine with a Doctor of Medicine and a Master of Science. He completed his diagnostic radiology residency at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, where he served as the Chief Moonlighting Resident. He completed his fellowship in Vascular & Interventional Radiology at the University of Michigan. During Residency, he served as a State Delegate to the AMA Annual Meetings for several years, and a Representative to the Committee on Legislation, Alternate Trustee, and Governing Council Member for the Massachusetts Medical Society. He also served on the Hospital Quality Improvement Council at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He has coauthored several articles in Radiology journals. His clinical focus is Interventional Radiology and special interests are Interventional Oncology, portal hypertension, peripheral arterial disease, male and female genitourinary interventions (uterine fibroid & prostatic artery embolization). Dr. Hussain has been appointed to serve on the Credentials Committee for Memorial Medical Center.

Chair of Radiology, Rappahannock General Hospital

graduated from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA degree in Zoology and he earned his M.D. degree from The U.N.C. School of Medicine. He then completed his diagnostic radiology residency at The Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. Dr. Piggott is board certified by the American Board of Radiology. Upon completion of his residency, he soon became a partner and subsequently served as Senior Partner and President at Halifax X-ray Associates in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. He practiced for 29 consecutive years at Halifax X-ray Associates. In addition to serving on his hospital’s Medical Executive Committee and as the Radiation Safety Officer, Dr. Piggott has served on many hospital committees including Credentials, Patient Care, Safety, Quality Council, and Patient Education. His special interests include body imaging and neuroimaging.

Dr Rakesh Agarwal completed both his diagnostic radiology residency and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has worked as a Staff radiologist at the McGuire Veterans Administration Hospital for the past 10 years. During that time, he served as the Director of MRI Safety and helped develop the cardiac MRI program. He currently serves as director of MRI safety for Commonwealth Radiology and director of Computed Tomography (CT). His special areas of interest include cardiac MRI, coronary CTA, prostate imaging, Body MRI and non-vascular percutaneous interventions.

graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Physics and from the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine with a Doctor of Medicine. He completed an internship in General Surgery at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, and his Diagnostic Radiology residency at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Subsequently, he attended Virginia Commonwealth University where he completed his Vascular and Interventional Radiology fellowship. He is board eligible in Interventional Radiology. He has co-authored Radiology journal and textbook publications.  His many professional interests include oncology, hepatobiliary intervention and hemodialysis graft/fistula intervention.

graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine internship at MedStar Union Memorial / Good Samaritan Hospital. He completed his diagnostic radiology residency at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, where he was Chief Resident. He completed his musculoskeletal imaging fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. His special areas of interest include musculoskeletal MRI, joint and soft tissue interventions, and spine and peripheral nerve imaging.

graduated from the University of Virginia with a BS in Biomedical Engineering and MS in Systems and Information Engineering. He then went on to Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine to complete a Doctorate in Medicine. Next, he pursued medical training at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System to become dual board-certified in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology. As a resident he first-authored a manuscript publication, engaged in book contributions, presented at educational conferences, participated in multiple lecture presentations, and co-authored in multiple scientific exhibits. He served as the Radiological Society of North America representative for his residency program, and actively participated in the resident and fellow section of the Society of Interventional Radiology. During the course of training he attained the distinction of Alpha Omega Alpha, served as Chief Radiology Resident, and was selected for the M. Pinson Neal Jr. MD Outstanding Resident Award by the Department of Radiology. He loves practicing all facets of Vascular and Interventional Radiology including Interventional Oncology, Hepatobiliary and Portal Interventions, Genitourinary Interventions, and a variety of Arterial and Venous Interventions.

graduated from Duke University in 1996 and  then received his MD from Virginia Commonwealth University. He followed this with a medicine internship at Bethesda Naval Hospital before serving in the military from 2003-2007. He then returned to train in diagnostic radiology at Virginia Commonwealth  University. He is board certified by the American Board of Radiology. Since he completed his training in 2011, he has worked at the McGuire Veterans Administration Hospital.  His special interests are general diagnostic radiology including women’s imaging, procedures and emergency medicine.

EDUCATION

• Obafemi Awolowo University College of Health Sciences, Ile Ife, Nigeria; M.B,Ch.B (MD) 2008
• Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston; MPH 2013
• Mercy Catholic Medical Center, Darby PA; Diagnostic Radiology Residency (2017-2021)
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC. Diagnostic Neuroradiology Fellowship (2021-2022)
• The fellowship includes interpreting all imaging modalities for the evaluation of the brain, spine, head and neck, brachial plexus using CT, MRI,
• angiography, ultrasound, fluoroscopy-guided lumbar punctures/myelography, and advanced
• neuroimaging methods such as functional MRI, MR spectroscopy, CT, and MR perfusion imaging. 

LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATIONS

• American Board of Radiology (ABR) Certification-Board Eligible

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND SOCIETIES MEMBERSHIPS

• American Society of Neuroradiologists (Member in-training, 2019 – present)
• American Roentgen Ray Society (Member, 2017 – present)
• American College of Radiology (Member, 2017 – present)
• American Medical Association (Member, 2015 – present)

Interests :  He enjoys spending time with his wife and three children especially watching his children play team Soccer.

Interventional and diagnostic radiologist

EDUCATION: 

• Bachelor of Science, Biology, Magna Cum Laude (December 2010) University of Georgia, Athens, GA  
• Doctor of Medicine (May 2016) Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA  
• General Surgery – Preliminary Internship (July 2016 – June 2017) Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando, FL
• Integrated Interventional Radiology Residency (July 2017 – June 2022) Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, VA

HOBBIES/INTERESTS

• Running, hiking, mountain biking, tennis, travelling
• Fluent in English, Gujarati, and Hindi

Taylor Powell, MD joined Commonwealth Radiology, PC as of August 2023. Dr. Powell graduated from Yale University with an integrated residency in diagnostic and interventional radiology in June of 2023.

Dr. Powell received his medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2017. He completed an internship in generals urgery at VCU in 2018. While attending medical school at VCU, he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society.

He graduated with Distinction from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry in 2013.

Dr. Powell has experience in all diagnostic modalities with interests in vascular imaging, including vascular ultrasound.

He has a certification as a Registered Physician in Vascular Interpretation (RPVI). Dr. Powell’s arterial interventional experience includes the breadth of embolizations including prostate, uterine, gastrointestinal, pulmonary, trauma, and oncologic as well as pulmonary artery thrombectomy.

His venous interventional experience includes venous thrombosis and venous insufficiency treatments, filter placement and retrieval, TIPS creation and revision, dialysis access interventions, and the spectrum of venous lines. Interventional oncology experience includes radioembolization, chemoembolization, ablations, and biopsies. His training also includes the breath of gastrointestinal, genitourinary, hepatobiliary, and transplant interventions.

Dr. Powell and his wife are from Virginia, and he is looking forward to practicing in the Central Virginia area.

Hassan Huq, MD joined Commonwealth Radiology, PC in May 2023. Dr. Huq was most recently a radiologist with Riverside Radiology and Interventional Associates, Inc. located in Columbus, Ohio. Before his work with Riverside Radiology and Interventional Associates, Inc. he was a radiologist with Virginia Radiology Associates, PC. in Manassas, Virginia.

Dr. Huq completed his Fellowship in Body Imaging and his radiology residency at Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University. He completed an Internship from the Department of Surgery and he received his Doctor of Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Dr. Huq received his Bachelor of Science, Magna Cum Laude from Department of Biochemistry at the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Dr. Huq interprets X-rays, CTs, MRIs, Ultrasound studies, screening, and diagnostic mammography, including tomography and GI Fluoroscopy. He also performs image guided biopsies and drainages and large joint arthrograms for CT or MRI.

Dr Huq enjoys soccer, computers, reading and enjoying life with his wife and children.

earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Virginia Commonwealth University and her master’s degree in nursing from Old Dominion University. She is credentialed with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners as a board-certified family nurse practitioner. Before joining Commonwealth Radiology Janice worked as a nurse for 11 years in the interventional radiology department at Memorial Regional Medical Center, where she provided care to patients that underwent imaging guided procedures in multiple modalities of radiology. Janice is a member of the Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioners and American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. She is also certified as a medical surgical registered nurse by the American nurse credentialing center.  Outside of work Janice enjoys traveling and spending time with her family.

Hope is a board-certified nurse practitioner. She earned her master’s degree from Virginia Commonwealth University with a concentration in adult-gerontology acute care.

During her 17-year nursing career, she worked in a variety of hospital settings including cardiopulmonary telemetry, medical-surgical, and step-down units. Ten of those years were in interventional radiology at Memorial Regional and St. Mary’s hospitals. Here she discovered her passion for interventional radiology, which provides patients with options that can reduce risks, shorten recovery times, and improve health outcomes when traditional options are not possible.

She joined Commonwealth Radiology in 2022, where she specializes in performing a wide range of imaging guided minimally invasive procedures. She enjoys educating patients on the different treatment options this specialty can provide.

Hope is a native of Hanover. She enjoys traveling, reading, and staying physically active, but most of all spending time with her husband and twin sons.

Certifications

• Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Certification (American Nurses Credentialing Center)
• Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Certification (American Association of Critical Care Nurses)
• Radiology Nurse Certification (Radiologic Nursing Certification Board)
• Gerontological Nurse Certification (ANCC)
• Medical-Surgical Nurse Certification (Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses)

Affiliations

• Society of Interventional Radiology
  • Serves as a member of the NP/PA Clinical Practice Committee
• Richmond Academy of Medicine

earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from George Mason University, followed by a Master of Science in Nursing from Old Dominion University where she received the Chair’s Award. She is board certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board. She pursued the field of Interventional Radiology due to her interest and experience with ultrasound guided vascular access, and has since developed a passion for performing minimally invasive procedures that support a wide variety of patients each with unique needs. She is a Hampton Roads native and in her free time enjoys spending time outdoors with her husband and two dogs.

Miranda has been a physician assistant for commonwealth radiology since 2021. She received a Masters in Physician Assistant Studies from James Madison University and a bachelors degree from Spelman College in Atlanta Georgia.

Miranda has worked for over 10 years as an exceptional physician’s assistant. She specializes in Interventional Radiology Procedures, Miranda is native to Virginia and loves being closes to all her family.

She enjoys movies and any do it yourself home improvement project.

Mia Matthews Foster is an experienced, board-certified Physician Assistant with a career spanning 12 years in interventional radiology, obstetrics and gynecology, and women’s health. Mia specializes in minimally invasive computed tomography (CT), ultrasound, and fluoroscopically guided procedures, and has been with Commonwealth Radiology, PC, since February 2022.

Born and raised in southwest Virginia, and educated in the commonwealth, Mia earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Virginia, and a Master of Physician Assistant Studies from James Madison University. She has also served on the faculty as a clinical preceptor for the PA program at the James Madison University College of Health and Behavioral Studies. Mia is passionate about addressing health disparities in communities facing barriers and she is equally committed to helping cultivate the next generation of healthcare professionals that are mindful, empathic, enthusiastic and engaged. She leads with integrity and inclusivity, and sets a high standard for patient care, quality, and safety.

Mia is a member of the Richmond Academy of Medicine, Virginia Academy of Physician Assistants, and the American Academy of Physician Assistants.