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Marco Pinho, M.D.

Marco Pinho, M.D.

Titles and Appointments

Interim Chief Neuroradiology, PHHS MRI Medical Director

Associate Professor & Division Chief

School
Medical School
Department
Radiology | Advanced Imaging Research Center

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  • Biography

    Marco Pinho, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Associate Chief of its Neuroradiology Division. His clinical interests include cross-sectional imaging of neurological diseases and oncologic imaging.

    Dr. Pinho earned his medical degree at Universidade Estadual De Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil. He completed his radiology residency at Universidade De São Paulo, where he also received advanced training through a fellowship in neuroradiology. He also completed a research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

    Dr. Pinho’s research is currently focused on the development and validation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to evaluate central nervous system malignancies, and response assessment in clinical trials in collaboration with basic scientists, neuro-oncologists, and neurosurgeons at UT Southwestern. He has published multiple articles, reports, and reviews.

    At UT Southwestern, Dr. Pinho serves on several committees, including the Radiology Resident Selection Committee, the Clinical Competency Committee, the Brain Tumor Committee, and the Intracranial Pressure Disorder IPT. 

    A dedicated educator, Dr. Pinho previously served as the Associate Program Director of the Radiology Residency Program, and also coordinated the Global Health Teleradiology program. 

    Dr. Pinho is an active member of national and international professional organizations, including the Radiological Society of North America, the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the American Society of Neuroradiology, the American Society of Spine Radiology, the American Society of Functional Neuroradiology, and the Sociedade Paulista de Radiologia.

  • Education
    Medical School
    Universidade Estadual De Campinas (2002)
    Residency
    Instituto de Radiologia, Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo (2006), Diagnostic Radiology
    Fellowship
    Instituto de Radiologia - Hospital das Clinicas - Univ. de Sao Paulo (2007), Neuroradiology
    Fellowship
    A.A. Martinos Ctr. for Biomedical Imaging (2011), Neuroradiology
  • Research Interest
    • Central Nervous System Neoplasms
    • Computed Tomography
    • Head and Neck Imaging
    • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    • Neurovascular Disease
  • Publications

    Star Featured Publications

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    Towards fair decentralized benchmarking of healthcare AI algorithms with the Federated Tumor Segmentation (FeTS) challenge.
    Zenk M, Baid U, Pati S, Linardos A, Edwards B, Sheller M, Foley P, Aristizabal A, Zimmerer D, Gruzdev A, Martin J, Shinohara RT, Reinke A, Isensee F, Parampottupadam S, Parekh K, Floca R, Kassem H, Baheti B, Thakur S, Chung V, Kushibar K, Lekadir K, Jiang M, Yin Y, Yang H, Liu Q, Chen C, Dou Q, Heng PA, Zhang X, Zhang S, Khan MI, Azeem MA, Jafaritadi M, Alhoniemi E, Kontio E, Khan SA, Mächler L, Ezhov I, Kofler F, Shit S, Paetzold JC, Loehr T, Wiestler B, Peiris H, Pawar K, Zhong S, Chen Z, Hayat M, Egan G, Harandi M, Isik Polat E, Polat G, Kocyigit A, Temizel A, Tuladhar A, Tyagi L, Souza R, Forkert ND, Mouches P, Wilms M, Shambhat V, Maurya A, Danannavar SS, Kalla R, Anand VK, Krishnamurthi G, Nalawade S, Ganesh C, Wagner B, Reddy D, Das Y, Yu FF, Fei B, Madhuranthakam AJ, Maldjian J, Singh G, Ren J, Zhang W, An N, Hu Q, Zhang Y, Zhou Y, Siomos V, Tarroni G, Passerrat-Palmbach J, Rawat A, Zizzo G, Kadhe SR, Epperlein JP, Braghin S, Wang Y, Kanagavelu R, Wei Q, Yang Y, Liu Y, Kotowski K, Adamski S, Machura B, Malara W, Zarudzki L, Nalepa J, Shi Y, Gao H, Avestimehr S, Yan Y, Akbar AS, Kondrateva E, Yang H, Li Z, Wu HY, Roth J, Saueressig C, Milesi A, Nguyen QD, Gruenhagen NJ, Huang TM, Ma J, Singh HSH, Pan NY, Zhang D, Zeineldin RA, Futrega M, Yuan Y, Conte GM, Feng X, Pham QD, Xia Y, Jiang Z, Luu HM, Dobko M, Carré A, Tuchinov B, Mohy-Ud-Din H, Alam S, Singh A, Shah N, Wang W, Sako C, Bilello M, Ghodasara S, Mohan S, Davatzikos C, Calabrese E, Rudie J, Villanueva-Meyer J, Cha S, Hess C, Mongan J, Ingalhalikar M, Jadhav M, Pandey U, Saini J, Huang RY, Chang K, To MS, Bhardwaj S, Chong C, Agzarian M, Kozubek M, Lux F, Michálek J, Matula P, Ker Kovský M, Kopr Ivová T, Dostál M, Vybíhal V, Pinho MC, Holcomb J, Metz M, Jain R, Lee MD, Lui YW, Tiwari P, Verma R, Bareja R, Yadav I, Chen J, Kumar N, Gusev Y, Bhuvaneshwar K, Sayah A, Bencheqroun C, Belouali A, Madhavan S, Colen RR, Kotrotsou A, Vollmuth P, Brugnara G, Preetha CJ, Sahm F, Bendszus M, Wick W, Mahajan A, Balaña C, Capellades J, Puig J, Choi YS, Lee SK, Chang JH, Ahn SS, Shaykh HF, Herrera-Trujillo A, Trujillo M, Escobar W, Abello A, Bernal J, Gómez J, LaMontagne P, Marcus DS, Milchenko M, Nazeri A, Landman B, Ramadass K, Xu K, Chotai S, Chambless LB, Mistry A, Thompson RC, Srinivasan A, Bapuraj JR, Rao A, Wang N, Yoshiaki O, Moritani T, Turk S, Lee J, Prabhudesai S, Garrett J, Larson M, Jeraj R, Li H, Weiss T, Weller M, Bink A, Pouymayou B, Sharma S, Tseng TC, Adabi S, Xavier Falcão A, Martins SB, Teixeira BCA, Sprenger F, Menotti D, Lucio DR, Niclou SP, Keunen O, Hau AC, Pelaez E, Franco-Maldonado H, Loayza F, Quevedo S, McKinley R, Slotboom J, Radojewski P, Meier R, Wiest R, Trenkler J, Pichler J, Necker G, Haunschmidt A, Meckel S, Guevara P, Torche E, Mendoza C, Vera F, Ríos E, López E, Velastin SA, Choi J, Baek S, Kim Y, Ismael H, Allen B, Buatti JM, Zampakis P, Panagiotopoulos V, Tsiganos P, Alexiou S, Haliassos I, Zacharaki EI, Moustakas K, Kalogeropoulou C, Kardamakis DM, Luo B, Poisson LM, Wen N, Vallières M, Loutfi MAL, Fortin D, Lepage M, Morón F, Mandel J, Shukla G, Liem S, Alexandre GS, Lombardo J, Palmer JD, Flanders AE, Dicker AP, Ogbole G, Oyekunle D, Odafe-Oyibotha O, Osobu B, Shu'aibu Hikima M, Soneye M, Dako F, Dorcas A, Murcia D, Fu E, Haas R, Thompson JA, Ormond DR, Currie S, Fatania K, Frood R, Simpson AL, Peoples JJ, Hu R, Cutler D, Moraes FY, Tran A, Hamghalam M, Boss MA, Gimpel J, Kattil Veettil D, Schmidt K, Cimino L, Price C, Bialecki B, Marella S, Apgar C, Jakab A, Weber MA, Colak E, Kleesiek J, Freymann JB, Kirby JS, Maier-Hein L, Albrecht J, Mattson P, Karargyris A, Shah P, Menze B, Maier-Hein K, Bakas S, Nat Commun 2025 Jul 16 1 6274
    Isolated symmetric internal auditory canal enhancement in leptomeningeal carcinomatosis from gastric cancer.
    Zhai K, Pinho M, Noch EK, BMJ Case Rep 2025 Jan 18 1
    Microenhancement as a Biomarker for Cerebral Microbleed in Inflammatory Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: Insights From 3D T1 Black-Blood MR Imaging.
    Shang T, Sguigna PV, Pinho MC, Moore W, Jones E, Subramanian S, Upadhyaya P, Kelley B, Hatanpaa KJ, Raisanen J, Neurology 2025 Jan 104 2 e210258
    Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of 2-Hydroxyglutarate and Glycine in Adult Subjects With Brainstem Gliomas.
    Tiwari V, Ganji SK, An Z, Pinho MC, Davis LT, McKnight CD, Berry JD, Mobley BC, Luo LY, Mohler AC, Merrell RT, Kelly PD, Thompson RC, Mickey BE, Malloy CR, Gore JC, Patel TR, Maher EA, Choi C, NMR Biomed 2025 38 11 e70153
    Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of a Malleus Handle Fracture Using Photon-Counting CT.
    Shi JJ, Fujiwara RJT, Pinho MC, Isaacson B, Otol Neurotol 2024 Dec 45 10 1226-1227
    Considerations in screening for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis in irradiated head and neck cancer survivors.
    Day AT, Mitchell DN, Eary RL, Jones E, Pinho MC, Zaha VG, Yang EH, Sher DJ, Cancer 2024 Nov
    A Two-Stage Training Framework Using Multicontrast MRI Radiomics for IDH Mutation Status Prediction in Glioma.
    Truong NCD, Bangalore Yogananda CG, Wagner BC, Holcomb JM, Reddy D, Saadat N, Hatanpaa KJ, Patel TR, Fei B, Lee MD, Jain R, Bruce RJ, Pinho MC, Madhuranthakam AJ, Maldjian JA, Radiol Artif Intell 2024 May e230218
  • Books

    Featured 

    Abdominal Sonographic Anatomy. In Abdominal Sonography

    Kay FU, Pinho MC, Amaro Jr E, Bordalo-Rodrigues M, Kodaira SK (2009). Sao Paulo - Brazil, Guanabara Koogan

  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • American Society of Functional Neuroradiology (2017)
    • American Society of Neuroradiology (2013)
    • American Society of Spine Radiology (2016)
    • International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2013)
    • Radiological Society of North America (2003)