Rustain Morgan, MD

Professional Titles

• Assistant Professor of Radiology
• Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program Director
• Howard M. Sheridan, MD, Endowed Vice Chair of Education

Recognitions

• Fellow Teaching Award, Duke Radiology Residents (2016)
  Awarded to the fellow most dedicated to the education of radiology residents.
• Selected Member of the Academy’s Council of Early Career Investigators in Imaging (CECI2), Academy’s Council of Early Career Investigators in Imaging (CECI2) (2020)
  Created in 2014 by the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research to recognize the achievements of researchers who are in the early phases of their careers and engage them in advocacy for research funding.
• Sidney Rubin Memorial Research Award, University of Kansas Department of Radiology (2015)
  Award given to the senior resident who demonstrated dedication to research which furthered both their own development and that of their co-residents.
• Outstanding Resident Teacher Award, University of Kansas Department of Radiology (2015)
  Award given to the senior resident who demonstrated excellence in teaching as selected by their fellow residents.

Research Interests

Publications

• Cizman Z, Hammer M, Mollard B, Morgan R, Ballenger Z, Runner GJ, Heitkamp DE, Resnik C. A Resident Perspective on Adding Value as Radiologists. Acad Radiol. 2016 Apr;23(4):517-20. PubMed PMID: 26898525
• Aripoli AM, Fishback SJ, Morgan RL, Hill JD, Robinson AL. Rounding Radiologists: Clinical Collaboration Between Radiology Residents and Internal Medicine Teams. J Am Coll Radiol. 2016 May;13(5):562-5. PubMed PMID: 26922596
• Morgan RL, Camidge DR. Reviewing RECIST in the Era of Prolonged and Targeted Therapy. J Thorac Oncol. 2017 Nov 4. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29113950
• Howard BA, Morgan R, Thorpe MP, Turkington TG, Oldan J, James OG, Borges-Neto S. Comparison of Bayesian penalized likelihood reconstruction versus OS-EM for characterization of small pulmonary nodules in oncologic PET/CT. Ann Nucl Med. 2017 Oct;31(8):623-628. PubMed PMID: 28689358
• Aripoli AM, Miller KA, Fishback SJ, Morgan RL. Engaging Senior Residents in Medical Student Education: A Resident's Perspective. J Am Coll Radiol. 2017 May;14(5):678-680. PubMed PMID: 28185751
• Melani C, Major A, Schowinsky J, Roschewski M, Pittaluga S, Jaffe ES, Pack SD, Abdullaev Z, Ahlman MA, Kwak JJ, Morgan R, Rabinovitch R, Pan Z, Haverkos BM, Gutman JA, Pollyea DA, Smith CA, Wilson WH, Kamdar M. PD-1 Blockade in Mediastinal Gray-Zone Lymphoma. N Engl J Med. 2017 Jul 6;377(1):89-91. PubMed PMID: 28679093
• Ng TL, Morgan RL, Patil T, Barón AE, Smith DE, Ross Camidge D. Detection of oligoprogressive disease in oncogene-addicted non-small cell lung cancer using PET/CT versus CT in patients receiving a tyrosine kinase inhibitor. Lung Cancer. 2018 Dec;126:112-118. PubMed PMID: 30527174
• Morgan R, Perry M, Kwak J, Jensen A, Kamdar M. Positron Emission Tomography-based Analysis Can Accurately Predict Bone Marrow Involvement With Mantle Cell Lymphoma. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk. 2018 Nov;18(11):731-736. PubMed PMID: 30075973
• Trinh BB, Chapman BC, Gleisner A, Kwak JJ, Morgan R, McCarter MD, Gajdos C, Kounalakis N. SPECT/CT Adds Distinct Lymph Node Basins and Influences Radiologic Findings and Surgical Approach for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Head and Neck Melanoma. Ann Surg Oncol. 2018 Jun;25(6):1716-1722. PubMed PMID: 29330718
• Peterson JK, Morgan RL, Donald JS, Perry MA. Pseudolesions Impersonating Osseous Tumor Involvement on Both Contrast Enhanced CT and FDG PET/CT. Clin Nucl Med. 2018 Jan;43(1):68-70. PubMed PMID: 29166329
• Kwak JJ, Kesner AL, Gleisner A, Jensen A, Friedman C, McCarter MD, Koo PJ, Morgan RL, Kounalakis N. Utility of Quantitative SPECT/CT Lymphoscintigraphy in Guiding Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Head and Neck Melanoma. Ann Surg Oncol. 2019 Nov 26. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31773513
• Major A, Hammes A, Schmidt MQ, Morgan R, Abbott D, Kamdar M. Evaluating Novel PET-CT Functional Parameters TLG and TMTV in Differentiating Low-grade Versus Grade 3A Follicular Lymphoma. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk. 2019 Sep 28. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31761712
• Morgan RL, Camidge DR. Reviewing RECIST in the Era of Prolonged and Targeted Therapy. J Thorac Oncol. 2018 Feb;13(2):154-164. PubMed PMID: 29113950
• Morgan RL, Eguchi MM, Mueller AC, Daugherty SL, Amini A, Karam SD. Imaging at diagnosis impacts cancer-specific survival among patients with cancer of the oropharynx. Cancer. 2019 Aug 15;125(16):2794-2802. PubMed PMID: 31042320
• Morgan R, Chin BB, Lanning R. Feasibility of rapid integrated radiation therapy planning with follow-up FDG PET/CT to improve overall treatment assessment in head and neck cancer. Am J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2019;9(1):24-29. PubMed PMID: 30911435
• Gupta A, Stokes W, Eguchi M, Hararah M, Amini A, Mueller A, Morgan R, Bradley C, Raben D, McDermott J, Karam SD. Statin use associated with improved overall and cancer specific survival in patients with head and neck cancer. Oral Oncol. 2019 Mar;90:54-66. PubMed PMID: 30846177
• Restauri N, Morgan R. Raising the BAR: Challenges, Opportunities, and Hidden Gems in Radiology Education. Acad Radiol. 2019 Feb;26(2):290-294. PubMed PMID: 30254004
• Morgan RL, Karam SD, Bradley CJ. Ethnic Disparities in PET/CT Utilization at Diagnosis of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2020 Mar 5. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32134453
• Morgan RL, Eguchi MM, McDermott J, Mueller AC, Amini A, Goddard JA, Trivedi PS, Karam SD. Comparative effectiveness of posttreatment imaging modalities for Medicare patients with advanced head and neck cancer. Cancer. 2020 Oct 29. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33119176
• McDermott JD, Eguchi M, Morgan R, Amini A, Goddard JA, Borrayo EA, Karam SD. Elderly Black Non-Hispanic Patients With Head and Neck Squamous Cell Cancer Have the Worst Survival Outcomes. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2020 Sep 28;:1-11. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32987364
• Morgan RL, Karam SD, Bradley CJ. Ethnic Disparities in Imaging Utilization at Diagnosis of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2020 Dec 14;112(12):1204-1212. PubMed PMID: 32134453
• Kwak JJ, Kesner AL, Gleisner A, Jensen A, Friedman C, McCarter MD, Koo PJ, Morgan RL, Kounalakis N. Utility of Quantitative SPECT/CT Lymphoscintigraphy in Guiding Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Head and Neck Melanoma. Ann Surg Oncol. 2020 May;27(5):1432-1438. PubMed PMID: 31773513
• Major A, Hammes A, Schmidt MQ, Morgan R, Abbott D, Kamdar M. Evaluating Novel PET-CT Functional Parameters TLG and TMTV in Differentiating Low-grade Versus Grade 3A Follicular Lymphoma. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk. 2020 Jan;20(1):39-46. PubMed PMID: 31761712
• Piper M, Van Court B, Mueller A, Watanabe S, Bickett T, Bhatia S, Darragh LB, Mayeda M, Nguyen D, Gadwa J, Knitz M, Corbo S, Morgan R, Lee JJ, Dent A, Goodman K, Messersmith W, Schulick R, Del Chiaro M, Zhu Y, Kedl RM, Lenz L, Karam SD. Targeting Treg-Expressed STAT3 Enhances NK-Mediated Surveillance of Metastasis and Improves Therapeutic Response in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Dec 3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34862244
• Rao SS, Jensen AM, Kriss MS, Morgan RL, Ho PM, Ryu RK, Trivedi PS. Racial differences in use of endoscopy and Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt creation for treatment of acute variceal bleeding in the United States. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2021 Dec 17. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34929343
• Trivedi PS, Jensen AM, Brown MA, Morgan RL, Lindrooth RC, Ryu RK, Ho PM, Kriss MS. High Prevalence of Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Creation Without Prior Endoscopy During Acute Variceal Bleeding Hospitalization in the United States. Hepatol Commun. 2021 Oct;5(10):1784-1790. PubMed PMID: 34558832
• Amini A, Morgan R, Meyer E, Fakhoury K, Ladbury C, Bickett T, McDermott JD, Stokes W, Karam SD. Outcomes between intensity-modulated radiation therapy versus 3D-conformal in early stage glottic cancer. Head Neck. 2021 Nov;43(11):3393-3403. PubMed PMID: 34382714
• Maxfield CM, Montano-Campos JF, Chapman T, Desser TS, Ho CP, Hull NC, Kelly HR, Kennedy TA, Koontz NA, Knippa EE, McLoud TC, Milburn J, Mills MK, Morgan DE, Morgan R, Peterson RB, Salastekar N, Thorpe MP, Zarzour JG, Reed SD, Grimm LJ. Factors Influential in the Selection of Radiology Residents in the Post-Step 1 World: A Discrete Choice Experiment. J Am Coll Radiol. 2021 Nov;18(11):1572-1580. PubMed PMID: 34332914
• Stokes WA, Molina E, McDermott JD, Morgan RL, Bickett T, Fakhoury KR, Amini A, Karam SD. Survival impact of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor antagonists in head and neck cancer. Head Neck. 2021 Nov;43(11):3255-3275. PubMed PMID: 34289190
• Trivedi PS, Jensen AM, Kriss MS, Brown MA, Morgan RL, Lindrooth RC, Ho PM, Ryu RK. Ethnoracial Disparity in Hospital Survival following Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Creation for Acute Variceal Bleeding in the United States. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2021 Jul;32(7):941-949.e3. PubMed PMID: 33901695
• Silosky MS, Karki R, Morgan R, Anderson J, Chin BB. Physical characteristics of (68)Ga DOTATATE PET/CT affecting small lesion detectability. Am J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2021;11(1):27-39. PubMed PMID: 33688453
• Morgan RL, Eguchi MM, McDermott J, Mueller AC, Amini A, Goddard JA, Trivedi PS, Karam SD. Comparative effectiveness of posttreatment imaging modalities for Medicare patients with advanced head and neck cancer. Cancer. 2021 Feb 15;127(4):535-543. PubMed PMID: 33119176

Practice Locations

• University of Colorado Hospital
• UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital

Specialty Information

• Nuclear Medicine, Board Certification
• Radiology, Board Certification

• Radiology - Nuclear Medicine
• Radiology