Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • M.D., University of Vermont 2003
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Assistant Professor of Radiology, Radiology, Cardiothoracic Imaging, Radiology 2015 - 2017
  • Assistant Professor of Radiology, Radiology, Cardiothoracic Imaging, Radiology 2011 - 2015
  • Medical Instructor in the Department of Radiology, Radiology, Cardiothoracic Imaging, Radiology 2009 - 2011
  • Clinical Associate in the Department of Radiology, Radiology, Cardiothoracic Imaging, Radiology 2008 - 2009
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Obesity, Inflammation, and Lung Injury after Lung Transplantation awarded by Columbia University 2013 - 2017
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Tailor, TD, Choudhury, KR, Tong, BC, Christensen, JD, Sosa, JA, and Rubin, GD. "Geographic Access to CT for Lung Cancer Screening: A Census Tract-Level Analysis of Cigarette Smoking in the United States and Driving Distance to a CT Facility." Journal of the American College of Radiology : Jacr 16, no. 1 (January 2019): 15-23.  Full Text
    • Yang, C-FJ, McSherry, F, Mayne, NR, Wang, X, Berry, MF, Tong, B, Harpole, DH, D'Amico, TA, Christensen, JD, Ready, NE, and Klapper, JA. "Surgical Outcomes After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Ipilimumab for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer." The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 105, no. 3 (March 2018): 924-929.  Full Text
    • Yi, JS, Ready, N, Healy, P, Dumbauld, C, Osborne, R, Berry, M, Shoemaker, D, Clarke, J, Crawford, J, Tong, B, Harpole, D, D'Amico, TA, McSherry, F, Dunphy, F, McCall, SJ, Christensen, JD, Wang, X, and Weinhold, KJ. "Immune Activation in Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Receiving Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Plus Ipilimumab." Clinical Cancer Research : an Official Journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 23, no. 24 (December 2017): 7474-7482.  Full Text
    • Tailor, TD, Mammarappallil, JG, and Christensen, JD. "Altered Nulling of Myocardium and Blood Pool." Journal of thoracic imaging 32, no. 1 (January 2017): W1-W2. (Review)  Full Text
    • Ebner, L, Roos, JE, Christensen, JD, Dobrocky, T, Leidolt, L, Brela, B, Obmann, VC, Joy, S, Huber, A, and Christe, A. "Maximum-Intensity-Projection and Computer-Aided-Detection Algorithms as Stand-Alone Reader Devices in Lung Cancer Screening Using Different Dose Levels and Reconstruction Kernels." Ajr. American Journal of Roentgenology 207, no. 2 (August 2016): 282-288.  Full Text
    • Nguyen, ET, Ackman, JB, Rajiah, P, Little, B, Wu, C, Bueno, JM, Gilman, MD, Christensen, JD, Madan, R, Laroia, AT, Lee, C, Kanne, JP, and Collins, J. "What's New in 10 Years? A Revised Cardiothoracic Curriculum for Diagnostic Radiology Residency with Goals and Objectives Related to General Competencies." Academic Radiology 23, no. 7 (July 2016): 911-918.  Full Text
    • Kelsey, CR, Christensen, JD, Chino, JP, Adamson, J, Ready, NE, and Perez, BA. "Adaptive planning using positron emission tomography for locally advanced lung cancer: A feasibility study." Practical Radiation Oncology 6, no. 2 (March 2016): 96-104.  Full Text
    • Pepek, JM, Christensen, JD, and Kelsey, CR. "In Reply to Giron et al." Practical radiation oncology 5, no. 5 (September 2015): e551-. (Letter)  Full Text
    • Christensen, JD, and Chiles, C. "Low-dose computed tomographic screening for lung cancer." Clinics in chest medicine 36, no. 2 (June 2015): 147-vii. (Review)  Full Text
    • "Low-Dose Computed Tomographic Screening for Lung Cancer." Clinics in Chest Medicine 36, no. 2 (January 1, 2015): 147-160. (Review)  Full Text
    • Christensen, JD, Seaman, DM, and Washington, L. "Imaging of complications of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery." Radiologic clinics of North America 52, no. 5 (September 2014): 929-959. (Review)  Full Text
    • Stevenson, M, Christensen, J, Shoemaker, D, Foster, T, Barry, WT, Tong, BC, Wahidi, M, Shofer, S, Datto, M, Ginsburg, G, Crawford, J, D'Amico, T, and Ready, N. "Tumor acquisition for biomarker research in lung cancer." Cancer investigation 32, no. 6 (July 2014): 291-298.  Full Text
    • Christensen, JD, Seaman, DM, Lungren, MP, Hurwitz, LM, and Boll, DT. "Assessment of vascular contrast and wall motion of the aortic root and ascending aorta on MDCT angiography: dual-source high-pitch vs non-gated single-source acquisition schemes." European Radiology 24, no. 5 (May 2014): 990-997.  Full Text
    • "Assessment of vascular contrast and wall motion of the aortic root and ascending aorta on MDCT angiography: Dual-source high-pitch vs non-gated single-source acquisition schemes." European Radiology 24, no. 5 (January 1, 2014): 990-997.  Full Text
    • Christensen, JD, and Tong, BC. "Computed tomography screening for lung cancer: where are we now?." N C Med J 74, no. 5 (September 2013): 406-410.  Link to Item
    • Prescott-Focht, JA, Martinez-Jimenez, S, Hurwitz, LM, Hoang, JK, Christensen, JD, Ghoshhajra, BB, and Abbara, S. "Ascending thoracic aorta: postoperative imaging evaluation." Radiographics : a Review Publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 33, no. 1 (January 2013): 73-85. (Review)  Full Text
    • Christensen, JD, and Patz, EF. "Future trends in lung cancer diagnosis." Radiol Clin North Am 50, no. 5 (September 2012): 1001-1008. (Review)  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Lungren, MP, Samei, E, Barnhart, H, McAdams, HP, Leder, RA, Christensen, JD, Wylie, JD, Tan, JW, Li, X, and Hurwitz, LM. "Gray-scale inversion radiographic display for the detection of pulmonary nodules on chest radiographs." Clin Imaging 36, no. 5 (September 2012): 515-521.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Lungren, MP, Christensen, JD, Coleman, RE, and Gupta, RT. "PET appearance of tuberculous empyema necessitans." Clin Nucl Med 36, no. 10 (October 2011): 939-941.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Christensen, JD, Meyer, LT, Hurwitz, LM, and Boll, DT. "Effects of iopamidol-370 versus iodixanol-320 on coronary contrast, branch depiction, and heart rate variability in dual-source coronary MDCT angiography." AJR Am J Roentgenol 197, no. 3 (September 2011): W445-W451.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • James, OG, Christensen, JD, Wong, TZ, Borges-Neto, S, and Koweek, LM. "Utility of FDG PET/CT in inflammatory cardiovascular disease." Radiographics : a Review Publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 31, no. 5 (September 2011): 1271-1286. (Review)  Full Text
    • Christensen, JD, Colby, TV, and Patz, EF. "Correlation of [18F]-2-fluoro-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography standard uptake values with the cellular composition of stage I nonsmall cell lung cancer." Cancer 116, no. 17 (September 1, 2010): 4095-4102.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Zagar, TM, Blackwell, S, Crawford, J, D'Amico, T, Christensen, JD, Sporn, TA, and Kelsey, CR. "Preoperative radiation therapy and chemotherapy for pulmonary blastoma: a case report." Journal of Thoracic Oncology : Official Publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 5, no. 2 (February 2010): 282-283.  Full Text
    • Christensen, JD, and Heyneman, LE. "Case of the season: aortoesophageal fistula complicating thoracic aortic aneurysm stent graft repair." Semin Roentgenol 44, no. 1 (January 2009): 4-7.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Castaneda, B, Tamez-Pena, JG, Zhang, M, Hoyt, K, Bylund, K, Christensen, J, Saad, W, Strang, J, Rubens, DJ, and Parker, KJ. "Measurement of thermally ablated lesions in sonoelastographic images using level set methods." Medical Imaging 2008: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing (March 6, 2008).  Full Text
    • Christensen, JD, and Monu, JUV. "Multimodality imaging in the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis and popliteal pseudoaneurysm complicating a sessile osteochondroma." Pediatric Radiology 38, no. 8 (2008): 887-891.  Full Text
    • Zhang, M, Castaneda, B, Christensen, J, Saad, W, Bylund, K, Hoyt, K, Strang, JG, Rubens, DJ, and Parker, KJ. "Real-time sonoelastography of hepatic thermal lesions in a swine model." Medical Physics 35, no. 9 (2008): 4132-4141.  Full Text
    • Castaneda, B, Zhang, M, Hoyt, K, Bylund, K, Christensen, J, Saad, W, Strang, J, Rubens, DJ, and Parker, KJ. "P1C-4 Real-Time Semi-Automatic Segmentation of Hepatic Radiofrequency Ablated Lesions in an In Vivo Porcine Model Using Sonoelastography." 2007 Ieee Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings (October 2007).  Full Text
    • Christensen, JD, and Dogra, VS. "The undescended testis." Seminars in Ultrasound, Ct, and Mr 28, no. 4 (August 2007): 307-316. (Review)  Full Text
    • Christensen, JD, and Dogra, VS. "New Advances in Genitourinary Ultrasound." Ultrasound Clinics 2, no. 1 (January 2007): 105-114.  Full Text
    • Roscoe, AK, Christensen, JD, and III, CL. "Isoflurane, but not halothane, induces protection of human myocardium via adenosine A₁ receptors and adenosine triphosphate-sensitive potassium channels." Anesthesiology 92, no. 6 (2000): 1692-1701.
    • Rossi, MA, Chan, CK, Christensen, JD, DeGuzman, EJ, and Durieux, ME. "Interactions between propofol and lipid mediator receptors: Inhibition of lysophosphatidate signaling." Anesthesia and Analgesia 83, no. 5 (1996): 1090-1096.  Full Text

  • Book Sections

    • "Chest radiology: Case 24." In Duke Radiology Case Review: Imaging, Differential Diagnosis, and Discussion: 2nd Edition, 48-49. January 19, 2012.
    • Heyneman, LE, Washington, L, Christensen, JD, Hoang, JK, Knutson, TM, and Hoang, PB. "Chest radiology." In Duke Radiology Case Review: Imaging, Differential Diagnosis, and Discussion: 2nd Edition, 1-. January 19, 2012.

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