Department of Radiology and Imaging

A Message from the Radiologist-in-Chief
Helene Pavlov, MD, FACR

"Hello and welcome. As a specialized hospital, the Radiology and Imaging Department focuses research, training, and development on discovering new techniques that optimize early detection of musculoskeletal conditions and diseases, their progression and the response to treatment. The images we create and their interpretation represent years of experience. The imaging procedures performed routinely at HSS are rarely performed at other institutions. We are frequently requested by our referring physicians to repeat an examination and/or provide a secondary interpretation for a suboptimal imaging examination that had been performed elsewhere."
Learn more about the Department of Radiology and Imaging

Patient Information:

Medical Records

Copies of reports can be obtained through your referring physician's office. The physician can call Image Records Department at 212.606.1135. Reports can be faxed or mailed free of charge to their office. There is a charge for obtaining image copies, $50 per CD and $12 per sheet of X Ray. Please have name, address, date of birth, date of service, type of exam readily available. Patients requesting images and/or reports are required to complete a Request for Release of Information and may fax it to 212.774.2327. Patients may pick up reports and/or images personally with proper ID for verification at Image Records Department 525 East 71st Street NY NY 10021. We also offer free Fed Ex ground shipping. For additional information please call 212.606.1135.

Department of Radiology and Imaging Map 
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Radiation Safety for our Patients and Employees
This report discusses basic policies and procedures employed to assure safety and security of our patients undergoing imaging examination/procedures and for the employees providing these services.

MRIs of implants? Yes, we can.
Dr. Hollis G. Potter, Chief, Division of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, finds new way to bring images of implants into focus.

Thanking Our Radiologic Technologists
Thank you to all our HSS Radiologic Technologists for their dedication to Musculoskeletal Imaging.