Pediatric Metabolic Bone Disease

Dr. Jaramillo is a pediatric radiologist specialized in imaging musculoskeletal disorders in children. He began his career as a pediatric radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School. From 2004 to 2015 he was Radiologist-in-Chief and Van Alen Chair of Radiology at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He has been a Vice Chair of Radiology at Stanford University and the Interim Chair of Radiology at Columbia University. He is currently the Director of Pediatric Imaging at the Hospital for Special Surgery and a Professor of Radiology at the Weill Cornell College of Medicine. He has been the President and Board Chair of the Society for Pediatric Radiology.  His research has focused on the study of growth disorders using novel imaging technologies, mainly MRI-based, with both basic and transIational approaches. He has been the principal investigator of 3 major grants from the NIH. His current research focuses on studies of skeletal growth using diffusion tensor imaging of the physeal cartilage and newly formed metaphyseal bone, a technique he developed. He has published more than 170 peer reviewed publications and more than 100 reviews, chapters and case reports.