Dr. Scott Werden completed both his undergraduate and graduate work at University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Werden graduated from medical school at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he was selected to join Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society. After finishing his medical internship at Duke University Medical Center and internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital, he attended the nationally renowned diagnostic radiology program at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology in St. Louis. Dr. Werden then performed a fellowship in cross-sectional imaging at the esteemed Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Dr. Werden is double Board-Certified in Internal Medicine and Diagnostic Radiology.
Dr. Werden remains involved in continuing medical education, and is consistently engaged in multiple academic arenas. He recently concluded a two year term as a Clinical Professor in radiology at University of California San Francisco, and continues collaborative research with the Physical Therapy department at this prestigious university.
A practicing Radiologist in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1998, Dr. Werden's primary interests and expertise are in body, musculoskeletal, and neurological MRI, spinal interventional procedures, and pain management.
As the medical director of Raytel Medical Imaging in San Francisco, Dr. Werden first noticed an unusual combination of findings on MRI scans of patients with neck, shoulder, and arm pain. Reviews of the medical literature and discussions with local physicians caring for these patients convinced Dr. Werden that the population of patients with thoracic outlet syndrome was much larger than previously thought, and that MRI scanning could demonstrate abnormalities in these patients that had not been previously described in the medical literature. Dr. Werden then spent several years developing and refining a new MRI technique for the evaluation of patients with thoracic outlet syndrome. He has personally supervised and interpreted over 400 of these studies to date.
Dr. Werden also initiated a research program on patients with thoracic outlet syndrome that remains ongoing, and Dr. Werden's database on MRI findings in these patients is one of the largest in the world. As this research continues to support Dr. Werden's initial hypothesis, he consults on a regular basis with local physicians who diagnose and treat patients with thoracic outlet syndrome, observes surgery on these patients, and serves as a retained expert on thoracic outlet syndrome in numerous medicolegal cases. Dr. Werden has been invited to speak on thoracic outlet syndrome at national meetings and at Grand Rounds presentations of local hospitals and prestigious universities. He is in the process of publishing several papers on thoracic outlet syndrome in national peer-reviewed journals.
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Board Examinations: American Board of Internal Medicine Certification Internal Medicine In-Service Examination, 1992: NBME Examinations, Parts I to 111,1988 to 1990: |
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Societies and Memberships: Member, American Board of Radiology Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine Member, Radiological Society of North America Member, International Spinal Injection Society Member, Alpha Omega Alpha |