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Austin Wheeler, MD

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Austin Wheeler, MD

Radiology

MS 220

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis, TN 38105-3678

BA – Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

MD – UTHSC College of Medicine, Memphis, TN

Internship (Preliminary Medicine) – University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN

Residency (Diagnostic Radiology) – UAB Heersink School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL

Fellowship (Neuroradiology Co-Chief) – Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Fellowship (Pediatric Neuroradiology) – Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

2025 – ASPNR Educational Travel Award, Emory University School of Medicine
2023 – UAB Radiology Physics Award, UAB Heersink School of Medicine
2018 – Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society, UTHSC College of Medicine
2018 – Dr. and Mrs. Lee A. Absher Memorial Scholarship, UTHSC College of Medicine
2018 – Harold H. Fry Family Scholarship, UTHSC College of Medicine
2018 – Herman Bensdorf Merit Scholarship Fund, UTHSC College of Medicine
2017 – Ephraim and Ruth Camp Merit Scholarship, UTHSC College of Medicine
2016 – Albright Armstrong Rice Scholarship, UTHSC College of Medicine
2015 – Tribal Scholarship Award, Citizen Potawatomi Nation (CPN) Department of Education
2014 – Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Honor Society, Vanderbilt University
2010 – Cornelius Vanderbilt Merit Scholarship, Vanderbilt University
2010 – Memphis Vanderbilt Alumni Association Scholarship, Vanderbilt University

Develop standardized reporting systems, including:
- Response assessment in neuro-oncologic imaging
- Surveillance evaluation in tumor predisposition syndromes
Establish cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) mapping as a diagnostic tool to:
- Assess reserve capacity in treatment-induced cerebral arteriopathy among pediatric brain tumor survivors
- Monitor non-oncologic pediatric-onset vasculopathies, including the effects of gene therapy and neurosurgical revascularization in sickle cell disease
- Investigate the relationship between neurovascular coupling and oxygen metabolism in the state of chronic cerebral hypoperfusion, utilizing CVR perfusion imaging and PET neuroimaging with hypoxia-specific radiotracers