Alexander Cates Kagen MD Site Chair

Summary

• Dr. Alexander Kagen, MD is the Site Chair of Radiology at Mount Sinai Roosevelt and Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospitals. This leadership appointment is in addition to Dr. Kagen’s role as Section Chief of Body Imaging and Director of Body MRI at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Roosevelt, and Mount Sinai St. Luke’s.
  
  Recently named to the Super Doctors list (New York Rising Stars 2014), Dr. Kagen has lectured both nationally and internationally on imaging of liver disease, prostate, and gastrointestinal and pancreaticobiliary MRI. He has multiple peer-reviewed publications and has a research interest in MR angiography for perforator flap reconstruction mapping and vascularized lymph node transfer assessment.
  
  A regional authority in the field of Body MRI, Dr. Kagen serves on local, national and international committees. He serves as Chairman of the Radiology-Pathology working group of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Liver Imaging and Reporting Database System (LI-RADS), and is a member of the ACR Magnetic Resonance Prostate Imaging and Reporting Database System (MR-PI-RADS) Committee.
  
  Dr. Kagen received his medical degree from the College of Medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center where he also completed his residency, after a medicine internship at Lenox Hill Hospital. He completed a clinical fellowship in Body MRI at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.