
Denise Aberle MD
Cardiac CT & MRI, Thoracic Imaging
Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering | UCLA
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924 Westwood Blvd., Suite 420Los Angeles, CA 90024
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Summary
- I am a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Radiology.
Education & Training
University of California (San Francisco)Fellowship, Advanced Cardiac Imaging, 1986 - 1986
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical CenterFellowship, Thoracic Surgery - Independent, 1985 - 1985
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical CenterResidency, Radiology-Diagnostic, 1982 - 1985
Boston University Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 1980 - 1982
University of Kansas School of MedicineInternship, Internal Medicine, 1979 - 1980
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 1983 - 2028
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Radiology Diagnostic Radiology
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- 2020 List of Top Doctors Los Angeles Magazine, 2020
- Elected Member National Academy of Medicine, 2019
- Joseph W. Cullen Prevention/Early Detection Award | Lifetime Achievement in the Prevention of Thoracic Malignancies International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, 2019
Clinical Trials
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- The American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Roundtable strategic plan: Opportunities in advanced imaging across the lung cancer care continuum.Daniel C Sullivan, Michael McNitt-Gray, Denise R Aberle, Ricardo S Avila, Samuel G Armato 3rd
Cancer. 2026-08-15 - Characterization of the cancer-associated field of injury in the nasal epithelium in never-smokers.Minyi Lee, Megumi Yokomizo, Ramin Salehi-Rad, Ehab Billatos, Xiaohui Xiao
Lung Cancer. 2026-08-01 - 1 citationsSmokeBERT: A Bidirectional Encoder Representations From Transformers-Based Model for Quantitative Smoking History Extraction From Clinical Narratives to Improve Lung C...Yiming Xue, Yunzheng Zhu, Luoting Zhuang, YongKyung Oh, Ricky Taira
JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics. 2025-12-01
Journal Articles
- Evaluating Casama: Contextualized semantic maps for summarization of lung cancer studiesGarcia-Gathright JI, Matiasz NJ, Adam C, Sarma KV, Sauer L, Smedley NF, Spiegel ML, Strunk J, Garon EB, Taira RK, Aberle DR, Bui AAT, Comput Biol Medicine, 1/1/2018
- Reduced expiratory flow rate among heavy smokers increases lung cancer risk results from the National Lung Screening Trial-American College of Radiology Imaging Networ...Hopkins RJ, Duan FH, Chiles C, Greco EM, Gamble CD, Aberle D, Young RP, Ann Am Thorac Soc, 1/1/2017
- Lung cancer incidence and mortality in National Lung Screening Trial participants who underwent low-dose CT prevalence screening: a retrospective cohort analysis of a ...Patz EF Jr., Greco EM, Gatsonis C, Pinsky PF, Kramer BS, Aberle DR, The Lancet Oncology, 1/18/2016
Books/Book Chapters
Abstracts/Posters
- Using Semantic Features to Distinguish Benign Nodules from Lung Cancer in the setting of the Indeterminate Nodule in Ever Smokers.Singharuksa S, Kim GH, Oh A, Hsu W, Aberle DR, Society of Thoracic Radiology 2015 Annual Meeting, Carlsbad, CA, 1/15/2015
- Automated Lung Nodule Detection and Quantitative Feature Extraction for Data Mining and Decision Support.Brown M, Singharuksa S, Lo P, Dubinett S, Aberle DR, Society of Thoracic Radiology 2015 Annual Meeting, Carlsbad, CA, 1/15/2015
- Behavior Differences of Screen-Detected Lung Cancers in the CT Arm of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST).Schabath, MB, Massion, PP, Thompson, ZJ, Eschrich, SA, Balagurunathan, Y, Goldof, D, Aberle, DR, Gillies, RJ, Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 1/1/2015
Press Mentions
Aberle, DuBois, Gupta, Jaffee, Mardis Among New Members of the National Academy of MedicineOctober 25th, 2019
Two UCLA Doctors Named to National Academy of MedicineOctober 21st, 2019
Cancer Researcher Honored for Contributions to Preventing Lung CancerSeptember 3rd, 2019
Grant Support
- EFIRM Liquid Biopsy Research Laboratory: Early Lung Cancer AssessmentUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES2018–2028
Professional Memberships
- Member
- Member
- International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)Member
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