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Pietryga Jason 




Jason Pietryga, M.D.


Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Radiology
jpietryga@uabmc.edu
205-934-3108 | Location: JT N355A


Jason A. Pietryga, M.D., completed his undergraduate education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, followed by medical school at Washington University in Saint Louis. After completing his radiology residency training at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, he completed an abdominal imaging fellowship at the Duke University Medical Center.

Following a year working as a general radiologist in the Toledo, OH area, Dr. Pietryga joined the faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham as an Assistant Professor in the abdominal imaging section. After two and half years at UAB, Dr. Pietryga returned to Rhode Island and joined Rhode Island Medical Imaging (RIMI) and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University as an Assistant Professor in the body imaging section. In January of 2019, Dr. Pietryga returned to UAB as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the emergency radiology section.

Clinically, Dr. Pietryga practices a wide spectrum of imaging ranging from general emergency imaging to specialized abdominal/pelvic imaging and intervention. His research interests include bariatric imaging, liver MRI, prostate MRI and image-guided intervention. At the national level, Dr. Pietryga is actively involved in several societies and is currently a member of the RSNA Scientific Program Committee (SPC) Gastrointestinal Radiology Subcommittee, AMC- Scientific Program & Educational Exhibits Committee of the Society of Abdominal Radiology (SAR) and the ACR Appropriateness Criteria (AC) Expert Panel on Gastrointestinal Imaging 2. He also participates as a manuscript reviewer for Radiology, Abdominal Radiology, European Radiology and Clinical Imaging and has twice received the Editor’s Recognition Award for Radiology (2017 & 2018).