Biography
William P. Dillon, MD, is Emeritus Professor and Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at UCSF. Dr. Dillon received his medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and completed his residency at the University of Utah, followed by a fellowship in Neuroradiology at the University of California, San Francisco in 1982. In 1992, he was appointed Chief of the the Neuroradiology section UCSF, a role he had for 20+ years, and currently serves as the Executive Vice Chair for the UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging.Dr. Dillon is past president of the American Society of Head and Neck Radiology (ASHNR) and the American Society of Neuroradiology. He was a Senior Editor for the American Journal of Neuroradiology from 1998 to 2011, and has been a co-investigator in 25 funded projects and 10 clinical trials. He has published over 350 peer reviewed articles, chapters and booksDr. Dillon received the Francis A. Sooy, MD teaching award for Clinical Excellence from the Department of Otolaryngology, UCSF in 1993, and the J. Elliott Royer award for contributions to clinical neurology in 2011 as well as Gold Medals from the ASNR, ASHNR , the ASSR and the recipient of the Outstanding Researcher Award from the American Society of Neuroradiology in 2014. His interests are varied and include spinal pain management, CSF leak diagnosis and management, and general imaging of neuroradiologic disorders including skull base and ENT imaging.