High school student glimpses radiology through PE research

July 1, 2008 Diagnostic Imaging. High school student glimpses radiology through PE research Young man from Hawai’i learns an appreciation of medicine while comparing relative merits of D-dimer and pulmonary CT angiography H. A. Abella -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The striking youthful looks of lead investigator Travis Ing seemed not to distract the audience from the main point of his paper presentation, which identified an expanded role for the D-dimer assay in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. What was impossible to overlook, though, was the fact the speaker was a high-school student, not a doctor. Ing attends the prestigious Punahou School of Honolulu, which has groomed Sen. Barack Obama, AOL cofounder Steve Case, archeologist Hiram Bingham III, and choreographer and "Dancing with the Stars" judge Carrie Ann Inaba. Punahou may now be nurturing a future radiologist. Last April 17, the 18-year-old wunderkind presented his paper at the 2008 American Roentgen Ray Society meeting in Washington, DC.

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