David A Bloom, MD, FACR, FAAP
Adjunct Clinical Professor of Radiology
Pediatric Radiology
1540 E. Hospital Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-4252
[email protected]

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David A Bloom, MD, FACR, FAAP
Adjunct Clinical Professor
  • About
  • Qualifications
  • Research Overview
  • Recent Publications
  • About

    Over the past 30 years, Dr. Bloom has practiced pediatric radiology with a focus on body imaging, including gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and oncologic imaging. His clinical interests include body MRI and its application to pediatric solid tumors, imaging of inflammatory bowel disease, and congenital genitourinary anomalies. Dr. Bloom has helped lead the division’s pediatric urology/radiology, and pediatric gastroenterology/radiology multidisciplinary conferences and is pediatric radiology co-lead for the Michigan Solid Tumor Oncology Program (MSTOP) since his arrival in Ann Arbor.

    Dr. Bloom also has a strong interest in medical education and has served as the Medical School Clerkship Director for the Department of Radiology and Pediatric Radiology Division Lead for Radiology Resident Education at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital.

    Dr. Bloom currently serves as Vice Chair of the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) Physician Resource Committee.

    Qualifications
    • Fellowship
      Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, 1995
    • Residency
      Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, Diagnostic Radiology, 1994
    • Intership
      Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, 1990
    Research Overview

    - A review of unusual retroperitoneal tumors in children
    - Evaluation of perirectal fat in patients with Crohn's disease by MRI
    - Pyopneumothorax and lung abscess complicating mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia
    - In utero and neonatal hepatic calcifications associated with in utero exposure to Dengue fever
    - Pulmonary arteriovenous fistula presenting as a cerebral abscess: case report and review of the literature
    - Diaphragmatic muscle hypertrophy in Duchenne muscular dystrophy – CT findings

    Recent Publications See All Publications
    • Journal Article
      A Rare Presentation of Acute Suppurative Thyroiditis.
      Blumer AD, Bloom DA, Ehrmann JS. Pediatrics, 2024 Nov 5; DOI:10.1542/peds.2024-066068
      PMID: 39497544
    • Journal Article
      Primary Intraosseous Spindle Cell Rhabdomyosarcoma: A Case Report in an Unusual Location.
      Plotzke JM, Rabah R, Robinson DR, Edmonds A, Bloom DA, Mody R, Heider A. Pediatr Dev Pathol, 2024 27 (6): 597 - 602. DOI:10.1177/10935266241257547
      PMID: 38845135
    • Additional Scholarship
      NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) for Pediatric Aggressive Mature B-Cell Lymphomas 2.2024
      Barth M, Xavier AC, Acquazzino M, Armenian S, Blazin L, Bloom D, Bryson W, Davies K, Dillenbeck J, Ding H, DuVall A, Galardy PJ, Gibson A, Hanna R, Hayashi R, Lee-Miller C, Maloney KW, Marks L, Martin PL, Parker K, Reilly AF, Roshal M, Smith B, Song S, Tellinghuisen AF, Weinstein J, Schonfeld R, Sundar H. 2024 Sep 3;
    • Journal Article
      Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma of the pancreas with novel SARM1-NTRK1 gene fusion and associated pancreatitis, panniculitis, and polyarthritis syndrome.
      Bou-Maroun LM, Hoff L, Joshi A, Bloom DA, Heider A, Geiger JD, Wu Y-M, Robinson D, Mody R, Rao RJ. Pediatr Blood Cancer, 2024 Mar; 71 (3): e30819 DOI:10.1002/pbc.30819
      PMID: 38110803
    • Journal Article
      Laughter is perhaps the best pandemic medicine.
      Bloom DA. Pediatr Radiol, 2022 May; 52 (6): 1024 - 1025. DOI:10.1007/s00247-022-05304-y
      PMID: 35132490
    • Journal Article
      Ultrasound for Midgut Malrotation and Midgut Volvulus: AJR Expert Panel Narrative Review.
      Nguyen HN, Navarro OM, Bloom DA, Feinstein KA, Guillerman RP, Munden MM, Sammer MBK, Silva CT. AJR Am J Roentgenol, 2022 Jun; 218 (6): 931 - 939. DOI:10.2214/AJR.21.27242
      PMID: 35107311
    • Journal Article
      A single institution's experience with the management of peripheral bronchial atresia.
      Lopyan NM, Perrone EE, VanHulle R, Bloom DA, Mychaliska GB, Speck KE. Pediatr Surg Int, 2022 Jun; 38 (6): 853 - 860. DOI:10.1007/s00383-022-05089-z
      PMID: 35229175
    • Additional Scholarship
      Illuminating the Lighthouse of the Shoulder: Developmental Anatomy and Trauma of the Pediatric Coracoid Process
      Malkawi I, Bloom DA, Hryhorczuk A. 2022