Dr. Brendan McKenna
About Dr. Brendan McKenna
Subspecialty
Neuroradiology
Education
University of Cambridge – Bachelor of Arts Pathology (BA)
University of Cambridge – Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB MChir)
University of Cambridge – Master of Arts (MA)
University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine – Neuroradiology Fellowship
Fellowship
Diagnostic Neuroradiology
Academic Appointment
Certification
Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists London (FRCR)
Licentiate if the General Medical Council (GMC) – MB BChir, Clinical Radiology
Rounds Groups
Professional Organizations
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA)
Alberta Society of Radiology (ASR)
European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR)
Research
Campbell N, McKenna B. Traumatic Brain Injury in the Fetus. American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology (ASPNR 6th Annual Meeting) San Diego Jan 2024 (Poster)
McKenna B, Malone C, Merwe A, Kathirvelu G, Mankad K. Granulomatous Herpetic Encephalitis: A Possible Role for Inflammasomes. J Child Neurol. 2022;8830738221074497. doi:10.1177/08830738221074497
Culleton S, McKenna B, Dixon L, Taranath A, Oztekin O, Prasad C, Siddiqui A, Mankad K - Imaging pitfalls in paediatric posterior fossa neoplastic and non-neoplastic lesions. Clin Radiol. 2021 Feb 26: S0009-9260(21)00006-4. doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2020.12.011. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33648757
Malone C, McKenna B, Bhattacharya D - Does Skull radiograph add anything in suspected abusive head trauma when CT head is planned or has been performed – ESNR - https://doi.org/10.26226/morressier.5f5a58d42c3338b5c13cd15e (Poster/Questionnaire)
McKenna B, Malone C, Bhattacharya D - The Pre-Implant Ear - Making WAVES with Structured Reporting – ESNR - https://doi.org/10.26226/morressier.5f5a58d42c3338b5c13cd152 (Poster)
McKenna B, Bhattacharya D - American Society of Paediatric Neuroradiology (ASPNR) Annual Conference Miami Jan 2020: - Acute Presentation of Inner Ear Malformations: Recurrent Bacterial Meningitis Due to Congenital Perilymphatic Fistula in an Infant: The Cochleocoele –(Poster)
Malone C, McKenna B, Ball P - European Society of Thoracic Imaging (ESTI): - The Great Masquerader – Acute Dissecting Thoracic Aneurysm complicated by Neck Swelling. (Poster)
Kamath S, McKenna B, McConville R - Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy - The importance of faecal tagging (ECR Vienna) - (Poster) https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/ecr2018/C-1491
McKenna B, McCarthy A, Paterson A. Aunt Minnie Europe – Board Review Case: 8-year- old boy with back pain and chest mass - https://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspxsec=olce&sub=cotx&pag=cpages&ce_id=9901&pno=1
Adams K, Burns P, Hunter A, Diamond A, O Reilly S, McKenna B, Flynn P, Rennie I, Smyth G, Kerr E, Fulton A, Gordon P, Patterson C, Watt M, Roberts G, Wiggam MI. Outcomes after thrombectomy in Belfast: a comparison of drip and ship versus mothership paradigms – UK Stroke Forum Abstracts, 2017. Int J Stroke. 2017 Nov;12 (5_suppl):7-59. doi: 10.1177/1747493017732216. PMID: 29153049
McKenna B, Flynn P, Kirkpatrick PJ, McVerry F, McCarron MO. Intracranial bleeding from collaterals following carotid artery occlusion. Pract Neurol. 2016 Apr;16(2):150-2. doi: 10.1136/practneurol-2015-001287. Epub 2016 Jan 6. PMID: 26740380. (Publication)
McKenna B, Bhakta S, Watts CW. Patterns of surgical infection in Brain tumours: - British Journal of Neurosurgery: Proceedings of the 2014 Autumn Meeting of the Society of British Neurological 594, DOI: 10.3109/02688697.2014.946317 (Abstract)
Roberts EW, Deonarine A, Jones JO, Denton AE, Feig C, Lyons SK, Espeli M, Kraman M, McKenna B, Wells RJ, Zhao Q, Caballero OL, Larder R, Coll AP, O’Rahilly S, Brindle KM, Teichmann SA, Tuveson DA, Fearon DT. Depletion of stromal cells expressing fibroblast activation protein-α from skeletal muscle and bone marrow results in cachexia and anemia. J Exp Med. 2013 Jun 3;210(6):1137-51. doi: 10.1084/jem.20122344. Epub 2013 May 27. PMID: 23712428; PMCID: PMC3674708