Lakshmi Kode Sammarco, M.D.

Dr. Lakshmi Kode Sammarco is a Board Certified Neuroradiologist and Diagnostic Radiologist. Dr. Sammarco graduated from The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1988, and completed her residency in Diagnostic Radiology in 1993 from Case Western Reserve University-MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio. She also completed a two-year accredited fellowship in Diagnostic Neuroradiology, at the UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California in 1995. She is board certified in Radiology and has her Certificate of Added Qualifications in Neuroradiology. Although she continues to be a Senior Member of the American Society of Neuroradiology, she is well-versed in all aspects of MRI imaging, CT, CTA including being cardiac CTA certified, NM including cardiac, US, PET, general diagnostic radiology, and some interventional radiology.

Recently, Dr. Sammarco has been the Director of Neuroradiology and Director of MRI Services for a group in Dayton, Ohio with responsibility for 9 MRI scanners in 3 hospitals and 5 imaging centers. She has extensive consulting experience in the planning and development of outpatient imaging centers from site-planning and equipment selection to creating and implementing protocols and patient-specific techniques. Dr. Sammarco has also played a crucial role in marketing, referring physician relations and quality assurance/peer review programs as well as directly supervising ACR accreditation of all the equipment at all the sites where she has participated. Also during her tenure with the group, Dr. Sammarco was a senior partner and involved in all aspects of practice management.

Past experience includes being faculty and staff neuroradiologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the University of Maryland Medical System & Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Maryland.