Mindy Northrup is a sonographer with over 20 years of experience working in hospitals in Missouri and California. She has extensive experience in abdominal, obstetrics and gynecology, vascular, and small parts ultrasound. Her areas of specialty include liver, renal, breast, and thyroid imaging and biopsies. She also has experience in pediatric, musculoskeletal, and intraoperative ultrasound. Mindy has published several papers in medical journals and contributed to an ultrasound diagnosis book. In her free time she enjoys outdoor activities like cycling, swimming, and hiking.
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MINDY NORTHRUP RT
1. MINDY NORTHRUP RDMS (abd,ob/gyn,n e uro, br e a s t), RVT
2800 Jonquil Place
Columbia, MO 65202
573-529-6825
mindynorthrup@yahoo.com
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
11/97- PRESENT staff sonographer, University Hospital & Clinics Columbia
Missouri
12/96- 11/97 staff sonographer, Trinity Lutheran Medical Center Kansas city
Missouri
9/95- 11/96 staff sonographer, University of California San Diego Medical
Center
EDUCATION:
2009 MU school of engineering graduate course “Nuclear methods
of bioenviron m e nt al studies” received A
9/94- 8/95 Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program at University of Kansas
Medical Center
7/92- 7/94 Associates degree in applied science in Radiology at Penn Valley
community College
SPECIAL SKILLS:
*physics of ultrasound instructor; emphasis on fluid dynamics and
love of small particle
physics
*abdominal sonography; liver, biliary tree, renal, pancreas, spleen
-transplants; liver, renal, pancreas
-trauma
-liver elastography
*obstetrics and gynecology; high risk ob, transvaginal
-hysterosonography; placement of speculum and catheter
-guidance for tandem and ovoid placement for cervical CA
*vascular studies; hepatic (tipps, porta- caval) SMA, renal duplex, carotid,
lower extremity venous (including standing reflux), upper extremity
venous, transcranial doppler
-access grafts; av fistulas, ptfe loop grafts, pre-op mapping
-bypass grafts; fem- pop, aorta- fem
-ABI's, TcPO2
-intraoperative CEA progress
-imaging of vein oblation progress
*pediatrics; pyloric stenosis, hips, spine, neurosonography, intussusception
*small parts; breast, scrotal, thyroid
*musculoskeletal ultrasound; shoulder, hip, knee, etc.
*extensive biopsy experience; liver, renal, breast, neuro intra- op, thyroid
EQUIPMENT:
Phillips Epiq 5G, Phillips iu22/ Acuson's (Siemens) Sequia and 128XP/ ATL
2. (Phillips) 4,8,9, and HDI 3000 and 5000/ Siemen's Quantum and Elegra/ GE's
Logiq 7/ HP's 1000/ Sonosite/Zonare
CONTINUING EDUCATION:
C.P.R. certification is current
MU school of engineering graduate course
“Nuclear methods of bioenvironmental studies” received A
PUBLICATIONS:
June 2002
Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) "Congenital Absence of the Portal
Vein" 1st
author
October 2003
Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) “Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome,
Finnish Type – Sonographic Appearance and Pathologic Correlation” 1st
author
November 2004
Journal of Urology "Testicular Microlithiasis and its Relation to Testicular
Cancer on Ultrasound Findings of Symptomatic Men" 4th author
January 2009
Journal of Experimental Physiology “Spontaneous baroreflex measures are
unable to detect age-related impairments in cardiac-baroreflex function
during dynamic exercise in humans” 5TH
author
December 2012
Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography “Villous Adenoma with High Grade
Dysplasia of Ampulla of Vater: Sonographic Appearance and CT Correlation”
1st
author
January 2014
Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography “Diffuse Renal Cortical Echogenic
Foci in a Patient With AIDS: A Case of Pneumocystis Nephritis” 2nd
author
September 2014
Ultrasound Quarterly “Atraumatic Splenic Rupture” 3rd
author
May 2015
Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography “Small Bowel Obstruction Due to
MALT Lymphoma: Sonographic Appearance and CT Correlation” 2nd
author
July 2015
Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography “Multiple Targetoid Lesions in the
Spleen: Sonographic Findings of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Their
Relation to Effective Staging” 3rd
author
BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
Tuma J,Trinkler FB, Sonographische Differenzialdiagnose. 2009.
Contributing author page 57.
HOBBIES
Cycling, swimming, camping, hiking and snorkeling