Veronica Arteaga, MD

Professor
Cardiothoracic Radiology

Veronica Arteaga, MD, is a Professor of Radiology and Imaging Sciences with a specialization in Cardiothoracic Radiology. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology, graduating magna cum laude from the University of Arizona, and went on to obtain her Medical Degree from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College.

Dr. Arteaga completed a Radiology Residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and subsequently completed a Thoracic Imaging Fellowship and a Diagnostic Cardiovascular Imaging Fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Arteaga’s clinical interests center on the diagnosis and evaluation of cardiothoracic diseases using advanced imaging modalities such as chest radiography, CT, and MRI. Her expertise includes interstitial lung disease, lung cancer, pulmonary nodules, manifestations of thoracic malignancies, thoracic infections, and cardiovascular disease.

Outside of work, Dr. Arteaga enjoys spending time with friends and family.

Degrees
  • MD: Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, 2001
  • BS: Biology (Magna Cum Laude), University of Arizona, 1997
Residency
  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Radiology, 2007
Fellowship
  • UCLA Medical Center, Diagnostic Cardiovascular Imaging, 2016
  • UCLA Medical Center, Thoracic Imaging, 2008
Board Certifications
  • American Board of Radiology

Select Publications

2020

Filice, R. W., A. Stein, C. C. Wu, V. A. Arteaga, S. Borstelmann, R. Gaddikeri, M. Galperin-Aizenberg, R. R. Gill, M. C. Godoy, S. B. Hobbs, et al., "Crowdsourcing pneumothorax annotations using machine learning annotations on the NIH chest X-ray dataset.", J Digit Imaging, vol. 33, issue 2, pp. 490-496, 2020 04. PMCID: PMC7165201 

2019

Shih, G., C. C. Wu, S. S. Halabi, M. D. Kohli, L. M. Prevedello, T. S. Cook, A. Sharma, J. K. Amorosa, V. Arteaga, M. Galperin-Aizenberg, et al., "Augmenting the National Institutes of Health Chest Radiograph Dataset with Expert Annotations of Possible Pneumonia.", Radiol Artif Intell, vol. 1, issue 1, pp. e180041, 2019 Jan. PMCID: PMC8017407 

2013

Dalabih, M. R., R. E. Sobonya, V. A. Arteaga, L. S. Snyder, and G. E. Carr, "A 48-year-old woman with headache and respiratory failure.", Chest, vol. 144, issue 4, pp. 1411-1416, 2013 Oct.

2003

Arteaga, V. A., A. Farber, W. H. Wagner, S. R. Lauterbach, D. V. Cossman, L. J Cohen, and P. M. Levin, "Septic embolization to the carotid bifurcation presenting as carotidynia.", Ann Vasc Surg, vol. 17, issue 2, pp. 152-5, 2003 Mar.