Kevin Bradford Hoover MD, PhD

Dr. Hoover is an expert in musculoskeletal imaging and intervention. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with honors and completed an MD/Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine. He undertook his surgical internship at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt in New York City and completed his diagnostic radiology residency and musculoskeletal imaging and intervention fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2007.

After his training, Dr. Hoover worked as an attending radiologist and professor at the Medical College of Virginia and was the director of Musculoskeletal Imaging and Intervention from 2012-2020. Dr. Hoover was the medical director and a founder of the Neuroscience, Orthopaedic, and Wellness Center at Virginia Commonwealth University from 2014-2018, where he collaborated closely with physicians in orthopedics, neurosurgery, rheumatology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and neurology to improve the quality of patient care in Virginia.

Dr. Hoover has extensive experience with all imaging modalities of musculoskeletal imaging, as well as extensive experience in the use of fluoroscopy, CT, and the US for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures of the bones, joints, and spine. Other procedures include steroid injections, joint aspirations, and biopsies. In addition to the imaging of sports injuries of the large joints, he also enjoys the imaging of the distal extremities including the small joints of the wrist, hand, ankle, and foot.

Dr. Hoover has been invited to speak to local, regional, and national audiences at meetings including the Radiological Society of North America, American Roentgen Ray Society, American College of Radiology, Society of Skeletal Radiology, and Medical Group Management Association, and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. Dr. Hoover is an author of 18 peer-reviewed papers, 25 book chapters, and an editor of Musculoskeletal Imaging: Rotations in Radiology. He is a member of the Radiological Society of North America, Society of Skeletal Radiology, American Roentgen Ray Society, and also a member and councilor of the American College of Radiology and past Virginia Chapter American College of Radiology, president-elect.