Dr. Burke completed his undergraduate degree at the University of South Carolina at Columbia, where he was also on the collegiate swimming team, serving as team captain his senior season and being named the school’s male scholar-athlete of the year. He remained at the University of South Carolina for medical school, then completed his diagnostic radiology residency at George Washington University in Washington DC, during which he was also active in local radiology advocacy efforts, including meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. His years as an athlete led him to pursue a musculoskeletal radiology fellowship, which he completed at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Dr. Burke is versed in all aspects of musculoskeletal imaging, including bone and soft tissue injuries, arthritis and other rheumatologic diseases, orthopedic oncology, and peripheral neuropathies, with emphasis on the MRI appearance of these processes. His particular interests include a qualitative and quantitative assessment of shoulder instability, image optimization for analysis of wrist ligament and finger flexor tendon and pulley injuries, painful anatomic variants, and the correlation between imaging findings and patients’ symptoms. He performs various procedures, including arthrograms, joint and bursal injections, calcific tendinosis lavage, perineural injections, and tendon fenestration, and authored a scholarly article detailing the use of dual-energy CT for bone lesion biopsy.

Dr. Burke is a native of West Des Moines, Iowa. Outside of work, he enjoys weightlifting, watching collegiate athletics, hiking in southern Arizona, and traveling to Germany.