About RSNA 
Hedvig Hricak, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. h.c. |
Who's Who
2008 Board of Directors: Hedvig Hricak, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. h.c.
Chairman of the Board, New York, NY (From RSNA 2007 Daily Bulletin)
Currently serving as chair of the Department of Radiology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Dr. Hricak is also a professor of radiology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and an attending radiologist at Memorial Hospital in New York.
Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Dr. Hricak earned her medical degree in 1970 from the University of Zagreb. She completed her internship and began her residency at Hospital M. Stojanovic, also in Zagreb, and came to the U.S. in 1972. She completed a radiology residency at St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital in Pontiac, Mich., and a fellowship in CT and ultrasound at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where she subsequently became a senior staff member. Dr. Hricak received her doctorate from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1992.
Dr. Hricak began her academic appointments in 1979 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. At the University of California, San Francisco, from 1982 to 2000, she served as a professor of radiology, urology, radiation oncology, obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, as well as chief of the uroradiology and abdominal imaging sections.
From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Hricak was a consultant to the editor of Radiology. She has authored or co-authored 20 books and more than 135 book chapters and has published more than 400 original research reports, reviews and editorials.
Dr. Hricak is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and serves on the National Cancer Institute's Board of Scientific Advisors. She is director of a National Institutes of Health (NIH)–funded research study on the use of MR imaging and MR spectroscopy for risk assessment in patients with prostate cancer. She also directs an NIH-funded international training program in molecular imaging for oncology.
Throughout her career, Dr. Hricak has received many awards, including the Marie Curie Award from the American Association for Women Radiologists, the Béclère medal of the International Society of Radiology and the gold medals of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and the Association of University Radiologists. She is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists and an honorary member of the British Institute of Radiology, Croatian Academy of Science and Art, German Radiological Society, Austrian Roentgen Society and the French Society of Radiology. She also holds an honorary doctorate in medicine from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
An RSNA member since 1978 and a member of the RSNA Board of Directors since 2002, Dr. Hricak has served as liaison for publications and communications. Prior to her appointment to the Board, she chaired the RSNA Public Information Advisory Board (now the Public Information Advisors Network) and also served other RSNA public information committees. "RSNA's leadership and volunteers are extremely talented and energetic," Dr. Hricak said. "I look forward to working with this wonderful team to maintain the preeminence of the organization and increase its value to its members, the medical community and, ultimately, to patients. We will continue to advance radiology's role in improving patient care."
Last updated: 2007
