About RSNA

David H. Hussey, MD

Who's Who
2005 Board of Directors:

David H. Hussey, MD
President, San Antonio, TX

(From RSNA 2004 Daily Bulletin)

David H. Hussey, M.D., a radiation oncologist from San Antonio, is the 2005 RSNA president.

Dr. Hussey's goals for RSNA include increasing the involvement of radiation oncologists, measuring the Society's accomplishments according to its strategic plan, and helping members meet maintenance of certification (MOC) requirements.

"MOC is becoming increasingly important for our members, and I would like to emphasize it during my presidential year," he says. "RSNA will play a major part in the lifelong learning and periodic self-assessment components, and we have already begun to develop a rather sophisticated MOC program."

RSNA has content-coded all of its educational programs to fit with the American Board of Radiology's (ABR) MOC classification system and is planning to develop a series of self-assessment modules that will include self-administered tests to help radiologists and radiation oncologists assess how much they know or have learned from the programs. Another plan involves helping members keep track of their progress in the MOC program.

Dr. Hussey has been an RSNA member since 1971 and has served on a number of committees, including the Scientific Program Committee, the Refresher Course Committee and the Committee for Meeting-related Publications.

He is a past-president of the American Radium Society, the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, and the Gilbert H. Fletcher Society. Dr. Hussey previously headed the ABR Examination Committee for Radiation Oncology, and served on the radiation study section for the National Cancer Institute.

"Over the past five to 10 years, diagnostic radiologists have developed more sophisticated ways to accurately depict tumors, and radiation oncologists have developed more sophisticated ways to deliver treatment," he says. "As a result, radiation oncologists rely much more on diagnostic radiologists, and there is a greater need for diagnostic radiologists to understand what the radiation oncologists need to know. The two specialties are coming closer together, and RSNA is the logical place for the two to interact."

Dr. Hussey graduated from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. After completing his internship and residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, he was named a fellow in radiotherapy at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, and was in charge of the fast neutron radiotherapy program using the Texas A&M Variable Energy Cyclotron (TAMVEC).

Last updated: 2004