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Funding Radiology's Future
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AUR, APDR Announce Awards 
David C. Levin, M.D. | 
Laurie Fajardo, M.D. | 
Philip O. Alderson, M.D. | David C. Levin, M.D., and Laurie Fajardo, M.D., received the gold medal of the Association of University Radiologists (AUR) during the AUR annual meeting last month. From 1986 to 2002, Dr. Levin served as chair of the Department of Radiology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, where he continues to serve as a professor of radiology. Dr. Fajardo has been a professor and chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Iowa in Iowa City since 2002. Philip O. Alderson, M.D., received the Association of Program Directors in Radiology (APDR) Achievement Award during the APDR annual meeting, held in conjunction with the AUR meeting. Dr. Alderson recently became dean of the Saint Louis University School of Medicine after serving as chair of the Department of Radiology at Columbia University since 1988. Dr. Alderson is also president of the American Board of Radiology and chair of the RSNA Public Information Committee. Jost is ESR Honorary Member 
R. Gilbert Jost, M.D. (center), accepted ECR honorary membership from ECR 2008 President Maximilian F. Reiser, M.D. (left), and European Society of Radiology President Andy Adam, M.D. | 2007 RSNA President R. Gilbert Jost, M.D., was awarded honorary membership in the European Society of Radiology (ESR) during the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) last month. Recognized globally for using information technology to improve diagnostic radiology practice, Dr. Jost is the Elizabeth Mallinckrodt Professor of Radiology, chair of the Department of Radiology and director of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also radiologist-in-chief at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Also awarded honorary membership in ESR were Frederick S. Keller, M.D., of Portland, Ore., and Lizbeth M. Kenny, M.D., of Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Keller is director of the Dotter Interventional Institute of the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) as well as the Cook Professor of Interventional Therapy, medical director of the Department of Interventional Radiology, a professor of surgery and chair of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at OHSU. Dr. Kenny is director of cancer services for the Central Area Health Service in Queensland, Australia, and served as president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists from 2005 to 2007. She is a member of the RSNA International Advisory Committee. 
Frederick S. Keller, M.D. | 
Lizbeth M. Kenny, M.D. | 
Nicholas Gourtsoyiannis, M.D. | Nicholas Gourtsoyiannis, M.D., of Iraklion, Greece, received the ECR gold medal. A professor and chair in the Department of Radiology at the University of Crete, Dr. Gourtsoyiannis was the first president of the ESR. ECR bestowed its Lifetime Achievement Award on Albert L. Baert, M.D., Ph.D., of Leuven, Belgium. Dr. Baert is a professor emeritus with special assignment at Leuven University and served as editor-in-chief of European Radiology from 1995 to 2007. AIUM Bestows Honors Beryl R. Benacerraf, M.D., known for conducting the original research linking nuchal thickening to an increased risk for Down syndrome and developing the genetic sonogram, has received the Joseph H. Holmes Clinical Pioneer award of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM). 
Beryl R. Benacerraf, M.D. | 
Albert Goldstein, Ph.D. | 
Peter Burns, Ph.D. | Dr. Benacerraf received the award during the AIUM annual meeting last month in San Diego. She is a clinical professor of obstetrics, gynecology, reproductive biology and radiology at Harvard Medical School and medical director and president of Diagnostic Ultrasound Associates, both in Boston. She is also editor-in-chief of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. Albert Goldstein, Ph.D., an associate professor of radiology at Wayne State University in Detroit, received the 2008 Holmes Basic Science Pioneer Award. The William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award went to Peter Burns, Ph.D., professor and chair of medical physics and professor of radiology at the University of Toronto and senior scientist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. Karen Ophir, B.S., R.D.M.S., of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, received the 2008 Distinguished Sonographer Award.  Send news about yourself, a colleague or your department to rsnanews@rsna.org, 1-630-571-7837 fax, or RSNA News, 820 Jorie Blvd., Oak Brook, IL 60523. Please include your full name and telephone number. You may also include a non-returnable color photo, 3x5 or larger, or electronic photo in high-resolution (300 dpi or higher) TIFF or JPEG format (not embedded in a document). RSNA News maintains the right to accept information for print based on membership status, newsworthiness and available print space.
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IN MEMORIAM: Samuel J. Dwyer III, Ph.D., of Charlottesville, Va., known to many as the father of picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), died Feb. 5 at the age of 75. Most recently serving as a professor of radiology at the University of Virginia Health Sciences System, Dr. Dwyer was previously chief of the Division of Medical Imaging in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles and also served as director of diagnostic imaging and radiological sciences at the University of Kansas College of Health Sciences and Hospital. He received his doctorate in electrical engineering, specializing in systems and signal processing, from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Dwyer's research was funded by the National Cancer Institute, Public Health Service, NASA and the National Science Foundation. He was an associate editor of the Journal of Digital Imaging. He is remembered by the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine: "Dr. Dwyer identified, measured and quantified issues that no one else thought about. His early contributions to digital medical imaging are still a part of the curriculum for new students in the field." |
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