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ESR Names Honorary Members

Theresa C. McLoud, M.D	James H. Thrall, M.D.	Jurgen Hennig, M.D., Ph.D.
Ho-Young Song, M.D., Ph.D.	Helen M.L. Carty, M.B.B.Ch.	Antonio Chiesa, M.D.

2008 RSNA President Theresa C. McLoud, M.D., was awarded honorary membership in the European Society of Radiology (ESR) during the European Congress of Radiology last month. Dr. McLoud is the associate radiologist-in-chief and director of education for the Department of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School.

Honorary membership in ESR was also awarded to James H. Thrall, M.D., of Boston, Jurgen Hennig, M.D., Ph.D., of Freiburg, Germany, and Ho-Young Song, M.D., Ph.D., of Seoul, Korea. Dr. Thrall is radiologist-in-chief at Massachusetts General Hospital, a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical Center in Boston and chair of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Board of Chancellors. He received the RSNA gold medal in 2007. Dr. Hennig is a professor at Albert Ludwig Freiburg University in Germany and co-chair and scientific director of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at Freiburg University Hospital. Dr. Song is a professor and chief of vascular and interventional radiology at the University of Ulsan in Seoul.

Recipients of the ESR gold medal are Helen M.L. Carty, M.B.B.Ch., of Liverpool, U.K., and Antonio Chiesa, M.D., of Vicenza, Italy. Dr. Carty served as director of radiological services at the Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust and as a professor of pediatric radiology at Liverpool University. Dr. Chiesa served as chair and director of the Department of Radiology and as director of the Postgraduate School of Radiology at the University of Brescia.

Texas Radiological Society Awards Gold Medals

Paul H. Ellenbogen, M.D., and Stewart Bushong, Sc.D., received the gold medal of the Texas Radiological Society (TRS) during the TRS 96th annual scientific meeting held last month.

Paul H. Ellenbogen, M.D.

Stewart Bushong, Sc.D.

Dr. Ellenbogen, who served as 2002-03 TRS president, published a landmark article in the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), "Sensitivity of Gray Scale Ultrasound in Detecting Urinary Tract Obstruction," in 1978, recognized as a Top 100 AJR article in 2006. Currently on staff at Southwest Imaging and Interventional Specialists, Dallas, Dr. Ellenbogen maintains his affiliation with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas as a clinical professor of radiology.

A professor of radiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Dr. Bushong was instrumental in creating The Texas Board of Licensure for Professional Medical Physicists. He is a founding member of the American College of Medical Physics.

UI Radiologist Receives Neuroscience Award

Vincent Magnotta, Ph.D.

Vincent Magnotta, Ph.D., an associate professor of radiology, psychiatry and biomedical engineering at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, has received a three-year, $300,000 Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Award from the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. Dr. Magnotta will collaborate with John Wemmie, M.D., an associate professor of psychiatry and neurosurgery, to develop imaging techniques to measure and understand the influence of pH on normal brain function and disease.

Marshall Earns Stanford Lifetime Achievement Award

William Marshall, M.D., a professor of radiology for more than three decades at Stanford University, has received the university's Lifetime

William Marshall, M.D.

Dr. Marshall served as the neuroradiology section chief for 17 years. He graduated from medical school at the University of Rochester, N.Y., and completed an internship at the University Hospitals of Cleveland and his residency at Stanford. Dr. Marshall retired from Stanford in 1993.