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Berman Named SCCT President Daniel S. Berman, M.D., director of cardiac imaging at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and a professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, was recently elected president of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT). The society also elected Jack A. Ziffer, M.D., Ph.D., as president-elect. Dr. Ziffer is the chief of radiology at Baptist Hospital in Miami and director of cardiac imaging at the Baptist Cardiac and Vascular Institute.
Philip O. Alderson, M.D. | Alderson Appointed to NIBIB Advisory Council Philip O. Alderson, M.D., dean of the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, has been appointed to the advisory council of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The council provides recommendations on research priorities and opportunities in biomedical imaging and bioengineering and research training. Dr. Alderson is a past-president of the Academy for Radiology Research.
ASTRO Names Gold Medalists, Honorary Member
Christopher Rose, M.D. | 
Joel Tepper, M.D. | The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) has awarded Christopher Rose, M.D., and Joel Tepper, M.D., with its gold medal. Dr. Rose is the technical and associate director of Valley Radiotherapy Associates Medical Group in Glendale, Calif., medical director of the Center for Radiation Therapy of Beverly Hills and chief technology officer of Vantage Oncology. Dr. Tepper is the Hector MacLean Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research and a professor of radiation oncology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, where he was chair for almost 20 years. Also during the 2008 ASTRO annual meeting in Boston, Audrey Evans, M.D., was named an honorary member. Dr. Evans was one of the co-founders of the original Ronald McDonald House, which opened in Philadelphia in 1974. From 1969 to 1989, Dr. Evans served as the chair of the Division of Oncology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. 
William P. Dillon, M.D.
| ASHNR Awards Gold Medal to Dillon The American Society of Head and Neck Radiology (ASHNR) presented its 2008 gold medal to William P. Dillon, M.D., during the society's 42nd annual meeting in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Dillon has been chief of the neuroradiology section at the University of California, San Francisco, since 1992 and also serves as vice-chair for research in the Department of Radiology. He has served as senior editor of the American Journal of Neuroradiology since 1996.
William R. Brody, M.D.,
Ph.D.
| Brody Named President of Salk Institute William R. Brody, M.D., Ph.D., retiring president of The John Hopkins University, has been named president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. As president of the Salk Institute, Dr. Brody will oversee a staff of 870 scientific personnel, including several Nobel laureates and members of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Brody delivered the RSNA 2005 Annual Oration in Diagnostic Radiology, "Radiology: Back to the Future." Award Named for Welch 
Michael J. Welch, Ph.D.
| SNM has created an annual award named for Michael J. Welch, Ph.D., professor of radiology, developmental biology and chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis. The Michael J. Welch Award, created by the Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Council (RPSC) of the society, will be given annually for outstanding work in the field. Dr. Welch delivered the RSNA 2008 New Horizons Lecture, "Nanotechnology in the Future of Imaging: Prospects and Pitfalls."
Pisano Elected to Institute of Medicine
Etta Pisano, M.D.
| Etta Pisano, M.D., vice-dean for academic affairs in the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Pisano, who joins 64 other new members announced by the institute in October, is also the Kenan Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, director of the UNC Biomedical Research Imaging Center and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. 
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In Memoriam: 
Joseph Davidson
Calhoun, M.D.
| Joseph Davidson Calhoun, M.D. Joseph Davidson Calhoun, M.D., died Oct. 12 at the age of 86. Among the highlights of Dr. Calhoun's distinguished radiology career were becoming the first resident in radiology at the University of Arkansas Medical School (UAMS) in 1950 and introducing mammography to Arkansas in 1970. After graduating from Tulane University in 1945, Dr. Calhoun was commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Medical Corps and was eventually assigned to active duty at the Arkansas Veterans Hospital. There he combined work with his radiology residency. Dr. Calhoun served as the director of radiology and chief of the medical staff at St. Vincent's Infirmary and as director of the Department of Radiology, chief of the medical staff and as a member of the board of directors at Arkansas Children's Hospital. He was a clinical professor of radiology at UAMS from 1950 until his retirement. An RSNA member since 1951, Dr. Calhoun became president of the American College of Radiology (ACR) in 1968 and was awarded the ACR gold medal in 1988. He served as the president of the American Roentgen Ray Society in 1980 and received the ARRS gold medal in 1995. |
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