Becker to Receive SIR Gold Medal
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) has announced that 2008 RSNA President-elect Gary J. Becker, M.D., will receive the society’s gold medal at the SIR annual meeting March 15–20 in Washington.
Gary J. Becker, M.D.
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Mark H. Wholey, M.D.
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Dr. Becker is a professor of vascular and interventional radiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and also executive director of the American Board of Radiology. The SIR award for outstanding paper presentation by a young investigator at the annual meeting is named for him.
Also receiving the gold medal will be Gary S. Dorfman, M.D., and Mark H. Wholey, M.D. Dr. Dorfman is vice-chair for research at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He is also a professor emeritus of diagnostic radiology at the Brown University School of Medicine and served as a special assistant to the associate director of the Cancer Imaging Program (CIP) of the National Cancer Institute and acting branch chief for image-guided interventions within the CIP.
Dr. Wholey is a clinical professor of radiology and chair of the Pittsburgh Vascular Institute in the Department of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Shadyside.
 William T. Thorwarth Jr., M.D. |
Radiologist Chairs AMA CPT Panel
William T. Thorwarth Jr., M.D., a trustee of the RSNA Research & Education Foundation Board of Trustees, is the first radiologist to chair the current procedural terminology (CPT®) panel of the American Medical Association.
Dr. Thorwarth is the fourth chair of the panel since its inception in 1966. Dr. Thorwarth was first appointed to a full seat on the panel in 2003. He practices with Catawba Radiological Associates in Hickory, N.C.
Hong Kong College Council Named
Lilian F. Leong, M.D.
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Lilian F. Leong, M.D., is president of the council
of the Hong Kong College of Radiologists for 2007–2008. Joining her on the council are:
• Chun-key Law, M.B.B.S., senior vice-president
• Hon-shing Lam, M.B.B.S., vice-president
• Peter H.K. Choi, F.R.C.R., warden
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