Dr. Becker is the executive director of the American Board of Radiology (ABR). He is also a professor in vascular and interventional radiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson.

Prior to his ABR executive director position, Dr. Becker served as branch chief of image-guided intervention in the Cancer Imaging Program of the National Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C., and served 14 years at the Baptist Cardiac and Vascular Institute of Miami (then Miami Vascular Institute) as director of interventional radiology, assistant medical director and medical director of research and outcomes.

Dr. Becker's clinical work in the field of endografting of aortic aneurysms includes two IDE clinical trials with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He holds patents for two thrombolytic therapy stents.

An RSNA member since 1979, Dr. Becker has served on a number of RSNA committees and currently serves on the Research & Education (R&E) Foundation Board of Trustees. He was elected to the RSNA Board of Directors in 2001, served as liaison for science and was Board chair in 2007.

Dr. Becker was founding editor of the Journal of Vascular & Interventional Radiology and was its editor-in-chief from 1990 to 1995. Dr. Becker delivered the RSNA 2000 Annual Oration in Diagnostic Radiology, "The Future of Interventional Radiology."

Hricak is RSNA President-Elect

Global research, education and communication advocate Hedvig Hricak, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. h.c., is RSNA president-elect for 2009.

Hedvig Hricak, M.D.,
Ph.D., Dr. h.c.

Dr. Hricak is the Carroll and Milton Petrie Chair of the Department of Radiology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, a professor of radiology at Cornell University Medical College and an attending radiologist at Memorial Hospital in New York City.

A member of the RSNA Board of Directors since 2002, Dr. Hricak was Board liaison for publications and communications. She has served on several public information committees and was chair of RSNA's Public Information Advisors Board.

Dr. Hricak began her academic appointments at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. At the University of California, San Francisco from 1982 to 2000, she served as a professor of radiology, urology, radiation oncology, obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, as well as chief of the uroradiology and abdominal imaging sections.

Dr. Hricak was an associate editor of Radiology from 1985 to 1993 and a consultant to the editor of Radiology from 1993 to 1997. An authority on MR, MR spectroscopy and molecular imaging in oncology, she is currently the principal investigator of two National Cancer Institute (NCI) grants and one NCI contract, three Department of Defense grants and a number of private foundation grants.

She has served as president of the Society for the Advancement of Women's Imaging, the California Academy of Medicine, the Society of Uroradiology and the New York Roentgen Society.

Drayer Becomes RSNA Board Chair

Burton P. Drayer, M.D., is the new chair of the RSNA Board of Directors.

Burton P. Drayer, M.D.

Dr. Drayer is currently executive vice-president at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City and the Dr. Charles M. and Marilyn Newman Professor and chair of the Department of Radiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He served as president of The Mount Sinai Hospital from 2003 to 2008.

Dr. Drayer's major areas of research include brain iron, cerebral blood flow, contrast media safety, neurodegenerative and demyelinating disease and brain infarction. His academic career began at the University of Pittsburgh Health Center. From 1979 to 1986, Dr. Drayer was at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., where he became professor of radiology and assistant professor of neurology. In 1986, he was appointed chair of the Division of Neuroimaging Research-Education at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, where he remained until 1995.

An RSNA member since 1980, Dr. Drayer served as first vice-president in 2003. He has been active on many RSNA committees including the Public Communications Committee, Public Information Advisors Network and the Research & Education Foundation Public Relations Committee. He moderated the RSNA Image Interpretation Session in 2004. Dr. Drayer was elected to the RSNA Board of Directors in December 2003 and has served as liaison for the annual meeting and technology.

Baron Named New RSNA Board Member

A pioneer in abdominal imaging and in gastrointestinal applications of CT and MR imaging is the newest member of the RSNA Board of Directors. Richard L. Baron, M.D., will serve as the liaison-designate for education.

Richard L. Baron, M.D.

Dr. Baron just concluded a three-year term as chair of the RSNA Education Exhibits Committee. He will serve a year as liaison-designate for education under George S. Bisset III, M.D., and then assume the role as liaison when Dr. Bisset becomes RSNA Board chair at the conclusion of the 2009 RSNA annual meeting.

An RSNA member since 1978, Dr. Baron is currently chair of radiology at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Previously, he crisscrossed the country, teaching and practicing in St. Louis, Seattle and Pittsburgh, where he was chair and professor of radiology at the University of Pittsburgh and the founding president and CEO of the University of Pittsburgh Physicians, one of the country's largest medical provider groups with 1,400 physicians.

Dr. Baron has been principal investigator on a dozen research projects and has earned many research awards, especially in the area of diagnostic imaging of liver disease. He has served in leadership roles for several national radiology societies, including as president of the Society of Computed Body Tomography/Magnetic Resonance and the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists.

RSNA Endorses Cardiovascular Imaging Guidelines

RSNA has endorsed the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) and the American Heart Association (AHA) 2008 Health Policy Statement on Structured Reporting in Cardiovascular Imaging and the 2008 Key Data Elements and Definitions for Cardiac Imaging. The documents were approved by the ACCF/AHA in September.

The health policy statement documents the generally accepted position of the cardiovascular imaging community regarding structured reporting for cardiovascular imaging. The position requires that:

• Cardiovascular imaging laboratories collect data in structured format

• Physicians adopt compliant reporting procedures

• Imaging and information systems support structured data storage and displayed report formats

• Reporting software implements structured composition and other required features for interoperability

The 2008 Key Data Elements and Definitions for Cardiac Imaging are intended to define and standardize data relevant to clinical topics in cardiology, with the primary goal of assisting data collection by providing a platform of data elements and definitions applicable to various conditions.

Both documents are available for review online. The Health Policy Statement on Structured Reporting in Cardiovascular Imaging is at content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/full/j.jacc.2008.09.005. The 2008 Key Data Elements and Definitions for Cardiac Imaging is at content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/full/j.jacc.2008.09.006.

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