AAWR Bestows 2008 Awards

Beryl R. Benacerraf, M.D.	Marcia Javitt, M.D.
Serena McClam, M.D.	Beth Beadle, M.D., Ph.D.

The American Association for Women Radiologists (AAWR) has announced its 2008 award recipients. Beryl R. Benacerraf, M.D., 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, received the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award.

Presented with the Alice Ettinger Award was Marcia Javitt, M.D., a professor of radiology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Dr. Javitt, who serves as section head of body MR and genitourinary radiology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, chaired the genitourinary radiology subcommittee of the 2008 RSNA Scientific Program Committee.

The Lucy Frank Squire Distinguished Resident Award in Diagnostic Radiology was presented to Serena McClam, M.D., a radiology resident at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J. Beth Beadle, M.D., Ph.D., a resident at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, received the Eleanor Montague Distinguished Resident Award in Radiation Oncology.

The AAWR Research & Education Foundation also presented awards: Jennifer Jones, M.D., Member-in-Training Award for Outstanding RSNA Presentation in Radiation Oncology; Beth Beadle, M.D., Ph.D., Member-in-Training Award for Outstanding ASTRO Presentation in Radiation Oncology; Karyn A. Goodman, M.D., Professional Leadership Award—Early Career Faculty; Iris Gibbs, M.D., Professional Leadership Award—Mid-Career Faculty and Rohini Nadgir, M.D., Research Seed Grant.

Picker receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Harvey Picker, M.B.A., Ph.D.

Harvey Picker, M.B.A., Ph.D., inventor, physicist, entrepreneur, philanthropist and educator, was posthumously awarded Planetree's 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Picker died in March at age 92.

After leading the Picker X-ray Company for 25 years, Dr. Picker in 1986 joined his wife in founding the Picker Institute, a global, independent nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the principles of patient-centered care.

With a membership network that includes more than 140 acute care hospitals, continuing care facilities and outpatient clinics, Planetree has a mission to personalize, humanize and demystify the healthcare system.

RSNA dedicated the 2008 RSNA Meeting Program to the memory of Dr. Picker, a long-time RSNA supporter.

MR Imaging Pioneer Receives Portrait

Sir Peter Mansfield, Ph.D.

A portrait of Sir Peter Mansfield, Ph.D., winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his contribution to the invention of MR imaging, has been unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Knighted in 1993, Sir Peter Mansfield has received numerous scientific prizes and has been a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Nottingham since 1979.

Osborn Awarded Turkish Gold Medal

Anne G. Osborn, M.D.

The Turkish Society of Radiology (TSR) recently awarded its gold medal to Anne G. Osborn, M.D., immediate past-chair of the RSNA Research & Education Foundation Board of Trustees. Dr. Osborn, a professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City, gave the keynote address, "Expert Differential Diagnosis in the Brain: A New Approach," at the TSR annual meeting in Antalya, Turkey.