McClennan Receives ARRS Gold Medal

Bruce L. McClennan, M.D.

Carol Rumack, M.D.

Thomas Budinger, M.D.

RSNA News editor Bruce L. McClennan, M.D., a professor of diagnostic radiology at Yale University School of Medicine and an attending radiologist at Yale New Haven Hospital, received the gold medal of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) at its recent annual meeting.

Also receiving ARRS gold medals were Carol Rumack, M.D., and Thomas Budinger, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Rumack is a professor of radiology and pediatrics at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. Dr. Budinger is a professor in the Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and senior scientific advisor at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley.

ARRS also named Bradley Foerster, M.D., as the 2009 ARRS Scholar, Srini Tridandapani as the 2009 ARRS/Elio Bracco Scholar and Nabile Safdar as the 2009 Berlin Scholar. Residents in Radiology Award recipients were Jennifer Kohr, M.D., who received the President's Award, and David Karow, M.D., Ph.D., and Jenny Hoang, M.B.B.S., who received Executive Council Awards.

AIUM Bestows Honors

Ernest Feleppa, Ph.D.

Alfred Kurtz, M.D.

Jean Spitz, M.P.H., R.D.M.S.

Lawrence Platt, M.D., a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California in Los Angeles, has received the 2009 Joseph H. Holmes Clinical Pioneer Award of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM).

Dr. Platt, whose research includes prenatal diagnosis, ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology and the biophysical assessment of the fetal condition, served as AIUM president from 1999 to 2001. He maintains a private practice in Los Angeles.

The 2009 Holmes Basic Science Pioneer Award was presented to Ernest Feleppa, Ph.D., director of the Frederic Lizzi Center for Biomedical Engineering at Riverside Research Institute in New York.

The William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award was presented to Alfred Kurtz, M.D., a professor of radiology at Jefferson Medical College and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.

The 2009 Distinguished Sonographer Award was presented to Jean Spitz, M.P.H., R.D.M.S., director of the Nuchal Translucency Quality Review Program at the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Foundation and an obstetric and gynecologic sonographer at Edmond Renaissance Physicians, Edmond, Okla.

AIUM also presented its 2009 Memorial Hall of Fame awards posthumously to: Fred Winserbeg, M.D., longtime chief of radiology at Lincoln Hospital in New York and a pioneer in diagnostic ultrasound; Martin Resnick, M.D., a professor of urology and chair of the Department of Urology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland and an accomplished urology researcher; and Horace Thompson, M.D., a former AIUM president regarded by many as the "father" of obstetric and gynecologic ultrasound.

James H. Thrall, M.D.

Thrall Named to NIH Advisory Committee

James H. Thrall, M.D., radiologist-in-chief at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, has been selected to serve on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Advisory Committee to the Director. The committee advises the NIH director on policy and planning issues. Dr. Thrall serves as chair of the board of chancellors of the American College of Radiology and received the RSNA gold medal in 2008.

SPR Announces Awards

The Society of Pediatric Radiology (SPR) presented the following awards at its recent annual meeting:

Kenneth Fellows, M.D.	Lane Donnelly, M.D.	Dolores Bustelo, M.D.
Pedro Daltro, M.D.	Antônio Soares de Souza, M.D.	Cristian Garcia, M.D.

Charles A. Gooding, M.D., chief of pediatric radiology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) for 40 years, received the gold medal for his contributions to pediatric radiology and his role as founder, president and chairman of the board of directors of the Radiology Outreach Foundation, which sends educational materials to developing countries. Dr. Gooding served as 1998 SPR president and as chairman of the board.

Kenneth Fellows, M.D., received the SPR Pioneer award for his contributions to pediatric radiology, particularly in cardiovascular imaging. Dr. Fellows successfully progressed through the academic ranks at Children's Hospital/Harvard University, where he worked until 1997 as an associate professor in radiology and an associate in cardiology.

The Singleton Taybi Award for lifetime accomplishments in education went to Lane Donnelly, M.D., radiologist-in-chief of the Department of Radiology and Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Dr. Donnelly has written some of the most popular textbooks on pediatric radiology, including Fundamentals of Pediatric Radiology (2001).

SPR Honorary Member awards went to Dolores Bustelo, M.D., Pedro Daltro, M.D., Antônio Soares de Souza, M.D., and Cristian Garcia, M.D.

Dr. Bustelo is head of pediatric imaging at CETAC, a diagnostic imaging clinic in Curitiba, Brazil. Dr. Daltro specializes in pediatric chest CT at Instituto Fernandes Filgueiras in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dr. Soares de Souza is chair of the Department of Radiology at the School of Medicine in São José do Rio Preto, Brazil, and president of the Latin American Society of Pediatric Radiology. Dr. Garcia is a professor and chair of the Department of Radiology of the School of Medicine at Catholic University of Chile.

 

Irish is Physician of the Year

Craig Irish, M.D.

Craig Irish, M.D., has been named the 2009 Physician of the Year by Fairview Hospital, a Cleveland Clinic hospital. Recipients are nominated by medical staff and selected by their peers.

Since joining the hospital staff in 1980, Dr. Irish has served in various leadership roles including chair of the Department of Radiology. He currently chairs the Credentials Committee. He is past-president of the Northeast Ohio Ultrasound Society (NEOUS) and the Cleveland Radiological Society (CRS).