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Funding Radiology's Future
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Berquist is AJR Editor 
Thomas H. Berquist, M.D. | Thomas H. Berquist, M.D., director of the radiology residency and musculoskeletal fellowship programs at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville (Florida) and a professor of radiology in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, has been named the new editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR). Dr. Berquist will begin his term in June. Dr. Berquist joined the staff in diagnostic radiology at Mayo Clinic Rochester in 1977 and served as the department’s vice-chair from 1986 to 1990. He then moved to Jacksonville and became chair of the Department of Radiology, a position he held until April 1999. In March 2006, he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the American Board of Radiology.
Hazelton is New Radiology Chair at USF Health 
Todd R. Hazelton, M.D. | Todd R. Hazelton, M.D., is the new chair of radiology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Hazelton will be responsible for building the department as USF gets ready to open its Morsani Center for Advanced Healthcare. Dr. Hazelton, an associate professor of radiology at USF, served most recently as chief of radiology service at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute. An attending thoracic radiologist at Moffitt for the last 10 years, he was also associate director and then director of the USF Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program.
SUR, SGR Present Awards 
N. Reed Dunnick, M.D. | 
E. Stephen Amis Jr., M.D.
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Dean D.T. Maglinte, M.D.
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Borut Marincek, M.D. | N. Reed Dunnick, M.D., RSNA Board Liaison for Science, received the gold medal of the Society of Uroradiology (SUR) at the SUR annual meeting last month. Dr. Dunnick is the Fred Jenner Hodges Professor and chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor. Also receiving the SUR gold medal was E. Stephen Amis Jr., M.D. Dr. Amis is a professor and chair of the Department of Radiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York. Receiving the SUR Lifetime Achievement Award were Stanford M. Goldman, M.D., and Neil F. Wasserman, M.D. Dr. Goldman is a professor of radiology and urology and chief of genitourinary radiology at The University of Texas Health Science Center, an adjunct professor of radiology and urology at Baylor School of Medicine and adjunct professor of radiology at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, all in Houston. Dr. Wasserman is a professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Also at the joint meeting of SUR and the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists (SGR), the SGR Walter B. Cannon Medal was awarded to Dean D.T. Maglinte, M.D., a professor of radiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. Borut Marincek, M.D., a professor of radiology and chair of the Institute of Diagnostic Radiology at Zurich University Hospital in Switzerland, was named an SGR Distinguished International Member.
Alderson Named Dean at SLU 
Philip O. Alderson, M.D. | Saint Louis University has named Philip O. Alderson, M.D., dean of Saint Louis University School of Medicine effective April 1. Dr. Alderson currently serves as chair of the Department of Radiology at Columbia University and director of radiology service at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He also is the James Picker Professor of Radiology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Also president of the American Board of Radiology, Dr. Alderson earned his bachelor's and medical degrees at Washington University in St. Louis and completed his residency in radiology and nuclear medicine at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at the Washington University School of Medicine. As chair of the RSNA Public Information Committee, Dr. Alderson helped lead an RSNA refresher course on patient-centered radiology.
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IN MEMORIAM: 
M. Judah Folkman, M.D. | M. Judah Folkman, M.D. M. Judah Folkman, M.D., a renowned cancer researcher who delivered the New Horizons Lecture at RSNA annual meetings in 1973 and 2001, died Jan. 14 at the age of 74. Initially drawing skepticism from the scientific community for his investigations of blocking angiogenesis to cure cancer, Dr. Folkman was later revered for the work that led to the development of numerous cancer drugs. He began his work in the 1960s but became particularly well-known after a May 1998 New York Times article in which Nobel laureate and DNA co-discoverer James Watson, Ph.D., declared, “Judah is going to cure cancer in two years.” While the prediction did not come true, Dr. Folkman is still hailed as one of history’s most important cancer investigators. At the time of his death, Dr. Folkman was director of the vascular biology program at Children’s Hospital Boston. National Cancer Institute Director John Niederhuber, M.D., called Dr. Folkman “the father of angiogenesis research.” Dr. Folkman presented “Tumor Angiogenesis: Therapeutic Implications” at RSNA 1973 and “Angiogenesis-dependent Imaging” at RSNA 2001. IN MEMORIAM: 
Steven A. Leibel, M.D. | Steven A. Leibel, M.D. Steven A. Leibel, M.D., co-chair of the RSNA Oncologic Imaging and Therapies Task Force and a driving force behind the new Bolstering Oncoradiologic and Oncoradiotherapeutic Skills for Tomorrow (BOOST) program that debuted at RSNA 2007, died Feb. 7. He was 61. Dr. Leibel was the Ann and John Doerr Medical Director of the Stanford Cancer Center and professor of radiation oncology at Stanford University. He joined Stanford in 2004 as the first medical director of the newly opened cancer
center after spending 16 years in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Known for his work in developing 3D conformal radiation therapy and intensity-modulated radiation therapy, Dr. Leibel helped create the BOOST program with the intention of encouraging greater collaboration between diagnostic radiologists and radiation oncologists. He received the gold medal of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology in 2002. |
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