McClennan Receives SUR Medal
Bruce L. McClennan, M.D. | 
David S. Hartman, M.D. | 
Marc S. Levine, M.D. |
RSNA News editor Bruce L. McClennan, M.D., has received the gold medal of the Society of Uroradiology (SUR). Dr. McClennan is a professor of diagnostic radiology at Yale University School of Medicine and an attending radiologist at Yale New Haven Hospital.
Also at the joint meeting of SUR and the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists (SGR) this month in Maui, Hawaii, David S. Hartman, M.D., a professor of radiology at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine, received the SUR Lifetime Achievement Award.
SGR awarded its Walter B. Cannon Medal to Marc S. Levine, M.D. Dr. Levine is chief of gastrointestinal radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a professor of radiology and advisory dean in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Konski is Radiation Oncology Chair
Andre Konski, M.D., M.B.A., is the new chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology for the Wayne State University School of Medicine and service chief for radiation oncology at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center, both in Detroit, Mich.
Dr. Konski previously served as chief medical officer for the Partners Program of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.
SIR Announces Honors
Andreas Adam, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.R. | 
Vincent P. Chuang, M.D. | 
Thomas A. Sos, M.D. | 
Matthew A. Mauro, M.D. |
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) has bestowed its gold medal on Andreas Adam, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.R., Vincent P. Chuang, M.D., and Thomas A. Sos, M.D.
Dr. Adam, who received RSNA honorary membership in 2006, is a professor of interventional radiology at the University of London and honorary consultant radiologist at Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital. Dr. Chuang is a vice-president at the Sun Yat-sen Cancer Center in Taipei, Taiwan, and head of the center's angiography and interventional oncoradiology section. Dr. Sos is a professor and vice-chair of radiology at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center and director of peripheral arterial disease at Weill Cornell Vascular.
Matthew A. Mauro, M.D., Ernest H. Wood Distinguished Professor and chair of radiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, presented the 2009 Charles T. Dotter Lecture at the SIR meeting this month in San Diego.
Kuhl Earns 2009 Japan Prize
David E. Kuhl, M.D. |
The 2009 Japan Prize for technical integration of medical science and engineering has been awarded to David E. Kuhl, M.D., a professor of radiology at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Dr. Kuhl, known as "the father of emission tomography," was recognized by the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan for developing a novel method of tomographic imaging of the distribution of radioactive isotopes in the body. He is among 66 people in 13 countries around the world who have received the Japan Prize.
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