ACR Names Gold Medalists, Honorary Members
The American College of Radiology (ACR) awarded its gold medal to Lawrence W. Davis, M.D., M.B.A., Eric J. Hall, D.Sc., and Valerie P. Jackson, M.D., at its annual meeting this month.
Dr. Davis is professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Dr. Hall, an RSNA Outstanding Researcher in 1996, is director of the Center for Radiological Research at the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University in New York. He is also the Higgins Professor of Radiation Biophysics and a professor of radiation oncology and radiology at Columbia and radiation biologist at The Presbyterian Hospital of New York. A member of the RSNA News editorial board, Dr. Jackson is the John A. Campbell Professor of Radiology and chair of the Department of Radiology at Indiana University in Indianapolis.
ACR also named three honorary members at its annual meeting. Lizbeth Kenny, M.D., is director of cancer services for the Central Area Health Service in Queensland, Australia, and served as president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists from 2005 to 2007. Andrzej Kulakowski, M.D., is president of the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Foundation in Warsaw, Poland. Claude Henri Manelfe, M.D., served as chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Toulouse, France, from 1974 to 2004.
 Lawrence W. Davis, M.D., M.B.A. |  Eric J. Hall, D.Sc. |  Valerie P. Jackson, M.D. |
 Lizbeth Kenny, M.D. |  Andrzej Kulakowski, M.D. |  Claude Henri Manelfe, M.D. |
McLoud is Honorary Member of Spanish, Italian Societies
 Theresa C. McLoud, M.D. |
2008 RSNA President Theresa C. McLoud, M.D., will be made an honorary member of the Spanish Society of Radiology at its meeting this month in Sevilla. Also this month, she will be named an honorary member of the Italian Society of Medical Radiology at its meeting in Rome.
Dr. McLoud is associate radiologist-in-chief and director of education for the Department of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School.
RANZCR Names Khangure as President
 Mark Khangure, M.D., F.R.A.N.Z.C.R. |
Mark Khangure, M.D., F.R.A.N.Z.C.R., is the new president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR). Currently in full-time private practice as a neuroradiologist in Perth, Western Australia, Dr. Khangure was head of the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and director of imaging services at Royal Perth Hospital for nine years.
Brody Retires as Hopkins President
 William R. Brody, M.D., Ph.D. |
William R. Brody, M.D., Ph.D., who delivered the Annual Oration in Diagnostic Radiology at RSNA 2005, is stepping down as president of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore after 12 years. Prior to becoming president of Johns Hopkins, Dr. Brody was a professor of radiology and provost of the Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and previously served as the Martin Donner Professor and director of the Department of Radiology at Johns Hopkins.
Munden is Chair at UAB
 Reginald F. Munden, M.D., D.M.D., M.B.A. |
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has appointed Reginald F. Munden, M.D., D.M.D., M.B.A., as the Witten-Stanley Endowed Chair of Radiology and chair of the Department of Radiology. Dr. Munden formerly was interim chair of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and associate professor of diagnostic radiology at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
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