Alfred B. Kurtz, M.D.

Kurtz Receives Outstanding Educator Award

The Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society has awarded its 2009 Mary S. Fisher Outstanding Educator Award to Alfred B. Kurtz, M.D., a professor of radiology at Jefferson Medical College and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Kurtz has served as president of the Greater Delaware Valley Ultrasound Society, Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound and American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.

ASNR Bestows Gold Medal, Honorary Membership

Glen Forbes, M.D.

Jian-Ping Dai, M.D.

The American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) will award Glen Forbes, M.D., its gold medal during the ASNR annual meeting this month in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Forbes, a professor of radiology with Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has served the society in major leadership positions including 1993–94 president and currently serves as the ASNR representative to the American Board of Radiology.

Also during the ASNR annual meeting, honorary membership is being awarded to Jian-Ping Dai, M.D., a professor of neuroradiology at Beijing Neurosurgical Institute at Tiantan Hospital. Dr. Dai served as president of the Chinese Society of Radiology from 1996 to 2005 and in 1987 established the Chinese Society of Neuroradiology. Dr. Dai received RSNA honorary membership at RSNA 2008.

AMA Honors Radiologists

(Left to right) Karen Marie Winkfield, M.D., Ph.D.; Appa Rao Mukkamala, M.D.; Alexander Ding, M.D., M.S., and Shilpen Patel, M.D.

The American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation recently presented its Excellence in Medicine Awards in Washington, D.C. AppaRao Mukkamala, M.D., chair of the Department of Radiology and vice-chair of the board of managers for Hurley Medical Center and clinical professor of radiology at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, both in Flint, Mich., was awarded the Dr. Nathan Davis International Award in Medicine for his commitment to outstanding international service. Dr. Mukkamala established NRI Medical College and General Hospital in Andhra Pradesh, India, and founded the Chinmaya Vijaya Orphanage following the 2003 Asian tsunami.

Among the recipients of the 2009 AMA Foundation Leadership Award recognizing residents, fellows and early career physicians who have shown strong potential in leadership and service, are: Alexander Ding, M.D., M.S., a second-year radiology resident at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston; Karen Marie Winkfield, M.D., Ph.D., a third-year resident in the Harvard University Radiation Oncology Program in Boston; Christoph I. Lee, M.D., a third-year radiology resident at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, Calif.; and Shilpen Patel, M.D., an assistant professor of radiation oncology at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Chicago Society Honors Lasky, Mintzer

Harold J. Lasky, M.D.

Richard A. Mintzer, M.D.

The Chicago Radiological Society (CRS) has honored Harold J. Lasky, M.D., with the Harold J. Lasky Annual Oration. The first oration was given in February by Thomas Hoffman, J.D., C.A.E., of the American College of Radiology. Dr. Lasky, who received his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, played a pivotal role in developing the national quality assurance program that resulted in the Mammography Quality Standardization Act (MQSA) passed in 1994 to better regulate breast imaging. Dr. Lasky served as 1977–78 CRS president and as 1985-86 president of the Illinois Radiological Society. He is a diagnostic radiologist at Medical Imaging of Northbrook Court in Northbrook, Ill.

CRS also honored Richard A. Mintzer, M.D., president and CEO of Medical Imaging of Northbrook Court, with the society's Distinguished Service Award. Before opening Medical Imaging of Northbrook Court in 2001, Dr. Mintzer was a professor of radiology at Northwestern University and from 1985 to 2000 served as chairman of the Department of Radiology at Highland Park Hospital in Highland Park, Ill. Dr. Mintzer is a past-president of CRS and the Illinois Radiological Society.

Schueler Elected to NCRP

Beth A. Schueler, Ph.D.

Beth A. Schueler, Ph.D., an associate professor of radiology in the medical physics division at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has been elected to serve a 6-year term on the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP). The election was held at the NCRP Annual Business Meeting, held in conjunction with the 2009 NCRP Annual Meeting in March.

Stroke Association Recognizes Radiologists

Radiologists were among those recognized at the American Stroke Association (ASA) International Stroke Conference in February. Raul G. Nogueira, M.D., an assistant radiologist in interventional neuroradiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and an instructor in radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, received the Robert G. Siekert New Investigator in Stroke Award. Michael T. Froehler, M.D., Ph.D., a fellow in vascular neurology and interventional neuroradiology at the University of California at Los Angeles, received the Mordecai Y.T. Globus New Investigator Award.

Raul G. Nogueira, M.D.

Michael T. Froehler, M.D., Ph.D.

Smirniotopoulos Presents NERRS Holmes Lecture

James G. Smirniotopoulos, M.D., focused on neuroimaging in the 65th Annual George W. Holmes Lecture presented last month by The New England Roentgen Ray Society (NERRS). Dr. Smirniotopoulos, a professor and chair of radiology and radiological sciences and professor of neurology and biomedical informatics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., delivered "Tuberous Sclerosis, Sturge-Weber and von Hippel Lindau Syndromes."