AAPM Announces Awards
The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) recently presented awards at its annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif.
 Willi A. Kalender, Ph.D. |
 James A. Deye, Ph.D. |
 Lawrence E. Reinstein, Ph.D. |
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 Raymond L. Tanner, Ph.D |
 George S. Bisset III, M.D. |
Willi A. Kalender, Ph.D., received the William D. Coolidge Award, the association's highest honor. Credited with inventing and developing spiral CT, Dr. Kalender is a professor and director of the Institute of Medical Physics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen in Nuremberg, Germany.
The Award for Achievement in Medical Physics (AAPM) was presented to James A. Deye, Ph.D., Lawrence E. Reinstein, Ph.D., and Raymond L. Tanner, Ph.D. Dr. Deye is program director of radiation research programs at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., and Dr. Reinstein is chief medical physicist at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany, N.Y. A former AAPM president and former RSNA vice-president, Dr. Tanner is professor emeritus of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and previously taught physics at Memphis State University.
Honorary membership was presented to RSNA Board Liaison for Education and 2010 Chair George S. Bisset III, M.D., vice-chair of the Department of Radiology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. Dr. Bisset also serves on the boards of directors of the American Board of Radiology and the Society for Pediatric Radiology.
Curran Named Executive Director of Emory Winship Cancer Institute
 Walter J. Curran Jr., M.D. |
Walter J. Curran Jr., M.D., has been named executive director of the Emory Winship Cancer Institute and associate vice-president for cancer of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, both in Atlanta. Dr. Curran, who serves as group chair for the American College of Radiology's (ACR) Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG), is the only radiation oncologist in the country to serve as director of a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center.
A Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar, Dr. Curran is chair of Emory's Department of Radiation Oncology and medical director of the Emory Winship Cancer Institute. He joined Emory in 2007 from Jefferson Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia where he served as professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology and clinical director for the Kimmel Cancer Center.
Dr. Curran has been group chair and principal investigator of RTOG since 1997.
Michalski Named Vice-Chair of Radiation Oncology
 Jeff M. Michalski, M.D. |
Jeff M. Michalski, M.D., a professor of radiation oncology, has been named vice-chair and director of clinical programs of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Dr. Michalski will oversee the department's clinical division which includes clinical operations at all treatment facilities; clinical and translational research; and physician resident, fellow and medical student training and education. He will also oversee the Brachytherapy Center, Proton Therapy Center, Gamma Knife Center and community and off-campus programs.
He currently serves as vice-chair of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group of the American College of Radiology and leads its advanced technology integration committee.
Hill Recognized by Radiation Research Society
Richard Hill, Ph.D., has been awarded the 2009 Failla Award and Lectureship from the Radiation Research Society for his scientific contributions to radiation research. Dr. Hill is a senior scientist at the Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital in Canada and a professor in the Medical Biophysics and Radiation Oncology Departments at the University of Toronto in Canada. Dr. Hill is joint editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Radiation Biology.Gamsu Receives Posthumous STR Gold Medal
 Gordon Gamsu, M.D. |
The Society of Thoracic Radiology (STR) will bestow its gold medal posthumously to world-renowned thoracic radiologist and former STR president Gordon Gamsu, M.D., at the second World Congress of Thoracic Imaging in Valencia, Spain, this month.
Dr. Gamsu, who passed away earlier this year, served as chief of chest radiology at the University of California, San Francisco, from 1973 to 1995, leaving in 1996 to become a professor and vice-chair of the Department of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. From 1999 until he retired in 2007, Dr. Gamsu served as director of outpatient radiology at New York Hospital. Dr. Gamsu received STR's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.