Vietti Recognized by Cambridge Who's Who

Teresa J. Vietti, M.D., a professor emeritus in the Department of Pediatrics and Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in pediatric oncology research. Dr. Vietti has more than five decades of experience in research and treatment of childhood cancers.

Boyden Honored by Washoe County

Fredric M. Boyden, M.D., has received the Washoe County Medical Society's 2009 C.H. Woods Award, bestowed annually to a physician who "has the magic touch" when it comes to caring for patients, according to the society.

Dr. Boyden practiced radiology for 32 years at Washoe Medical Center (now Renown Regional Medical Center) in Reno, Nevada, and since 2001 has been on staff at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, in Reno. Dr. Boyden performed the first catheter arteriogram in 1967 in northern Nevada.

Smith Joins Fairview Red Wing Medical Center

Hugh Smith, M.D.

Hugh Smith, M.D., has been named medical director of the Department of Radiology at Fairview Red Wing Medical Center in Minnesota. Dr. Smith, who recently completed his residency in radiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, replaces William Wells, M.D., who is retiring after 33 years in the position.

Former Human Genome Project Leader is New NIH Director

Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.

Noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project, physician-geneticist Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is the 16th director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Dr. Collins was nominated to lead NIH by President Barack Obama and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Dr. Collins served as director of NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute 1993–2008. The international project culminated in April 2003 with the completion of a finished sequence of the human DNA instruction book.

Prior to his work at NIH, Dr. Collins spent nine years on the faculty of the University of Michigan, where he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.

In 2007, Dr. Collins was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and authored the best-selling book, "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief." Dr. Collins delivered the RSNA 2003 New Horizons Lecture, "A Roadmap for the Future of Biomedical Research."

Magazine Names McClennan among Most Influential

Bruce L. McClennan, M.D.

RSNA News Editor Bruce L. McClennan, M.D., has been named one of the 25 Most Influential in Radiology by RT Image, a national radiology magazine for radiologists, technologists and administrators. Dr. McClennan, who received gold medals from the American Roentgen Ray Society and the Society of Uroradiology in 2009, is a professor of diagnostic radiology at Yale University School of Medicine and an attending radiologist at Yale New Haven Hospital.

Thomas Receives SNM Loevinger-Berman Award

Stephen R. Thomas, Ph.D.

Stephen R. Thomas, Ph.D., developer of the widely used conjugate-view method for planar imaging quantification, received the Loevinger-Berman Award at the SNM Annual Meeting in Toronto. Dr. Thomas completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cincinnati, where he became a professor of radiology in 1987 and director of the Division of Medical Physics in 1991. He is former chair of SNM's Medical Internal Radiation Dose Committee and a former AAPM liaison on RSNA's Scientific Program Committee. He served as a member of the RSNA Research & Education Foundation Board of Trustees from 2000 to 2006.