E. Stephen Amis Jr., M.D., has been elected chair of the Council of Review Committees of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Dr. Amis is a professor and university chair in the Department of Radiology at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, N.Y.

Lefkovitz named Chair at New York Medical College

Zvi Lefkovitz, M.D.

Zvi Lefkovitz, M.D., has been appointed chair of the Department of Radiology at New York Medical College in Valhalla. Previously Dr. Lefkovitz was clinical associate professor of radiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and vice-chair of radiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.

Boechat Selected for National Leadership Program

Maria Ines Boechat, M.D.

Maria Ines Boechat, M.D., a professor of radiology and pediatrics in the Department of Radiological Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been selected for the 2009–2010 class of fellows in the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program for Women at Drexel University College of Medicine. Boechat is currently chair of the Board of Directors of the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR). She served as president of SPR in 2008 and the American Association for Women Radiologists in 2000.

Janower Receives Academic Achievement Award from APDR

Murray L. Janower, M.D.

Murray L. Janower, M.D., received the Academic Achievement Award of the Association of Program Directors in Radiology at the annual meeting of the Association of University Radiologists.

Dr. Janower is a recognized authority in chest and gastrointestinal radiology, departmental administration and the socioeconomics of radiology. He is past-president of the American College of Radiology, the Association of Program Directors in Radiology and the New England Roentgen Ray Society and been awarded the highest honors from those organizations.

SIIM board members (left to right): Daniel L. Rubin, M.D., M.S., J. Raymond Geis, M.D., Keith J. Dreyer, D.O., Ph.D., Carter H. Yates, Bradley J. Erickson, M.D., Ph.D., Steven C. Horii, M.D., Charles E. Kahn, M.D., M.S., Elizabeth A. Krupinski, Ph.D., James T. Whitfill, M.D., Christopher D. Meenan and David L. Weiss, M.D.

SIIM Elects Board Members

The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) elected new board members in conjunction with the society's annual meeting.

• Chair-elect: Elizabeth A. Krupinski, Ph.D.

• Treasurer: Christopher D. Meenan

• Directors-at-large: Charles E. Kahn, M.D., M.S., and James T. Whitfill, M.D.

Bradley J. Erickson, M.D., Ph.D., continues a two-year term as SIIM chair and J. Raymond Geis, M.D., continues his term as secretary. Previously elected directors-at-large for 2009-2010 are Scott Griffin, Daniel L. Rubin, M.D., M.S.; Eliot L. Siegel, M.D., David L. Weiss, M.D.; and Carter H. Yates.

For more information visit www.siim.org.

American Board of Radiology Names Trustees

Donald P. Frush, M.D.	Jeanne M. LaBerge, M.D.
Dennis C. Shrieve, M.D., Ph.D.	Robert D. Zimmerman, M.D.

The American Board of Radiology (ABR) has elected new trustees nominated by eight sponsoring radiologic and medical organizations including RSNA. Trustees participate in leadership and decision making to carry out the ABR mission and set standards for the board certification process in radiology and the 10-year cycles necessary to maintain certification.

New trustees are:

• Donald P. Frush, M.D., a professor of radiology and pediatrics and chief of the Division of Pediatric Radiology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.

• Jeanne M. LaBerge, M.D., a professor of radiology for interventional radiology and fellowship director in the Department of Radiology at the University of California in San Francisco.

• Dennis C. Shrieve, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City and co-director of the Stereotactic Radiosurgery Program at the Huntsman Cancer Institute.

• Robert D. Zimmerman, M.D., executive vice-chair and professor of radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York and director of diagnostic imaging at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

SCCT Bestows Young Investigator Awards

Chirapa Puntawangkoon,
M.D.

Thananya Boonyasirinant,
M.D.

The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) named Chirapa Puntawangkoon, M.D., and Thananya Boonyasirinant, M.D., recipients of the third annual young investigator awards at its annual scientific meeting.

Dr. Boonyasirinant, of the Cleveland Clinic, was awarded for her paper, "Comprehensive Multidetector Computed Tomographic Assessment for Noninvasive Coronary Sinus Imaging and Myocardial Infarction Correlation in Ischemic versus Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy: Implications for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy."

Dr. Puntawangkoon, of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., was awarded for her paper, "Elliptical Geometry of Left Ventricular Outflow Tract (LVOT) Results in Underestimation of LVOT Area by Echocardiography Compared to Planimetric Measurement by Cardiac Computed Tomography."

The award includes a $2,500 cash price, trophy and an opportunity for priority peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.

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