People in the News
ASHNR Gold Medal Awarded to Mancuso Anthony A. Mancuso, M.D. , was awarded the gold medal of the American Society of Head and Neck Radiology (ASHNR) during the ASHNR annual meeting in September.
Dr. Mancuso is the chairman of the Department of Radiology at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville. Among his many accomplishments and contributions to radiology are his papers and books addressing squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.
AAWR Presents 2005 Awards
The American Association for Women Radiologists (AAWR) presented its 2005 awards during the RSNA annual meeting in Chicago. The recipients are:
- Ritsuko Komaki, M.D. , Houston – Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award
- Janet Strife, M.D. , Cincinnati – Alice Ettinger Distinguished Achievement Award
- Avanti Ambekar, M.D. , San Francisco – Lucy Frank Squire Distinguished Resident Award in Diagnostic Radiology
- Reshma Jagsi, M.D., D.Phil. , Boston – Eleanor Montague Distinguished Resident Award in Radiation Oncology
- Thomas S. Harle, M.D. , Winston-Salem, N.C. – AAWR President’s Award
Grist Appointed Radiology Chair at UW
Thomas Grist, M.D. , is the new chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin (UW) Medical School.
Dr. Grist has been involved in the development of MR imaging technology for 20 years as a biomedical engineer and physician. He holds 12 patents for MR inventions and is internationally recognized for the development and clinical application of MR techniques used to evaluate cardiac and vascular disorders.
A member of the UW Medical School faculty since 1991, Dr. Grist is also the Robert Turell Professor in Imaging Science.
Shimono Receives Radiology Certificate
Taro Shimono, M.D., Ph.D. , an assistant professor in the Department of Radiology at Kinki University School of Medicine in Osaka, Japan, was recognized in the September issue of
Radiology for submitting the highest number of correct answers in the 7 th annual Diagnosis Please exercise (cases 73–84).
“Diagnosis Please is the most educational and challenging resource to check my skills,” Dr. Shimono said when he learned of his success.
Each month, Radiology publishes a new case, along with a patient history and medical images. Diagnosis submissions are accepted by e-mail. To view the current Diagnosis Please case, go to RSNA.org/radiologyjnl, click on the current journal and click on Diagnosis Please in the table of contents.
Harry L. Weitz, M.D., at this residency graduation (left) and at his recognition banquet (right). |
Weitz Honored for Longtime Commitment to Radiology
Sixty-seven years after Harry L. Weitz, M.D., became the first radiologist in northern Michigan, the Michigan State Medical Society, the Michigan Radiological Society, Wayne State University School of Medicine, and the local county medical society honored him for his lifetime achievement in radiology.
“In 1938, some of my physician colleagues had never used an x-ray,” he said. “Back then, everything was done by hand in a darkroom. Radiology was an exciting field. No two cases were the same.”
He became an RSNA member in 1953 and retired in 1978, but he is still well connected to the field. His son Charles J. Weitz, M.D., is a radiologist in Traverse City, Mich., his grandson and three nephews are radiologists, another grandson is in medical school, and a granddaughter is applying to medical school.
Dr. Weitz turned 96 in October.
HSS Expands Radiology Department
The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City has added three radiologists to its Department of Radiology and Imaging. They are: Sherri Birchansky, M.D., formerly a private practice radiologist in Miami Eric Bogner, M.D., arecent musculoskeletal imaging fellow at the Medical College of Virginia Gregory Saboeiro, M.D., formerly a private practice radiologist in St. Louis Kawamura Heads ARDMS
Diane M. Kawamura, Ph.D., R.T.(R), R.D.M.S. , is the new board chair of the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS).
She said some of her priorities will be to simplify the prerequisites process, while maintaining current standards, working on the expansion of practice examinations, and exploring new and meaningful ways to assess continuing competencies for registrants. Send your submissions for People in the News to rsnanews@rsna.org or RSNA News, 820 Jorie Blvd., Oak Brook, IL 60523. Please include your full name and telephone number. You may also include a non-returnable color photo or a high-resolution electronic photo (300 dpi at 3x5”) in JPEG or TIFF format. RSNA News maintains the right to accept information for print based on membership status, newsworthiness and available print space.
