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RSNA News - December 2004Announcements
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| Henry I. Goldberg, M.D. |
The RSNA Outstanding Educator award was established to annually recognize and honor one individual who has made original and significant contributions to the field of radiology or radiologic sciences throughout a career of teaching and education.
Dr. Goldberg has been an influential and respected educator and mentor for more than 30 years. He has earned numerous teaching awards from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, including "Teacher of the Year" and several clinical teaching awards.
Former residents and fellows strongly credit Dr. Goldberg for enhancing their educational experiences, and many former medical students have cited Dr. Goldberg as the influencing factor for their decision to pursue careers in radiology. His teaching methods and curricula development are innovative and effective. One former resident recalls Dr. Goldberg using a Japanese kite to explain the windsock sign seen in duodenal diverticulum, "He showed me how to describe this case as a case report and that academic writing can be fun."
Dr. Goldberg's CD-ROM, "Introduction to Clinical Imaging," and his Radiology 100 syllabus are examples of enduring educational materials that have been widely used at his institution and at several other medical schools in the country. Additionally, he has authored at least 160 original reports, 51 chapters and four electronic publications.
A leader in medical education at both the undergraduate and continuing medical education levels, Dr. Goldberg currently serves as director of the Radiology Learning Center at the UCSF School of Medicine and has been director of all medical student radiology teaching since 1994. He is a founding member and past-president of the Alliance of Medical Student Educators in Radiology, and is a charter member of the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators at UCSF—an honor society and service organization to promote excellence in teaching, to foster innovation in the medical school curriculum and to support and reward outstanding teachers. He is one of only three radiologists who are surveyors for the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education.
The RSNA Outstanding Researcher award was established to annually recognize and honor an individual who has made original and significant contributions to the field of radiology or radiologic sciences throughout a career of research.
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| Steven M. Larson, M.D. |
Dr. Larson is one of the world's foremost experts in targeted radiotherapy and molecular imaging. His research, which spans three decades, has resulted in many novel findings especially in understanding cancer. Using carbon-14 labeled media and a sensitive radiodetector system, Dr. Larson was able to rapidly identify bacterial and cell growth, a technology that is used widely today for detecting mycobacterium tuberculosis, including assessing drug sensitivities.
Dr. Larson has successfully tackled the problems of antibody production, radiolabeling, humanization of the antibody, minimizing host immune response and developing methodologies to quantify response. His research in detection of colorectal cancer has been successfully applied in the treatment of patients with advanced tumors.
As an expert on translational aspects of nuclear medicine, Dr. Larson has made significant contributions to the advancement of positron emission tomography (PET) as a clinical tool for oncology. He was recruited to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1983, in part to establish a state-of-the-art PET center for NIH researchers. His success in this endeavor led to an NIH Directors Medal in 1987 for him and his colleagues.
While conducting cutting-edge research in targeted therapy and related molecular imaging, Dr. Larson continues to be heavily involved in teaching, administration and clinical care. Dr. Larson currently serves as chief of the nuclear medicine service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), director of radiology research in the Department of Radiology, and director of the PET Center at MSKCC. He is also a professor of radiology at Cornell University Medical College.
Dr. Larson has authored or co-authored 430 manuscripts in major peer-reviewed journals, including Science, Nature Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, Radiology, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
He has also served on several governmental advisory committees and study sections at NIH, the Department of Energy and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
NCI Launches New Integrative Cancer Biology Program
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is providing $14.9 million in funding for a new Integrative Cancer Biology Program (ICBP).
ICBP is a unique initiative designed to gain new insights into the development and progression of cancer through a systems-wide approach. The multi-disciplinary effort will incorporate new technologies such as genomics, proteomics and molecular imaging to generate computer and mathematical models that could predict the cancer process.
Nine ICBP centers will serve as training and outreach programs, enabling developing technologies to be communicated to other scientists in the cancer research community. The ICBP centers also will interact and collaborate with other NCI programs and external groups. NCI's Cancer Biomedical Information Grid (caBIG, cabig.nci.nih.gov) program will coordinate all the bioinformatics software needed by the ICBP as part of caBIG's ongoing effort to simplify and integrate the sharing and usage of data by providing access to NCI's cancer research communities.
Fore more information on this project, go to www.nih.gov/news/pr/oct2004/nci-26.htm.
NIH Awards 1,400 New Student Loan Repayment Contracts
In fiscal year 2004, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded student loan repayment contracts, totaling nearly $68 million to more than 1,400 health researchers.
More than half of the awards were to researchers who completed their doctoral degrees within the past five years. In addition, more than 40 percent of the awardees hold M.D. degrees, 34 percent hold Ph.D. degrees, nine percent M.D., Ph.D. degrees, and seven percent other doctoral degrees.
For more information, go to www.lrp.nih.gov.
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