Osborn Earns Distinguished Service Award

Anne G. Osborn, M.D.

Anne G. Osborn, M.D., has earned a distinguished service award from the University of Utah School of Medicine Alumni Association. "She was cited for her service to radiology and neuroscience clinicians around the world, exemplified, in part, by the more than 100 invited lectures she's given around the globe, membership in many international societies and in the far-reaching impact of her textbooks," according to a university statement.

Dr. Osborn's 1994 textbook, Diagnostic Neuroradiology, is a best-seller. She recently published Diagnostic Imaging: Brain.

Dr. Osborn is a member of the RSNA Research & Education Foundation Board of Trustees.

Nunez Receives Two Gold Medals

Diego B. Nunez, M.D., M.P.H.

Diego B. Nunez, M.D., M.P.H., was awarded the gold medal of the InterAmerican College of Radiology during the International Congress of Radiology (ICR) meeting in Montreal. The award was given in recognition to his "academic achievements and contributions to international radiology education."

Dr. Nunez is the chairman of the Department of Radiology at the Hospital of Saint Raphael and a clinical professor of radiology at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. He is also an RSNA international visiting professor and a member of the RSNA Scientific Program Committee.

This month, Dr. Nunez will receive the gold medal of the American Society of Emergency Radiology during its scientific session in Montreal.

Five Radiology Leaders Receive Beclere Medal

The International Society of Radiology awarded five Beclere medals-the society's highest honor. The recipients are:

• Harald Ostensen, M.D., chief of the radiologic imaging branch of the World Health Organization
• Carl-Gustaf Standertskjöld-Nordenstam, M.D., Ph.D., immediate past-president of ICR
• Mutsumasa Takahashi, M.D., past-president of the Japanese Society of Radiology
• Pablo Ros, M.D., M.P.H., immediate past-chairman of the RSNA Committee on International Relations and Education
• Barry B. Goldberg, M.D., chairman of the RSNA Committee on International Relations and Education

Knopp New Chair at Ohio State

Michael V. Knopp, M.D., Ph.D.

Michael V. Knopp, M.D., Ph.D., is the new chairman of the Department of Radiology at the Ohio State University College of Medicine & Public Health.

Dr. Knopp is also a professor of radiology and the Novartis Chair of Imaging Research. He succeeds Dimitrios Spigos, M.D., who stepped down after 12 years as chair of the Department of Radiology to devote his time to research and clinical care.

Italian Society Honors Three Radiologists

The Italian Society of Medical Radiology has awarded honorary membership to three distinguished radiologists for "their expertise and for their continuous and effective relations with Italian radiology. They are:
· Giovanna Casola, M.D., San Diego
· Francisco Arredondo, M.D., Guatemala City
· Philippe Grenier, M.D., Paris

Steinberg to Serve on Prominent CMS Committee

Michael S. Steinberg, M.D.

Michael S. Steinberg, M.D., from the Santa Monica Cancer Treatment Center, has been appointed to the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC) for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Six groups make up MCAC. Dr. Steinberg is in the group that conducts reviews of medical literature, executes technical assessments and evaluates specific data sets on topics regarding effective and appropriate medical services, and items covered or eligible under Medicare.

Dr. Steinberg is also a member of the board of directors for the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology.

Schultz to Head FDA Devices and Radiological Health Center

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has named Daniel G. Schultz, M.D., as director of the agency's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). He will be responsible for FDA's review of all medical devices, as well as oversight of radiation-emitting products. Dr. Schultz is board certified in general surgery and family practice. He has been acting CDRH director since April.

Borrelli New VP at Guardian

Guardian Technologies International, Inc., a developer of imaging technologies for healthcare radiology and homeland security, has appointed Richard Borrelli as vice-president of business development of its Healthcare Systems division.

Borrelli, who most recently was a business consultant to entrepreneurial imaging and radiology companies, will be responsible for building Guardian's radiology informatics business and managing strategic alliances and partnerships in the United States and Europe.

In Memoriam: Godfrey Hounsfield, D.Sc.

Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, D.Sc., at RSNA 1980

Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, D.Sc., who helped develop computed tomography, died in August at the age of 84.

Dr. Hounsfield shared the Nobel prize in medicine in 1979 with nuclear physicist Allan M. Cormack, M.Sc.

"With an unusual combination of vision, intuition and imagination, and with an extraordinarily sure eye for the optimal choice of physical factors in a system that must have offered very great problems to construct, he obtained results which in one blow surprised the medical world. It can be no exaggeration to maintain that no other method within x-ray diagnostics has, during such a short period of time, led to such remarkable advances, with regard to research and number of applications, as computer-assisted tomography," the Nobel committee wrote.

Dr. Hounsfield was awarded the RSNA Gold Medal in 1980.