Olmsted Fellowship
Overview
The William W. Olmsted Editorial Fellowship for Trainees is a prestigious, competitive and virtual program designed to cultivate emerging leaders in radiologic scholarly communication and scientific publishing with an emphasis on radiology education.
Fellowship details
This virtual fellowship lasts approximately one week and provides early-career radiology trainees with a mentored, immersive experience within RSNA’s publication and editorial activities. Upon receipt of fellowship, recipients are invited to work with the editorial offices to tailor the fellowship to a specific journal/area of interest.
The Olmsted Fellowship:
- Provides structured editorial education through on-demand learning
- Offers a shared core curriculum in peer review, publication ethics and digital publishing
- Offers mentored capstone projects with tangible deliverables tailored to the fellows' journal of interest
- Provides opportunities for continued engagement after the fellowship
- Grants attendance at the following meetings (virtually or in person):
- Editors' Forum (location varies)
- March Publications Council (in Chicago)
- Editorial meetings during the RSNA annual meeting (in Chicago)
Eligibility
To be eligible for the Olmsted Fellowship, you must:
- Be an RSNA member
- Still be in training (resident, fellow)
- Have a record of publications in scientific and/or educational peer-reviewed journals
Each department or institution should nominate only a single candidate for the fellowship in any given year. Interested individuals should coordinate their application with their department’s administration.
Award
One fellow is selected each year and is awarded a stipend of $5,000.
Applications are open
The 2026 application cycle for the Olmsted Fellowship is open! Apply by March 9, 2026.
2025 Olmsted fellow
Ali Tejani, MD, CIIP, has been named the 2025 William W. Olmsted Trainee Editorial Fellow.
Dr. Tejani is a neuroradiology fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. After completing medical school at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Dr. Tejani completed his radiology residency at the UT Southwestern Medical Center where he served as senior chief resident of the diagnostic radiology program. He also completed an imaging informatics fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania/Penn Radiology in Philadelphia.
Dr. Tejani is an alum of the Radiology: Artificial Intelligence Trainee Editorial Board and deputy editor for the journal’s podcast. He has been recognized with the Radiology: Artificial Intelligence Editor’s Recognition Award with special distinction (2024 and 2025) and European Radiology Reviewer of the Year Award (2024).
“Dr. Tejani’s strong commitment to radiology education and scholarly communication is evident through his work with the Radiology: Artificial Intelligence Trainee Editorial Board,” said Christine Cooky Menias, MD, RadioGraphics editor. “As the 2025 Olmsted Editorial Fellow, he will gain a deeper understanding of the editorial process and broaden his perspective on academic publishing and radiologic research.”
An advocate for imaging informatics and AI training, Dr. Tejani serves as a course co-director for the National Imaging Informatics Course hosted jointly by RSNA and the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine.
Past Olmsted fellows
- 2024 Nadia Solomon, MD, MSc, MA
- 2023 Masis Isikbay, MD
- 2022 Dhairya A. Lakhani, MD
- 2021 Kaitlin Marie Marquis, MD
- 2020 Anna Trofimova, MD, PhD
- 2019 Matthew D. Alvin, MD
- 2018 Elizabeth George, MD
- 2017 David Ballard, MD
- 2016 Karen Buch, MD
- 2015 Manisha Bahl, MD
- 2014 Andrew Degnan, MD
- 2013 Sina Tavakoli, MD
- 2012 Mai-Lan Ho, MD
- 2011 Tara Ann Morgan, MD
- 2010 Amy M. Fowler, MD, PhD
- 2009 Samantha Lynn Heller, PhD, MD
- 2008 Dino P. Massoglia, MD, PhD
- 2007 Christopher Whitlow, MD, PhD
- 2006 Anu Bansal, MD
- 2005 Joseph P. Erinjeri, MD, PhD
Contact us
For questions, please email editfellowships@rsna.org.