Eyler Fellowship

Overview

The William R. Eyler Editorial Fellowship provides an opportunity for mid-career radiologists to further their experience in radiologic journalism by working with RSNA journal editors and publications staff.

As an Eyler fellow, you’ll learn about manuscript preparation and editing, peer review, journal production and digital publishing. At the end of the fellowship, you'll complete a program evaluation and prepare a follow-up report on your experiences during and after the fellowship. 

Fellowship details

The fellowship lasts approximately one month. Upon receipt of fellowship, recipients are invited to work with the editorial offices to tailor the fellowship to a specific journal/area of interest.

A suggested itinerary is provided:  

  • Travel to New York City to work with the editor of Radiology
  • Visit Phoenix to work with the editor of RadioGraphics
  • Have a virtual visit with the editors of the RSNA subspecialty journals
  • Tour the RSNA publications department in Oak Brook, Illinois, and learn about the peer review, editorial and production processes
  • Attend 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 Eyler Fellowship, you must:

  • Be an RSNA member 
  • Have accomplished at least three years of attending-level work at an academic institution
  • Have served as a reviewer for a major imaging journal
  • Be affiliated with a national radiologic society in your country

Application and deadline

The 2025 application cycle for the Eyler Fellowship is closed. Applications will reopen in January 2026.

Award

One Eyler fellow is selected each year and is awarded a stipend of $10,000 to cover the cost of transportation, lodging and meals during the fellowship.

2024 Eyler fellow

Matthew Davenport, MD, has been named the 2024 RSNA William R. Eyler Editorial Fellow.

Dr. Davenport is the William Martel Professor of Radiology and professor of urology, and service chief and vice chair in the Department of Radiology at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor. He earned his medical degree at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed a diagnostic radiology residency at the University of Michigan (U-M).

After completing an abdominal radiology fellowship at Duke University in Durham, NC, Dr. Davenport returned to U-M as faculty in 2011. He is completing his MBA at the U-M Ross School of Business.

Dr. Davenport’s expertise is in high-value care, contrast material safety and urologic cancer. He has served on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Medical Imaging Drugs Advisory Committee, as chair of the American College of Radiology's (ACR) Committee on Drugs and Contrast Media, as vice chair of the ACR Quality and Safety Commission, and as chair of the Renal Cell Carcinoma Disease-Focused Panel for the Society of Abdominal Radiology (SAR). Dr. Davenport co-chairs the Oversight Committee of Multicenter Research Groups working within the SAR. He founded and chairs the ACR Radiology and Data Systems Steering Committee.

The co-author of numerous national policy statements, Dr. Davenport has published over 250 manuscripts, founded the Michigan Radiology Quality Collaborative, co-directs the Weiser Center for Prostate Cancer and was part of the team that received the 2013 RSNA Alexander R. Margulis Award for Scientific Excellence. He has served as an associate editor (contrast media) for Radiology since 2015.

Contact us

For questions, please email editfellowships@rsna.org.

Past Eyler fellows

  • 2023 Bruno Hochhegger, MD, PhD
  • 2022 Pejman Jabehdar Maralani, MD
  • 2021 Prabhakar Rajiah, MBBS, MD 
  • 2020 Shadpour Demehri, MD
  • 2019 Mariam Moshiri, MD 
  • 2018 Kathryn J. Fowler, MD
  • 2017 Andrew Rosenkrantz, MD
  • 2016 Meike Willemijn Vernooij, MD, PhD
  • 2015 Rajesh Krishnamurthy, MD
  • 2014 Matthew D.F. McInnes, MD
  • 2013 Mindy M. Horrow, MD
  • 2012 Birgit Ertl-Wagner, MD
  • 2011 John A. Carrino, MD, MPH
  • 2010 Edward Y. Lee, MD, MPH
  • 2009 José M. García Santos, MD
  • 2008 Andrew R. Forauer, MD
  • 2007 Johannes T. Heverhagen, MD, PhD
  • 2006 Jacob Sosna, MD 
  • 2005 Deborah Levine, MD
  • 2004 Harris L. Cohen, MD, FACR
  • 2003 Giuseppe Guglielmi, MD
  • 2002 Christoforos Stoupis, MD
  • 2001 Theodore T. Miller, MD
  • 2000 Kimberly Applegate, MD, MS
  • 2000 Stephan Grampp, MD, PhD
  • 1999 Douglas S. Katz, MD
  • 1999 Hans-Joachim Wagner, MD, PhD
  • 1998 Donald P. Frush, MD
  • 1998 Wilfred C. G. Peh, MD, FRCP, FRCR