Member updates
RSNA Board of Directors Nominations Due March
RSNA’s Nominating Committee is seeking nominations for qualified candidates to serve in two director positions—one standing director and one at-large director—with terms beginning in December 2024.
Standing directors fulfill a seven-year term, serving as chair of the Board in the sixth year and as president in the seventh year. At-large directors serve a three-year term.
Members of the Board of Directors serve as liaisons to various committees and participate in five in-person Board meetings throughout the year.
RSNA’s Board of Directors is a highly skilled group of individuals committed to improving the future of radiology and advancing the Society’s mission. To help ensure inclusion of diverse perspectives and needed expertise, the Board is looking to add directors during this call for nominations who have experience and expertise in one or more of the following areas: scholarly publications; quality; public information and communications; and diversity, equity and inclusion.
Nominations are open from Feb. 1 through March 20 at 5 p.m. CT. The Nominating Committee will review the nominations and recommend a slate of candidates to the Board. Eligible members will vote on the final slate of candidates during the annual business meeting later this year.
To learn more about the nomination criteria and to nominate yourself or another candidate for an open position, visit RSNA.org/BOD-Nominations.
Last Chance to Apply for 2024 Emerging Issues Grant
Time is running out to apply for an R&E Foundation Emerging Issues grant. This funding opportunity was developed to rapidly and effectively address urgent issues that threaten the health and well-being of disparate populations.
Two topics will be highlighted for 2024: value-based radiology, which includes research related to the application of implementation and improvement science to the delivery of high-quality and efficient care; and sustainability and greening of radiology, which centers on reducing the environmental impact of medical imaging.
The application deadline is March 22. Learn more at RSNA.org/Research/Funding-Opportunities.
Find Your Next Great Opportunity with RSNA Career Connect
RSNA Career Connect can help you take the next step in your professional journey. Seamlessly search available jobs, showcase your CV and create an alert to notify you as positions become available. Visit RSNA.org/Careers to access RSNA Career Connect and other resources to help find your next great opportunity.
Planning for Lumbar MR Spondylosis Challenge Underway
RSNA is planning to launch the RSNA Lumbar MR Spondylosis AI Challenge, in association with the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) and the American Society of Spine Radiology, during the ASNR Annual Meeting in May.
The new AI challenge will ask competitors to build models to detect and classify degenerative spine conditions using lumbar spine MRI images. The carefully curated and annotated dataset that will be used for the challenge includes images from more than 10 sites on six continents.
Prior RSNA AI challenges have drawn well over 1,000 teams composed of expert AI researchers from around the world. The highest performing models are made available under open licenses to encourage additional research.
Learn more about this and previous RSNA AI Challenges.
Publish Your Work in Radiology Advances
Maximize discoverability and promote broader distribution of your radiology research with Radiology Advances, RSNA’s new open access, peer-reviewed journal.
Published in partnership with Oxford University Press, Radiology Advances is a global, open access forum that focuses on the timely publication of a broad spectrum of high-quality radiology and medical imaging research.
Led by Susanna I. Lee, MD, PhD, chief of women’s imaging and officer of mentored research at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, the Radiology Advances editorial board represents three continents and boasts expertise in more than 20 subspecialty areas.
Submissions undergo a rigorous peer review process that includes double-anonymized peer review and ensures the highest quality for this growing publication.
Publish your research in Radiology Advances to increase its impact and contribute to unfettered access to scholarly data to accelerate medical research. Learn more at RSNA.org/Journals.
Bringing Vital Research to Light
In keeping with our mission to promote excellence in patient care and health care delivery through education, research and technologic innovation, RSNA continuously invests in the future of radiology. This investment takes a variety of forms that deliver both direct and indirect benefits to our members.
We are steadfast in our commitment to bringing vital research to light by:
- Publishing the highest quality research in our five established, peer-reviewed journals.
- Seeking new ways to make research accessible, as with our new open-access journal, Radiology Advances.
- Providing support through the RSNA R&E Foundation which has funded $78 million in grants since its inception.
- Advancing radiology education, promoting investigation and bringing new perspectives to the conversation through outreach efforts in low- and middle-resourced areas across the globe.
- Hosting the world’s largest radiology conference and welcoming a global audience to gather, connect and experience the latest research, technology and innovations in the field.
- Making critical data available to researchers through the Medical Imaging Data and Resource Center (MIDRC) which is hosted by the University of Chicago and in collaboration with RSNA, the American College of Radiology and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
Through our efforts to educate, engage and empower our members, RSNA helps create ripples of innovation. We enable members to try new things and explore possibilities. The benefits reverberate through the radiology community, boosting individual careers, opening new horizons and ensuring advancement in the field.
Costello Awarded ARRS Gold Medal
The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) awarded its 2024 gold medal to former ARRS president and chair of the Roentgen Fund board of trustees Philip Costello, MD. He will be formally recognized during the ARRS annual meeting in May. He served as ARRS president from 2018 to 2019.
Dr. Costello is a faculty member and professor of radiology at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He served as chief of the institution’s Radiology and Integrated Center for Comprehensive Excellence from 2004 to 2021.
Following his start as a house physician at Westminster Medical School in London, Dr. Costello began his North American career in radiology at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He later worked at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston where he was director of CT and thoracic imaging until 1996 when he began working at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide, Australia, as director of diagnostic radiology. In 1999, Dr. Costello was made chief of thoracic imaging at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and was appointed professor of radiology.
ACR Names Next CEO
The American College of Radiology (ACR) named Dana H. Smetherman, MD, MPH, MBA, as its next CEO. Dr. Smetherman, who will assume the new position on July 1, will be the first woman to fill the role.
A diagnostic radiologist specializing in breast imaging, Dr. Smetherman is chair of the Department of Radiology and associate medical director for medical specialties at the Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans. She is also a past member of the Ochsner Health System board of directors.
IN MEMORIAM
Bruce J. Hillman, MD
Renowned radiologist and founding editor of Academic Radiology and the Journal of the American College of Radiology, Bruce J. Hillman, MD, died Jan. 9, in Goldsboro, NC. He was 76.
Dr. Hillman enjoyed a long and decorated career, earning his medical degree from the University of Rochester in New York and training in radiology at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. He completed a research fellowship in genitourinary radiology at the National Institutes of Health, and later served at the University of Arizona in Tempe where he became professor and vice chair of radiology.
In 1992, Dr. Hillman was appointed chair of the University of Virginia (UVA) Department of Radiology in Charlottesville where he was influential in developing the institution’s first outpatient imaging center. He also oversaw the transition from film-based imaging to a PACS system and served as president of UVA’s physicians’ corporation, the Health Services Foundation.
Dr. Hillman served in many volunteer leadership roles including as president of several radiological societies and long-time member of the American College of Radiology (ACR) board of chancellors. Dr. Hillman also founded and chaired the ACR Imaging Network. He was awarded the 2007 RSNA Outstanding Researcher Award and the RSNA Gold Medal in 2011. Throughout his career he earned gold medals from the Association of University Radiologists, Society of Uroradiology and the ACR.
William J. Casarella, MD
RSNA Gold Medalist and former president of the American Board of Radiology (ABR) and the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS), William J. Casarella, MD, died Feb. 2 in Atlanta. He was 86.
Dr. Casarella graduated cum laude from Yale University and earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He completed an internship at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and an internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital before joining the U.S. Army as a flight surgeon. After military service, he completed a diagnostic radiology residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medial Center, New York, where he stayed for 11 years, eventually becoming professor of radiology and chief of the cardiovascular radiology section.
Later recruited by Emory University in Atlanta to chair the institution’s Department of Radiology, Dr. Casarella expanded the department’s faculty and facilities and built a strong residency training program. He was eventually made executive associate dean for clinical affairs at Emory Healthcare.
Dr. Casarella is recognized as a pioneer in interventional radiology and credited with helping develop techniques used in cardiology, vascular surgery and neurosurgery today. In addition to holding leadership roles at the ABR and ARRS, he was a founding member and president of the Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, now known as the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR). Dr. Casarella also received gold medals from the American College of Radiology (ACR), ARRS and SIR.
A longtime RSNA member, Dr. Casarella presented the RSNA Annual Oration in Diagnostic Radiology in 1987. He served as an associate editor and consultant to the editor for Radiology and as a manuscript reviewer for RadioGraphics and other medical journals.