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RSNA Seeks New Host for Global Learning Center
RSNA is accepting applications from eligible hosts for the next Global Learning Center (GLC), a program designed to expand radiology education opportunities around the world.
RSNA is interested in partnering with established radiology departments based in low- or middle-income countries to create a GLC and improve the radiology department through education. GLC host locations must demonstrate a need for radiology education and resources and have a designated team lead with English fluency who will serve as a primary contact. Applications are available at RSNA.org/GLC.
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Access RSNA’s Database of Peer-Reviewed Cases and Images
RSNA Case Collection is a comprehensive education and point-of-care tool and a clinical resource of over a 1,000 image-focused case reports to enhance your professional development. Visit Cases.RSNA.org to:
- Search for specific case reports by subspecialty, modality, anatomy or diagnosis.
- Review COVID-19 cases.
- Test your knowledge on clinical information and images with quizzes.
- Submit your own cases to be a part of this cooperative resource and help grow knowledge for the entire radiology community.
Cases are shared and cited with a DOI upon acceptance. For more information, contact rsnacasecollection@rsna.org or 1-877-RSNA-MEM (1-877-776-2636) or 1-630-571-7873 outside the U.S. and Canada.
Iagaru Receives Inaugural SNMMI Award
Andrei Iagaru, MD, received the Sam Gambhir Trailblazer Award. Dr. Iagaru is a professor of radiology in nuclear medicine and chief of the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging at Stanford University, CA.
The new award was created in memory of Sanjiv “Sam” Gambhir, MD, PhD, who died in July 2020. Dr. Gambhir was a professor and chair of radiology at the Stanford School of Medicine and was recognized worldwide as a pioneer in molecular imaging.
Ghesani Named SNMMI President
Munir Ghesani, MD, assumed the office of president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI). Dr. Ghesani is chief of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging at Mount Sinai Health System and an associate professor of radiology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
Other incoming SNMMI officers include president-elect Helen Nadel, MD, and vice president-elect Cathy Sue Cutler, PhD.
SIR Awards 2022 Gold Medals, Names New Leadership
The Society for Interventional Radiology (SIR) presented gold medals to Janette Durham, MD, MBA, M. Victoria Marx, MD, and Scott O. Trerotola, MD.
Dr. Durham was an interventional radiologist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora where she fulfilled a variety of leadership roles including as vice chairman of radiology operations. Following her retirement, she served as acting chair of the Department of Medical Imaging at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She was the 2004 SIR president and received the 2020 SIR Foundation Frederick S. Keller, MD, Philanthropy Award.
Dr. Marx is a clinical professor of radiology in the IR division at the University of Southern California (USC). She was the first IR fellow at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology in St. Louis and was later part of the IR faculty of University of Michigan where she became the IR division director. Dr. Marx was the 2018 SIR president.
Dr. Trerotola is the Stanley Baum Professor of Radiology and professor of radiology in surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia. He is also associate chair and chief of IR and vice chair for quality and safety. Dr. Trerotola holds eight patents on devices for interventional procedures and has developed several techniques in prevalent use in IR. He was the 2001 SIR annual meeting chair and received the 2011 SIR Foundation’s Leader in Innovation Award.
The SIR announced Parag Patel, MD, as the 2022-2023 SIR president. Dr. Patel is a professor in the Department of Radiology, Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Additional members of the SIR executive council are president-elect, Alda Tam, MD, MBA, secretary Robert Lewandowski, MD, past-president Matthew Johnson, MD, and SIR Foundation treasurer Raymond Liu, MD.
In Memoriam: Raymond Damadian, MD
Widely recognized for his contributions to the development of MRI, Raymond Damadian, MD, died Aug. 3 in Woodbury, New York. He was 86.
Dr. Damadian’s discovery of the differences in nuclear magnetic resonance signal relaxation times between normal and cancerous tissue is thought to have laid the groundwork for today’s MRI. He published his findings and filed for a patent for his research in March 1971 and produced the first human MRI scan in July 1977. He founded the company Fonar in 1978 and made his first commercial MRI machine in 1980.
Dr. Damadian received the National Medal of Technology in 1988 and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1989. His original full-body MRI scanner was given to the Smithsonian Institute in the 1980s. In 2001, the Lemelson-MIT Prize Program awarded Dr. Damadian with its $100,000 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Dr. Damadian completed a degree in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, before earning his medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx, NY. He joined the faculty at State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate in Brooklyn where he began his investigation of nuclear magnetic resonance in body imaging.