December 7, 2022 — The highest grant bestowed to members by RSNA, its Gold Medal, was awarded to 3 deserving radiologists during the 108th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA 2022), held Nov. 27-Dec. 1, 2022 successful Chicago, IL. The Gold Medal is awarded annually by the Board of Directors to those persons who, successful the judgement of the Board, person rendered antithetic work to the subject of radiology, successful accordance with its bylaws, according to an RSNA feature detailing the 2022 Gold Medalists: Katherine P. Andriole, PhD, Vijay M. Rao, MD, and James A. Brink, MD.
With a hearty circular of applause to the recipients, the Imaging Technology News/ITN (itnonline.com) editorial squad is sharing portions of RSNA’s quality summary connected the awards, featuring important accomplishments of each deserving honoree.
Katherine P. Andriole, PhD
Dr. Andriole is presently an subordinate prof of radiology astatine Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the manager of world probe and acquisition astatine the Mass General Brigham Data Science Office. Her probe has progressive method arsenic good arsenic clinically applicable developments successful aesculapian imaging informatics, information analytics and instrumentality learning. A passionate educator, she has developed and taught aggregate ceremonial courses, directed fellowships successful biomedical imaging and informatics, and mentored much than 90 trainees. She is co-developer and co-director of the National Imaging Informatics Course. In addition, she has served connected respective NIH assistance reappraisal survey sections including Biomedical Computing and Healthcare Informatics and Big Data-to-Knowledge.
- Widely-renowned arsenic a starring adept successful radiological imaging informatics
- Advances aesculapian research, augments aesculapian acquisition and improves objective attraction with cumulative concepts from machine science, information subject and engineering
- Majored successful biomedical engineering astatine Duke University; an Angier B. Duke Scholar, studied 20th Century English lit astatine Oxford University
- Studied electrical engineering and medicine astatine Yale University wherever her PhD probe was successful classical instrumentality learning
- Completed postdoctoral fellowships astatine the University of California astatine Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of California astatine San Francisco (UCSF) departments of radiology
- Instrumental successful designing, building, implementing, and evaluating representation archiving and connection systems (PACS) astatine UCSF earlier they became commercialized entities
- One of the aboriginal adopters of Computed Radiography (CR) utilizing CR for the archetypal clip successful newborns including premature infants
- Medical Association Involvement and Accolades: Has served successful aggregate enactment roles for the Society for Imaging Informatics successful Medicine (SIIM), was inducted into College of SIIM Fellows, and is simply a SIIM Gold Medal recipient. Senior idiosyncratic for acquisition astatine the American College of Radiology (ACR) Data Science Institute, and serves connected the enforcement committee of the Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research. Named elder subordinate of the International Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), and was elected a subordinate of the Academy of Harvard Medical School
- Publishing excellence: An editorial committee subordinate of the Journal of Digital Imaging and is an subordinate exertion for the Journal of Medical Imaging and for Radiology: Artificial Intelligence
- RSNA leadership: Long-standing subordinate of its Radiology Informatics Committee; presently serves connected the RSNA Machine Learning Steering and Data Standards sub-committees. Faculty subordinate for Imaging AI Certificate Program, and taxable substance adept for R&E Foundation's Grant Oversight Committee, and serves arsenic co-director of the Imaging AI successful Practice Demonstration; named 3rd (2015) and 2nd (2018) vice president of RSNA, Dr. Andriole has received the RSNA Honored Educator Award aggregate times
Vijay M. Rao, MD
Dr. Rao serves arsenic the David C. Levin Professor and Emeritus Chair of Radiology astatine Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, and Senior Vice President of Enterprise Radiology and Imaging astatine Jefferson Health successful Philadelphia, PA.
- A planetary authorization connected caput and cervix imaging, and broadly recognized for her wellness services probe successful radiology, Dr. Rao serves arsenic a relation exemplary and root of inspiration for galore radiologists worldwide
- RSNA involvement: Currently serves arsenic the R&E Foundation Board chair; Named to the RSNA Board of Directors successful 2011, serving arsenic President-elect successful 2017 and President successful 2018. She has served the R&E Foundation arsenic a subordinate of the Board of Trustees from 2008 to 2011 and 2019 to 2022
- A postgraduate of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India's premier aesculapian school
- After completing her radiology residency successful 1978 astatine Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, she remained connected the faculty; served arsenic residency programme director, subordinate seat and past vice seat for education, and co-director of the Neuroradiology/ENT division
- Became the archetypal pistillate seat of a objective section successful Jefferson's past successful 2002, appointed Chair of Jefferson's Department of Radiology; named Senior Vice President of Enterprise Radiology and Imaging astatine Jefferson Health successful 2016, and is simply a trustee of the Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals board
- A prolific researcher and passionate educator, widely-recognized arsenic a thought person successful wellness services probe successful radiology
- Published implicit 220 peer-reviewed articles, a twelve publication chapters and 275 abstracts successful aesculapian lit and has edited a fashionable atlas textbook connected MRI and CT of the caput and neck, and has fixed 300 presentations astatine nationalist and planetary radiology meetings
- In 2005, Rao was honored by the Philadelphia Business Journal as 1 of 25 Women of Distinction passim the region. She has been consistently chosen by her peers to beryllium included on Philadelphia Magazine's annual database of Top Doctors and Best Doctors
- Association leadership: Has held galore enactment roles successful nationalist organizations: including president of the American Society of Head and Neck Radiology, the Association of Program Directors successful Radiology (APDR) and the American Association for Women Radiologists (AAWR). She served for respective years connected the committee of the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research and the Pennsylvania Radiologic Society
- Awards of Recognition: APDR Achievement Award and the AAWR Marie Curie Award; Gold Medals from the Association of University Radiologists, the Asian Oceanian Society of Radiology, and American Society of Head and Neck Radiology. She holds honorary rank successful the Israeli Radiological Society, the European Society of Radiology, the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association, and the French Society of Radiology on with its Medal of Honor
James A. Brink, MD
Dr. Brink is existent Chair of the Department of Radiology astatine Brigham and Women's Hospitals, radiologist-in-chief astatine Massachusetts General Hospital, main of endeavor radiology for Mass General Brigham wellness system, and the Juan M. Taveras Professor of Radiology astatine Harvard Medical School, each successful Boston, MA.
- Widely- recognized for his absorption connected the captious relation radiology plays successful advancing prime attraction astatine an affordable cost. As noted by RSNA’s Gold Medal summary, Brink champions radiologists arsenic poised to usage technological innovation toward aesculapian imaging advances that volition amended nationalist health
- Internationally known advocator for the monitoring and power of aesculapian radiation exposure, and arsenic a person successful organized radiology
- Past-President of some the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS), from which helium received a Gold Medal, and the American College of Radiology (ACR)
- Currently serves arsenic president of the International Society for Strategic Studies successful Radiology (IS3R) and was antecedently vice seat of the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
- Presented a Plenary league connected Value-Driven Health Care astatine RSNA 2021, “Radiology successful the Value-based Healthcare Arena: Player oregon Pawn?”
- Holds honorary rank successful the European Society of Radiology, the Japanese Radiological Society, the Chinese Society of Radiology, the Italian Society of Medical Radiology, the American Association of Physicists successful Medicine and the International Organization for Medical Physics
- Earned a BS grade successful electrical engineering astatine Purdue University; recognized by his alma mater with the Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award successful 2019; Earned aesculapian grade astatine Indiana University, completed residency and fellowship astatine Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). During his fellowship, Dr. Brink received an RSNA Research Fellow Grant
- Began his vocation astatine the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology astatine Washington University School of Medicine successful St. Louis, wherever helium roseate to the fertile of subordinate professor
- Joined the module astatine Yale University successful 1997, served arsenic seat of the Yale Department of Diagnostic Radiology from 2006 to 2013
- In 2020, elected Distinguished Emeritus Member by the National Council connected Radiation Protection and Measurements
For much information: https://www.rsna.org/annual-meeting
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