Over three dozen faculty members, trainees, and medical students braved the chilly weather in Chicago for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting December 1-5, 2024. Our department’s expertise garnered wide recognition, with members receiving honors and awards across various areas of the field.
Elizabeth Burnside, MD made history as the first radiologist from UW–Madison to accept a Gold Medal from RSNA. This is the highest honor awarded by the society, and highlights Dr. Burnside’s exceptional service to the science of radiology. Read more about Dr. Burnside’s journey and her unique contributions to the field.
David Bluemke, MD, PhD and Perry Pickhardt, MD received Lifetime Honored Educator Awards. Additionally, Mark Schiebler, MD received an Honored Educator Award. The Honored Educator Award acknowledges those most invested in furthering radiologic education through the creation of high-quality educational content in their field of study. As Lifetime awardees, Drs. Bluemke and Pickhardt have each received three prior Honored Educator awards and were nominated for a fourth this year.
In recognition of their outstanding medical imaging research, Diego Hernando, PhD; Kevin Johnson, PhD; and Pallavi Tiwari, PhD were inducted into the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging’s Council of Distinguished Investigators Class of 2024 during the meeting.
Matthew Lee, MD was featured on RSNA’s Daily Bulletin for the education exhibit “CT Imaging Biomarkers for Phenotypic Biological Aging: Overview and Comparison with Other Radiological and Non-Radiological Approaches.” John Garrett, PhD and Perry Pickhardt, MD were co-authors on the exhibit.
Faculty, trainees, and students received the following accolades:
- Alison Gegios, MD; Amy Fowler, MD, PhD; Ryan Woods, MD; Roberta Strigel, MD; Thomas LoDuca, MD; Lonie Salkowski, MD, PhD; Mai Elezaby, MD; and Anand Narayan, MD, PhD received a Certificate of Merit for the education exhibit “Multi-Modality Review of Vascular Conditions of the Breast.”
- Matthew Lee, MD; Perry Pickhardt, MD; Meghan Lubner, MD; Giuseppe Toia, MD; and David Kim, MD received a Certificate of Merit for the education exhibit “Acute Mesenteric Ischemia (AMI): Understanding the Imaging Findings and Making a Critical Diagnosis.”
- Elizabeth Sadowski, MD received a Magna Cum Laude award for “A Picture Is Worth Thousand Words, But Optimized Imaging Is Priceless: Expert Guidance On How To Fine Tune Your Us Images For O-Rads Us Assessment.”
- Zahra Alyani Nezhad, a PhD student (advisor: Tim Szczykutowicz, PhD) won a Certificate of Merit for “Factors affecting contrast enhancement in computed tomography Imaging.”
- Aria Salyapongse, a PhD student (advisor: Tim Szczykutowicz, PhD) won a Cum Laude Award for “Explanation of non-physical values on spectral material density maps in CT.”
- Linying Zhan, a PhD student (advisor: Guang-Hong Chen, PhD) received the RSNA Trainee Research Prize for “Performance Evaluation in Photon Counting CT (PCD-CT): Measuring DQE and Detector Dead Time Using an Image-Based Framework.”
Over 60 faculty members, alumni, and colleagues from across the country came together to reconnect at the social mixer hosted by the department. The event also served as a celebration for those who were honored during the larger RSNA meeting.
Running from meeting to meeting wasn’t enough for Tim Szczykutowicz, PhD and Meghan Lubner, MD! They participated in the RSNA 5K Fun Run with research partners Eugene Liu, Mark Frontera, and Jean-Baptiste Thibault from GE HealthCare. Funds collected from the run support the RSNA Research & Education Foundation.
Review the full schedule to see what our faculty, trainees, and medical students presented at RSNA.