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AUGUST 2004 ■ V OLUME 14, NUMBER 8 Photo courtesy of William E. Shiels II, D.O. William E. Shiels of courtesy Photo Radiologists Assist Colleagues in Iraq Also Inside: ■ Patients and Physicians Uninformed About CT Risks, Study Says ■ FDA Science Forum Hears Pros/Cons of CAD ■ Chicago’s Cultural Activities Add Allure to RSNA 2004 ■ FUJIFILM Pledges $500,000 to R&E Foundation www.rsna.org Course Enrollment Open for RSNA 2004 AUGUST 2004 EDITOR Susan D. Wall, M.D. DEPUTY EDITOR Bruce L. McClennan, M.D. CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Robert E. Campbell, M.D. 1 People in the News MANAGING EDITOR 2 Announcements Natalie Olinger Boden 4 RSNA Board of Directors Report EXECUTIVE EDITOR Joseph Taylor Feature Articles EDITORIAL ADVISORS Dave Fellers, C.A.E. 6 Patients and Physicians Uninformed About CT Risks, Executive Director Study Says Roberta E. Arnold, M.A., M.H.P.E. 8 FDA Science Forum Hears Pros/Cons of CAD Assistant Executive Director Publications and Communications 10 Radiologists Assist Colleagues in Iraq EDITORIAL BOARD 12 Chicago’s Cultural Activities Add Allure to Susan D. Wall, M.D. RSNA 2004 Chair Bruce L. McClennan, M.D. Vice-Chair Funding Radiology’s Future Lawrence W. Bassett, M.D. 20 FUJIFILM Pledges $500,000 to R&E Foundation Richard H. Cohan, M.D. David S. Hartman, M.D. 21 R&E Foundation Donors Richard T. Hoppe, M.D. William T.C. Yuh, M.D., M.S.E.E. Hedvig Hricak, M.D., Ph.D. 16 Program and Grant Announcements Board Liaison 17 RSNA: Working for You CONTRIBUTING WRITERS 18 Journal Highlights Stephen Barlas Bruce K. Dixon 19 Radiology in Public Focus Joan Drummond 22 Product News Amy Jenkins, M.S.C. 23 Meeting Watch GRAPHIC DESIGNER Adam Indyk 24 Exhibitor News WEBMASTERS 25 www.rsna.org James Georgi Ken Schulze 2004 RSNA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Robert R. Hattery, M.D. Chairman R. Gilbert Jost, M.D. Liaison for Annual Meeting and Technology RSNA News Letters to the Editor August 2004 • Volume 14, Number 8 E-mail: [email protected] Theresa C. McLoud, M.D. Liaison for Education Published monthly by the Radiological Society Fax: (630) 571-7837 of North America, Inc., at 820 Jorie Blvd., RSNA News Gary J. Becker, M.D. Oak Brook, IL 60523-2251. Printed in the USA. 820 Jorie Blvd. Liaison for Science Oak Brook, IL 60523 POSTMASTER: Send address correction Hedvig Hricak, M.D., Ph.D. Subscriptions “changes” to: RSNA News, 820 Jorie Blvd., Oak Phone: (630) 571-7873 Liaison for Publications and Communications Brook, IL 60523-2251. E-mail: [email protected] Burton P. Drayer, M.D. Nonmember subscription rate is $20 per year; Reprints and Permissions Liaison-designate for Annual Meeting and $10 of active members’ dues is allocated to a Phone: (630) 571-7829 Technology subscription of RSNA News. Fax: (630) 590-7724 Brian C. Lentle, M.D. Contents of RSNA News copyrighted ©2004 by E-mail: [email protected] President the Radiological Society of North America, Inc. RSNA Membership: (877) RSNA-MEM David H. Hussey, M.D. President-elect PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Pisano Heads New UNC Research Center tta D. Pisano, M.D., has been hensive Cancer Center’s breast Echosen as the director of the cancer program. new Biomedical Research Imaging Dr. Pisano is also a principal Center at the University of North investigator for the national Digital Carolina (UNC) in Chapel Hill. Dr. Mammography Imaging Screening Pisano has been chief of breast Trial for which study results will imaging in the UNC Department be released next year. of Radiology, and was co-leader of the school’s Lineberger Compre- Etta D. Pisano, M.D. Kyoto University Gets ACR Elects New President, First Female Chair Chair Kaori Togashi, M.D., Ph.D., E. Stephen Amis, M.D., is the new has been appointed professor president of the American College of and chair of the Department Radiology (ACR). He was elected in of Nuclear Medicine and May at the ACR annual meeting. Dr. Diagnostic Imaging at Kyoto Amis had served as ACR chairman University’s Graduate School since September 2002. of Medicine. James Borgstede, M.D., is the Dr. Togashi is the first Kaori Togashi, M.D., new ACR chairman. Dr. Borgstede was woman to chair a department E. Stephen Amis, M.D. Ph.D. previously the ACR vice-chairman. at the university’s medical In addition, ACR has elected or school, and the first woman in Japan to chair a radiol- re-elected Arl Van Moore, M.D., as ogy department in a national university. vice-chairman; William F. Mason, She credits publication in Radiology as one reason M.D., as vice-president; Sarah Don- for her success. “An achievement in the research field aldson, M.D., as secretary-treasurer; is hard to evaluate,” Dr. Togashi explains. “To prepare Paul H. Ellenbogen, M.D., as speaker; for appointments, the committee tends to rely on cita- and Albert L. Blumberg, M.D., as tion index, impact factor and brand name of the pub- vice-speaker. lished journal. Publishing in Radiology has helped me a great deal. It was also an honorable experience for me to teach at the RSNA annual meetings.” James Borgstede, M.D. Image Engineering Selects New VP Sonora Has New VP Image Engineering Labora- Sat-Pad™, a proprietary, Sonora Medical Systems has to the medical imaging com- tories, LLC, has hired Chris FDA-approved device promoted Christopher munity. Cone was previously Kulp to serve as vice-presi- designed to improve image Cone, M.B.A., to vice-presi- senior director of business dent of sales and marketing. quality in high field MR dent of sales and marketing. development. Image Engineering is the imaging. Sonora is a leading supplier exclusive worldwide mar- of after-market products, keter and distributor of the services and test equipment Send your submissions for People in the News to [email protected], (630) 571-7837 fax, or RSNA News, 820 Jorie Blvd., Oak Brook, IL 60523. Please include your full name and telephone number. You may also include a non-returnable color photo, 3x5 or larger, or electronic photo in high-resolution (300 dpi or higher) TIFF or JPEG format (not embedded in a document). RSNA News maintains the right to accept information for print based on membership status, newsworthiness and available print space. RSNANEWS. ORG RSNA NEWS 1 PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Haacke Earns ISMRM Gold Medal AAPM Announces 2004 Awards The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (ISMRM) has presented its gold medal to Medicine (AAPM) has presented its 2004 E. Mark Haacke, Ph.D., head of the MR Research awards and honors. The recipients are: Facility at Harper Hospital in Detroit. • Clifton Ling, Ph.D. – William D. Dr. Haacke was awarded the medal for his pio- Coolidge Award neering work with MR angiography and MR venogra- • Donald Herbert, Ph.D. – Achievement phy, his sequence design contributions in fast imaging in Medical Physics Award and his role as an educator in MR imaging science. • Mark Carol, M.D. – Honorary Member He is currently working with susceptibility- E. Mark Haacke, Ph.D. • Paul Lauterbur, Ph.D. – Honorary weighted imaging and its applications in stroke, Member trauma, tumor identification and Alzheimer disease. ANNOUNCEMENTS IHE Moves to Next Level he Integrating the Healthcare (HIMSS) are the founding sponsors of www.healthimaging.com/archives/HIIT/ Enterprise (IHE) initiative is suc- IHE. More recently, the American Col- HIIT_2004/HIIT0204/HIIT020407.htm. Tcessfully moving forward with its lege of Cardiology (ACC) agreed to At RSNA 2004, IHE will be show- goal to provide standards for data inte- sponsor IHE work in the domain of cased in a major exhibit and a series of gration throughout the healthcare cardiology. IHE has also grown inter- classroom sessions in the infoRAD area industry. New technical documents nationally with IHE activities currently of the meeting. For the first time, a dis- have been published in cardiology and in Asia, Europe and North tributed demonstration of laboratory, adding to the documents America. the new Portable Data for previously published in IT infrastruc- A recent article in Imaging integration profile ture and radiology. These documents Health Imaging and IT will enable participants are available at www.rsna.org/ihe. Magazine, “IHE: It’s Not who are exhibiting at the Using established healthcare data Just for Imaging Any- conference to display the standards such as HL7 and DICOM, more,” describes the capabilities of their sys- IHE specifies communications among expansion of the initiative and its tems to share patient information via systems to allow for easy integration. importance in addressing the clinical removable media—such as CDs— RSNA and the Healthcare Information need for information sharing in health- directly in their technical exhibit and Management Systems Society care today. To see the article, go to booths. Request a Printed Copy of the RSNA Meeting Program The deadline is September 1st for Department at (877) RSNA-MEM RSNA members to request a printed [776-2636] (U.S. and Canada) or copy of the 2004 RSNA Scientific (630) 571-7873. 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