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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN RADIOLOGISTS SPRING 2000 focus VOL. 20 NO. 2 FROM YOUR PRESIDENT M. Ines Boechat, MD, FACR Dear fellow AAWR members, number of members, they are well below the total number of women who practice radiol- In this spring issue of Focus, I am glad to re- ogy in the United States and Canada. port on many new developments concerning Therefore, it is very important to strengthen the American Association for Women our position by recruiting new members, not Radiologists (AAWR). Our management only among residents and fellows, but also in transition from the American College of the ranks of well-established radiologists. If Radiology (ACR) to the Radiological Society each of us could recruit one new member this of North America (RSNA) was completed in year, we would potentially increase the num- the first week of February, 2000, when 37 ber of AAWR members to almost 4000. boxes containing files and documents were Membership application forms can be down- transferred to our new headquarters in Oak loaded from our Web site, so go ahead! Brook, IL. We are bound to find hidden trea- I want to extend an invitation to you to in sures within these boxes after reviewing and attend the upcoming AAWR activities dur- cataloguing the documents, and I will share ing the annual meeting of the American focus them with you in the months to come. Roentgen Ray Society that will take place in Communications Resource Management Washington, DC. We welcome your partici- In Memoriam: Helen C. Redman, (CRM) now manages our Web page, and the pation as a volunteer to staff our booth, a MD, FACR...................................2 new site premiered on February 15, 2000. great way to meet other members and recruit Alice Ettinger and the AAWR ....3 Take a moment to visit at www.aawr.org, and new ones. The AAWR Executive Committee Mini-Tutorial on the Internet– give us your feedback and suggestions for im- will meet on May 7, 2000, to discuss many Part 4...........................................4 provement. The Web site should become a relevant issues, including further work on “How I Became a Fellow of the place for very dynamic interaction between the AAWR’s International Corresponding ACR, The Academic us and can only improve with your participa- Membership. If there are issues that you Radiologist’s Perspective .......6 tion. The new Membership Directory is cur- would like us to discuss at the meeting, feel Kudos and Plaudits......................6 rently under production. We need accurate in- free to contact me. On Tuesday, May 9, we Radiation Oncology Corner .......7 formation about our members. Please check will have a special guest at the AAWR lun- Classifieds .....................................8 your name and address as they appear in the cheon, Dr. Nancy Hopkins, from MIT. She To Our Members-in-Training...10 current directory and send us corrections or will speak about the status of women faculty Lise Swanson .............................10 updates if necessary. at MIT. Her presentation should be most in- Announcements.........................11 One of the greatest challenges that med- teresting and relevant to all of us, particu- ical organizations face today is the continued larly those in academia. The new millen- decrease in membership. An organization’s nium has been an exciting time of growth for survival depends on the maintenance of a rep- the AAWR. I look forward to hearing your resentative constituency identified with its feedback and meeting many of you in the goals. While the AAWR has a significant months to come. 1 AAWR focus In Memoriam HELEN C. REDMAN, MD, FACR A WOMAN OF DISTINCTION By Kathleen A. Ward, MD Helen C. Redman, founding member of the AAWR and re- of Radiology. She was the first woman president of the cipient of the 1999 AAWR Marie Curie Award, passed away Radiological Society of North America. She chaired the Hon March 13, 2000. Dr. Redman was the Frederick Bonte RSNA Program Committee, and later served as chairman of Professor of Radiology and the Vice-Chairman for Academic the RSNA Board of Directors and Board of Trustees. Dr. Affairs at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Redman was particularly proud to have been the first woman Center in Dallas. Her areas of expertise included angiogra- president of the Texas Radiological Society. phy and body imaging. A Fellow in the Society of Cardiovascular and Dr. Redman was born in Newton, MA. She received her Interventional Radiology, Dr. Redman presented the BA degree in Biology from the University of Rochester Charles Dotter Lecture at the meeting of the Society of (NY) and her MD degree from the Columbia University Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology in 1994. She College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Redman completed also held membership in the American Roentgen Ray her internship and radiology residency at the Palo Alto- Society, American Society of Emergency Radiology, Stanford Hospital, where she not only was the first woman Association of Program Directors in Radiology, resident, but also served as chief resident. As a James Picker Association of University Radiologists, and the Western Fellow in Radiologic Research, Dr. Redman studied under Angiography Society. Professor Olle Olson at the Roentgen Institute in Lund, Dr. Redman was an honorary member of the European Sweden. She subsequently served on the staff of the Congress of Radiology and held an honorary fellowship in University of Pittsburgh and the University of Michigan, but the Royal College of Surgeons Faculty of Radiology in later returned to California to serve as Clinical Associate Dublin, Ireland. She presented the Cook Invitational Lecture Professor of Radiology at Stanford and as Clinical Professor for the Royal College of Radiologists in Norwich, England, of Radiology at the University of California at San as well as the 50th Anniversary Lecture for the Korean Francisco. In 1983, Helen Redman joined the staff of Radiological Society in Seoul. Dallas’ Parkland Memorial Hospital as Chief of Vascular In a past interview for AAWR’s Focus, Dr. Redman sug- and Interventional Radiology. She later assumed the posts of gested that it was crucial for women to find a mentor to Chief of Special Procedures and Body Imaging and Chief of sponsor them. She encouraged “all women with an interest Genitourinary Radiology. to try and become active in the society of their choice, Dr. Redman authored or co-authored over 80 journal whether the smaller subspecialty organizations or the na- publications, 23 book chapters and 5 books and mono- tional organizations such as the American Roentgen Ray graphs, including Gastrointestinal Angiography. She served Society or the RSNA.” She believed, “the more women be- on the editorial boards of the American Journal of come involved, the more women will become leaders and Roentgenology, Radiology, and the Journal of Vascular and hold positions of prestige and power, enabling them to serve Interventional Radiology. as mentors to future women.” A mentor to many women ra- Helen Redman was a Fellow of the American College of diologists and leader to all, Dr. Redman was indeed a Radiology and served on its Board of Chancellors. She was woman of distinction and will be greatly missed by men and a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Board women radiologists alike. 2 Spring 2000 AAWR focus ALICE ETTINGER AND AND THE THE AAWR By Barbara L. Carter, MD Dr. Carter is the 1999 recipient of the Alice Ettinger Award. She is Professor of Radiology and Otolaryngology at Tufts School of Medicine and Chief of Ear, Nose and Throat Radiology at the New England Medical Center. It has been a great honor to receive the Alice Ettinger Award, the early days of radiology she recognized the importance of a recognition that I deeply appreciate and for which I am tomography and zonography in the study of the kidney, the most grateful. The Alice Ettinger Award was named after a lung, the trachea and the skeleton. She emphasized angiogra- woman radiologist who was a great leader, an outstanding phy and other techniques in the early diagnosis of renal tu- clinician and a superb teacher. Her colleagues referred to her mors, intravenous cholangiography in the evaluation of the as the “Grande Dame Extraordinaire” of Radiology. gallbladder, and specialized gastrointestinal radiology stud- Alice Ettinger was born in Germany and wanted to enter ies in the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease. Dr. the world of business by managing theater companies but was Ettinger worked in collaboration with nephrologists to iden- told this would be an impossible career for a woman and one tify the potential hazards of contrast material with regards to without a future or possibility of success. Therefore, she mod- renal failure. She was a founding member of the Society of ified her goals and decided to pursue a career in medicine. Gastrointestinal Radiology and the Society of Genitourinary She attended the Chamisso Gymnasium of Berlin and the Radiology. She was nationally and internationally recog- Albert Ludwig University Medical School in Freiburg. While nized and received the Gold Medals of the Radiological training in general medicine, she developed a deep personal Society of North America and the American College of concern for her patients and felt she would best serve them if Radiology in 1982 and 1984 respectively. she could learn more about an evolving new specialty called Dr. Ettinger was also devoted to her students. She de- radiology. She became interested in the gastrointestinal tract manded the very best instruction from their teachers, who and studied under Dr. Berg, then world-renowned for his new were privileged enough to be asked to teach! She treated stu- radiologic “mucosal relief technique.” Dr. Berg had designed dents with great respect and in turn expected them to learn and built an innovative machine that would allow the record- medicine and radiology.