RSNA12.01.16
There are new leaders in charge of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
During its annual meeting this week in Chicago, Ill., the organization named Richard L. Ehman, M.D., as board president and Vijay M. Rao, M.D., as president-elect.
Ehman is professor of radiology and Blanche R. & Richard J. Erlanger Professor of Medical Research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
As president, Ehman pledged work to emphasize RSNA's commitment to foster continuous innovation in patient-focused radiology.
"Advances in medical imaging over the last few decades have provided amazing benefits for healthcare," Ehman said. "We need to recognize and quantify these contributions, not just so that we can celebrate them, but also because they provide evidence of an extraordinary return-on-investment for research in our field. As the leading radiology organization in the world, RSNA can help spread awareness outside of the radiology community of the high productivity and rapid clinical impact of our science."
Ehman earned his medical degree in 1979 from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. His internship at Foothills Hospital in Calgary, Alberta, was followed by a residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Calgary. In 1984, he completed a year-long research fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. This was followed by a clinical fellowship and his appointment to the staff of the Mayo Clinic in 1985.
Ehman has authored or co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific articles and has completed many invited lectures and visiting professorships. He has served on the editorial boards for multiple journals, including Radiology and Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
Ehman served on the Mayo Clinic Board of Governors from 2006 to 2014. In 2014, he was elected as an emeritus member of the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees. He has been an active member of many medical societies and is past-president of several organizations, including the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Academy of Radiology Research, and the Society for Body Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance.
Ehman has served as chair of the Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Study Section of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he has also served terms on the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and on the Council of Councils.
Ehman is an NIH-funded clinician-scientist and inventor. He holds more than 70 U.S. and foreign patents, and many of these inventions are widely used in medical care. Ehman was awarded the ISMRM gold medal in 1995, the RSNA Outstanding Researcher Award in 2006, an RSNA Honored Educator Award in 2016, and the gold medal of the Asian Oceanian Society of Radiology in 2016. He was named Mayo Clinic Distinguished Investigator in 2014. He is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology. In 2010, Ehman was elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, which is one of the highest honors in medicine in the United States.
As an RSNA member, Ehman has served on the Refresher Course Committee, Scientific Program Committee, Radiology Editorial Board, Research Development Committee, Grant Program Committee and the RSNA Research and Education Foundation Board of Trustees. In 2010, he was elected to RSNA's board of directors and in 2011 became the liaison for science. He served as board chair from 2014 to 2015 and president-elect from 2015 to 2016.
A global authority on head and neck imaging, and also recognized for her health services research in radiology, Rao is the David C. Levin Professor and Chair of Radiology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pa.
A graduate of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rao has remained on the faculty at Thomas Jefferson University since completing her residency there in 1978. She was appointed associate chair for education in 1989 and vice chair for education in 2000. In 2002, she became the first woman chair of a clinical department in the university's history. She is a trustee of the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital System.
As president-elect of the RSNA Board, Rao will support RSNA's commitment to innovative initiatives to deliver high-quality educational materials to the radiology community by leveraging digital technology.
"This will be a transformative journey for RSNA," Rao said. "In an effort to drive excellence in patient care, RSNA will continue to develop standards for image sharing, structured reports and shared decision making. I find it gratifying to see the RSNA Research and Education (R&E) Foundation increasing grants and awards to support brilliant young radiologists, allowing them to pursue their dreams, which also advances the field."
Rao has published more than 200 papers, 260 abstracts in medical literature, and a dozen book chapters, and she co-edited MRI and CT Atlas of Correlative Imaging in Otolaryngology. She is a highly regarded lecturer and educator and has given nearly 200 invited lectures at academic universities and meetings worldwide.
Rao has served on the editorial boards of multiple journals, including Academic Radiology, Journal of the American College of Radiology, and American Journal of Roentgenology. She has served as a manuscript reviewer for Radiology, American Journal of Neuroradiology, American Journal of Roentgenology, Academic Radiology, Neuroradiology, Pediatrics, and Health Affairs. She served as editor of ASHNR News, a publication of the American Society of Head & Neck Radiology, in 2001.
An RSNA member since 1981, Rao has led numerous courses and sessions at RSNA annual meetings and served on the Health Services Policy & Research subcommittee of the RSNA Scientific Program Committee. She has served the RSNA R&E Foundation in a number of roles, and has been a member of the board of trustees since 2008.
Rao has held committee or leadership positions in a number of major radiologic organizations, including the American Society of Neuroradiology and American College of Radiology, as well as regional organizations. She has served as president of the American Society of Head and Neck Radiology, the American Association for Women Radiologists and the Association of Program Directors in Radiology, which bestowed on her its Distinguished Achievement Award in 2006. She is also the 2014 recipient of the gold medal award, presented by the Association of University Radiologists, and the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award, presented by the American Association for Women Radiologists.
Rao was also honored in 2005 by the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of 25 Women of Distinction throughout the region. She has been chosen numerous times by her peers as a top doctor in Radiology, listed in Philadelphia Magazine. Rao served as RSNA board chair from 2015 to 2016.
During its annual meeting this week in Chicago, Ill., the organization named Richard L. Ehman, M.D., as board president and Vijay M. Rao, M.D., as president-elect.
Ehman is professor of radiology and Blanche R. & Richard J. Erlanger Professor of Medical Research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
As president, Ehman pledged work to emphasize RSNA's commitment to foster continuous innovation in patient-focused radiology.
"Advances in medical imaging over the last few decades have provided amazing benefits for healthcare," Ehman said. "We need to recognize and quantify these contributions, not just so that we can celebrate them, but also because they provide evidence of an extraordinary return-on-investment for research in our field. As the leading radiology organization in the world, RSNA can help spread awareness outside of the radiology community of the high productivity and rapid clinical impact of our science."
Ehman earned his medical degree in 1979 from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. His internship at Foothills Hospital in Calgary, Alberta, was followed by a residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Calgary. In 1984, he completed a year-long research fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. This was followed by a clinical fellowship and his appointment to the staff of the Mayo Clinic in 1985.
Ehman has authored or co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific articles and has completed many invited lectures and visiting professorships. He has served on the editorial boards for multiple journals, including Radiology and Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
Ehman served on the Mayo Clinic Board of Governors from 2006 to 2014. In 2014, he was elected as an emeritus member of the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees. He has been an active member of many medical societies and is past-president of several organizations, including the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Academy of Radiology Research, and the Society for Body Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance.
Ehman has served as chair of the Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Study Section of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he has also served terms on the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and on the Council of Councils.
Ehman is an NIH-funded clinician-scientist and inventor. He holds more than 70 U.S. and foreign patents, and many of these inventions are widely used in medical care. Ehman was awarded the ISMRM gold medal in 1995, the RSNA Outstanding Researcher Award in 2006, an RSNA Honored Educator Award in 2016, and the gold medal of the Asian Oceanian Society of Radiology in 2016. He was named Mayo Clinic Distinguished Investigator in 2014. He is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology. In 2010, Ehman was elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, which is one of the highest honors in medicine in the United States.
As an RSNA member, Ehman has served on the Refresher Course Committee, Scientific Program Committee, Radiology Editorial Board, Research Development Committee, Grant Program Committee and the RSNA Research and Education Foundation Board of Trustees. In 2010, he was elected to RSNA's board of directors and in 2011 became the liaison for science. He served as board chair from 2014 to 2015 and president-elect from 2015 to 2016.
A global authority on head and neck imaging, and also recognized for her health services research in radiology, Rao is the David C. Levin Professor and Chair of Radiology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pa.
A graduate of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rao has remained on the faculty at Thomas Jefferson University since completing her residency there in 1978. She was appointed associate chair for education in 1989 and vice chair for education in 2000. In 2002, she became the first woman chair of a clinical department in the university's history. She is a trustee of the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital System.
As president-elect of the RSNA Board, Rao will support RSNA's commitment to innovative initiatives to deliver high-quality educational materials to the radiology community by leveraging digital technology.
"This will be a transformative journey for RSNA," Rao said. "In an effort to drive excellence in patient care, RSNA will continue to develop standards for image sharing, structured reports and shared decision making. I find it gratifying to see the RSNA Research and Education (R&E) Foundation increasing grants and awards to support brilliant young radiologists, allowing them to pursue their dreams, which also advances the field."
Rao has published more than 200 papers, 260 abstracts in medical literature, and a dozen book chapters, and she co-edited MRI and CT Atlas of Correlative Imaging in Otolaryngology. She is a highly regarded lecturer and educator and has given nearly 200 invited lectures at academic universities and meetings worldwide.
Rao has served on the editorial boards of multiple journals, including Academic Radiology, Journal of the American College of Radiology, and American Journal of Roentgenology. She has served as a manuscript reviewer for Radiology, American Journal of Neuroradiology, American Journal of Roentgenology, Academic Radiology, Neuroradiology, Pediatrics, and Health Affairs. She served as editor of ASHNR News, a publication of the American Society of Head & Neck Radiology, in 2001.
An RSNA member since 1981, Rao has led numerous courses and sessions at RSNA annual meetings and served on the Health Services Policy & Research subcommittee of the RSNA Scientific Program Committee. She has served the RSNA R&E Foundation in a number of roles, and has been a member of the board of trustees since 2008.
Rao has held committee or leadership positions in a number of major radiologic organizations, including the American Society of Neuroradiology and American College of Radiology, as well as regional organizations. She has served as president of the American Society of Head and Neck Radiology, the American Association for Women Radiologists and the Association of Program Directors in Radiology, which bestowed on her its Distinguished Achievement Award in 2006. She is also the 2014 recipient of the gold medal award, presented by the Association of University Radiologists, and the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award, presented by the American Association for Women Radiologists.
Rao was also honored in 2005 by the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of 25 Women of Distinction throughout the region. She has been chosen numerous times by her peers as a top doctor in Radiology, listed in Philadelphia Magazine. Rao served as RSNA board chair from 2015 to 2016.