Highlights from the Conference Season

From faculty receiving lifetime achievement awards to medical students presenting their first poster, our department members shone brightly during this year’s conference season.

SPECTRUM 2024 Conference

January 11, 2024 - January 14, 2024 • Miami, Florida

Resident Allison Couillard, MD won the Best Abstract Award and presented at multiple sessions during the conference.

Society of Thoracic Radiology (STR) Annual Meeting

February 24, 2024 - February 28, 2024 • Tucson, Arizona

Resident Emily Kruger, MD won a Certificate of Merit for her poster “Phantoms of the Thorax.”

Society of Skeletal Radiology (SSR) Annual Meeting

March 2, 2024 - March 6, 2024 • San Juan, Puerto Rico

Donna Blankenbaker, MD completed her two-year term as president of the Society of Skeletal Radiology.

Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Annual Meeting

March 23, 2024 - March 28, 2024 • Salt Lake City, Utah

Eric Monroe, MD was inducted as a fellow of the society.

John Swietlik, MD was elected to a two-year term for the society’s Interventional Oncology Clinical Specialty Council.

Katrina Falk, a MD-PhD student under advisement of Paul Laeseke, MD and Martin Wagner, MD, won the Dr. Constantine Cope Medical Student Research Abstract award.

American College of Radiology (ACR) Annual Meeting

April 13, 2024 - April 17, 2024 • Washington, DC

Tess Chapman, MD became a fellow of the ACR, one of the highest honors that the group bestows.

Society of Abdominal Radiology (SAR) Annual Meeting

April 14, 2024 - April 19, 2024 • Hollywood, Florida

Andrew Wentland, MD, PhD was awarded the Morton Bosniak Award for ‘”Evaluation of Central Non-Enhancement in Solid Renal Masses” as part of the society’s Research Grant Awards.

Perry Pickhardt, MD was inducted to the board for the society.

Elizabeth Sadowski, MD received the DEI Achievement Award.

American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) Annual Meeting

May 5, 2024 - May 9, 2024 • Boston, Massachusetts

Anand Narayan, MD, PhD received a Certificate of Merit for the abstract “The Influence of Inequalities on Adverse Imaging Outcomes: A Multi-specialty, Case-Based Review.” Co-author Antonio Lopez matched with UW Radiology on Match Day 2024!

Asian Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (AFSUMB) Annual Meeting

May 9, 2024 - May 11, 2024 • Seoul, Korea

Research assistant Adrienne Kisting won the Young Investigator Award - Grand Prix for presenting “Histotripsy of the Ureter and Renal Pelvis in a Porcine Survival Model.”

Research assistant Meridith Kisting won the Best Poster Award - Gold for “Histotripsy near gas-filled bowel in an ex vivo swine model.”

Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM)

June 27, 2024 - June 29, 2024 • National Harbor, Maryland

Graduate Research Assistant Sheena Chu, MS’s paper “Advanced Analytics Tools Guide Clinical MRI Protocol Optimization and Quantify Value” received the Roger A. Bauman, MD award for best student paper. She is mentored by John Garrett, PhD and Scott Reeder, MD, PhD.