HONORS & AWARDS

During the Community Division’s Meeting on April 8, 2024, B. Dustin Pooler, MD was presented with the UnityPoint Health –Meriter Collegiality Award.

Paul Hick, MD, the president of the medical staff, established the award in 2018 to recognize medical staff members who exemplified the spirit of being a real colleague.

Among many reasons, Dr. Pooler received this award for always being available to consult. In fact, he arrived late to the evening meeting as he stayed late to help a colleague!

Guang-Hong Chen, PhD was one of three UW-Madison researchers who joined the 2023 class of National Academy of Inventors fellows.

Eric Monroe, MD was featured alongside colleagues from multiple disciplines in the UW Health article “Lucy enjoying kindergarten after liver transplant.”

Nandakumar Menon, MD has been accepted into the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) 2024 Future Leaders Academy, which is designed to develop essential leadership skills and organizational expertise.

Amy Fowler, MD was appointed to a threeyear term on the Radiological Society of North America’s Quantitative Imaging Committee (QUIC).

Dr. Fowler also presented the 30th annual Hyman R. Senturia Memorial Lecture titled “Breast PET/MRI and Hormone Receptor Imaging” at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology on February 7, 2024.

Daniela Martin Rother, MD became co-director of the American College of Radiology (ACR)’s High Resolution CT of the Chest course in July. Dr. Martin served as faculty of the course for the past two years, and helped revamp the course.

Alan McMillan, PhD was a panelist for The President and First Lady’s Cancer Moonshot annual webinar on December 5, 2023. The panel discussion was on artificial intelligence in cancer diagnostics and treatment.

Dr. McMillan also served as a mentor for the Mercile J. Lee Scholars Program Hackathon. The program was established in 1984 to increase educational opportunities for underrepresented students with the aim to create a more diverse and inclusive learning environment at UW.

Sylvana Garcia-Rodriguez, PhD and the RADIUS team won first prize at the RSNA 3D printing course for “A Novel Method for Creating Patient-Specific Models in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.” This project was a collaboration between Radiology, Food Science, and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery.

JP Yu, MD, PhD was selected to serve a three-year term on the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s Research Professor Track Appointments and Promotion Committee.

Prashant Nagpal, MD was an editor for Advances and Innovations in Cardiovascular Imaging published by Radiologic Clinics.

Allison Grayev, MD began her term as president of the Alliance of Medical Student Educators in Radiology during the Association of University Radiologists annual meeting.

Jonathan Engle, PhD was awarded the Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award for excellence in research and teaching.

Ran Zhang, PhD and Thomas Grist, MD received the Moses & Sylvia Greenfield Award at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine meeting for the paper “A quality-checked and physics-constrained deep learning method to estimate material basis images from single-kV contrastenhanced chest CT Scans.”

Jeffrey Kanne, MD was appointed Editorin-Chief of the Journal of Thoracic Imaging (JTI). Prior to this appointment, Dr. Kanne served as Deputy Editor.

Perry Pickhardt, MD delivered the talk “There’s Gold in Them Thar Scans! AIDriven Opportunistic CT Biomarkers for Adding Value Beyond the Clinical Indication” at the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital on January 26, 2024.

Edward Lawrence, MD, PhD and Steve Cho, MD were featured in the e-newsletter ACR Daily Scan for their findings from “MP18-18 Impact of 18F-DCFPYL PSMA PET on Accuracy of MPMRI In Men With Low And Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer: Interim Analysis of a Phase II Diagnostic Trial.” David Jarrad, MD from the Urology department was also involved in the project and won Best Poster for the project at the American Urologic Association.

In addition to celebrating the graduates, the Resident Graduation Ceremony featured our dedicated educators.

Michael Tuite, MD and Tyler Prout, MD received a UW Health’s Patient Safety Leadership Award in recognition of going above and beyond to improve patient safety.

Tess Chapman, MD was recognized by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for her many hours as a dedicated volunteer for a review committee.

Matthew Lee, MD was featured in the article “Capturing the Unseen” for the April edition of Radiology Today.

Anand Narayan, MD, PhD was appointed as chair of the American College of Radiology (ACR)’s Commission on Patient and Family Centered Care Outreach Committee.

Elizabeth Burnside, MD; Amy Fowler, MD, PhD; and Steve Cho, MD represented the department during the visit by NIH Director Dr. Monica Bertagnolli.

Chair Scott Reeder, MD, PhD honored David Kim, MD for his 19 years serving as the Diagnostic Residency program director. Other awards included:

Medical Student Award for Outstanding Teaching: By Faculty: Prashant Nagpal, MD

By a Resident: Alex Griffith, MD

Resident Award for Outstanding Teaching:

By Faculty: Jeffrey Kanne, MD

By a Fellow: Stephen Polanski, MD

By a Technologist: Christina Hendricks