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Dr. John A. Shepherd
Receives Gluck Humanitarian Award

March 2013

John A. Shepherd, PhD, an Associate Professor of Radiology at UCSF, has been awarded the Dr. Oscar S. Gluck ISCD Humanitarian Award from the International Society For Clinical Densitometry in March 2013.

The Gluck ISCD Humanitarian Award is presented to an ISCD member with a history of contributing to the alleviation of human suffering, protection of life, outstanding service to the community, or the promotion of health in underserved populations – with no expectation of compensation.

Dr. Shepherd contributes his time as a capacity building expert in developing nations to promote the use of Dual X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) in studies that are important and supported by the host nation. Examples include monitoring bone and body composition in infants exposed to HIV drugs via the mother’s milk, malnutrition in infants, childhood obesity, childhood malnutrition, and calcium and vitamin D deficiency in adults and children. He trains local personnel and helps them develop their site operating procedures, while providing statistical study designs, data analyses, and manuscript preparations. In the past several years, he has made visits to establish DXA sites in the following countries: Guatemala, Jamaica, Zimbabwe, India, Syria, Egypt (Cairo Children's hospital), Kuwait, China (Nanning), South Africa (Soweto) and Chile.

Shepherd, Gluck Award

Dr. Shepherd is the director of the Breast and Bone Density Group at the Deparment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant to do research at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden at the end of this year.

http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/news/shepherd-gluck-award

Judy Yee, MD
Inducted as ACR Fellow

May 8, 2013

Judy Yee, M.D., has been inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Radiology (ACR). The induction took place at a formal convocation ceremony during the recent ACR Annual Meeting and Chapter Leadership conference May 4-8, 2013, in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Yee is Chief of Radiology at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. She is also a Professor and Vice Chair of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Yee is a member of the ACR where she serves as chair of the ACR Colon Cancer Committee and a member of the Body Imaging Commission. She also serves on the ACR Appropriateness Criteria Gastrointestinal Panel. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Abdominal Radiology and is in succession to become President. Dr. Yee received her medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

One of the highest honors the ACR can bestow on a radiologist, radiation oncologist or medical physicist is recognition as a fellow of the American College of Radiology. ACR Fellows demonstrate a history of service to the College, organized radiology, teaching or research. Approximately 10 percent of ACR members achieve this distinction.

The ACR is a national nonprofit association serving more than 34,000 radiologists, radiation oncologists, interventional radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians and medical physicists with programs focusing on the practice of radiology and the delivery of comprehensive health care services.

http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/news/judy-yee-acr-fellow

Chairman Ronald L. Arenson, MD
2013 AUR Gold Medal Award

April 30, 2013

Ronald L. Arenson, MD, Chairman of UCSF’s Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, became the recipient of the Association of University Radiologists’ (AUR) Gold Medal Award on April 12, 2013 at the AUR’s 61st Annual Meeting. The AUR’s highest honor, the Gold Medal, was bestowed on Dr. Arenson for his exceptional contributions to the research and clinical science of imaging, as well as to the AUR organization.

Ronald Arenson, MD, is the Alexander R. Margulis Distinguished Professor of Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco. He holds degrees from Duke University (AB in Mathematics) and New York Medical College (MD). Dr. Arenson was a systems engineer for IBM from 1963 through 1970. After completing his residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and serving in the Navy at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, he joined thefaculty at the University of Pennsylvania in 1976. At Penn, he served as Associate Chairman of Clinical Services, Department of Radiology, and was the interim Vice-Provost for Computing. He also served as President of the Medical Staff.

Dr. Arenson has conducted research and written extensively on Radiology Information Systems and Picture Archival and Communication Systems (PACS). His special interests include PACS, workload and finances in radiology, the future of academic radiology and research training. He is a fellow in the American College of Medical Informatics, in the American College of Radiology, and in the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine.

Dr. Arenson has served on numerous RSNA committees and is currently chairman of the RSNA Board of Directors. He recently finished his term on both the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and the NIH Council of Councils. He has served as the President of the Association of University Radiologists, the Society of Chairman of Academic Radiology Departments, the Board of GE-Radiology Research Academic Fellowship (GERRAF) and the Academy of Radiology Research. He is also past President of the medical staff at UCSF as well as past Chairman of the Credentials Committee.

http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/news/arenson-AUR

William P. Dillon, MD
2013 ASNR Research Award

April 25, 2013

The American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) recently announced that William P. Dillon, M.D., the Elizabeth A. Guillaumin Professor of Radiology, Executive Vice Chair of Radiology, and Chief of Neuroradiology at UCSF will be the 2013 recipient of the ASNR Outstanding Contributions in Research Award. This Award was established by the ASNR in 2004 to recognize Neuroradiologists who have demonstrated consistent excellence and lifelong accomplishment in basic or clinical neuroscience research.

Dr. Dillon received his medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed a diagnostic radiology residency at the University of Utah, followed by a Clinical Fellowship in Neuroradiology at UCSF in 1982. He was appointed Chief of the subspecialty of Neuroradiology at UCSF in 1992. Dr. Dillon is a past president of the American Society of Head and Neck Radiology (ASHNR) and the American Society of Neuroradiology. Dr. Dillon received the Gold Medal from the ASHNR in 2008 and the J. Elliott Royer Award for outstanding contributions to clinical neurology in 2011. Dr. Dillon has been a Senior Editor for the American Journal of Neuroradiology since 1998, and has also been a co-investigator in 25 funded projects and 10 clinical trials. He has published 234 articles, 23 book chapters, and 3 books.

The Outstanding Contributions in Research Award will be presented to Dr. Dillon at the annual ASNR meeting during the week of May 18–23, 2013.

http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/news/ASNR-dillon

John Shepherd, PhD,
Receives Fulbright Award

April 11, 2013

John A. Shepherd, PhD, an Associate Professor of Radiology at UCSF, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant to do research at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden during the 2013-2014 academic year, the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently.

Dr. Shepherd will work to combine the findings of the University of California’s Athena Breast Health Network with the Karolinska Institute’s Karma Study to create one of the world’s best-characterized breast cancer cohorts. His research will specifically study the derivation of breast cancer risk factors from screening mammograms to provide more powerful and consistent reporting of breast cancer risk to women as part of their mammography visit.
Dr. Shepherd has several patents in methods to measure breast density as a risk factor for breast cancer. In partnership with the San Francisco Mammography Registry, he has an active breast cancer risk cohort of over 200,000 women in the San Francisco Bay Area and his mammographic methods have been used in research around the world. Dr. Shepherd has published over 85 peer reviewed papers.

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the US government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The Program operates in 155 countries worldwide. Recipients are selected for Fulbright grants on the basis of outstanding academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.

You can learn more about Dr. Shepherd's research at the Breast and Bone Density Group website.

Katie Murphy

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