New Board President,
Dr. Christopher Schultz
On July 1, 2009, Christopher J. Schultz, MD, a 2000 graduate of UCSF's radiology residency became president of The Margulis Society. His two-year term follows that of Dr. Donna Hoghooghi who served as president from July 2007- June 2009.

Schultz received his MD in 1995 from the University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS. He completed a four year radiology residency at UCSF in 2000, followed by a one-year fellowship in Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Ultrasound at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, AZ. Schultz works as a radiologist at Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa, CA.

Support for Resident Research
The 2009 Margulis Society research grant recipient was Timothy Shepherd, MD, PhD (PGY4) for his project entitled: "Diffusion Anisotropy Changes in the Human Hippocampus as an improved MRI  Surrogate Marker of Alzheimer's Disease".

Career Conference 2009
The Margulis Society hosted their tenth annual career conference in July 2009 at the home of board member Dr. Donna Hoghooghi. Panelists included Jeffrey Dieden, MD and Camilla Lindan, MD, from private practice and UCSF faculty Aliya Qayyum, MBBS and David E. Avrin, MD, PhD.  Dr. Erik Gaensler directed the conference which provided information geared towards the career needs of residents and fellows. A question and answer session following the panelists presentation gave attendees the opportunity to learn about private practice and academic careers options in addition to gaining insight into the current radiology job market.

AFIP Support
During 2008-2009 11 diagnostic radiology residents attended the six-week Armed Forces Institute of Pathology training course in Washington, DC with a large portion of their fees underwritten by The Margulis Society.

Response from residents who have attended the course over the years has been uniformly enthusiastic. One 2009 attendee, David Naeger, MD (PGY5) stated "AFIP is an intense 8 hour-per-day, solid month of Radiology/Pathology correlation. Because the AFIP has accumulated cases from across the country for the last many decades, they have an immense collection of images, histologic slides, and gross pathology pictures from which to teach us. The lectures are top notch and cover even minute (but important!) topics in Radiology. It both reinforces and adds to the lectures we receive at UCSF and is an irreplaceable experience. We are IMMENSELY grateful to The Margulis Society and the Department for their support of our attendance here. Thank you!"

Margulis Society Research Award
Each year, the Margulis Society selects a radiology resident who has accomplished noteworthy research as recipient of the Margulis Society Research Award, presented annually at commencement. This year, the awardee was David M. Wilson, MD, PhD.

During his residency, Wilson has done outstanding research in probe development utilizing hyperpolarized carbon 13.  Wilson was one of four residents to be awarded a T32 training grant in 2007-2008 by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. T32 grants are designed to give radiologists-in-training the skills required to become independent clinical scientific investigators and leaders in academic biomedical imaging. A 2009 graduate of the residency program, Wilson began a clinical fellowship in Neuroradiology in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging in July 2009.

The Margulis Society on Facebook
Did you know The Margulis Society has established a Facebook group? To join search for "The Margulis Society" from your Facebook account. Your alumni status will be verified, and you will be added to the group.

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