Awards
Congratulations to Our Faculty, Staff, and Trainees for Their 2009 Achievements!
Faculty and Staff
- Gary M. Glazer, MD: Named the 2009 RSNA Gold Medal Award Winner
- Sanjiv “Sam” Gambhir, MD, PhD: Named the 2009 RSNA Outstanding Researcher; Elected as member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
- Bao Do, MD: 2009 RSNA Trainee Award for his research project, “A Natural Language Processor to Detect Uncertainty and Recommendations in Radiology Reports,” completed under the mentorship of Dr. Daniel Rubin, assistant professor of radiology (diagnostic).
- Pejman Ghanouni, MD, PhD: 2009 RSNA Trainee Award for his research project, “Minocycline Prevents Development of Neuropathic Pain by Mitigating Macrophage Recruitment to Site of Nerve Injury as Shown with USPIO-MRI,” completed under the mentorship of Dr. Sandip Biswal, assistant professor of radiology (musculoskeletal).
- Marcus Alley, PhD; Garry Gold, MD; Robert Herfkens, MD; Michael Lustig, PhD; John Pauly, PhD; Shreyas Vasanawala, MD, PhD: SCBT/MR 2009 Lauterbur Award for their research project “Faster Pediatric MRI with Compressed Sensing.”
- Scott Atlas, MD: 2008 Homecoming Comeback Guest, University of Illinois.
- Roland Bammer, PhD: Fellow, Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Germany. Fellowship, German Science Foundation.
- Neal Bangerter, PhD; Garry Gold, MD; Brian Hargreaves, PhD; Seungbum Koo, PhD; Ernesto Staroswiecki, PhD; Ronald Watkins: SCBT/MR Cum Laude Award for their project "Early Detection of Osteoarthritis in Patients with ACL Injury Using Sodium MRI."
- Kim Butts Pauly, PhD: Named Fellow of the ISMRM, 2009; Promoted to Full Professor, 2009.
- Rebecca Fahrig, PhD: 2009 Breathe California Columbo Award for her tomosynthesis work in early detection of lung cancer.
- Gary Glover, PhD ISMRM 2009 Outstanding Educator Award (one of 35 given internationally); Member, NIH NIBIB National Scientific Advisory Council.
- Brian Hargreaves, PhD: SCBT/MR Cum Laude Award, Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance. In vivo sodium MRI at 3.0T of patients with previous ACL injury.
- Andrei Iagaru, MD, PhD: SNM Alavi-Mandell Award for paper "90Y-Ibritumomab Therapy in Refractory Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Observations from 111In-Ibritumomab Pretreatment Imaging."
- Andrei Iagaru, MD; Erik Mittra, MD, PhD; Michael Goris, MD, PhD: 2009 Society of Nuclear Medicine Image of the Year Award.
- Debra Ikeda, MD: Honorary Membership, Royal College of Radiology Breast Group, King's College Hospital, London.
- William Kuo, MD: Featured Manuscript--American College of Radiology (ACR)/Reuters National Press Release; Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Leadership Academy.
- Craig Levin, MD; Angela Foudray, PhD; Frezghi Habte, PhD: "Impact of High Energy Resolution Detectors on the Performance of a PET System Dedicated to Breast Cancer Imaging." One of top 10 papers published in Physica Medica.
- John MacKenzie, MD: Board Certification (CAQ) in Pediatric Radiology, November 2008.
- Sam Mazin, PhD: Kauffman Entrepreneur Postdoctoral Fellowship; JP and Danyele Garnier Fellow, Stanford Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship.
- Michael Moseley, PhD: Member of NIH Study Section (ANIE); 4 ad hoc Study Sections; and grant reviewer for many other organizations including DoD, SFVAMC, ISMRM, Japan NIH, German Research Fd.; Lifetime member of the Society of Magnetic Resonance Technologists (SMRT).
- Norbert Pelc, PhD: Chair, NIH SBIB P(04) Study Section and AAPM Science Council; Scientific Advisory Board: Munich Center for Advanced Photonics.
- Daniel Rubin, MD, MS: RSNA Cum Laude Award for his exhibit "'Saying It in Pictures': Annotation and Image Markup in Radiology."
- Daniel Rubin, MD, MS; Adam Flanders, MD; Woojin Kim, MD; Kahn Siddiqui, MD: “Ontology-Assisted Analysis of Web Queries to Determine the Knowledge Radiologists Seek.” Top Paper Selected at the SIIM Annual Meeting.
- Geoffrey Rubin, MD: 2008 "Minnie" as the "Most Effective Radiology Educator."
Brian Rutt, PhD: Election to Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). - Anne Marie Sawyer, BS, RT(R)(MR): Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Appointed Member, Circulatory System Devices Panel, Medical Devices Advisory Committee.
- Juergen Willmann, MD: Walter Friedrich Award for outstanding research in the field of radiology, German Society of Radiology, Berlin; 2008 RSNA Research Award in the category of "Molecular Imaging;" 2009 Phillip H. Meyers, MD, Research Award; 2008 Editor's Recognition Award with Distinction given by Radiology.
- Joseph Wu, MD, PhD: 2009 Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award from the American College of Cardiology (ACCR); Parmley Prize, outstanding paper awarded by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Trainee Awards
- Qizhen Cao, PhD: SNM Travel Award to attend the 56th Society of Nuclear Medicine's Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada.
- Jing Chen, PhD: Graduated with PhD, now associate professor, Institute of Biophysics, Beijing, China.
- Adam de la Zerda, PhD: World Molecular Imaging Congress, Young Investigator Award Travel Award; Bio-X Travel Award; Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Best Poster Award for "Enhanced Sensitivity Photoacoustic Imaging Agents."
- Yi Gu, MS; Frances Lau, MS; Guillem Pratx, MS; Paul Reynolds, MS; Arne Vandenbrouke, PhD: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Medical Imaging Conference (IEEE MIC) Trainee Grants to attend conference in Dresden, Germany.
- Jason Hsu, PhD: Graduated with PhD, now assistant professor at the University of Miami.
- Sonal Josan, PhD: Graduated with PhD and currently a postdoc at SRI.
- Shin Kamaya, BSE: RSNA Award, scientific paper "Manganese-Enhanced MRI (MEMRI) Functionally Highlights Injured Peripheral Nerves in Neuropathic Pain," completed under the mentorship of Dr. Sandip Biswal.
- Sri-Rajasekhar (Raj) Kothapalli, PhD: Hamalainen Pelican Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sir Peter and Lady Michael Foundation.
- Christine Law, PhD: Graduated with PhD in Electrical Engineering, postdoc choice of 5 institutions not final as of 9/1/09.
- Andrew Lee, BS: HHMI Fellowship in developing novel methods of reprogramming induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.
- Christoph Lee, MD: American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation's 2009 Leadership Award; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar, 2010-2012.
- Hen-Tzu Jill Lin, PhD: World Molecular Imaging Congress Travel Award, Montreal, Canada, by Helena Anna Henzl Gabor Young Women in Science Fund.
- Yueyi Irene Liu, PhD: RSNA Trainee Research Prize for project, "Bayesian Approach to Decision Support for Evaluating Thyroid Nodules Based on Multi-Variate Features."
- Zheng Miao, PhD: SNM First Prize, Basic Science Award for abstract "A Protein Scaffold Based Molecule for EGFR PET Imaging."
- Kazin Narsinh, MD: 2009 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Research Fellowship.
- Gang Niu, PhD: Society of Nuclear Medicine Travel Award.
- Peter Olcott, MS: SNM Research and Education 2008 Predoctoral Molecular Imaging Scholar Program Award for proposal "Optically Coupled Pulse Width Modulation PET Detectors for Combined Chole Body Clinical PET/MR Systems."
- Natesh Parashurama, MD, PhD: International Society for Cellular Therapy Young Investigator Award, Presentation "Stably Expressed Multimodality Fusion Reporter Genes For Tracking Mesenchymal Stem Cell Status in Hearts of Living Subjects”; 2009-2010 Stanford University, School of Medicine Dean's Fellowship for proposal, "Quantitative, Multimodality Molecular Imaging of Spatiotemporally RegulatedCardiac Stem Cell Functions In Vivo."
- Jeremy Pearl, BS: Howard Hughes Meical Institute (HHMI) Second-Year Fellowship.
- Guillem Pratx, MS: "Bayesian Reconstruction of Photon Interaction Sequences for High-Resolution PET Detectors." Featured Article in Institute of Physics; 2008 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Dresden, Germany, top student paper award for "Fast, Accurate and Shift-Varying Line Projections for Iterative Reconstruction using the GPU."
- John Ronald, PhD: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fellowship.
Laura Sasportas, PhD: Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) Student Fellowship Award.
Min-Kyung So, PhD: World Molecular Imaging Congress 2008, Young Investigator Award. - Virginia Spanoudaki, PhD: Postdoctoral Fellowship for work in new concepts to advance time-of-flight positron emission tomography awarded by the AXA Research Fund.
- Avnesh Thakor, MA, MB Bchir, PhD: International Union Against Cancer (UICC) and American Cancer Society International Fellowship for Beginning Investigators.
Chardonnay Vance, PhD: Graduated with PhD in Biochemistry; entered Wake Forest Univ. Medical School, September 2009. - Adam Wang, MS: 2009 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Medical Imaging Conference Finalist, Michael B. Merickel Student Paper Award.
Serena Wong, PhD: Graduated with PhD, currently a scientist at Palo Alto Research Center. - Joong-Ho (Johann) Won, PhD, MS: Bio-X Travel Award for presentation "Towards a Single Uncluttered View of the Abdominal Aortic Vessel Tree from CTA or MRA: Method and Preliminary Results," RSNA Annual Meeting, 2008.
- Jim Xie, PhD: Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) Travel Award.
- Keren Ziv, PhD: Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship (LSRF) Postdoctoral Fellowship.
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