2022 – 2023 SAR Committees
Contribute to planning of plenary sessions and workshop strategies at the annual meeting; promote new ideas for courses.
Amy K. Hara, MD, FSAR – Chair, President-Elect
Kathryn J. Fowler, MD, FSAR – Meeting Education Portfolio Director
Cooky Menias, MD, FSAR
Mustafa R. Bashir, MD, FSAR
Meghan G. Lubner, MD, FSAR
Ania Kielar, MD, FSAR
Matthew S. Davenport, MD, FSAR
Atul B. Shinagare, MD, FSAR
Richard Barr, MD, PhD
Sonia Lee, MD
Mariam Moshiri, MD, FSAR
Tara M. Catanzano, MD
Leila Mostafavi
Bhavik Patel, MD
Nelly Tan, MD
Malak Itani, MD
Vincent M. Mellnick, MD
Ben Mervack, MD
Kimberly Shampain, MD
Cheri L. Canon, MD, FSAR – SAR President
Avinash Kambadakone, MD, FSAR – Science & Research Portfolio Director
Frank H. Miller, MD, FSAR – Director of Education
Robert P. Hartman, MD, FSAR – CME Committee Chair
Silvia D. Chang, MD, FSAR – Hands On Course Chair
Mahmoud Al-Hawary, MD, FSAR – HOC Portfolio Director
Cynthia Santillan, MD, FSAR – Diversity & Inclusion Liaison
Manage abstracts presented at the annual meeting, which includes solicitation, selection, grading and distribution of the poster and paper awards.
Erick M. Remer, MD, FSAR – Chair, Director of Science
Alice W. Fung, MD – Coordinator (GI)
Prasad Shankar, MD – Coordinator (GU)
Victoria Chernyak, MD, FSAR – Mentee (GI)
Ghaneh Fananapazir, MD – Mentee (GU)
Avinash Kambadakone, MD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Hina Arif-Tiwari
Amir A. Borhani, MD
Lauren Burke, MD
Anil Chauhan, MD
Linda Chu, MD
Michael T. Corwin, MD
Bari Dane, MD
Richard K. Do, MD, PhD
David T. Fetzer, MD
Nicole Hindman, MD, FSAR
Ravi Kaza, MD, FSAR
Michael A. Ohliger, MD, PhD
Bhavik Patel, MD
Krupa Patel-Lippmann
Melina Pectasides, MD
Kristin Porter, MD, PhD
Srinivasa R. Prasad, MD, FSAR
Michael H. Rosenthal, MD
Nicola Schieda, MD
Erik Soloff, MD
Venkateswar R. Surabhi, MD, FSAR
Baris Turkbey, MD, FSAR
Harshna Vadvala, MD
Sudhakar K. Venkatesh, MD, FSAR
Motoyo Yano, MD, PhD
Gail Yarmish
Hanna M. Zafar, MD – Diversity & Inclusion Liaison
Assure the educational and scientific programs remain in compliance with the Essentials and Standards of the ACCME guidelines.
Robert P. Hartman, MD, FSAR – Chair, CME Director
Peter Choyke, MD, FACR, FSAR – Mentor
Jeff L. Fidler, MD, FSAR
Susan John, MD
Jean H. Lee, MD
Mahan Mathur, MD
William W. Olmstead, MD, FSAR – Mentor
Aliya Qayyum, MD, FSAR
Venkateswar R. Surabhi, MD, FSAR
Judy K. Tam, MD
Zhen Jane Wang, MD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Frank H. Miller, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Seek corporate or other support for the goals, endowments, and research missions of the Society; identify any potential general Member with strong industry connections and obtain contacts; provide strategic vision for corporate support growth relationships
Judy Yee, MD, FACR, FSAR – Chair
Chandana Lall, MD, FSAR
Bhavik Patel, MD
Erik K. Paulson, MD, FSAR
Kumaresan Sandrasegaran, MD, FSAR
Dushyant V. Sahani, MD, FSAR
Anthony E. Samir, MD
Andrew D. Smith, MD, FSAR
Jorge A. Soto, MD, FSAR
Jennifer W. Uyeda, MD
Antonio C. Westphalen, MD, PhD, FSAR
Benjamin M. Yeh, MD, FSAR
Rajan T. Gupta, MD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Cheri L. Canon, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Richard K. Do, MD – Co-Chair
Kerry Thomas, MD – Co-Chair
Senta M. Berggruen, MD, FSAR
Elaine M. Caoili, MD, FSAR
Silvia D. Chang, MD, FSAR
Manjil Chatterji, MD
Sharon D’Souza, MD, MPH
Steven C. Eberhardt, MD, FSAR
Alice W. Fung, MD
Lori Mankowski Gettle, MD
Akshya Gupta, MD
Carla Harmath, MD
Marta E. Heilbrun, MD, MS, FSAR
Priyanka Jha, MBBS
Elena K. Korngold, MD
Ryan B. O’Malley, MD
Liina Poder, MD
Peter D. Poullos, MD
Parvi Ramchandani, MD, FSAR
Elizabeth A. Sadowski, MD, FSAR
Cynthia Santillan, MD, FSAR
Yasmeen Tandon, MD
Aran Toshav, MD
Sherry Shuai-Li Wang, MD
Hanna M. Zafar, MD
Sonia Gaur, MD – RFS Liaison
David H. Kim, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
To provide feedback to potential Disease-Focused Panels (DFP groups) and review applications for DFP status and renewal; make recommendations to the SAR Board; review annual DFP reports;, decide upon renewal of DFP status, communicate annual meeting DFP/OTC programming parameters; submit annual reports to the SAR Board.
Matthew S. Davenport, MD, FSAR – Chair
Olga R. Brook, MD – Vice Chair (2022)
Alec J. Megibow, MD, FSAR – Mentor appointed in 2020
Ania Kielar, MD, FSAR
Atul B. Shinagare, MD, FSAR
Avinash Kambadakone, MBBS, FSAR
Bari Dane, MD
Courtney C. Moreno, MD
Elizabeth A. Sadowski, MD, FSAR
Guarav Khatri, MD, FSAR
Ismail B. Turkbey, MD, FSAR
Katherine E. Maturen, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Mahmoud Al-Hawary, MD, FSAR
R. Patricia Castillo, MD
Stuart G. Silverman, MD, FSAR – Mentor appointed in 2020
Bari Dane, MD – Chair
Sherry S. Wang, MBBS – Co-Chair
Eric C. Ehman, MD – Past-Chair
Patricia Balthazar, MD
Paul Hill, MD
Xiaoyang Liu
Kirti Magudia, MD, PhD
Roshan Modi, MD
Vinay Prabhu, MD
Elainea Smith, MD
Mark Sugi, MD
Kerry Thomas, MD
Adam S. Young, MD
Mindy Wang, MD – RFS Liaison
David H. Kim, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Adjudicate any and all charges of ethical violations as brought against any member as outlined in Article II, Section 6, Item C of the SAR Bylaws.
Myles T. Taffel, MD, FSAR – Chair
Manjil Chatterji, MD
Margaret M. Fynes, MD
Marielia Gerena, MD
Matthew A. Morgan, MD
Daniel A. Moses, MBBS, PhD
Jeffrey H. Newhouse, MD, FSAR
Gaiane M. Rauch, MD, PhD
Christopher G. Roth, MD
Prasad Shankar, MD
David H. Kim, MD, FSAR – Board Liasion
Audit all financial reports, annually review the dues structure of the Society to ensure that it is in line with Society’s initiatives and that of other like organizations; work with the Society’s management company.
William W. Mayo-Smith, MD, FACR, FSAR – Chair
Hersh Chandarana, MD, FSAR
Aya Kamaya, MD, FSAR
Courtney C. Moreno, MD
Judy Yee, MD, FACR, FSAR
Benjamin M. Yeh, MD, FSAR
David H. Kim, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Researching and providing information and guidance on certain online components, such as: an app for the annual meeting and search optimization of the Society’s website via Google.
Arun Krishnaraj, MD – Co-Chair
Kirti Magudia, MD, PhD – Co-Chair
Patricia Balthazar, MD
Constantine Burgan, MD
Jessica G. Fried, MD
Nagaraj Setty Holalkere, MD
John Mongan, MD
Eric Pepin, MD
John Thomas, MD, FSAR
Ismail B. Turkbey, MD, FSAR
Joseph H. Yacoub, MD
Diana J. Murcia Salazar, MD – RFS Liaison
Zhen Jane Wang, MD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Frank H. Miller, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Choose the Igor Laufer Visiting Professor; choose the Marshak Lecturer; and solicit participation for faculties for any travelling outreach programs.
Amy K. Hara, MD, FSAR – Chair, President-Elect
Puneet Bhargava, MD, FSAR
David J. DiSantis, MD, FSAR
Beatrice L. Madrazo, MD, FSAR
Mariam Moshiri, MD, FSAR
Perry J. Pickhardt, MD, FSAR
Kumaresan Sandrasegaran, MD, FSAR
Aarti K. Sekhar, MD, FSAR
Antonio C. Westphalen, MD, FSAR
Rajan T. Gupta, MD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Participate in online activities to vet and pre-approve fellowship candidates to present for board approval prior to vote of fellows at annual business meeting; strategize new plans for engagement of members/inclusion; recommend new members; assure proper documentation for desired level of membership is; guide management for streamlined member administrative approval; assist with member retention and transitions.
Carolyn L. Wang, MD, FSAR – Chair
Dmitriy G. Akselrod, MD
Ryan M. Ash, MD
Kristin Dittmar, MD
Alice W. Fung, MD
Justin Holder, MD
Malak Itani, MD
Betsy Jacobs, MD
Sonia Lee, MD
Joy Liau, MD, PhD
Franklyn E. Luke, MD
Sadhna B. Nandwana, MD
Margarita V. Revzin, MD
Boris Sinayuk, MD
Temilola Akinola, MD – RFS Liaison
David H. Kim, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Selects new Board Member (Director at Large)
Desiree E. Morgan, MD, FSAR – Chair, Immediate Past President
Giles W. Boland, MD, FSAR
Bernard F. King, Jr., MD, FSAR
William W. Mayo-Smith, MD, FACR, FSAR
Collecting, managing and curating educational material (for CME credit or otherwise) that will help to create a year-round online resource, and that will be of value to the SAR members and others in the field of radiology.
Cynthia Santillan, MD, FSAR – Chair
Vikram S. Dogra, MD, FSAR
Roozbeh Houshyar, MD
Aya Kamaya, MD, FSAR
Marc D. Kohli, MD
James T. Lee, MD
Sara Lami, MD, MPH – RFS Liaison
Zhen Jane Wang, MD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Frank H. Miller, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Review proposals/applications for the SAR research awards (Wylie J. Dodds; Morton A. Bosniak; Howard S. Stern).
Priya Bhosale, MD, FSAR – Co-Chair, GU
Thomas A. Hope, MD – Co-Chair, GI
Jonathan R. Dillman, MD, FSAR
Julia R. Fielding, MD, FSAR
Stacy O’Connor, MD
Fiona Fennessy, MD, PhD
Andrew B. Rosenkrantz, MD, FSAR
Sree Harsha Tirumani, MD
Avinash Kambadakone, MD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Erick M. Remer, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Write any and all bylaw changes as proposed by the Board or membership.
Sadhna Verma, MD, FSAR – Chair
Vincent M. Mellnick, MD
Roshan Modi, MD
Prasad Shankar, MD – Portfolio Director
David H. Kim, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Researching, implementing and managing the social media activities of the Society, and working to engage SAR members through the Society’s active social media outlets; engage with informatics when necessary.
James T. Lee, MD – Chair
Kevin J. Chang, MD, FSAR
Elizabeth Edney, MD
Malak Itani, MD
Amita Kamath, MD
Elena K. Korngold, MD – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Liaison
Robert Marks, MD
Lucy M. Muinov, MD
Vinay Prabhu, MD
Derek Sun, MD
Pedram Keshavarz, MD – RFS Liaison
Rajan T. Gupta, MD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Amy K. Hara, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Propose recipients of the SAR Gold Medals (previously the Cannon Medal (GI), Pollack Medal (GU) and the Lifetime Achievement Awards (GI and GU)). At its discretion, the Committee may periodically award one (1) Distinguished International Member Award per year; Membership Hall of Fame membership poster design and composition.
JG Fletcher, MD, FSAR – Chair, Immediate Past President
Cheri L. Canon, MD, FSAR – President
Jay P. Heiken, MD, FSAR
Susanna I. Lee, MD, PhD, FSAR
Perry J. Pickhardt, MD, FSAR
Hina Arif-Tiwari, MD
Overseeing the overall content, design aesthetic and functionality of the Society website; making recommendations for strategic focus of website design and content; participating in review and selection process for upgrades and modifications to the website system.
Paul Nikolaidis, MD, FSAR – Chair
Kathryn J. Fowler, MD, FSAR – Diversity & Inclusion Liaison
Dhakshinamoorthy Ganeshan, MBBS
Andrew D. Hardie
Elena K. Korngold, MD – Diversity & Inclusion Liaison
Michael Magnetta, MD
Erick M. Remer, MD, FSAR
Anuradha S. Shenoy-Bhangle, MD
Kerry Thomas, MD – Diversity & Inclusion Liaison
Ashish P. Wasnik, MD, FSAR