Annual Meeting Awards

2022 Gold Medalists

Early Career Committee Awards

Early Career Committee Excellence in Education
Benjamin Wildman – Tobriner, MD

Outstanding Support of SAR Early Career Members
Ania Kielar, MD, FSAR

Outstanding Support of SAR Early Career Committee Members
Aarti K. Sekhar, MD, FSAR

Early Career Committee: Rising Star in Research
Rebecca Rakow-Penner, MD, PhD

Scientific Awards

Best Overall Paper, Roscoe E. Miller Award
Understanding Reader Variability: A 25-Radiologist Study on Liver Metastasis Detection at Contrast-Enhanced Abdominal CT
Scott Hsieh, PhD - Mayo Clinic Rochester

Best GU Paper
Does the presence of washout on adrenal protocol CT impact the prevalence of malignancy in incidental adrenal nodules measuring >10 HU on unenhanced CT?
Michael Corwin, MD - UC Davis

Best GI Paper
Crohn Disease Active Inflammation Assessment with Iodine Density from Dual-Energy CT Enterography: Comparison with Endoscopy and Conventional Interpretation
Bari Dane, MD -NYU Langone Health

Best Technical Innovation Award
Machine Learning Diagnosis of Small Bowel Crohn’s Disease using T2-weighted MRI Radiomic Data
Jonathan Dillman, MD, MSc - Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Scientific Merit Award
Performance Of ACR O-RADS Ultrasound Risk Stratification In Average Risk US Women
Priyanka Jha, MD – UCSF

Multi-institutional Prospective Evaluation of Oral Dark Borosilicate Contrast Media using Dual-Energy CT
Achille Mileto, MD - Mayo Clinic Rochester

Best Overall Trainee Paper, Alexander R. Margulis Award
Deriving critical thresholds for automated CT-based body composition measures for predicting 10-year risk of death and other adverse outcomes
Matthew Lee, MD - University of Wisconsin

Best Power Science Award
Spin-echo versus Gradient-Recalled-Echo MR Elastography at 1.5T in Adults with and without Liver Iron Overload
Harit Kapoor, MD - UT Southwestern Medical Center

Educational Exhibit - MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Rectal Cancer Pelvic Recurrence: Imaging Pearls and Key Concepts to Guide Treatment Planning
Akitoshi Inoue, MD, PhD - Mayo Clinic Rochester

Educational Exhibits – Cum Laude
Reviewing the Radiologist’s Role in Diagnosing and Managing Renal Masses: From imaging to treatment and beyond
Stephanie Nguyen, MD – UCSF

Pancreatic Anomalies and Anatomic Variants: What Every Abdominal Radiologist Should Know
Henry Huang, MD - Lahey Hospital and Med Center

Placenta AccretaSpectrum: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Edwina Chang, MD - Santa Clara Valley Med Center

Prostate MRI: Local Staging Pearls and Impact on Management
Ravi Gottumukkala, MD - Brigham and Women's Hospital

What the Young Radiologist Needs to Know About Living Liver Donor Preoperative Evaluation
Emily Brady, MD - NY Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medicine

Educational Exhibits – Certificate of Merit
After the Ablation: Spectrum of Normal Appearances and Complications after Renal Ablation
Matthew Hung, MD - Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Renal Pursuit: A Trivia-Based Guide to Solid Renal Masses
Bryan Wessel, MD - University of Cincinnati

Characterization of (minimally, partially, and predominantly) Solid Ovarian Masses
Manasi Arora, MD - Mayo ClinicFlorida

Cruisin’ the Lumen: Fluoroscopic Evaluation of Normal and Abnormal Gastrointestinal Tract Luminal Anatomy in the Postoperative Setting
Sonia Gaur, MD – University of Michigan

A Primer on the Folds of the Abdomen: A case-based review of embryology, anatomy and pathology affecting the peritoneum, mesentery, and the omentum
Katherine Chung, MD - Stony Brook University Hospital

MR Defecography and Anal Sphincter Imaging: Interdisciplinary Approach to Pelvic Floor Disorders
Mariana Yalon, MD - Mayo Clinic Rochester

Ovarian Malignant Germ Cell Tumors: Imaging Pearls and Pitfalls
Karl Fenzl, MD - University at Buffalo

Imaging Female Urethral and Peri-Urethral Pathologies, What Radiologists Should Know About Urethral MRI
Seyedeh Nina Masoom, MD - Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Radiologic Imaging of Urinary Tract Diverticula: Imaging Features, Complications, and Potential pitfalls
Rahul Jasti, MD, - Virginia Commonwealth University

Educational Exhibits – Best Trainee Exhibit Award
Reviewing the Radiologist’s Role in Diagnosing and Managing Renal Masses: From imaging to treatment and beyond
Stephanie Nguyen, MD-UCSF