2022 Award Winners
Annual Meeting Awards
2022 Gold Medalists

Alec J. Megibow, MD, FSAR


Stuart G. Silverman, MD, FSAR


Ronald J. Zagoria, MD, FSAR

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