SAR Committees

Purpose

Assure the educational and scientific programs remain in compliance with the Essentials and Standards of the ACCME guidelines.

Committee Members

Robert P. Hartman, MD, FSAR – Chair
Zhen Jane Wang, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Aya Kamaya, MD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Anugayathri Jawahar, MD
Jean H. Lee, MD
Venkateswar R. Surabhi, MD, FSAR
David DiSantis, MD, FSAR
Sooah Kim, MD
Jacob Nelson, MD
Jay P. Heiken, MD, FSAR
Janio Szklaruk, MD, FSAR
Susanna I. Lee, MD, PhD, FSAR
Asef Khwaja, MD
Ashish Wasnik, MD
Ben Spilseth, MD
Manjiri Dighe, MD
Achile Mileto, MD
Tina Harris, MD

Committee Members

Atul B. Shinagare, MD, FSAR – Chair
Erick M. Remer, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Andrei S. Purysko, MD
Bari Dane, MD
Cooky Menias, MD, FSAR
Guarav Khatri, MD, FSAR
Krupa Patel-Lippmann, MD, FSAR
Motoyo Yano, MD, PhD, FSAR
Myles T. Taffel, MD, FSAR
Myra K. Feldman, MD
Patricia Balthazar, MD
Sudhakar K. Venkatesh, MD
Zhen Jane Wang, MD

Purpose

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

Committee Members

Judy Yee, MD, FACR, FSAR – Chair
Antonio C. Westphalen, MD, PhD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
David H. Kim, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Vahid Yaghmai, MD, FSAR
Fiona Fennessy, MD, PhD
Candice Bolan, MD
Dan Margolis, MD
Kristin Olinger, MD
Aytek Oto, MD
Shuchi Rodgers, MD
Giuseppe Toia, MD

Committee Members

Elaine M. Caoili, MD, FSAR – Chair
Rajan T. Gupta, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Lejla Aganovic, MD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Parvi Ramchandani, MD, FSAR – Mentor
Elizabeth A. Sadowski, MD, FSAR – Mentor
Richard K. Do, MD, PhD, FSAR – Mentor
Kerry Thomas, MD, FSAR – Mentor
Steven C. Eberhardt, MD, FSAR
Noor Fatima Majeed, MD
Hina Arif-Tiwari, MD
Dan Barkmeier, MD, PhD
Jean D’Amour Irakoze, MD
Erin A. Cooke, MD
Rachita Khot, MD
Elainea Smith, MD
Benjamin Crowder, MD
Justin Holder, MD
Cheng William Hong, MD
Ashlesha Udare, MD
Judy Yee, MD, FACR, FSAR

Purpose

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.

Committee Members

Atul B. Shinagare, MD, FSAR – Co-Chair
Elizabeth A. Sadowski, MD, FSAR – Co-Chair
Perry Pickhardt – Board Liaison
Jonathan R Dillman – Portfolio Director
Stuart G. Silverman, MD, FSAR
Daniel I. Glazer, MD, FSAR
Elizabeth M. Hecht, MD, FSAR
Mahmoud Al-Hawary, MD, FSAR
Bari Dane, MD
Guarav Khatri, MD, FSAR
Ismail B. Turkbey, MD, FSAR
Priyanka Jha, MD
Krupa Patel-Lippmann, MD
Robert Marks, MD
Angela Tong, MD
Silvia D. Chang, MD, FSAR

Committee Members

Rajan T. Gupta, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Lejla Aganovic, MD – Portfolio Director
Sameer Sandhu – Chair
Noor Fatima Majeed – Vice Chair
Mindy Wang
Sonia Gaur
Amir Imanzadeh
Ankush Jajodia
Charanjeet Singh
Bryan Bunnell
Amanda Gibson
Hala Khasawneh
Danielle Kruse
Omar Hassan
TBD
Fahimul Huda
Khoschy Schawkat Khurschid

Purpose

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.

Committee Members

Myles T. Taffel, MD, FSAR – Chair
Rajan T. Gupta, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Lejla Aganovic, MD – Portfolio Director
Marielia Gerena, MD
Daniel A. Moses, MBBS, PhD
Jeffrey H. Newhouse, MD, FSAR
Gaiane M. Rauch, MD, PhD
Prasad Shankar, MD
Mustafa Bashir, MD PhD
Ekta Maheshwari, MD
Arthi Reddy, MD
Fiona Cassidy, MD
Paul Hill, MD

Committee Members

Amy Hara, MD, FSAR – Chair
David H. Kim, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Lejla Aganovic, MD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
William W. Mayo-Smith, MD, FACR, FSAR
Benjamin M. Yeh, MD, FSAR
Judy Yee, MD, FACR, FSAR

Purpose

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.

Committee Members

Eric Pepin, MD – Co-Chair
Surbhi Raichandani – Co-Chair
Perry Pickhardt, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Jonathan Dillman, MD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Jordan D. Perchik, MD
Victor Sai, MD
Jessica G. Fried, MD
Sina Houshmand, MD
Joshua D. Warner, MD
Angela Tong, MD
Namita Gandhi, MD
Surbhi Raichandani, MD
Benjamin Mervak, MD
Stacy O’Connor, MD
Julia Goldberg, MD
Matthew Maeder, MD

Committee Members

Bari Dane, MD – Co-Chair
Fourie Bezuidenhout, MD – Co-Chair
David H. Kim MD – Board Liaison
Antonio C. Westphalen, MD, PhD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Kumaresan Sandrasegaran, MD, FSAR
Margarita V. Revzin, MD
Shweta Bhatt, MD, FSAR
Alvaro Huete, MD
Elizabeth Hecht, MD, FSAR
Malak Itani, MD
Rony Kampalath, MD
Refky Nicola, DO
Elizabeth Sadowski, MD, FSAR
Ashish Wasnik, MD, FSAR

Committee Members

Victoria Chernyak, MD, FSAR – Chair
Perry Pickhardt, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Jonathan Dillman, MD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Priya Bhosale, MD, FSAR
Motoyo Yano, MD, PhD, FSAR
Sandeep S. Arora, MBBS
Ashish Wasnik, MD
Srinivasa Prasad, MD

Purpose

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.

Committee Members

Malak Itani, MD – Chair
Rajan T. Gupta, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Lejla Aganovic, MD – Portfolio Director
Jonathan Revels, DO
Kiran R. Nandalur, MD
Kristin Dittmar, MD
Sonia Lee, MD
Varaha Sai, MD
Kerry Thomas, MD
Franklyn E. Luke, MD
Gaiane M. Rauch, MD, PhD
Zahra Kassam, MD
Danielle Kruse, MD
Amir Imanzadeh, MD
Bijan Bijan, MD
Naveen Rajamohan, MD

Purpose

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.

Committee Members

Roozbeh Houshyar, MD – Chair
Zhen Jane Wang, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Aya Kamaya, MD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Kazi Irfan, MD
Anil Dasyam, MD
Vanessa Murad, MD
AbdulRahman AbuAlruz, MD
Daniel Adamo, MD
David Becker Weidman, MD
Justin Glavis-Bloom, MD
Erin Gomez, MD
Kyle Jensen, MD
Hala Khasawneh, MD
Melissa McGettigan, MD
Garima Suman, MD

Purpose

Review proposals/applications for the SAR research awards (Wylie J. Dodds; Morton A. Bosniak; Howard S. Stern).

Committee Members

Fiona Fennessy, MD, PhD – Co-Chair
Leo Tsai, MD, FSAR – Co-Chair
Avinash Kambadakone, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Bari Dane, MD – Portfolio Director
Sree Harsha Tirumani, MD
Samuel Galgano, MD
Mustafa Bashir, MD PhD
Manjiri Dighe, MD
Aliya Qayyum, MD
Scott Reeder, MD, PhD
Baris Turkbey, MD, FSAR
Andrew B. Rosenkrantz, MD, FSAR
Priya Bhosale, MD, FSAR

Committee Members

Asser Abou Elkassem, MD – Chair
Pedram Keshavarz – Vice Chair/ Chair-Elect
Danielle Rigau – Secretary/ Treasurer
Emmanuel Ammanouil – Secretary/ Webmaster
Bardia Nadim – Past Chair
Enis Yilmaz – Communications Officer
Benjamin Rehany – Education Liaison
Kartik Gupta – Education Liaison
Sai Preethi Athota – Education Liaison

Purpose

Write any and all bylaw changes as proposed by the Board or membership.

Committee Members

Sadhna Verma, MD, FSAR – Chair
Rajan T. Gupta, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Lejla Aganovic, MD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Vincent M. Mellnick, MD, FSAR
Prasad Shankar, MD
Vahid Yaghmai, MD, FSAR
Gail Yarmish, MD
Viktoriya Paroder, MD, PhD, FSAR
Carolyn Wang, MD
Margarita Revzin, MD

Purpose

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.

Committee Members

Richa Patel, MD – Chair
David H. Kim, MD FSAR – Board Liaison
Antonio Westphalen, MD, PhD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Andrea Esquivel Mora, MD
Kristen L. Olinger, MD
Erin Cooke, MD
Prakhar Agarwal MD
Vinay Prabhu, MD
Faisal Shah MD
David Becker Weidman, MD
Iva Petkovska, MD
Amanda Gibson, MD
James T. Lee, MD
Amita Kamath, MD
Jalluri Gayathridevi, MD

Purpose

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.

Committee Members

Katherine E. Maturen, MD FSAR – Chair
David H. Kim, MD FSAR – President
Antonio Westphalen, MD, PhD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Jorge Soto, MD FSAR
Mitch Tublin, MD, FSAR
Jeanne Horowitz MD FSAR
Lakshmi Ananthakrishnan MD

Purpose

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.

Committee Members

Hannah Recht MD – Chair
Zhen Jane Wang, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Aya Kamaya, MD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Linda Kelahan MD
Erin Cooke, MD
Seyedeh Niloufar Rafiei Alavi, MD
Andrew Rosenkrantz, MD
Faisal Shah, MD
Rory Cochran, MD
Iva Petkovska, MD
Melissa McGettigan, MD
Benjamin Booher, MD
Paul Nikolaidis, MD, FSAR
Steven Eberhardt, MD
Miriam Moshiri, MD

Committee Members

Kerry Thomas, MD, FSAR – Chair
Rajan T. Gupta, MD, FSAR – Board Liaison
Lejla Aganovic, MD, FSAR – Portfolio Director
Lauren Burke, MD
Victoria Chernyak, MD, FSAR
Iva Petkovska, MD
Ashlesha Udare, MD
Harshna Vadvala, MD
Luke Yoon, MD
Grace Zhu, MD
Dmitriy Akselrod, MD
Sonia Lee, MD