2021 – 2022 SAR Committees
Consists of the Scientific Program Committee and the Educational Program Committee.
Cheri L. Canon, MD, FSAR – Chair
Robert P. Hartman, MD, FSAR
Richard K. Do, MD – Diversity and Inclusion Liaison
JG Fletcher, MD, FSAR
Eric Pepin, MD – RFS Liaison
Scientific Program Committee
Manage abstracts presented at the annual meeting, which includes solicitation, selection, grading and distribution of the poster and paper awards.
Amy K. Hara, MD, FSAR – Chair, Director of Science
Lejla Aganovic, MD – Coordinator (GU)
Hina Arif-Tiwari
Patricia Balcacer, MD
Spencer Behr, MD
Olga R. Brook, MD
Lauren Burke, MD
Victoria Chernyak, MD, FSAR
Linda Chu, MD
Nicole E. Curci, MD
Bari Dane, MD
Matthew S. Davenport, MD, FSAR
Richard K. Do, MD, PhD
Ghaneh Fananapazir, MD
Alice W. Fung, MD
Nicole Hindman, MD, FSAR
Ravi Kaza, MD, FSAR
Kathryn McGillen, MD
Achille Mileto, MD
Frank H. Miller, MD, FSAR – Director of Education
Michael A. Ohliger, MD, PhD
Bhavik Patel, MD
Krupa Patel-Lippmann
Iva Petkovska, MD
Jason Pietryga, MD
Kristin Porter, MD, PhD
Srinivasa R. Prasad, MD, FSAR
Michael H. Rosenthal, MD
Nicola Schieda, MD
Prasad Shankar, MD
Atul Shinagare, MD, FSAR
Erik Soloff, MD
Leo Tsai, MD – Coordinator (GI)
Motoyo Yano, MD, PhD
Gail Yarmish
Hanna M. Zafar, MD – Diversity & Inclusion Liaison
Educational Program Committee
Contribute to planning of plenary sessions and workshop strategies at the annual meeting; promote new ideas for courses.
Cheri L. Canon, MD, FSAR – Chair, President-Elect
Richard Barr, MD, PhD
Tara Catanzano, MD – Mentor
Nicole E. Curci, MD
JG Fletcher, MD, FSAR
Robert P. Hartman, MD, FSAR – CME Director
Elizabeth M. Hecht, MD, FSAR – Workshop Coordinator
David M. Hough, MD, FSAR – Workshop Coordinator
Kedar R. Jambhekar, MD
Sonia Lee, MD
Daniele Marin, MD
Cooky Menias, MD, FSAR
Frank H. Miller, MD, FSAR – Director of Education
Mariam Moshiri, MD, FSAR
Bhavik Patel, MD
Cynthia Santillan, MD, FSAR – Diversity & Inclusion Liaison
Claude B. Sirlin, MD, FSAR
Nelly Tan, MD
Sudhakar K. Venkatesh, MD, FSAR
Carolyn L. Wang, MD, FSAR
Zhen J. Wang, MD, FSAR
Assure the educational and scientific programs remain in compliance with the Essentials and Standards of the ACCME guidelines.
Robert P. Hartman, MD, FSAR – Chair
Peter Choyke, MD, FACR, FSAR – Mentor
William W. Olmstead, MD, FSAR – Mentor
Douglas S. Katz, MD, FSAR
Jean H. Lee, MD
Aliya Qayyum, MD, FSAR
Venkateswar R. Surabhi, MD, FSAR
Judy K. Tam, MD
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
Rajan T. Gupta, MD, FSAR
Chandana Lall, MD, FSAR
Bhavik Patel, MD
Erik K. Paulson, MD, FSAR
Iva Petkovska, MD
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
Parvi Ramchandani, MD, FSAR – Co-Chair
Elizabeth A. Sadowski, MD, FSAR – Co-Chair
Senta M. Berggruen, MD, FSAR
Elaine M. Caoili, MD, FSAR
Silvia D. Chang, MD, FSAR
Manjil Chatterji, MD
Richard K. Do, MD – AR Journal Liaison
Sharon D’Souza, MD, MPH
Steven C. Eberhardt, MD, FSAR
Kathryn J. Fowler, MD, FSAR – RFS Liaison
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 – Liaison to the SAR Website Oversight Committee/Social Media Committee
Ryan B. O’Malley, MD
Liina Poder, MD
Peter D. Poullos, MD
Cynthia Santillan, MD, FSAR
Yasmeen Tandon, MD
Kerry Thomas, MD
Aran Toshav, MD
Sherry Shuai-Li Wang, MD
Hanna M. Zafar, MD – Diversity & Inclusion 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.
Tracy A. Jaffe, MD, FSAR – OC- Chair
Matthew S. Davenport, MD, FSAR – OC- Vice-Chair
Ania Kielar, MD, FSAR
Alec J. Megibow, MD, FSAR
Elizabeth A. Sadowski, MD, FSAR
Stuart G. Silverman, MD, FSAR
Gaurav Khatri, MD
R. Patricia Castillo, MD
Olga Brook, MD
Courtney Moreno, MD
Baris Turkbey, MD
Mahmoud Al-Hawary, MD – Portfolio Leader
Katherine Maturen, MD, MS – Board Liaison
Eric C. Ehman, MD – Chair
Bari Dane, MD – Co-Chair
Patricia Balthazar, MD
Lori Mankowski Gettle, MD
Paul Hill, MD
Kirti Magudia, MD, PhD
Roshan Modi, MD
Vinay Prabhu, MD
Aarti K. Sekhar, MD, FSAR – ECC Advisor
Mark Sugi, MD
Nelly Tan, MD – Past-Chair
Kerry Thomas, MD
Sherry S. Wang, MBBS
Adam S. Young, MD
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.
Erick M. Remer, 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
Myles T. Taffel, MD, FSAR
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.
Frank H. Miller, MD, FSAR – Chair
Cheri L. Canon, MD, FSAR
Matthew S. Davenport, MD, FSAR
Katherine E. Maturen, MD, FSAR
Viktoriya Paroder, MD, FSAR
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
Avneesh Gupta, MD
Nagaraj Setty Holalkere, MD
John Mongan, MD
John Thomas, MD, FSAR
Ismail B. Turkbey, MD, FSAR
Joseph H. Yacoub, MD
Choose the Igor Laufer Visiting Professor; choose the Marshak Lecturer; and solicit participation for faculties for any travelling outreach programs.
Cheri L. Canon, MD, FSAR – Chair
Puneet Bhargava, MD, FSAR
Giovanna Casola, MD, FSAR
Beatrice L. Madrazo, MD, FSAR
Mariam Moshiri, MD, FSAR
Perry J. Pickhardt, MD, FSAR
Diana Salazar – RFS Liaison
Kumaresan Sandrasegaran, MD, FSAR
Aarti K. Sekhar, MD, FSAR
Antonio C. Westphalen, MD, FSAR
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
Kristin Dittmar, MD
Alice W. Fung, MD
Justin Holder, MD
Malak Itani, MD
Sonia Lee, MD
Joy Liau, MD, PhD
Sadhna B. Nandwana, MD
Margarita V. Revzin, MD
Boris Sinayuk, MD
Mindy X. Wang, MD – RFS 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
Eric Pepin, MD – RFS Liaison
Review proposals/applications for the SAR research awards (Wylie J. Dodds; Morton A. Bosniak; Howard S. Stern).
Thomas A. Hope, MD – Co-Chair, GI
Julia R. Fielding, MD, FSAR – Co-Chair, GU
Priya Bhosale, MD, FSAR
Jonathan R. Dillman, MD, FSAR
Stacy O’Connor, MD
Avinash Kambadakone-Ramesh, MD, FSAR
Andrew B. Rosenkrantz, MD, FSAR
Sree Harsha Tirumani, MD
Write any and all bylaw changes as proposed by the Board or membership.
Mark E. Lockhart, MD, FSAR – Chair
Sadhna Verma, MD, FSAR – Vice Chair
Vincent M. Mellnick, MD
Roshan Modi, MD
Prasad Shankar, MD
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.
Ryan B. O’Malley, MD – Chair
Kevin J. Chang, MD, FSAR
Elizabeth Edney, MD
Malak Itani, MD
Amita Kamath, MD
Elena K. Korngold, MD – Diversity & Inclusion Liaison
James T. Lee, MD
Robert Marks, MD
Lucy M. Muinov, MD
Suzanne Parets, MD – RFS Liaison
Vinay Prabhu, MD
Derek Sun, MD
Jennifer W. Uyeda, MD – Early Career 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.
Desiree E. Morgan, MD, FSAR – Chair
JG Fletcher, MD, FSAR
Jay P. Heiken, MD, FSAR
Susanna I. Lee, MD, PhD, FSAR
Perry J. Pickhardt, MD, FSAR
Cary Lynn Siegel, MD, FSAR
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
Ania Kielar, MD, FSAR
Elena K. Korngold, MD – Diversity & Inclusion Liaison
Erick M. Remer, MD, FSAR
Anuradha S. Shenoy-Bhangle, MD
Kerry Thomas, MD – Diversity & Inclusion Liaison
Mindy X. Wang, MD – RFS Liaison
Ashish P. Wasnik, MD, FSAR