Best of 2012: A rundown of top awards from top associations
by Sean Ruck, Contributing Editor | December 28, 2012
with an area of study and interest in imaging informatics. Young investigators are eligible if they are in a full-time training program, or have completed their training program within two years of the SIIM Annual Meeting. The awardees present their accepted scientific paper at the SIIM Annual Meeting.
To be eligible for a New Investigator Travel Award, applicant must be a student member of SIIM or affiliated with a SIIM institution member. Individuals must register for the annual meeting (using the complimentary SIIM student member registration category) by the early bird registration deadline to receive the travel award funding. The presenter must submit a full paper to the Journal of Digital Imaging prior to the Annual Meeting.
This year, Tessa S. Cook, MD, PhD, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania was honored with New Investigator Travel Award for the paper, Using Microsoft Kinect for patient size estimation and radiation dose normalization: Proof of concept and initial validation; as well as being picked as one of the winners of top five medical imaging IT projects in 2012 for her work about the RADIANCE Toolkit for Customizable CT Dose Monitoring.
MGMA
Harry J. Harwick Lifetime Achievement Award
The Harry J. Harwick Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest recognition bestowed by MGMA-ACMPE. It goes to an individual who has made nationally recognized contributions to health care administration, delivery and/or education in his/her career, advancing the field of medical practice management.
This year, the award was presented to Sara M. Larch, MSHA, FACMPE, specialist leader, Deloitte Consulting, LLP, Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands.
For more than 30 years, Larch has served as a medical group practice administrator and executive in large group practices, academic medical centers and hospital systems. She has held a number of leadership positions in the field, including board chair of Medical Group Management Association (2001-02), ACMPE board member (2001-02), MGMA board member (1994-03), president of the MGMA Academic Practice Assembly (1994-95) and president of the Association of Managers of Obstetrics and Gynecology (1986-87). Larch became a Fellow in the American College of Medical Practice Executives in 1995.
To be eligible for a New Investigator Travel Award, applicant must be a student member of SIIM or affiliated with a SIIM institution member. Individuals must register for the annual meeting (using the complimentary SIIM student member registration category) by the early bird registration deadline to receive the travel award funding. The presenter must submit a full paper to the Journal of Digital Imaging prior to the Annual Meeting.
This year, Tessa S. Cook, MD, PhD, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania was honored with New Investigator Travel Award for the paper, Using Microsoft Kinect for patient size estimation and radiation dose normalization: Proof of concept and initial validation; as well as being picked as one of the winners of top five medical imaging IT projects in 2012 for her work about the RADIANCE Toolkit for Customizable CT Dose Monitoring.
Sara M. Larch
MGMA
Harry J. Harwick Lifetime Achievement Award
The Harry J. Harwick Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest recognition bestowed by MGMA-ACMPE. It goes to an individual who has made nationally recognized contributions to health care administration, delivery and/or education in his/her career, advancing the field of medical practice management.
This year, the award was presented to Sara M. Larch, MSHA, FACMPE, specialist leader, Deloitte Consulting, LLP, Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands.
For more than 30 years, Larch has served as a medical group practice administrator and executive in large group practices, academic medical centers and hospital systems. She has held a number of leadership positions in the field, including board chair of Medical Group Management Association (2001-02), ACMPE board member (2001-02), MGMA board member (1994-03), president of the MGMA Academic Practice Assembly (1994-95) and president of the Association of Managers of Obstetrics and Gynecology (1986-87). Larch became a Fellow in the American College of Medical Practice Executives in 1995.
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