From the November 2017 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine

AHRA

AHRA Gold Awards
The award is the highest honor AHRA can bestow upon its members. It is given to members who have made significant contributions to the association and, thus, to the profession of health care administration. Nominations for the Gold Award come from the membership and any member may nominate a candidate. All members of AHRA are eligible for award consideration.


Russell L. Cain, CRA, FAHRA, has been an active AHRA member since 2000. He earned his CRA in 2002 and achieved Fellow status in 2016.

Cain has volunteered for many roles within AHRA. He was elected to the AHRA board of directors in 2011. He served as a director from 2011-2014, and again from 2015-2016. During his time on the board, he was part of the Benchmarking Project Committee, Strategic Plan Committee and AHRA Finance Committee.

He has served the association in many capacities and continues to do so. Cain is present at every AHRA event. He encourages new members to become engaged while maintaining strong connections to seasoned members.

ARRS

The ARRS Gold Medal for Distinguished Service
The ARRS Gold Medal is the American Roentgen Ray Society’s highest honor awarded to recipients for distinguished service to radiology. Two recipients were named this year.


Norman J. Beauchamp Jr. became dean of the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in October. Prior to his MSU appointment, Dr. Beauchamp was a professor and chair of the department of radiology at the University of Washington, Seattle, a position he assumed in 2002. While there, he served as vice chair and chair of the UW Faculty Senate, was president of the clinical practice of 1,600 physicians employed by the university and was medical director of the Seattle/King County Clinic, which provided dental, vision and medical care to thousands of low-income and uninsured patients. He also served as professor of neurological surgery and industrial and systems engineering at UW.

Beauchamp received his bachelor of science from MSU and was selected as one of the university’s top 25 of 10,000 undergraduate students. He received his master of health science from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore. As the second college of human medicine graduate to become dean, Beauchamp spent his last two years of medical school in Grand Rapids, Mich., and subsequently completed his surgical internship at Blodgett Hospital and Saint Mary’s Hospital, both in Grand Rapids. After completing his residency in radiology, and two fellowships in neuroradiology and interventional neuroradiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dr. Beauchamp joined the faculty in 1996. While at Johns Hopkins, he served as vice chair and interim chair of clinical operations.

As a diagnostic neuroradiologist and neurointerventional radiologist, Beauchamp focused on developing improved ways to prevent, predict, diagnose and treat patients suffering from stroke. He directed the National Institutes of Health–funded Epidemiologic Studies Image Analysis Center at Johns Hopkins and UW, which included nearly 6,000 study participants. An influential scientist and national leader in the radiology community, Dr. Beauchamp has received numerous awards for his research and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers. His research focuses on developing advanced MRI techniques to extend the treatment window for acute ischemic stroke and to identify risk predictors for stroke and dementia.

Beauchamp is chair of the International Outreach Committee of the American Roentgen Ray Society and on the board of directors of the Society of Chairs of Academic Radiology Departments and is past president of both those organizations. He was chair of the Radiology Research Alliance and the Coalition for Imaging and Bioimaging Research.


Robert A. Novelline is professor emeritus of radiology at Harvard Medical School and former director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Emergency Radiology Division. He is also the former director of the MGH Emergency Radiology Fellowship Program. Novelline received his undergraduate degree from McGill University in Montreal, and his medical degree from Boston University. After finishing a radiology residency at MGH, he completed fellowships in vascular/interventional radiology and radiology education before his appointment in 1982 as director of the newly formed ERD.

He installed one of the first CT scanners in an emergency imaging facility and pioneered investigations of CT diagnosis of trauma and acute nontraumatic emergencies. Novelline began one of the first fellowships in emergency radiology and is a founding member of the American Society of Emergency Radiology. He received ASER’s Gold Medal in 2000 and its Winged Caduceus Award in September 2015.

Novelline directed both the HMS core and advanced medical student radiology clerkships at MGH from 1975 until 2012. He developed medical student curricula in radiology that have been widely adopted at other medical schools. He is a founding member and first president of the Alliance of Medical Student Educators in Radiology. In 2007, he received the Radiological Society of North America’s Outstanding Educator Award, and in 2012 the AMSER Excellence in Education Award. He is the author of three editions of Squire’s Fundamentals of Radiology, and recently finished the seventh edition. In 2015, he received the Gold Medal of the Association of University Radiologists and the Gold Medal of the RSNA.

Throughout his career, the Boston native has traveled the world as a visiting professor at universities such as: Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Ludwig Maximilians-Universität Munchen Medical School, Munich, Germany; Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, New Zealand Branch Annual Scientific Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand; and many universities across the U.S. He has reviewed for the Journal of Trauma, Journal of the American College of Radiology and the European Journal of Radiology, among others.

Novelline's major research interests are evaluation of multidetector CT in trauma diagnosis, including the design and testing of new trauma protocols, 3-D multidetector CT of skeletal and vascular injuries and evaluation of new multidetector CT techniques in the diagnosis of nontraumatic abdominal emergencies (appendicitis, diverticulitis, ureteral stone disease and bowel obstruction). In education, his interests are the development and design of new radiology instructional programs, including textbooks, slide-tape, CD-ROM and Internet courses for medical students.

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