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Sean Ruck, Contributing Editor | December 30, 2015
From the December 2015 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
A renowned clinician and researcher, Dr. Steven E. Seltzer, M.D., has forged a legacy as a passionate educator committed to teaching and mentoring radiology students and junior faculty to fill the leadership roles so critical to the specialty’s future.
Born in Philadelphia, Dr. Seltzer received his baccalaureate and medical degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his radiology residency at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1980. He joined the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/ Harvard Medical School staff directly afterward, and remained on staff for his entire career. From 1984 to 1997, Seltzer served as co-director of abdominal imaging and director of CT at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Since 1997, Seltzer has held his current position as chair of the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Philip H. Cook Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School.
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From 1984 to 1997 as department chair, Seltzer worked with founding director Ramin Khorasani, M.D., M.P.H., to establish the Center for Evidence-Based Imaging at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2002. The unique multidisciplinary translational research center offers diversified funding sources, including research grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, among other institutions. Seltzer, who served on the RSNA Health Policy and Practice Committee from 2000 to 2002, is active in numerous radiology organizations and served as president of the AUR, the Academy of Radiology Research (ARR) and the Society of Chairs of Academic Radiology Departments. Seltzer was elected to fellowship in the American College of Radiology in 1997. He was awarded the AUR gold medal in 2004.
Seltzer currently serves as chair of the Coalition for Imaging and Bioengineering Research, created by the ARR. His other honors include the 1981 Teacher of the Year Award from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Radiology and numerous Editor’s Recognition Awards from Radiology. Seltzer has published over 130 peer-reviewed research manuscripts in journals including Radiology, Academic Radiology and the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Roger A. Bauman, MD Award
The Roger A. Bauman, M.D. Award is presented for the best student paper each year at the annual meeting. This award was named to honor Dr. Bauman’s distinguished career in radiological informatics research and practice, and his status as Founding Editor of the Journal of Digital Imaging. Dr. Peter Chang’s early research success has focused on developing medical software that integrates computer vision and machine learning techniques to analyze radiology images. His work has been recognized on the national level including the 2015 Roentgen Resident Research Award, and the 2014-15 Introduction to Academic Radiology Award (RSNA/ARRS). In addition he has authored multiple papers, patents, abstracts, presentations and book chapters. The Roger A. Bauman Award was presented for his paper, “Fully Automated Quantitative Scoring of VASARI Glioma Imaging Features Demonstrates High Interobserver Agreement with Expert Neuroradiologists.” Chang completed his undergraduate and medical school training at Northwestern University, graduating summa cum laude and inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society for excellence in scholarship and service. He is currently completing his radiology residency at Columbia University’s New York Presbyterian Hospital.
