The Minnesota Region of the American Cancer Society (ACS) has honored 1999 RSNA President Seymour H. Levitt, M.D., in the region's new Hope Lodge.

ACS volunteers sought a way to honor Dr. Levitt, a fellow volunteer and professor in the Department of Therapeutic Radiology at the University of Minnesota, and placed his portrait in the entrance of the Hope Lodge that opened in April in Minneapolis. ACS offers Hope Lodges in various parts of the country as free, temporary housing facilities for people with cancer who are undergoing treatment.

Fritzsche is Distinguished Loma Linda Alum

2003 RSNA President Peggy J. Fritzsche, M.D., was recently named Alumnus of the Year by Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, Calif. Dr. Fritzsche has served as a professor of radiology at Loma Linda since 1986. From 1991 to 2004, she served as medical director of Riverside MRI Center in Riverside, Calif.

Dr. Fritzsche will receive the RSNA gold medal at RSNA 2008.

ARRS Awards Gold Medals

The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) has awarded its gold medals to Eric J. Hall, D.Phil., D.Sc., Christopher R.B. Merritt, M.D., and Robert J. Stanley, M.D. Dr. Hall, also honored earlier this year with the gold medal of the American College of Radiology, is director of the Center for Radiological Research at the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University in New York. He is also the Higgins Professor of Radiation Biophysics and a professor of radiation oncology and radiology at Columbia and radiation biologist at The Presbyterian Hospital of New York. He was an RSNA Outstanding Researcher in 1996.

Dr. Merritt is a professor and vice-chair in the Department of Radiology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Dr. Stanley will retire as editor of the American Journal of Roentgenology in June after having served in the position since 2003.

Eric J. Hall, D.Phil., D.Sc.

Christopher R.B. Merritt, M.D.

Robert J. Stanley, M.D.

Thomas M. Anderson, M.D.

Anderson Receives Chicago Radiological Society Award

Thomas M. Anderson, M.D., has received the gold medal of the Chicago Radiological Society. The medal recognizes Dr. Anderson's years of service to diagnostic radiology as well as his leadership in state and national organizations.

A musculoskeletal radiologist, Dr. Anderson was chair of the Department of Radiology at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago from 1982 to 2002 and continues to serve as a consulting radiologist. He is also a senior attending radiologist for Radiological Physicians, Ltd. in Chicago and a clinical assistant professor of radiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Ho-Young Song, M.D.

Song Receives Korean Honors

The Korean Ministry of Knowledge and Science has named Ho-Young Song, M.D., as one of four recipients of its 2008 Most Distinguished Scientist awards. Dr. Song, a professor in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Ulsan, also was recently selected by the Korea Medical Association (KMA) to receive an award the organization created to celebrate its 100th anniversary this year. The KMA award acknowledges Dr. Song's "career-long research and development of medical tools, encouraging new generations to come."

Adele Fifield

Fifield to Head CAR

Adele Fifield has been appointed the chief executive officer of the Canadian Association of Radiologists. With 20 years in association management, Fifield most recently served as director of the War Amps National Amputee Centre, which educates Canadian amputees, their families and the public on all aspects of amputation. Fifield was made a member of the Order of Ontario in 2005 for her advocacy for Canadian amputees and veterans in Ontario.

CAR recently moved its headquarters to Ottawa, Ontario.

Hatch is UTMB Endowed Radiation Oncology Chair

Sandra S. Hatch, M.D.

Sandra S. Hatch, M.D., is the inaugural holder of the Irma Labardini Mendoza and Jesse Jesus Mendoza Chair in Radiation Oncology at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston.

Dr. Hatch, who has been Irma Mendoza's physician for 10 years, is the vice-chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology and director of clinical operations and directs UTMB's radiation oncology residency program and multidisciplinary breast cancer program. She also holds the Ruth Levy Kempner Professorship in Radiation Oncology.

In August 2007, the Mendozas contributed $500,000 to establish the endowed chair, which will support the advancement of radiation therapy to treat patients with breast and gynecologic cancers.

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