ARRS names recipients of Distinguished Service to Radiology gold medals

The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) has named Barry Benson Goldberg, MD, professor of radiology at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and Philip O. Alderson, MD, dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for Health Sciences at Saint Louis University as its gold medal recipients for Distinguished Service to Radiology.

According to the society, Goldberg established the ultrasound division at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital--one of the largest ultrasound facilities in the world--and among other awards and honors, he has been named as a fellow of the American College of Radiology; the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine; the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound; the American Heart Association; the Council of Cardiovascular Radiology; and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He is also an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists in London.

In addition to being published over 200 times for his work and being employed at both Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in the past, Alderson has served as past president of the American Roentgen Ray Society, the American Board of Radiology; the Association of University Radiologists; the Association of Program Directors in Radiology; the Academy of Radiology Research; the Fleischner Society; the Society of Chairmen of Academic Radiology Departments; the New York State Radiological Society; and the New York (City) Roentgen Society, said the ARRS.

The society said that both recipients were awarded during a ceremony held at the ARRS 110th Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif. earlier this month.

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