Board of Governors

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Cheri L. Canon, MD President Birmingham, Alabama	Desiree E. Morgan, MD Birmingham, Alabama
John A. Kaufman, MD, MS President-elect Portland, Oregon	Andrea K. Ng, MD, MPH Boston, Massachusetts
Marina I. Feldman, MD, MBA Secretary-Treasurer Manchester, New Hampshire	Matthew B. Podgorsak, PhD Chair, Board of Trustees Buffalo, New York
James C. Anderson, MD Portland, Oregon	Stephen F. Simoneaux, MD Atlanta, Georgia
Karen Ragland Cole, MD, MBA Los Angeles, California	Brent Wagner, MD, MBA Executive Director Tucson, AZ
Toby A. Gordon, ScD Baltimore, Maryland

 

Cheri L. Canon, MD

President Birmingham, Alabama After serving as professor and chair and Witten-Stanley Endowed Chair of Radiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine (HSOM) for 13 years, Cheri L. Canon, MD, FACR, FSAR, FAAWR, transitioned to the roles of University of Alabama Health Services Foundation (HSF) president and UAB Health System chief physician executive. She completed her undergraduate training at the University of Texas at Austin, followed by medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch. After completing her residency training in diagnostic radiology at UAB, she joined the faculty in the abdominal imaging section. She sits on the UAB Medicine Joint Operating Leadership Council and is a trustee on the HSF board. Dr. Canon served as an oral examiner for the ABR for 11 years and as a member of the Board of Trustees, and she now sits on its Board of Governors as the president. She was the vice president of the American College of Radiology (ACR), chancellor on the board, and chair of the ACR Commission on Education. As a member of the inaugural ACR Radiology Leadership Institute board, she helped launch a comprehensive leadership development program in partnership with the most recognized business schools. She is a fellow of the college and received the ACR Gold Medal in 2021, its highest honor. She received the Alabama Academy of Radiology’s Silver Medal in the spring of 2022. Dr. Canon is a past-president of the Society of Chairs of Academic Radiology Departments (SCARD) and the co-creator and co-director of LEAD, a women’s leadership development program jointly developed by SCARD and GE Healthcare. She previously served on the leadership, including as president and on the executive board, for Momentum, a Birmingham women’s leadership organization. In recognition of her advocacy for women, she was recognized with the American Association of Women in Radiology Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award in 2020. In 2022, Dr. Canon was recognized by the University of Texas Medical Branch John Sealy School of Medicine Alumni Association’s highest honor, the Ashbel Smith Distinguished Alumni Award.  

John A. Kaufman, MD, MS

President-elect Portland, Oregon Dr. Kaufman is an interventional radiologist with more than 30 years of experience. In 1982, he earned his MD from the Boston University School of Medicine. He interned at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Then, he finished a residency at Boston University/Boston City Hospital. He later became chief resident in radiology and did a fellowship in vascular and interventional radiology there as well. Throughout his career, his research has focused on vena cava filters and more recently venous diseases. In 2010, he earned an MS degree in healthcare management from the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard. Dr. Kaufman was the inaugural chair of the Dotter Department of Interventional Radiology and director of the Dotter Interventional Institute at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon. He holds the Frederick S. Keller endowed professorship at OHSU and continues clinical interventional radiology practice. In addition to academic medicine, Dr. Kaufman has been involved in many societies. He has been active in the American Heart Association, American College of Radiology, American Roentgen Ray Society, and Radiological Society of North America. He is the chief medical officer for Cook Medical. A longtime fellow of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), Dr. Kaufman has served as SIR president and SIR Foundation chair. Both SIR and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE) have awarded Dr. Kaufman gold medals.  

Marina I. Feldman, MD, MBA

Secretary-Treasurer Manchester, New Hampshire Dr. Feldman specializes in breast imaging, working in a community hospital setting since 2011. She is the imaging founder and co-director of the Elliot Breast Health Center in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she leads a multidisciplinary team. She has held physician leadership posts in the Elliot Health System, including serving on its Board of Trustees, since 2020. She was part of the breast commission of the ACR Economics Committee from 2011 to 2015 and co-authored ACR BI-RADS Fifth Edition in 2013. Dr. Feldman earned dual bachelor’s degrees with honors in economics and biology from Brandeis University in 2000, and her medical degree and an MBA in healthcare management at Tufts University School of Medicine in 2005. She completed her diagnostic radiology residency at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn in 2010 and a fellowship in breast imaging at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago in 2011. She was selected for the ABR Board of Governors in 2023.  

James C. Anderson, MD

Portland, Oregon Dr. Anderson is a professor of neuroradiology and vice-chair of education in the department of diagnostic radiology and assistant dean for graduate medical education at Oregon Health & Science University. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Nebraska and his medical degree from the University of Nebraska School of Medicine. He completed his residency at the University of Kansas Medical Center – Wichita Wesley Medical Center and a fellowship in neuroradiology at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He maintains board certification in diagnostic radiology and subspecialty certification in neuroradiology. He is a past chair of the ACGME Resident Review Committee for Radiology and serves on the ACGME-International Surgical/Hospital-based Review Committee. He was recently appointed president of the Association of Program Directors in Radiology. He has extensive experience as an ABR volunteer, including as an oral examiner.  

Karen Ragland Cole, MD, MBA

Los Angeles, California Dr. Cole is a partner at MemorialCare Medical Group of Long Beach Memorial/Miller Children and Women’s Hospital. She earned her undergraduate degree from Stanford University, her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, and a master’s degree in public health at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Cole completed her radiology residency and body imaging fellowship at Kaiser Permanente Sunset in Los Angeles, a first-year neuroradiology fellowship at LAC/USC Medical Center and second-year neuroradiology fellowship at Duke University Medical Center. She added a Master of Business Administration from UCLA. Dr. Cole maintains board certification in diagnostic radiology and subspecialty certification in both neuroradiology and pediatric radiology. She is a member of the Section of Radiology and Radiation Oncology for the National Medical Association, is past president of the Association of Black Women Physicians, and represents the California Radiological Society as a councilor to the American College of Radiology. She is also a certified parliamentarian and past president of the National Association of Parliamentarians’ Green Gavel Electronic Unit. She has participated in efforts to address health disparities locally and globally and has served as a volunteer on two Haiti mission. Last year, she volunteered to serve on the ABR’s Continuing Certification Advisory Committee for Diagnostic Radiology.  

Toby A. Gordon, ScD

Baltimore, Maryland Dr. Gordon, the BOG’s public member, is a professor at Johns Hopkins University with expertise in the U.S. and international healthcare systems and innovations in healthcare delivery. Her primary appointment is in the Carey Business School and she holds joint appointments in the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the School of Medicine (Surgery). Dr. Gordon graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, then launched her career of over 40 years at Hopkins as the coach of the Women’s Squash team. She has held various administrative posts in the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health system, including serving as vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine for strategic planning and marketing before joining the Carey Business School as a founding faculty member. Her teaching interests are the organization and delivery of healthcare services in the U.S., with a particular focus on bringing social and biomedical innovations to the market. Dr. Gordon is a co-principal investigator on the NIH RO1 funded Clinical Translational Science Award. She has an extensive publication bibliography, which includes a series of peer-reviewed articles and the textbook Evidence-Based Surgery. She has consulted for numerous academic medical centers and the European Commission as an expert on the U.S. healthcare system, and she also teaches for the Frankfurt School of Finance in Germany. Dr. Gordon was appointed to the ABR Board of Governors in 2019 and to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education as a public member in 2021.  She serves on the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission quality oversight committee. A lifelong Baltimore resident, Dr. Gordon is very engaged in the community through service on corporate, nonprofit, and government advisory boards and commissions. She has received numerous recognitions for her professional accomplishments and for civic and government volunteer efforts, including recognition as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women.  

Desiree E. Morgan, MD

Birmingham, Alabama Desiree E. Morgan, MD, is professor and vice chair of faculty affairs in the Department of Radiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She began her ABR volunteer service as a diagnostic radiology written board proctor in 1997, and has served as an oral board examiner, an item writer for the gastrointestinal radiology sections of the Certifying and Qualifying (Core) exams, and chair of the GI Core Committee prior to joining the Board of Trustees as the abdominal Trustee in 2018. She joined the Board of Governors in 2023. Dr. Morgan is a graduate of the Honors College of the University of Georgia and the Medical College of Georgia. She completed a transitional internship in Birmingham followed by a DR residency at UAB. After joining the faculty there in 1993, she served the department in multiple capacities including vice chair of clinical research (2009-2015), DR program director (2015-2017), and vice chair of education (2015-2023) before transitioning to her current vice chair role. She is a former program director of the UAB Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program and has long championed learner success at all professional levels. She is a lead mentor for the UAB Heersink School of Medicine Barfield Carter Community, a group of 70 to 80 first- through fourth-year medical students with whom she shares lessons and activities on ethics, professionalism, and leadership development. Dr. Morgan is a fellow and executive board member of the Society of Advanced Body Imaging, and a fellow and former member of the board of directors of the Society of Abdominal Radiology (serving as president in 2020); she enjoys participation in multiple national radiology organizations. Her professional interests are many, but above all she enjoys spending time with her grown children (all currently pursuing medicine so she does not get to see them very often), cooking, traveling and occasionally fishing with her husband John, and chasing two grandpups and a new puppy of her own — the latter maybe not so much a grand idea …  

Andrea K. Ng, MD, MPH

Boston, Massachusetts Andrea K. Ng, MD, MPH, is professor of radiation oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital distinguished chair in clinical radiation oncology, and vice chair of faculty promotion and advancement at Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ng was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but spent most of her childhood in Hong Kong. She returned to the U.S. in 1986, received her undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester in 1990, her MD from Harvard Medical School in 1994, and her MPH from Harvard School of Public Health in 1998. She completed her radiation oncology residency at the Joint Center for Radiation Therapy in 1999. Her clinical and academic focus is on improving outcomes for patients with hematologic malignancies through the appropriate integration of high-quality radiation therapy. Dr. Ng has been an ABR volunteer since 2004 and has served as an item writer, oral examiner, and committee chair. In 2018, she joined the Board of Trustees in radiation oncology. She joined the Board of Governors in 2023. In addition to volunteer work at the ABR, she has served in leadership roles at the American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), including chairing the ASTRO Annual Meeting Education Committee, Best of ASTRO, and, most recently, the ASTRO Annual Meeting Scientific Committee. She has also served as chair of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness Criteria-Hodgkin Lymphoma Work Group Expert Panel. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the International Lymphoma Radiation Oncology Group (ILROG).  

Matthew B. Podgorsak, PhD

Chair, Board of Trustees Buffalo, New York Matthew Podgorsak, PhD, FAAPM, is professor of oncology and chief medical physicist in the Department of Radiation Medicine at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (RPCCC) in Buffalo, New York. He also holds an associate professor appointment in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo (UB), and he has mentored numerous master’s and doctoral students enrolled in UB’s CAMPEP-accredited medical physics graduate program over the past three decades. In his clinical role, Dr. Podgorsak oversees all medical physics and dosimetry services at RPCCC and its four affiliate centers in Western and Central New York, where a combined total of over 200 patients per day receive radiation therapy. He finished his undergraduate training at McGill University in Montreal, and then went on to complete his PhD in medical physics in 1993 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Over his 30-year career, Dr. Podgorsak has held leadership positions with several professional societies. In 2005, he was elected to a three-year term as a member of the Board of Governors of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). In 2013, Dr. Podgorsak joined the executive committee of the AAPM through his election to a three-year term as treasurer. Dr. Podgorsak also previously served on the Board of Directors of the American College of Medical Physics (ACMP), and he served as president of the Upstate New York Association of Medical Physicists. He is a member of the medical physics advisory committees for the American College of Radiation Oncology Practice Accreditation Program (ACRO-PAP) and the Radiosurgery Society (RSS). Dr. Podgorsak has been a volunteer for the ABR since 2004, and has served as an item writer, committee chair, and oral examiner. In 2017, Dr. Podgorsak was named the Trustee for therapy medical physics, and in 2022, he was appointed chair of the Board of Trustees and joined the Board of Governors.  

Stephen F. Simoneaux, MD

Atlanta, Georgia Steve Simoneaux, MD, FACR, is a professor of radiology and pediatrics at Emory University in Atlanta. He served as division chief and director of pediatric radiology at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta for 25 years. His undergraduate work was completed at the College of William and Mary, and his MD was obtained at the University of Miami in Florida. He completed his residency in diagnostic radiology at Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami and his fellowship in pediatric radiology at Emory University, where he has been his whole career. Dr. Simoneaux began his ABR service proctoring the old computer-based board exams held at a hotel in Atlanta in the 1990s (along with Board of Governor members Drs. Canon and Morgan) and has been an active volunteer since. He served for many years as an oral examiner, on the Oral Exam Committee, as image asset coordinator for pediatric radiology, and on the original Pediatric CAQ Committee as a member and chair. As a Trustee, he chaired the Image Quality and Subspecialty committees and served as vice chair for diagnostic radiology. He is also involved with the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR), currently serving as past chair of the board of directors. He has served on the board of the SPR Research and Education Foundation as vice president and treasurer. In addition, he was president of the Society of Chiefs of Radiology at Children’s Hospitals and served a term as president of the medical staff at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Dr. Simoneaux is originally from New Orleans but grew up in Japan. For more than 30 years, he and his wife have lived in Atlanta, where they have raised four children, all of whom still live in the area.  

Brent Wagner, MD, MBA

Executive Director Tucson, AZ Brent Wagner, MD, MBA, joined the ABR in 2020 as the Executive Director and an ex officio member of the Board of Governors. Prior to that, he volunteered for more than two decades as an item writer, oral examiner, and member of the ABR’s governing board (including as board president). While a radiologist in a private practice group in Reading, Pennsylvania, from 1998-2020, he served as group president, department chair, and medical staff president. He also chaired the hospital’s Peer Review Committee and was a charter member of the Leadership Council, which dealt with credentialing and physician professionalism issues. Beyond his medical staff roles, Dr. Wagner served on the local hospital and regional health system boards, beginning in 2010, including multiple terms as board chair. During this time, he also led the board’s Quality & Safety Committee. Dr. Wagner is a graduate of Lafayette College (BA ’81), Jefferson Medical College (MD ’85), and Johns Hopkins University (MBA ’19). He completed his diagnostic radiology residency at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center in San Antonio. His final assignment with the Air Force was on the faculty of the Department of Radiologic Pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP). He is board certified in diagnostic radiology and is actively participating in Continuing Certification.