Announcements: Dr. Morgan Receives Society of Abdominal Radiology Gold Medal
April 2025;18(2):13
ABR Governor Desiree E. Morgan, MD, professor and vice chair of faculty affairs in the Department of Radiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), is one of three physicians awarded the Society of Abdominal Radiology (SAR) Gold Medal for 2025.
The SAR Gold Medal is the highest recognition given by the Society and based on contributions to abdominal radiology, medicine, and patient health. It also takes into consideration service within the Society and is based on a lifetime of commitment to the SAR mission and values.
Dr. Morgan is a fellow and former member of the SAR board of directors and served as SAR president in 2020.
An ABR volunteer since 1997, Dr. Morgan served as an oral board examiner, an item writer for the gastrointestinal radiology sections of the Qualifying (Core) and Certifying 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.
