ABR President Receives ACR’s Lawrence R. Muroff Luminary Award
2025;18(5):11
ABR President Cheri L. Canon, MD, recently received the 2025 Lawrence R. Muroff Luminary Award from the American College of Radiology’s Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) for her “exceptional lifetime achievements, innovation, leadership, and service to the radiology medical specialty.”
Dr. Canon is president of the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation (HSF), chief physician executive of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health System, and professor emerita in the UAB Heersink School of Medicine Department of Radiology. She sits on the UAB Medicine Joint Operating Leadership Council and is a Trustee on the HSF Board.
An ABR volunteer since 2002, Dr. Canon has served as an oral examiner and Trustee, and now sits on the Board of Governors as president.
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 has served in multiple roles within the American College of Radiology (ACR), including vice president, member of the Board of Chancellors, and chair of the ACR Commission on Education. She received the ACR Gold Medal, the College’s highest honor, in 2021. As a member of the inaugural ACR RLI board, she helped launch a comprehensive leadership development program in partnership with prestigious business schools.
