Six Trustees Join the ABR Board
By Matthew B. Podgorsak, PhD, ABR Board of Trustees Chair
2025;18(5):5
The ABR is pleased to welcome six new Trustees this month.
John Fritz Angle, MD (interventional radiology/diagnostic radiology), Isabel Cortopassi, MD (diagnostic radiology cardiothoracic imaging), Jeff M. Michalski, MD, MBA (radiation oncology), Michelle Miller-Thomas, MD (diagnostic radiology neuroradiology), Sameer Tipnis, PhD (diagnostic medical physics), and Darryl Zuckerman, MD (interventional radiology/diagnostic radiology) will join the Board of Trustees (BOT) at the conclusion of the fall Board meeting. Sherwin Chan, MD, PhD, started March 1 as the diagnostic radiology pediatrics representative.
Dr. Angle is a professor of radiology and medical imaging and director of the division of vascular and interventional radiology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine in Omaha. Dr. Angle completed a diagnostic radiology residency at Truman Medical Center in Kansas City and a fellowship in interventional radiology at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Cortopassi is a professor and vice chair of education in the department of radiology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Jacksonville, Florida. She earned her medical degree from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil. Dr. Cortopassi completed an internal medicine residency at Hospital of Restauracão in Recife, and a diagnostic radiology residency at InCor-Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. She finished her U.S.-based radiology training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Michalski is a professor and vice chair and director of clinical programs at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He earned his MD at the Medical College of Wisconsin, completed his residency at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, and earned an MBA at Washington University’s John Olin School of Business.
Dr. Miller-Thomas is a professor of radiology, director of medical student education in radiology, and vice chair of faculty development at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She earned her MD from Saint Louis University School of Medicine. Dr. Miller-Thomas completed a diagnostic radiology residency at the University of Texas Health Center in Houston and a fellowship in neuroradiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Dr. Tipnis is a professor of radiology and chief medical physicist at the Medical University of South Carolina. He earned a master’s in physics at the University of Bombay (now the University of Mumbai) in India and a PhD from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Dr. Zuckerman is an associate professor of radiology and biomedical imaging at the Yale University School of Medicine. He earned his MD from SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. Dr. Zuckerman completed his diagnostic radiology residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and a fellowship in vascular radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Four Trustees — Anne Covey, MD; Brian Davis, MD; Kalpana Kanal, PhD; and Christopher Wood, MD — will complete their terms at the meeting. We appreciate everything these outstanding professionals have contributed in their time as volunteers and look forward to working with them in the future.
The BOT advances the quality, relevance, and effectiveness of the ABR’s exams for Initial and Continuing Certification across all disciplines of radiology. Members have specialty and subspecialty expertise, reflecting major areas of clinical practice.
