Visiting Scholar Offers Insight on Program

When considering career paths, would-be physicians often overlook radiation oncology. There are several reasons: too much math and physics; traditional routes, like diagnostic radiology, are more popular; and medical students don’t often get exposed to the specialty.  All that is especially true for women, who make up a reported 30 percent of the field.  Ria…

Writing questions for ABR exams is serious work. But volunteers can still have fun in the process. Christine Eyler, MD, PhD, a radiation oncologist and member of a committee that develops questions for the Biology and Physics Qualifying Exam, said she and her colleagues find ways to keep the mood light even as they spend…

By Alice Y. Ho, MD, MBA When I was asked to write a blog for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I was uncharacteristically speechless. As a radiation oncologist who has specialized in the care of patients with breast cancer for nearly 18 years, I should have had plenty of intellectual insights or inspirational epithets, but I…

As planning for the new Diagnostic Radiology Oral Exam ramps up, an ABR volunteer who has dedicated his career to resident education is joining the Board of Governors (BOG). Jim Anderson, MD, who will become a BOG member at the end of the fall meeting in late September, holds multiple roles at Oregon Health &…

Interventional radiologist John A. Kaufman, MD, MS, has been named president-elect of the ABR Board of Governors. Dr. Kaufman will begin his duties at the end of the fall board meeting in late September. Cheri L. Canon, MD, will start her two-year team as board president at the same time. Dr. Kaufman has more than…

The visions and missions of the ABR and radiology societies focus on improving patient care. Medical imaging impacts most people at some point, and radiology professionals have the potential to be unifying change agents across an inequitable healthcare system. To help address these issues, the ABR was one of 11 partners that formed the Radiology…