Residents and early career physicians and physicists are invited to apply to become an American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Visiting Scholar.
The ABR partners with the ABMS to assist candidates and early career diplomates with their research efforts and leadership development. A one-year, part-time program, ABMS Visiting Scholars facilitates research projects that address pressing health care issues and research priorities for the Member Board community. Applications for the 2024-’25 cohort will be accepted until June 17.
The ABR’s goal is to fund up to four projects each year, preferably with one participant from each of the four specialties that it certifies: diagnostic radiology, interventional radiology, medical physics, and radiation oncology.
For more information, please visit the ABMS’ website or watch this video.
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 30 years of experience in his field. He holds the Frederick S. Keller endowed professorship at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland and continues clinical practice. Dr. Kaufman was the inaugural chair of the Dotter Department of Interventional Radiology and director of the Dotter Interventional Institute at OHSU.
Throughout his career, Dr. Kaufman’s research has focused on vena cava filters. More recently, he has been studying venous diseases. In 2010, he earned a master’s degree in healthcare management from the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard.
He earned his MD from the Boston University School of Medicine in 1982 and 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 performed a fellowship in vascular and interventional radiology there.
Dr. Kaufman has been active in the American Heart Association, American College of Radiology, American Roentgen Ray Society, and Radiological Society of North America. 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 him gold medals.
The American Board of Radiology is adding three members to its Board of Trustees this fall: Kristopher Cummings, MD; Umesh D. Oza, MD; and Jennifer Stickel, PhD. Dr. Cummings is a cardiothoracic imaging radiologist, Dr. Oza is a nuclear radiologist, and Dr. Stickel is a nuclear medical physicist.
Dr. Cummings is chair of the division of cardiothoracic imaging in the department of radiology at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, and an associate professor of radiology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He earned his bachelor’s degree in biology at the University of Alabama and medical degree at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham. He completed his residency and a fellowship in cardiothoracic imaging at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Dr. Cummings has been certified by the ABR since 2007.
Dr. Oza is a partner at American Radiology Associates in Dallas and professor of radiology at Baylor University Medical Center. He earned his bachelor’s degree in biology at Texas A&M University and his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. Dr. Oza finished a residency in diagnostic radiology at Tufts University School of Medicine/New England Medical Center in Boston and a fellowship in nuclear medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has been certified by the ABR since 2004.
Dr. Stickel is vice president of diagnostic/nuclear medicine physics at Colorado Associates in Medical Physics in Colorado Springs. She completed her bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering at Boston University and her PhD in biomedical engineering at the University of California-Davis. Dr. Stickel has been certified by the ABR since 2010.
The three new members will begin their duties at the conclusion of the fall board meeting in late September.
The Board of Trustees advances the quality, relevance, and effectiveness of the ABR’s assessments for certification. The Board of Trustees makes recommendations to the Board of Governors regarding assessment structure including, but not limited to, exam format, content, assembly, delivery, scoring, and feedback.
Trustees have specialty and subspecialty expertise, reflecting major areas of clinical practice.
