By Cheri L. Canon, MD, ABR President, and Brent Wagner, MD, MBA, ABR Executive Director April 2025;18(2):2 The Board of Governors (BOG) approved eight strategic priorities in 2022 that codified the programmatic and operational activities of not only the ABR staff but also the volunteers. This common understanding was important because it allowed for synergy…
By Rodney Campbell, ABR Communications Manager April 2024;18(2):10 As a youngster, Alisa Walz-Flannigan, PhD’s keen interest in math and science was strongly encouraged by her mother, who emphasized that studying those subjects was a path to intellectual and financial independence. “It burned into me a passion and resilience to pursue my interests in science,” Dr….
April 2025;18(2):8 Student-Created Radiology Panel Expands Services, Provides Holistic Care By Zach Cherian, MS3 Like many of my fellow medical students, I started my M1 year searching for extracurricular opportunities that would enrich and inform my specialty interests. I wanted a specialty that would allow me to interact with every field in medicine, one that…
By Cheri L. Canon, MD, ABR President, and John A. Kaufman, MD, MS, ABR President-elect April 2025;18(2):5 The ABR announced last month that for interventional radiology residents completing training in June 2029, the Interventional Radiology/Diagnostic Radiology (IR/DR) Certifying Exam process will require a candidate to pass the Diagnostic Radiology (DR) Oral Exam and the IR…
By Michael Yunes, MD, ABR Associate Executive Director of Radiation Oncology April 2025;18(2):7 The future of cancer care is never certain, but the pendulum appears to be swinging toward an increase in utilization of unsealed sources of various types. The ABR Radiation Oncology Trustees have unanimously voted to increase the percentage of items on the…
By Stephen F. Simoneaux, MD, ABR Governor, and Brent Wagner, MD, MBA, ABR Executive Director April 2025;18(2):4 Based on input and support from the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) , the ABR has created a pathway that allows diagnostic radiology (DR) residents to be eligible for subspecialty certification in pediatric radiology. The goal was to…
By Rodney Campbell, ABR Communications Manager April 2025;18(2):3 The ABR is welcoming seven members to its Board of Trustees (BOT) this year. Sherwin Chan, MD, PhD, started March 1 as the diagnostic radiology pediatrics representative. John Fritz Angle, MD (interventional radiology/diagnostic radiology), Isabel Cortopassi, MD (diagnostic radiology cardiothoracic imaging), Jeff M. Michalski, MD, MBA (radiation…
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…
April 2025;18(2):11 By Brooke Houck, PhD, ABR Associate Director of Assessments Research and Strategy Online Longitudinal Assessment (OLA) is a continuous assessment program that allows diplomates to engage in learning over the course of their five-year Continuing Certification Part 3 cycle. Having an OLA passing score in the fifth year of each cycle fulfills the…
By Rodney Campbell, ABR Communications Manager April 2024;18(2):9 There are career changes and there are career changes. Two decades ago, ABR volunteer Adina Alazraki, MD, made a huge switch in her work life. After completing training and working in the emergency room as an urgent care physician at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Dr. Alazraki rebooted…
By Geoffrey S. Ibbott, PhD, ABR Associate Executive Director for Medical Physics April 2025;18(2):6 To candidates for certification and even many diplomates, the ABR might appear to be a black box from which exams, requirements, and rules appear and decisions are handed down. However, nothing could be further from the truth. While the ABR has…
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