Despite growing up in a region of five million people in China, Chi Lin, MD, PhD, feels more at home in smaller communities with open spaces. Dr. Lin earned her medical degree at Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, and completed her PhD at Thomas Jefferson University and residency at Drexel University College of Medicine, both…
Hirschel McGinnis, MD, participates in Online Longitudinal Assessment (OLA) and is a dedicated runner. He sees striking parallels between the two pursuits. “When you finish a run, it’s not like you’re completely done,” he said. “There’s always another run on the horizon. Sometimes I ask myself, ‘Gosh, why am I doing this?’ And my answer…
Breast Cancer Awareness Month focuses attention in October on early detection, patient support, and research needs. But physicians in the breast imaging field work all year to battle a disease that affects approximately one in eight women in their lifetimes. A few of those professionals recently shared why they got into the field and why…
This past spring, Stephanie Workman Phillips was feeling great. Dedicated to fitness and overall health, the 48-year-old mother of two was keen on working out and eating right. There’s no way she could have imagined that #chemosummer was coming. Her life was turned upside down in May when a lump appeared in her left armpit….
October is a busy month for breast imagers. A recent study showed that mammogram rates can run 60 percent higher during Breast Cancer Awareness Month than any other time of the year. That’s OK with Eshani Sheth, DO, a diagnostic radiologist at the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University and assistant professor in the division…
One ABR medical physics volunteer partially owes his career path to balloon animals. As an undergraduate majoring in physics in his native Australia, Leith Rankine, PhD, and others from his university volunteered to visit Perth Children’s Hospital, where they handed out balloons they had twisted to appreciative kids. It was there that Dr. Rankine made…
By Catherine McNulty, MD I was drawn to breast imaging because it combines so many of the things I love about radiology — imaging, procedures, and meaningful patient interaction. Breast imaging can be an incredibly anxiety-provoking experience for patients, whether they’re coming in for a routine screening or navigating a new breast cancer diagnosis. I…
A second-year diagnostic radiology resident who volunteers for two societies and the ABR, Michael Justus, MD, knows the value of making connections. But he recently found himself in a situation where he wasn’t interested in adding a contact. Dr. Justus and his husband were hiking in the mountains of North Carolina when they ran across…
Three generations of Pamela Propeck’s family have worked in medical professions. But one of her daughters nearly chose another path. Dr. Propeck, an ABR Trustee and a University of Wisconsin Health radiologist and professor in the department of radiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, grew up with a father,…
Representatives from all four disciplines certified by the ABR are part of the new class of American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Scholars: Warren Campbell IV, MD, PhD (diagnostic radiology); Kofi Deh, PhD (medical physics); Mary Mahoney, MD (radiation oncology); and Daniel Veyg, DO (interventional radiology). Dr. Campbell is a resident at the University of Virginia Medical Center. His research project is titled: “Quantifying Diagnostic Excellence: Utilizing…
When he arrived in Pittsburgh last September for the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Conference, Abdullah Alshreef, PhD, was just becoming familiar with the importance of board certification. Dr. Alshreef had recently been selected as an ABMS Scholar, one of three funded last year by the ABR. They each received $15,000 grants to be part of the year-long, part-time program that supports early career physicians,…
When he was 14 years old and living in Kosovo in 1990, Dukagjin “Duke” Blakaj, MD, PhD, and his family were in a dangerous spot. Ethnic tensions were rising and the country seemed destined for civil war. Dr. Blakaj’s parents, both physicians, decided to move the family to Connecticut. Eight years later, fighting erupted between…
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