Congratulations to Dr.'s Appelbaum and MacMahon for being listed in Chicago Magazine's Top Doctors issue. Given the small number of Radiologists listed, this is a testament to their reputations. The January 2012 issue honors 87 physicians at the University of Chicago Medical Center and at Comer Children's Hospital at the University of Chicago.

Steffen Sammet, MD, PhD, MS, DABR will be participating in the R25 Cancer Education and Career Development Program. This full-time, two to three year program will consist of formal coursework, supplementary educational experiences, participation in a laboratory-based cancer nanotechnology project, and participation in a cancer-related radiology or radiation oncology clinical study.

Dr. Oto's proposal on "Microscopic Distribution of Gadolinium and Vanadium in Murine Prostate Cancer" has been approved for funding by the Prostate SPORE grant executive committee. The proposal is aiming to investigate a novel contrast agent for detection of prostate cancer in a mouse model and determine the distribution of gadolinium within normal prostate gland and in prostate cancer. The award is $ 50,000 and for one year.

Congratulatios to our faculty and residents on their abstracts accepted for the ARRS Annual Meeting! Continue on to the next page to view the list of accepted abstracts.

Cum Laude award granted at RSNA 2011. This is a joint work of UCMC and Northshore. Education Exhibit at RSNA 2011 entitled: Axillary Imaging and the Current Status of Axillary Staging in Breast Cancer: What the Imager Should Know. Authors: J S Ecanow, MD, H Abe, MD; G M Newstead, MD; D B Ecanow, MD; J M Jeske, MD. ID of the presentation: LL-BRE3146-SUA

Congratulations to Steffen Sammet, MD, PhD, MS, DABR who's proposal for a Cancer Research Foundation Young Investigator Award has been accepted. The award is $75,000, to be awarded in two installments. The goal of the Young Investigator Awards is to enable promising young investigators to initiate successful scientific careers.

Liver volumetry study by Kenji Suzuki, M.S., Ph.D. in collaboration with Drs. Richard Baron, MD, FACR and Aytekin Oto, MD was featured in the article "Software automates CT liver volume measurements" on AuntMinnie.com

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