Michael Vannier, MD, professor of radiology and vice chair for clinical research radiology at the Medical Center, is quoted in a story about the CT-scans he did that enabled artists to draw the face of Meresamun, a 25,000 year-old mummy at the University’s Oriental Institute.

We are pleased to report that the fellowship grant funding request submitted by Dr. Brian Funaki was approved for $25,000 by Boston Scientific during the 5/26/2009 Cardiovascular (CV) Grant Research & Education Committee Meeting. Jonathan Lorenz, MD is the fellowship director and was critical to the successful approval of the grant . This grant will support our Vascular and Interventional Radiology fellowship.

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Richard Baron and Dr. Sameer Ansari received nominations for the "Faculty Physician Peer Role Model Award" from the Department of Radiology. This inaugural award was recently sponsored by the University of Chicago Professionalism Steering Committee.

Congratulations to David Paushter, MD who received the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine Presidential Recognition Award at the Annual Meeting in New York, NY last month.

"For outstanding contributions and service to the expanding future of ultrasound in medicine on behalf of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine"

Last winter the Dean’s Research Advisory Committee (RAC) announced a new seed funding opportunity. The purpose of the program is to solicit applications and support pilot projects that involve multidisciplinary research collaborations and data acquisition; these seed data would then form the basis for competitive applications to external funding sources. We received over 20 high quality proposals from across the Division, involving over 80 faculty members, and were exceptionally pleased with both the quality and nature of these proposed collaborative projects.

Congratulations to Paul J Chang, M.D., FSIIM, Professor & Vice Chairman of Radiology Informatics, University of Chicago Dept of Radiology, who has been named to the ACR Council Steering Committee.

The American College of Radiology Council