The Paul C. Hodges Excellence Award is bestowed upon those individuals whose careers have been defined by outstanding achievement in the field of Radiology through accomplishments in education, research, leadership and/or service to the profession; exceptional service to the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago may also be considered as a sole criterion for the Award.
Hodges Society Members may nominate individuals for the Award; nominees must be members of the Hodges Society (i.e., any physician or scientist who has spent at least one year in training in the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago, or who has served on the clinical or basic science faculty of the Department). Only nominations that are accompanied by a statement indicating the merits of the nominee(s) will be considered; although the statement may be brief, we encourage you to provide as much information as you can in order to justify your nomination.
Nominations are to be collected through October 15th after which the names will be distributed to the selection committee. A final decision will be rendered at the Hodges Society Board Meeting in late November. The Award will be presented at the annual Hodges Society reception during RSNA week of the following year.
You may provide a nomination by clicking here. Please include a brief statement indicating the merits of the nominee.
Previous recipients of the Hodges Excellence Award are listed below.
Christopher Comstock, MD, is an attending radiologist and director of Breast Imaging Clinical Trials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He earned his medical degree from Tulane in 1990 and finished his residency in radiology in 1995 at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans. Following his residency, he completed a fellowship in Breast Imaging at the University of Chicago. Dr. Comstock then worked as an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Chicago and later at Northwestern University Hospital’s Lynn Sage Breast Center. From 2003 to 2009, Dr Comstock was the director of breast imaging at The University of California San Diego. In 2006, he completed a 2-year ACRIN fellowship in clinical trials in medical imaging.
His current research includes the evaluation of the supplemental yield of whole breast screening ultrasound to screening tomosynthesis and contrast-enhanced digital mammography and abbreviated breast MRI. He is Co-PI of an active multicenter trial titled Effect of Preoperative Breast MRI on Surgical Outcomes, Costs and Quality of Life of Women with Breast Cancer (Alliance A011104/ACRIN 6694) and Study chair of the recent ECOG-ACRIN trial EA1141, “Comparison of Abbreviated Breast MRI and Digital Breast Tomosynthesis in Breast Cancer Screening in Women with Dense Breasts.”
Dr. Comstock has co-authored textbooks on abbreviated breast MRI and breast cancer imaging, written several book chapters, been involved in numerous breast imaging publications, and has given over 500 invited lectures. His past professional service includes: Chair of the ACR Breast Ultrasound Accreditation program, ABR Oral Board examiner, member of the NCI BOLD task force, Chair of the RSNA Breast Refresher course program, and Chair of the ACRIN Institutional Participants committee. He is currently the Imaging Co-Chair of the ECOG-ACRIN Breast Committee and ACR Committee on BI-RADS Breast MRI Chair. In 2014, Dr Comstock was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Radiology.