In support of disseminating and fostering superior research in the radiological sciences, every year during the annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society, the ARRS in collaboration with industry leaders honor those dedicated to the highest quality of radiology research.

Announcing this year's Melvin M. Figley Fellowship in Radiology Journalism, ARRS Editor in Chief, Dr. Robert Stanley awarded Ihab Kamel MD, PhD and Susanna Lee, MD, PhD this prestigious honor. Dr. Kamel is an associate professor of radiology in the section of body imaging at Johns Hopkins University Hospital and Dr. Lee is a staff radiologist in the division of abdominal imaging and intervention at Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kamel and Dr. Lee will both serve as Figley fellows for the 2008 - 2009 year.

Funded by a grant from the Roentgen Fund and through the generous support of Bracco Diagnostics, Dr. Tammie L.S. Benzinger, MD, PhD from The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine was the named 2008 ARRS Scholar. Dr. Benzinger is an instructor at the neuroradiology section of University of Washington Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology.

This year's inaugural ARRS Leonard Berlin Scholar in Medical Professionalism went to Dr. Stephen Brown from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. "It was essential that the awarded topic of the new Berlin Scholar in Medical Professionalism be of diffuse nature and how much more diffuse can you get when providing both mother and fetus perspective," says Dr. Kazerooni.

Dr. Brown is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. He will use his ARRS/Berlin Scholarship to develop a survey to assess the attitudes and counseling recommendations of pediatric versus obstetrical specialists regarding pregnancies complicated by congenital fetal anomalies.

The ARRS Residents in Radiology Award is a group of three awards presented to residents and fellows in radiology and radiological sciences.  The 2008 President's award was presented to Ethan Smith, MD from the University of Michigan Health systems. The purpose of Dr. Smith's study was to retrospectively assess whether magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) could distinguish between post radiation changes and recurrent brain neoplasm in patients who have been treated for primary brain tumors. Dr. Smith's results suggest that MRS may be a useful tool in assigning patients with non-specific contrast enhancing imaging findings to either invasive biopsy or conservative clinical management.

The two Executive Council Awards went to Joanna Tewfik, DO from the University of Virginia and to Sachit Verma, MD from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. All papers awarded the 2008 ARRS Residents in Radiology award are also submitted to the American Journal of Roentgenology for possible publication.

The 2008 Fujifilm Educational Travel Grant recipients are Elizabeth K. Arleo, MD, from New York Presbyterian Hospital and Roland Talanow, MD, PhD, from The Cleveland Clinic.

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