STR 2008 Awards

Society of Thoracic Radiology
Award Winners
March 2-5, 2008
Sanibel Harbour Resort & Spa

The second JACK WESTCOTT AWARD was given to the best oral presentation by a fellow. The award was given by Dr. Irena Tocino to Anand Devaraj, MBBS at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London for his presentation entitled CT Predictors of Pulmonary Hypertension: are Signs Valid in Fibrotic Lung Disease? His co-authors were AU Wells, M Meister, J Wort, T Corte, and DM Hansell.

Best Oral Paper Presented by a Resident to Andrew D. Smith, MD, PhD
The paper was entitled Predicting Therapeutic Response by CT in Thoracic Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma from the Cleveland Clinic with Dr. SN Shah as his co-author.

Best Oral Paper Presented by a Student to Mai-Lan Ho
The paper was entitled MDCT of Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return (PAPVR) in Adults from Washington University with Drs. A Bierhals, S Bhalla, and FR Gutierrez as her co-authors.

Benjamin Felson Lecturer
Leonard Berlin, MD - Litigation Issues in Thoracic Imaging

Non-surgical Extracardiac Vascular Shunts of the Thorax – Duke University Martinez S, Heyneman LE, McAdams HP, Jasinowodolinski D, Rossi S, Washington L

Thoracic Manifestations of Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Duke University Betancourt S, Martinez S, McAdams HP, Jaffe T, Restrepo S, Carrillo JA

Development of a High-Performance Dual-Energy Chest Imaging System: Initial Investigation of Diagnostic Performace - University Health Network - Kashani H, Gang G, Varon C, Shkumat N, Paul N, Yorkston J, Van Metter R, Siewerdsen J

Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy: Current Concepts and Controversies - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Pahade J, Litmanovich D, Pedrosa I, Romero J, Bankier AA, Vadnais M, Boiselle PM

The Diaphragm at MDCT: Covering the Thoracic Outlet - University of Cincinnati - Seaman DM, Meyer CA, Shipley RT

ECG-gated Cardiac MDCT in Pre-operative and Post-operative Evaluation of Orthotopic Heart Transplant Patients - University of Miami - Ghersin E, Pham S, Fishman J, Siegel Y, Jimenez J, Katzen J, Saraf-Lavi E

Breakthrough Mucormycosis : A New Threat in Bone Marrow Transplant Patients on Voriconazole Prophylaxis - Medical College of Wisconsin - Shahir K, Gulsun Akpinar M, Goodman L, Hari P

Triple Rule-out CTA vs. Dedicated Coronary CTA: Comparison of Coronary Artery Image Quality - University of Maryland Medical Center - Rahmani N, Jeudy J, Barry-Lane P, Bruce P, White C

Certificates of Merit

Multidirectional Phase-Contrast MRI of the Heart and Large Thoracic Vessels: Image Acquisition, Visualization Concepts and Functional Information - German Cancer Research Center - Ley S, Unterhinninghofen R, Ley-Zaporozhan J, Szabo G, Dillmann R, Kauczor H-U

Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation of Complications Post-Lung Transplantation – University of Texas – San Antonio -Carswell A, Gutierrez J, West FB, Angel L, Restrepo CS, McCarthy M

CT and MR Findings of Cardiac Valve Surgery Complications - Cleveland Clinic - Chowdhry AA, Mohammed TL, Kirsch J

Pulmonary Artery-predominant Takayasu’s Arteritis: A Radiological Diagnosis - Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami School of Medicine - Siegel Y, Fishman J

Spectrum of Lymphoproliferative Diseases of the Lung - University of Cincinnati - Wand A, Meyer C, McCormick F, Shipley R

High-Resolution CT of Wegener Granulomatosis in the Chest: A Pictorial Review - Cleveland Clinic - Ananthakrishnan L, Sharma N, Kanne JP

Overall Winner – Jonathan C. Chung, MD (Resident), University of Washington, received a book entitled “Diagnostic Thoracic Imaging – Chest” by Dr. Miller et al donated by the author.

Member Winner – Tan-Lucien Mohammed, MD, Cleveland Clinic, received a book entitled “Diagnostic Imaging – Chest” by Dr. Gurney et al donated by the author.

Course Participant Winner – Barry Skeist, MD, Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, PA, received a book entitled “Teaching Atlas of Chest Imaging" by Dr Parker donated by the author.