Arthur Fleischer, M.D., Medical Director of Ultrasound and Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor, Departments of Radiology and Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBGYN), received the Laurence (Larry) A. Mack Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU) Annual Meeting held earlier this month in San Diego.

Ryan Adams, M.D., second-year diagnostic radiology resident, and Jennifer Watchmaker, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Science Training Program graduate student, were recently selected to participate in the Introduction to Academic Radiology Program at Radiological Society of North America’s Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting in Chicago next month. 

Third-year Vanderbilt Radiology resident Courtney Raybon, M.D., and neuroradiology fellow Courtney Tomblinson, M.D., have been awarded member-in-training travel stipends to attend the 2018 Resident and Fellow Committee Meeting and Radiological Society of North America Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting next month in Chicago. 

Last weekend, the Department of Radiology hosted a Strategic Directions Retreat, which inspired idea sharing and thought-provoking discussion related to the future direction of the department. 

The following article originally appeared in the Oct. 4, 2018, edition of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Reporter.