From the November 2017 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
RSNA
RSNA Gold Medals
In a tradition that originated in 1919, Gold Medals are presented each year to individuals who have rendered exemplary service to the science of radiology and who have received unanimous approval by the RSNA board of directors. Gold Medal awards are RSNA’s highest honor. This year the organization recognized four individuals.
Widely respected as a masterful diagnostic radiologist, educator, author and researcher,
Richard L. Baron, M.D., generously shared his knowledge and insight with colleagues around the world.
Throughout his career, Baron was dedicated to building bridges between radiologists across the globe. He worked closely with radiology associations around the world, building a roster of lifelong personal and professional relationships along the way.
Among his many accolades, Baron received the Medal of Honor and honorary membership in the French Radiological Society in 2015, the Gold Medal of the Asian Oceanian Society of Radiology in 2014 and honorary membership in the European Society of Radiology earlier this year.
Baron spent the latter part of his career at the University of Chicago, serving as professor of radiology from 2002 until the time of his passing. He served as UC chair of the Department of Radiology from 2002 to 2011, and as dean for clinical practice from 2011 to 2013. At the University of Pittsburgh, he served as chair of the Department of Radiology from 1992 to 1999, and as founding president and CEO of the University of Pittsburgh Physicians from 1997 to 2002.
Baron’s research focused on diagnostic imaging of liver disease and he served as an international authority on imaging in chronic liver disease and liver tumors. At RSNA 2016, he organized a special liver symposium where experts met to discuss this critical area of research.
Dr. Baron died May 4, 2017. In recognition of his tremendous contributions to radiology as an educator, researcher and leader, RSNA awards a posthumous Gold Medal to Richard L. Baron, M.D.
In a career spanning four decades,
George S. Bisset III, M.D., has earned a reputation as a preeminent authority on pediatric imaging and a world-class educator who has helped shape the next generation of radiologists.
He is a professor of radiology at Baylor College of Medicine and radiologist-in-chief and Edward B. Singleton Chair of Radiology at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.
Bisset earned a medical degree from the University of South Florida and began his career as an assistant professor of pediatrics and co-director of the Section of Pediatric Cardiology at Tulane University in New Orleans. He ascended the ranks in pediatrics and radiology at the University of Cincinnati, serving as chief of the Section of Body Imaging. He then moved to Duke University in Durham, N.C., where he spent the next 16 years serving as a professor of radiology, chief of the Division of Pediatric Radiology, and vice chair, as well as interim chair of the Department of Radiology, before moving to his current position in Houston.
As a researcher, Bisset has focused primarily on cross-sectional imaging with an emphasis on MR. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles and has served as a reviewer for journals including Radiology, Pediatric Radiology and the American Journal of Roentgenology.
