Dr. Tarun Pandey, Assistant Professor of Radiology, is honored to be one of 25 worldwide applicants selected to attend the ARRS Clinical Educator Development Program in Vancouver, Canada, in April.
Dr. Michael J. Borrelli, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Research in the UAMS Department of Radiology, will serve as Associate Director for the new Arkansas Nanomedicine Center (ANC) in the UAMS College of Medicine. The ANC's goal is to maximize and integrate the already extensive internationally recognized work at UAMS in the use of nanoparticles, coordinating researchers and clinicians in the UAMS College of Medicine, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Translational Research Institute, Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute, the Institute of Nanoscience and Engineering at University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, the Nanotechnology Center at the University of Arkansas in LIttle Rock, and the National Center for Toxicological Research.
Dr. Teresita Angtuaco has been appointed Vice-Chair of the RSNA Committee on International Relations and Education (CIRE) and has been named a member of the RSNA International Advisory Committee for 2012. The committee is responsible for (1) implementing Board-authorized programs designed to educate and train qualified international radiologists on issues, skills and technologies not readily available to them, particularly those in developing and emerging nations; (2) pursuing programs, including electronic applications for distance learning, to enhance and elevate the level of radiologic education in emerging nations; (3) providing educational programs and materials at the Annual Meeting to raise awareness of RSNA involvement in international education and outreach, as well as spotlighting relevant issues identified through committee programs; and (4) advising the Board of Directors on international issues in radiology education and research.
Dr. William Culp has been named a Fellow in the American Heart Association.
Dr. Xiawei Ou has received the Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Award for his project: “Effects of permissive hypercapnia on cerebral white matter in extremely low birth weight premature infants."
Dr. Twyla Bartel received the "Interdisciplinary Team Award for American College of Radiological Imaging Network Research 6688."
Dr. Mark Wendell, IR Direct Pathway Resident PGY6, has been elected Secretary of the Mid America Interventional Radiology Society 2012.
Dr. Twyla Bartel, Diagnostic Radiology Resident R1, has been elected Secretary of the American College of Nuclear Medicine 2012.
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