ASER 2007 Annual Meeting Awards:

Harris Award
Garry Choy, MD, MS, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, for The Contributions of Abdominal Computed Tomography in the Emergency Room to Diagnostic Confidence and Patient Management Decisions

Scientific Abstract Winners

Summa Cum Laude
Garry Choy, MD, MS, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, for The Contributions of Abdominal Computed Tomography in the Emergency Room to Diagnostic Confidence and Patient Management Decisions

Magna Cum Laude
Summer Reid Herlihy, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, for Changes in CT Utilization in Evaluation of Emergent Facial Trauma

Cum Laude
Rathachai Kaewlai, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, for Increased Incidence of Cardiac Injury in Trauma Patients with Thoracic Aortic Injury

Scientific Exhibit Winners

Summa Cum Laude
Seong Eon Yoon, MD, Sangju-Seongmo Hospital, Sangju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Republic of Korea, for Impacts of Contrast – Enhanced MDCT in Suspected Appendicitis: Prospective Comparison with those of Alvarado Score

Magna Cum Laude
Ajay Singh, MD, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA, for Emergency MR of the Pelvis and Abdomen: Role in Acute Appendicitis and Other Acute Pathologies

Cum Laude
Jamlik-Omari Johnson, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, for Introducing Electronic Ordering in Emergency Radiology:The Dark Side of Modernization

Case of the Day Winner
Aaron Sodickson, MD
Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

2007 ASER Fellows:
Paul Bode, MD
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands

Bertil Leidner, MD
Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge
Stockholm, Sweden

Gold Medalist:
Lee F. Rogers, MD
University of Arizona Health Science Center
Tucson, Arizona

Founders Lecturer:
Carlos Sivit, MD
Case Western Reserve School of Medicine
Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital
Cleveland, Ohio

The ASER Gratefully Acknowledges the Support of the Following Companies:

GOLD SUPPORTER
GE Healthcare

SILVER SUPPORTER
Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.

BRONZE SUPPORTER
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc.

EXIBITORS
Elsevier – Saunders – Mosby Medical Publishing
Emergency Cardiac Imaging
Imaging On-Call
Nighthawk Radiology Services
Sunset Radiology, Inc.
US Radiology On-Call