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Pediatric Radiologists at Packard/Stanford Bring Home Major Awards

For Release: May 11, 2010

PALO ALTO, Calif.听鈥 Scientists and physicians in听pediatric radiology听at Lucile Packard Children鈥檚 Hospital Stanford and Stanford University have garnered an exceptionally large number of awards and honors recently from a professional association of pediatric radiologists. For the second year in a row, researchers at the hospital and university nabbed the prestigious John Caffey Award for Best Basic Science Research Paper at the annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric Radiology in April. Named in honor of the doctor credited with having launched the field of pediatric radiology, the 2010 award recognized four papers by the research group of Roland Bammer, PhD, an assistant professor (research) of radiology.

Also at the meeting, radiology resident Albert Hsiao, MD, PhD, received the John A. Kirkpatrick Young Investigator Award, which is given to the author of the best paper presented by a resident or fellow. Hsiao鈥檚 paper was titled 鈥淰olumetric Flow Assessment in Congenital Heart Disease with 4D Flow MRI.鈥 鈥淭he receipt of the two major SPR awards by one institution in a single year is a great honor and may be unprecedented,鈥 said听Richard Barth, MD, a professor of radiology and radiologist-in-chief at Packard Children鈥檚. 鈥淭he recognized research reflects the imaging advances made possible by converting our department from a generalist model to a sub-specialist model.鈥

About five years ago, Barth began working to advance the pediatric radiology program at the hospital and Stanford by recruiting sub-specialists鈥攖hat is, radiologists with a particular expertise in, say, pediatric-cardio imaging or pediatric-neuro imaging鈥攁s well as non-clinical researchers steeped in basic science and imaging technology. Promoting collaborative-research projects between the two groups, he said, has been key to the program鈥檚 success in fielding awards. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a real team effort between the radiologist sub-specialists and the imaging scientists,鈥 he said. He pointed to the Caffey Award-winning papers, which describe new applications for magnetic-resonance imaging of children鈥檚 brains, as examples of how the team approach has made key contributions to research in pediatric radiology.

A person getting an MRI scan must remain very still, which, as Barth noted, is tough for young children. But Stefan Skare, PhD, a magnetic-resonance physicist in Bammer鈥檚 group and a lead author on one of the papers, found ways to correct for the effects of wiggly kids鈥攚ork that is described in two of the papers, 鈥淗igh-Resolution Motion-Corrected Diffusion-Tensor Imaging (DTI) in Infants鈥 and 鈥3D SAP-EPI in Motion-Corrected Fast Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (SWI).鈥 In addition to the Caffey and Kirkpatrick awards, Barth was named the recipient of the Presidential Recognition Award, which honors 鈥渋ndividuals whose energy and creativity have made a significant impact on the work of the Society and its service to its members.鈥 He also was elected second vice president of SPR, a post he will occupy beginning in 2011. He will begin a one-year term as president in 2013. Beverly Newman, MD,听a pediatric radiologist at Packard Children鈥檚 and an associate professor of radiology at Stanford, was elected to the society鈥檚 nominating committee, 鈥渨hich clearly is a testimonial to her national leadership stature in pediatric radiology,鈥 Barth said.

2010 John Caffey Award for Best Basic Science Research Paper

鈥淐linical Evaluation of Readout-Segmented-EPI for Diffusion-Weighted Imaging鈥濃 Roland Bammer, PhD; Samantha J. Holdsworth, PhD; Stefan Skare, PhD; Kristen Yeom, MD; Patrick D. Barnes, MD

鈥淗igh-Resolution Motion-Corrected Diffusion-Tensor Imaging (DTI) in Infants鈥濃 Stefan T. Skare, PhD; Samantha J. Holdsworth, PhD; Kristen Yeom, MD; Patrick D. Barnes, MD; Roland Bammer, PhD

鈥3D SAP-EPI in Motion-Corrected Fast Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (SWI)鈥濃擱oland Bammer, PhD; Samantha J. Holdsworth, PhD; Stefan Skare, PhD; Kristen Yeom, MD; Patrick D. Barnes, MD

鈥淭1-Weighted 3D SAP-EPI for Use in Pediatric Imaging鈥濃擱oland Bammer, PhD; Samantha J. Holdsworth, PhD; Stefan Skare; PhD, Kristen Yeom, MD; Patrick D. Barnes, MD

John A. Kirkpatrick Young Investigator Award

鈥淰olumetric Flow Assessment in Congenital Heart Disease with 4D Flow MRI鈥濃擜lbert Hsiao, MD, PhD; Marcus T. Alley, PhD; Payam Massaband, MD; Robert J. Herfkens, MD; Frandics P. Chan, MD, PhD; Shreyas S. Vasanawala, MD, PhD

Presidential Recognition Award

Richard Barth, MD, professor of radiology and radiologist-in-chief at Packard Children鈥檚 Hospital.

Authors

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