GE and AUR Announce 2003 Radiology Research Fellows
Four Researchers To Receive 2-Year Grants
Waukesha, Wis. – The Association of University Radiologists (AUR) and GE Medical Systems have jointly announced the selection of four junior academic radiology investigators to receive two-year GE-AUR Radiology Research Academic Fellowship (GERRAF) awards for 2003. GERRAF fellowships are presented annually to support advanced research projects in the areas of patient outcomes research, technology assessment, and informatics. The 2003 GE-AUR Fellows and their approved research projects are:
Elizabeth S. Burnside, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., Assistant Professor of Radiology and Chief, Breast Imaging, University of Wisconsin - "An Expert System to Determine the Probability of Breast Cancer and Provide Real-time Decision Support for Mammography"
John A. Carrino, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, and Staff Radiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital - "The Development, Testing and Implementation of a Prediction Rule for Distinguishing Between Benign and Malignant Vertebral Compression Fractures of the Spine by Magnetic Resonance Imaging Feature Analysis"
Mukesh G. Harisinghani, M.D., Instructor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School, and Assistant Radiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital – "Detection of Minimal Metastatic Disease in Lymph Nodes of Patients with Prostate Carcinoma"
Martina M. Morrin, M.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, and Staff Radiologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – "MR Colonography at 3 Tesla Using Air as Endoluminal Contrast Agent: Impact on Colorectal Polyp Detection"
Dr. Burnside received her B.A. in Biology and Psychology from Dartmouth College in 1988, then completed M.D. and M.P.H. degrees at Tufts University School of Medicine where she won clinical honors in surgery, medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and radiology, and was selected for membership in Alpha Omega Alpha. Following a radiology residency at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was chief resident, Dr. Burnside completed an M.S. in medical informatics at Stanford University before returning to UCSF on a mammography fellowship. She was appointed to her current academic and clinical positions in 2001.
Dr. Carrino earned both his B.S. and M.D. degrees from George Washington University. Following an internship in internal medicine at Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center, he took a residency in radiology at Yale-New Haven Hospital with a focus on musculoskeletal. In 1996, he was appointed clinical assistant professor of radiology at The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio with a concurrent appointment at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. He was appointed instructor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in 1998 and assistant professor of radiology at Jefferson Medical College in 2000. He was appointed to his present academic position in 2002 and also holds clinical titles as Clinical Director of Magnetic Resonance Therapy and Co-Director of the Spine Intervention Service. Dr. Carrino is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha and won the 1999 George Marina Teaching Award presented by the BWH Radiology Department.
Dr. Harisinghani is a native of Bombay, India, and received his medical degree from Bombay University in 1989. Following extensive post-graduate studies in radiology, he served in various clinical and academic assignments at several Bombay area institutions before accepting a one-year radiology appointment at the Dr. Khalild Idriss Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He returned to Bombay’s First Referral Unit Hospital in 1994, then accepted a research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital the following year. He entered a radiology residency there in 1996, followed by a fellowship in abdominal imaging and intervention in 2000. He was appointed to his present academic position in 2001 and became Co-Director of Abdominal MRI in 2002. His scientific exhibits earned Cum Laude recognition from the Radiological Society of North America in 1999 and Certificates of Merit in 1997 and 2001.
Dr. Morrin is a native of Carlow, Ireland and completed her medical degree at University College, Dublin, graduating in 1991. Following an internship in medicine and surgery at University College, she took a one-year medical housemanship at Dublin’s Mater Misericordiae Hospital and Letterkenny; General Hospital. She then entered a four-year radiology registrarship at Mater Misericordiae while also completing a Masters in Radiological Sciences there. In 1997, Dr. Morrin took up a fellowship in abdominal cross-sectional imaging at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and was appointed both Instructor of Radiology and Director of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Fellowship Program there in 1999. She received her present academic appointment in 2000. Dr. Morrin received the Risa and Felix Fleischner Young Investigator Award in 1999, the 1999 Abbott Prize from the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology, and numerous scientific exhibit awards from the Radiological Society of North America.
GERRAF fellowships provide $65,000 stipends for each of two years to support qualifying research projects. Recipients are selected by an independent review board from among candidates nominated by academic radiology institutions in the U.S. and Canada. Including the 2003 class, 43 academic radiologists in the U.S. and Canada, representing 28 separate radiology training institutions, now have been selected to receive GERRAF awards. A total of 31 fellows have completed the two-year program since it was inaugurated in 1992.
2003 GERRAF fellowships will be formally presented during the AUR's 51st annual meeting in Miami Beach, Florida, April 17-20. Nomination procedures for the 2004 GERRAF awards will be announced at that time.
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