American College of Radiology Recognizes Gold Medalists

Washington, DC — The American College of Radiology (ACR) presented its highest honor, the 2016 Gold Medal, to Walter J. Curran Jr., MD, FACR; Lawrence P. Davis, MD, FACR; and Charles D. Williams, MD, FACR, during ACR 2016—The Crossroads of Radiology® in Washington, DC. This award acknowledges distinguished and extraordinary service to the College or to the discipline of radiology. “All three of the ACR honorees have provided visionary leadership and extraordinary service, which continue to advance high-quality patient care in the fields of radiology and radiation oncology,” said Bibb Allen Jr., MD, FACR, chair, ACR Board of Chancellors. “Drs. Curran, Davis and Williams embody the best in today’s medicine in their work as physicians and in their roles as contributors to the collective good of the profession,” he added. Walter J. Curran Jr., MD, FACR Curran, an international expert in advanced lung cancer and malignant brain tumors, is the executive director of the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, the Lawrence W. Davis Professor and chair in Emory's department of radiation oncology, all in Atlanta, GA. A Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and Chair in Cancer Research, he is also a group chairman of NRG Oncology, an NCI-supported cancer network group administered in part by the ACR. Responsible for defining a universally adopted staging system for patients with malignant glioma, Curran was the first radiation onc...
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