The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) will hold its 91st annual meeting this fall and Professor and Stewart R. Reuter Distinguished Chair of the Department of Radiology, Gerald Dodd III, M.D., is a key participant in the development of the largest medical meeting in the world.
The meeting, which features educational, scientific and commercial programs, is designed to allow representatives from many specialties and disciplines within radiology and the entire healthcare arena to exchange information, share educational experiences and review new technology. It will take place Nov. 27 – Dec. 2 in Chicago and 60,000 people are expected to attend. Advance registration has already begun.
As chairman of this year’s scientific program committee, Dr. Dodd heads all subcommittees in the scientific program. They are responsible for review and selection of all scientific papers proffered for the annual scientific assembly, and for the organization of special symposia.
“This year about 7,000 abstracts were submitted by individuals in various subspecialties of radiology,” Dr. Dodd said. “After reviewing them, only about one-third will be selected for presentation at the meeting.”
In the past, the programs within the annual meeting were separate, causing educational courses and presentations to be isolated from one another. However, this year Dr. Dodd has integrated a four-day interventional oncology symposium into the annual meeting for the first time in the RSNA’s 90-year history. The symposium will incorporate both the scientific and educational programs of the RSNA’s annual meeting.
“The intent of this new symposium is to present the state-of-the-art and latest developments in image-guided oncological intervention,” Dr. Dodd said. “Presentations will focus on the detection, diagnosis, image-guidance techniques, and outcomes associated with minimally invasive, image-guided cancer therapies. The program is designed for interventional radiologists in both private practice and academics.”
The educational courses, which offer continuing medical education credits, are popular among the private practice radiologists, Dr. Dodd said. However, the scientific course attendance has been declining in recent years.
“With this symposium we are integrating the educational lectures and the scientific presentations in an intricately interwoven program,” Dr. Dodd said. “An educational course will give the global, overall perspective of a particular subject, and a scientific presentation of abstracts and new science pertaining to the same subject will follow. All presentations are 10-minutes long and highly focused. We are hopeful that this integration of educational and scientific presentations will be very appealing to attendees.”
Dr. Dodd was recently elected to the prestigious position of president of the Texas Radiological Society, the oldest state radiological society in North America. He received an M.D. from The University of Texas at Houston in 1983 and joined the Health Science Center in 1994. He is a Fellow of both the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound and the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance. Dr. Dodd is the recipient of the Roscoe E. Miller Award of the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists, the RSNA Magna Cum Laude Award from the 87th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, and the RSNA Summa Cum Laude and Excellence in Design Award.
For more information about the annual meeting, visit:
www.rsna.org.
