Line-up Of AJR Editors Expanded To Meet The Needs Of Changing Profession

Main Category: Radiology / Nuclear Medicine
Also Included In: MRI / PET / Ultrasound
Article Date: 02 Jul 2008 - 16:00 PDT

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The July issue if the American Journal of Roentgenology marks the official debut of new editor-in-chief, Thomas H. Berquist, MD of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Jacksonville, FL.

Beginning with this issue, Dr. Berquist has created a new level of editors for the AJR. These section editors are charged with a specific topic or specialty within radiology and will solicit and review manuscripts in their specified field.

"Subspecialization in radiology has expanded to the point that a small group of associate editors cannot enhance the journal and offer the knowledge base to keep the AJR on the cutting edge in all specialties, especially physics and informatics," said Dr. Berquist of the change. "The distributed editorial approach will give each section editor more primary responsibility for their section and ensure continued growth in the quality of our content, allowing us to better serve not only ARRS members, but the entire radiology profession."

The AJR's newly charged lineup of section editors, and their areas of responsibility, are:

- Felix S. Chew, AJR Integrative Imaging
- Charles S. White, cardiopulmonary imaging
- Joel G. Fletcher, gastrointestinal imaging
- Mukesh G. Harisinghani, genitourinary imaging
- Howard P. Forman, health care policy and quality
- G. Donald Frey, medical physics and informatics
- Donna G. Blankenbaker, musculoskeletal imaging
- James M. Provenzale, neuroradiology and head and neck imaging
- King C. Li, nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
- Beverly P. Wood, pediatric imaging
- Matthew A. Mauro, vascular and interventional radiology
- Marcia C. Javitt, women's imaging

About ARRS

The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) was founded in 1900 and is the oldest radiology society in the United States. Its monthly journal, the American Journal of Roentgenology, began publication in 1906. Radiologists from all over the world attend the ARRS Annual Meeting to take part in instructional courses, scientific paper presentations, and scientific and commercial exhibits related to the field of radiology. The Society is named after the first Nobel Laureate in Physics, Wilhelm Röentgen, who discovered the X-ray in 1895.

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