RSNA Recognizes Gold Medalists

An international expert in US, socioeconomics, government relations, quality, and safety, James P. Borgstede, MD, ardently advocates for patients and radiology worldwide. Currently an emeritus professor of radiology at the University of Colorado, Dr. Borgstede served as professor and vice chairman of the department of radiology from 2008 through 2021, serving the School of Medicine Clinical Leadership Council and the Compliance Committee, taking a key role in contract negotiations. 

Dr. Borgstede earned his medical degree at the University of Illinois Chicago. He completed his residency at the University of Colorado Health Science Center, where he began his career as a clinical staff radiologist. He later completed a fellowship at the University of California, San Diego.  

The University of Colorado honored Dr. Borgstede’s service and excellence in teaching with many awards during his career, including Outstanding Clinical Radiologist, the Hospital President’s Award for Leadership, and the Sky’s the Limit Patient Experience Award. In 2021, the university established the James P. Borgstede Endowed Chair in Radiology in honor of his significant contributions to the radiology department. 

Dr. Borgstede is a past president and former Board chair of RSNA. He joined the Board of Directors in 2013, serving as the Board liaison for international affairs. He is a past president of the American Board of Radiology, the American College of Radiology (ACR), and the International Society of Radiology. Dr. Borgstede has also been a steadfast supporter of the RSNA R&E Foundation, serving on the Board of Trustees, the Corporate Giving Subcommittee, the Finance Committee and as chair of the Foundation. 

A strong contributor to his local community, Dr. Borgstede served as president of the Colorado State Board of Medical Examiners and the Colorado Physician Health Program, a peer assistance program for physicians. He served on the editorial board for the Journal of the American College of Radiology and on the editorial advisory board for American Family Physician.

During his tenure as ACR chair and president, Dr. Borgstede established the Committee on International Service, visiting Grace Children’s Hospital in Port-au-Prince four times as part of the Haiti Radiology Project, to help re-establish the residency program there following the earthquake. 

Widely recognized for his contributions to the specialty, Dr. Borgstede earned gold medals from the ACR and the Colorado Radiological Society (CRS) — the first awarded by that society. He was awarded the William T. Thorwarth Award for Excellence in Economics and Health Policy by the ACR. In 2019, RSNA recognized Dr. Borgstede’s contributions to radiology education with an Honored Educator Award.

A champion for leveraging innovation to improve clinical care, Elizabeth S. Burnside, MD, MPH, is a professor of radiology specializing in breast imaging at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, where she also serves as associate dean for team science and interdisciplinary research.

Dr. Burnside earned her combined MD/ MPH degrees at Tufts University in Boston. She completed her radiology residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she was elected co-chief resident, and she completed her fellowship in breast imaging at UCSF. Prior to her fellowship, Dr. Burnside earned a master’s degree in biomedical informatics at the nearby Stanford University.

A career-defining personal chapter was written when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer during Dr. Burnside’s second year of medical school. She combined her medical training with her interests in public health and computer science—areas of expertise that converge in her development and use of computational methods to improve decision-making in breast imaging. She holds affiliate appointments in UW’s departments of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics and Population Health Sciences, facilitating her pursuit of improving the population-based screening and diagnosis of breast cancer.

Dr. Burnside has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles. Her research has secured continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health since 2006. She is a multiple principal investigator (PI) of the NIH Clinical and Translational Sciences Award that supports the UW Institute of Clinical and Translational Research, where she is executive co-director. Previously, Dr. Burnside served UW’s Department of Radiology as vice chair of health services and outcomes and vice chair of research. She was honored by UW’s Group on Women in Medicine and Science with the 2023 Advancing Women in Medicine and Science Award.

A respected educator, Dr. Burnside has mentored fellow clinician-scientists and trainees from varied disciplines. As a long serving PI of the UW Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health, an institutional K12 award, she helped support and mentor a generation of researchers.

Dr. Burnside established the UW clinical and health informatics master’s degree program, which has graduated 28 students and has 28 active students. She is a fellow of the Society of Breast Imaging, the American College of Radiology (ACR) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. In 2021, Dr. Burnside was named Distinguished Guest Speaker for her discussion on the Frontiers of Translational Science at UT Health Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science in San Antonio. She delivered an RSNA 2023 plenary session focusing on the integration of artificial and human intelligence in imaging.

A dedicated educator and leader in fetal imaging, Beverly G. Coleman, MD, is professor emeritus at Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. As the Beverly Gilbert Coleman Endowed Chair in Fetal Imaging, she is the first radiology division chief at the largest fetal center in the world, the Richard D. Wood Jr. Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment (CFDT) at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

Dr. Coleman’s distinguished career in radiology includes serving as chief of the US section and director of the Abdominal Imaging Fellowship Program. In 2000, she was appointed as associate chair of the Abdominal Imaging Division, where she remained until retiring from Perelman in 2014.

Dr. Coleman received her bachelor’s degree in biology from Vassar College in 1970 and a medical degree from Harvard University in 1974. She completed a radiology residency and was the first abdominal imaging fellow at Perelman.

For over 30 years, Dr. Coleman taught the art and science of US to countless students and residents and directed two continuing medical education courses sponsored by the radiology department. She maintained an interest in obstetrical and gynecologic US with a special devotion to unraveling the mysteries of the prenatal diagnosis of fetal anomalies.

Under Dr. Coleman’s leadership, the CFDT received the Press Ganey Pinnacle of Excellence award for four consecutive years, while the Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit received the Press Ganey Guardian of Excellence award from 2022 to 2023. These dual awards were unprecedented in CHOP’s history.

Dr. Coleman is a past president of the American College of Radiology (ACR), where she also chaired the Ultrasound Commission and the Council Steering Committee. She served as secretary-treasurer and president of the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU). Locally, Dr. Coleman served as president of the Greater Delaware Valley Ultrasound Society and the Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society (PRRS). She was the 101st president of the Pennsylvania Radiological Society (PRS) and received the state society’s Gold Medallion Award in 2013. She was named Honored Radiologist for both PRS and PRRS.

Dr. Coleman was elected to fellowship in the ACR, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, the SRU, the American Association for Women in Radiology (AAWR), and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Philadelphia. Perelman awarded Dr. Coleman the Louis Duhring Outstanding Clinical Specialist Award in 2021, and she was honored with the AAWR Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award in 2022. In 2018, SRU presented her with a lifetime service award.

Dr. Coleman served as a US examiner for the American Board of Radiology (ABR) for 15 years and was recognized with a 2015 ABR Distinguished Service Award. In 2016, Dr. Coleman was featured in the Emmy winning PBS documentary, “Twice Born Stories from the Special Delivery Unit.”

Dr. Coleman has reviewed manuscripts for numerous scholarly journals and served as an associate editor of Ultrasound Quarterly. She edited the ACR Radiological Clinics of North America and the Diagnostic Radiology Syllabus and published one textbook.