RSNA will award three members its highest honor, the Gold Medal, during RSNA 2021.
Yoshimi Anzai, MD, MPH
A prolific leader, collaborator, and advocate for vulnerable patients, Yoshimi Anzai, MD, MPH, is a tenured professor of radiology, director of value and safety for integrated enterprise radiology, and serves as co-director of Women in Health, Medicine, & Science at the University of Utah (U of U) in Salt Lake City.
Dr. Anzai is a neuroradiologist specializing in head and neck cancer, neurodegenerative disease and traumatic brain injury, with expertise in health services and health economy research. She is also an adjunct professor of population health sciences and neurosurgery, serves on U of U’s academic senate and is a member of the school of medicine’s promotion committee.
As chair of RSNA’s Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (CDEI), she advocates for gender equality, promoting mentorship and allyship to embrace women as leaders in medicine. In addition, she serves on the executive committee of U of U’s Gender-Based Violence Consortium, collaborating with broad disciplines of researchers, social workers and policymakers to mitigate the negative impact of gender-based violence.
Dr. Anzai is an elected member of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)’s Diagnostic Safety Committee, driving the national standard for diagnostic information communications. In 2017 and 2018, AAMC presented her with a Value Innovation Award to implement cost analytic tools for value-driven outcomes and online interactive price transparency. Dr. Anzai has served as president of the American Society of Head and Neck Radiology, the Association of University Radiologists, and the American Association for Women in Radiology (AAWR).
In 2019, she received AAWR’s Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award. A three-time recipient of RSNA’s Honored Educator Award, Dr. Anzai devotes her time and talent to mentoring trainees. In 2019 her radiology residents at UW presented her with the Best Mentor Award. Dr. Anzai is vice chair of the RSNA R&E Foundation Radiology Research Faculty Grant Study Section and a member of the RSNA Research Development Committee. Dr. Anzai has over 160 peer-reviewed publications and 33 review articles.
Richard L. Ehman, MD
An innovative leader with a passion for reimagining technology, Richard L. Ehman, MD, is a professor of radiology and the Blanche R. and Richard J. Erlanger Professor of Medical Research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Dr. Ehman is the inventor of MR elastography, and he holds more than 80 U.S. and international patents for the technologies he has developed — with a focus on rapid transition to clinical practice.
Throughout his career, he has advocated for rethinking the use of advanced medical imaging technologies, placing a focus on value, to extend the utility and accessibility of the most powerful techniques. Dr. Ehman brought this philosophy to his RSNA presidency, addressing the community at RSNA 2017 with the premise that innovations in radiology with extraordinary clinical impact have often been powered by a unique fusion of biomedical and physical sciences and a “use-inspired” research strategy.
Internationally recognized for his talent and vision, Dr. Ehman was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine in 2010. He has served as chair of the National Institutes of Health Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Study Section, and as a member of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Advisory Council. He is a past president of the Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research, the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and the Society for Advanced Body Imaging.
Dr. Ehman, a past RSNA Research Scholar Grant recipient, was a member of the RSNA R&E Foundation Board of Trustees. Dr. Ehman has been awarded gold medals by the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the Asian Oceanian Society of Radiology and the Society for Advanced Body Imaging. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and an honorary member of the European Society of Radiology, the Chinese Taipei Society of Radiology, the Chinese Society of Radiology and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. He was named RSNA Outstanding Researcher in 2006 and twice recognized as an RSNA Honored Educator.
Jonathan S. Lewin, MD
Jonathan S. Lewin, MD, has helped to revolutionize interventional and intraoperative MR imaging, and he is a renowned leader in academic medicine strategy and integrated health care delivery.
Dr. Lewin serves as executive vice president for health affairs at Emory University, executive director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, and CEO and chair of the board of directors at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta. He also holds professorships in radiology and imaging sciences and in biomedical engineering at the Emory School of Medicine and is a professor of health policy and management in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory.
Dr. Lewin has held professor appointments in radiology, oncology, neurological surgery and biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and in oncology, biomedical engineering, and neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
Dr. Lewin holds 28 U.S. patents and seven international patents, and he has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on numerous NIH-funded and other major grant projects.
A recognized leader in organized radiology, Dr. Lewin is a past president of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS), the Association of University Radiologists (AUR), the Society of Chairs of Academic Radiology Departments and the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research. National associations and his home state of Georgia hold Dr. Lewin in high regard, naming him one of Modern Healthcare’s 50 Most Influential Physicians of 2017, Georgia Trend’s 100 Most Influential Georgians for multiple years, and one of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Most Admired CEOs for 2020.
He received RSNA’s Honored Educator Award in 2012, the Radiology Research Alliance Innovation and Leadership Award from the AUR in 2017, gold medals from the AUR and ARRS in 2019, the Leadership Luminary Award of the Radiology Leadership Institute of the American College of Radiology in 2017 and was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2019.