Recognizing Excellence: Honorary Members, Outstanding Educator and Researcher and Outstanding Community Impact Award

Adrian Brady, FFR(RCSI), FRCR

A seasoned educator and leader in abdominal and interventional radiology, Adrian Brady, FFR(RCSI), FRCR, is a clinical professor of radiology at University College Cork, Ireland, and worked for 28 years as a consultant radiologist at the Mercy University Hospital, Cork.

Dr. Brady has published and spoken widely on professional issues, including radiologist workload, errors and discrepancies in radiology, radiology reporting style and structure, value-based imaging and the ethical use of AI in radiology. He serves on the editorial boards of European Radiology, Insights Into Imaging, Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal and Radiologia Brasileira. He has served as an examiner and coordinator and team leader for abdominal radiology for the European Board of Radiology and was previously chief examiner for the Irish Radiology fellowship.

Dr. Brady was founding medical director of the National Centre for Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) in Ireland in 2003 and served in that role for 20 years. The Centre’s goals are to identify affected individuals, screen for and treat life-threatening manifestations, particularly pulmonary and cerebral AVMs, and support patients and their families.

A leader in organized radiology, Dr. Brady is past president of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) and has served on the Executive Council since 2017. He previously served for 11 years on the board of the Irish National Radiology Society (the Faculty of Radiologists of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland), culminating as dean (president) from 2010 to 2012.

Maria Helena Siqueira Mendonça, MD, PhD

An enthusiastic educator and dedicated clinician, Maria Helena Siqueira Mendonça, MD, PhD, is a diagnostic radiologist specialized in breast imaging at Instituto Santa Rosa, Guaratingueta, São Paulo, Brazil.

She worked in the breast imaging departments of hospitals and universities throughout São Paulo, including 25 years as director of the breast MRI section at Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, and 10 years as scientific coordinator of the breast MRI section at Diagnósticos da America S.A.

A steadfast advocate for breast cancer patients, Dr. Mendonça delivers invited public lectures throughout the region during Pink October, raising awareness about breast cancer prevention and treatment. 

Dr. Mendonça has published numerous scientific articles and book chapters. She lends her expertise as a reviewer for journals including Academic Radiology, Frontiers, RadioGraphics and Revista da Imagem. She is deputy editor-in-chief of The Journal of Global Radiology and an editorial board member of Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

A longtime RSNA member, Dr. Mendonça served on the RSNA International Advisory Committee and as chair of the RSNA Regional Committee for Latin America. In 2022 she was honored as the Patronesse of the 52nd Jornada Paulista de Radiologia (JPR) by the Sociedade Paulista de Radiologia (SPR), where she has been a member since residency. She served as vice president of the Breast Imaging Section of SPR in 2005, and as a member of the JPR Scientific Committee from 1996-2024.

Steven Bak-Siew Wong, MD, MBChB

A leader in cross-disciplinary research, Steven Bak-Siew Wong, MD, MBChB, is a musculoskeletal radiologist with interest in sports imaging, spine and emergency radiology.

As a consultant radiologist at Singapore General Hospital, coming off a Radiology Information Systems & Picture Archiving & Communications System (RIS-PACS) implementation project, Dr. Wong was tasked in 2013 with establishing and staffing the radiology department for a new 1,400-bed acute hospital being built in the Sengkang area of Singapore. Both hospitals are part of Singapore Healthcare Services, Pte., Ltd. (SingHealth).

Dr. Wong was appointed the inaugural head of the Department of Radiology for Sengkang General Hospital in 2016, the first radiology department in Singapore designed to handle a pandemic with isolation zones for imaging and lead-free glass in the wards to enable contact-free imaging. As a result, the department endured the COVID-19 pandemic without losing any staff to the disease. In 2022, the President of the Republic of Singapore awarded Dr. Wong the Public Administration Bronze Medal for services to Singapore health care.

Lauded for his remarkable leadership, Dr. Wong also received the SingHealth GCEO Excellence Award as Outstanding Clinician in 2022 and the Singapore Health Quality Service Hero Award in 2021.

Dr. Wong serves as president of the Asian Musculoskeletal Society and was recently the co-chair of the SIIM Global Outreach Committee. He has been involved in the SIIM Global project since 2020, working to increase worldwide imaging informatics knowledge. He also served on the executive committee of the Singapore Radiological Society and as vice president of the College of Radiologists, Singapore. He currently chairs the musculoskeletal radiology subsection of the Singapore Radiological Society. He was the organizing chair for the Singapore Congress of Radiology in 2018 and will be again in 2025. Dr. Wong is a member of the Board of Examiners for the National University of Singapore’s Master of Medicine degree, a conjoint Final Radiology examination with the Royal College of Radiologists, London.

A champion of continually improving radiology education, Petra J. Lewis, MBBS, has mentored hundreds of students, residents and faculty throughout her career.

On faculty at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth since 1998, Dr. Lewis is a professor in radiology and obstetrics and gynecology. She is vice chair for education in the Department of Radiology and director of medical student education at Geisel.

Dr. Lewis is a past president of the Alliance of Clinical Educators in Radiology (ACER), Alliance of Medical Student Educators in Radiology (AMSER) and the Association of Academic Radiologists (AAR), previously known as the Association of University Radiologists. She was the Refresher Course Education Track chair at RSNA. She serves as an RSNA R&E Foundation Education Study Section member and a member of the RSNA Digital and Live Education Committee.

Dr. Lewis is dedicated to developing shared resources for radiology educators including the AMSER curriculum, Standardized Tools for the Assessment of Radiology Students (STARS), Aquifer, DartRad, Alliance of Leaders in Academic Affairs in Radiology (ALAAR) Scholarly Database and Standardized CV and RadExam. She is most proud of her senior editor role for RadExam, which is used by over 80% of radiology residency programs. She is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Radiology, a textbook for medical students, and has published widely on education research.

Renowned as an inspiring and innovative educator, Dr. Lewis has won multiple educator awards from local and national organizations, including receiving the AAR Gold Medal in 2021. She was presented with the AMSER Excellence in Education Award in 2013 and the APDR Achievement Award in Education in 2017.

Internationally renowned spine imaging researcher, Jeffrey G. Jarvik, MD, MPH, is a professor with joint tenure in the Department of Radiology and the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. He is an adjunct professor of orthopedics and sports medicine in the UW School of Medicine, and an adjunct professor of pharmacy in the School of Pharmacy.

Dr. Jarvik is particularly interested in research that will inform the common, practical concerns and decisions facing radiologists. This interest led him to research back pain because it affects nearly everyone during their lifetime. Dr. Jarvik was the principal investigator of the Lumbar Imaging With Reporting of Epidemiology (LIRE) Trial that was part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health Systems Research Collaboratory, an NIH initiative to foster pragmatic clinical trials. He has maintained continuous federal funding since 1998.

With a focus on excellence, Dr. Jarvik works to improve both the rigor and relevance of radiology research and to promote the practice of evidence-based medicine. He directs the NIH-funded UW Clinical Learning, Evidence and Research (CLEAR) Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Comparative Effectiveness, Cost and Outcomes Research Center (CECORC) at UW. He has led or collaborated on numerous technology assessments using multidisciplinary teams involving multiple medical and surgical specialties and non-clinical disciplines of biostatistics, economics, epidemiology and health services. He has published studies on technology assessment and back pain in several high-impact journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine.

Dr. Jarvik received early career support from a GE-AUR Radiology Research Academic Fellowship (GERRAF) and an RSNA Research Seed Grant. Throughout his career he has supported both programs, serving on the GERRAF Board of Review and in numerous roles at RSNA including chair of the Research Development Committee and the Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee, and as faculty for the Clinical Trials Methodology Workshop.

A founding member and past president of the Radiology Alliance for Health Services Research, Dr. Jarvik was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. He also received the Foundation Award for Outstanding Contributions in Research from the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR), the Distinguished Investigators Award from the Academy of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research (formerly the Academy of Radiology Research), the Association of Academic Radiologists (formerly the Association of University Radiologists) gold medal, and the RSNA Honored Educator Award.

An inspiring leader with a passion for global health, Frank J. Minja, MD, has devoted his career to advancing health care access in East Africa, setting a powerful example for what is achievable in low- and middle-income environments worldwide. 

Dr. Minja is associate professor of neuroradiology in the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. He serves as medical director of the diagnostic imaging hospital service line and associate chief of radiology at Emory University Hospital.

Dr. Minja co-leads the Road2IR consortium, which established the first interventional radiology fellowship in East Africa. To date, the fellowship has graduated 13 alumni from Tanzania, Nigeria and Rwanda. He is credited with strengthening the PACS, informatics and data reporting capabilities of the Department of Radiology at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), a public tertiary care facility in his homeland of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.  

In 2021, Dr. Minja was named program director for the RSNA Global Learning Center (GLC) at MNH, launching a multi-year effort to deliver quality radiology curriculum development, test preparation and in-person and remote instruction to the institution. He helped establish new subspecialty fellowships in interventional radiology, neuroradiology and women’s imaging.  

Dedicated to expanding access to education, Dr. Minja coordinated teams of radiologists worldwide to teach residents and trainees from MNH, helping build Tanzanian radiology into the largest training program in East Africa. He has hosted Tanzanian radiologists at his home institutions in the U.S. to increase their opportunities for education, training and professional exposure. He has empowered professionals underrepresented in medicine to advance their skills and pursue leadership roles.