Pediatr Radiol (2012) 42:899–900 DOI 10.1007/s00247-012-2419-x

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2012 SPR Awards

Received: 27 April 2012 / Accepted: 27 April 2012 / Published online: 26 May 2012 # Springer-Verlag 2012

Gold Medal Award

John Kirkpatrick Young Investigator Award

Marilyn J. Goske, Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

Analysis of optimal phase interval for prospective EKGtriggered cardiac CT in children. Saivivek Bogale, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX

Presidential Recognition Awards Pilot Award David C. Kushner, Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters, Norfolk, VA Stuart A. Royal, Department of Pediatric Imaging, Children’s Health System, Birmingham, AL

Developing the framework of the global federation of pediatric radiologists. M. Ines Boechat, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA on behalf of the WFPI Board of Directors

Pioneer Award Seed Grant George S. Bisset III, Department of Radiology, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX

Harvey L. Neiman, Chief Executive Officer, American College of Radiology, Reston, VA

Testing the use of the emerging y-H2AX biomarker for quantifying DNA damage from pediatric interventional procedures involving ionizing radiation - the first step in assessing the use of DNA protective agents in children. Bairbre Connolly, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada

Singleton-Taybi Award

Fellow Awards

Alan Daneman, Department of Radiology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

Arterial spin labeling brain perfusion MR in the evaluation of white matter injury of prematurity. Bruno P. Soares, University of California, San Francisco; Mentor: James Barkovich. MR imaging for the assessment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy: diffusion tensor imaging and fat quantification as imaging markers of disease progression. Skorn Ponrartana, Children's Hospital Los Angeles; Mentor: Vicente Gilsanz

Honorary Member Award

Jack O. Haller Award for Excellence in Teaching Richard I. Markowitz, Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Heidi Patriquin International Fellowship Award

Walter E. Berdon Award for Best Clinical Research Paper Wambani Sidika Jeska, Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya Yocabel Gorfu, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

External validation of the New Orleans Criteria (NOC), the Canadian CT Head Rule (CCHR) and the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study II (NEXUS II) for

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CT scanning in pediatric patients with minor head injury in a non-trauma center. Jennifer L. Schachar, Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; Zampolin RL, Miller TS, Farinhas JM, Freeman K, Taragin BH

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Best Scientific Exhibit Prenatal evaluation of limb body wall complex with emphasis on MRI. Elisa Aguirre-Pascual, Teresa Victoria, Ann Johnson, Nancy Chauvin, Beverly Coleman, Monica Epelman, Hospital Universitario de Getafe, Madrid, Spain

Walter E. Berdon Award for Best Basic Science Paper Poster Honorable Mentions Labeling human embryonic stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes for tracking with MR imaging. Rosalinda Tuinzing Castaneda, Radiology and Molecular Imaging Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Boddington S, Henning TD, Wendland M, Mandrussow L, Liu S, Daldrup-Link HE Caffey Award for Best Basic Science Paper Advantages of a nanoparticle blood pool contrast agent over conventional intravascular glomerular-filtered contrast agents for pulmonary vascular imaging. Ketan Ghaghada, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houstin TX Caffey Award for Best Clinical Paper Multidetector CT pulmonary angiography in children with suspected pulmonary embolism: thromboembolic risk factors and implications for appropriate use. Edward Y. Lee, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA Honorable Mentions (papers) Pediatric skull fracture. Andre Loyd, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC Cardiovascular image quality using a nanoparticle CT contrast agent: preliminary studies in a pig model. Rajesh Krishnamurthy, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX Best Case Report Neuroimaging in hemiplegic migraine: cases and review of the literature. Nicholas Stence, Sita Kedia, John Maloney, Jennifer Armstrong-Wells, Timothy Bernard, Childrens Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO Best Educational Exhibit Primary and secondary amenorrhea in pediatric patients: from the beginning to the end. Cesar Cortes, Yanerys Ramos, Ricardo Restrepo, Alejandro Diaz, Lorena Sequeira, Edward Y. Lee, Miami Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL

Pediatric brain PET-CT atlas and technical manual for combination C11 methionine and F18 deoxyglucose studies to evaluate seizures and brain tumors. Anne McLellan, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ; Jeff Miller, Richard Towbin, David Aria Correlation of neurosonographic anatomy with matching MR scan planes. Denise Castro, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; Pam Rasalingham, Omar Islam, Don Soboleski Osteoid osteomas: a pain in the ‘night’ diagnosis. Nancy K. Laurence, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Monica Epelman, Richard Markowitz, Camilo Jaimes, Diego Jaramillo, Nancy Chauvin Digital atlas of skeletal surveys of common skeletal dysplasias. Shawn Parnell, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA; Corey Wall, Edward Weinberger CT radiation dose delivered by community hospitals and imaging centers. Stephen Little, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta; Atlanta, GA; Damien Grattan-Smith, Bonnie Johnson Isolated fallopian tubal torsion: causes, imaging findings, and how to suggest the diagnosis. Jesse Courtier, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Amaya M. Basta, Rebecca Maine, Pierre-Alain Cohen, Shinjiro Hirose, John D. MacKenzie Imaging of Mullerian duct anomalies in children. Kelly K. Horst, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Maryam Ghadimi Mahani, Deepa Pai, Jonathan R. Dillman, Peter J. Strouse The role of low-dose CT angiography in the evaluation of renovascular hypertension in children. Jessica Kurian, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Monica Epelman, Kassa Darge, Els Nijs, Jeffrey Hellinger The many faces of duplex kidneys on DMSA scans – a pictorial essay. Neha Kwatra, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC; Massoud Majd Pathologies of omphalomesenteric duct remnant: radiologicsurgical correlation. Swapnil Bagade, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, St. Louis, MO; Geetika Khanna, Rebecca Hulett Role of MRI diffusion-weighted imaging in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease: a pictorial review. Elon Granader, University of Michigan Hospital and Health Systems, Ann Arbor, MI; Jonathan R. Dillman, Ajaykumar Morani, Kelly K. Horst, Mahmoud Al-Hawary, Peter J. Strouse