The Chicago Radiological Society (CRS) annually confers the Lasky Foundation Breast Cancer Fund Resident Award. This award is sponsored by the estate of Harold J. Lasky, MD (1922–2009), a former President of the CRS who played a pivotal role in developing the national quality assurance program that resulted in the Mammography Quality Standardization Act (MQSA) of 1994.

This award is a cash prize given to a resident or fellow for a meritorious project on the subject of breast cancer diagnosis, prevention or treatment that was presented at the CRS Resident Scientific Poster Session.

Past Lasky Foundations Breast Cancer Fund Resident Award Winners

2022-2023
Mary Abkemeier, MD and Fatima Elahi, DO, MHA, Ascension St. Francis, Michelle Kasdorf, MS, Rush Medical College and Sumeet Virmani, MD, MS, Rush University Medical Ctr
Evolving Role of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging in Breast Cancer: A Case-Based Multi-Modality Pictorial Review with Teaching Pearls

2021 – 2022
Anjalli Saripalli, MD, Loyola University
MRI-Guided Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation:  Treatment Outcomes and Patient Reported Cosmesis

2020-2021
Amishi Bajaj, MD, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
K. Petras, MD, C.  Goodman, MD, PhD, A. Elmasri, E. Donnelly, MD, J. Hayes, MD, J. Strauss, MD, MBA
The Impact of Cardiac Sparing Techniques on Heart and Lung Dose in the Setting of Partial Breast Irradiation

2019-2020
Abraham Bogachkov, MD, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
S. Chadia, J. Harmon, K. Kirshenbaum
Longitudinal Prevalence and Incidence Breast Cancer Detection Rates Utilizing Handheld Tech-Based Ultrasound In an All-Risk Patient Cohort

2018-2019
Annie Rhee, Department of Radiology, University of Chicago
E. Marshall, C. Doyle, M. Wang, I. Reiser, K. Kulkarni, K. Hou Wang M, Reiser I, Kulkarni K, Hou K
Looking Forward or Down: A Comparison of Stereotactic and Tomosynthesis-Guided Biopsies Upright and Prone – When, Why, and How Much Will It Cost?

2017-2018
Chelain R. Goodman, MD, PhD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology
Seagle BL, Donnelly ED, Shahabi S, Strauss JB
Oncotype DX Recurrence Score Predicts Benefit of Post-Mastectomy Radiotherapy in T1-2 N1 Breast Cancer

2016-2017
Victoria Young, MD, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Friedewald, MD, S., Young, MD V., Gupta, MD D
Lesion Localization Using the Scroll Bar on Tomosynthesis: Why Doesn’t It Always Work?

2015-2016
Brittany Dashevsky, MD, University of Chicago
DASHEVSKY BZ, D’Alfonso T, Sutton EJ, Giambrone A, Aronowitz E, Morris EA, Juluru K, Ballon DJ “Virtual Pathology:  Ultra High Resolution MRI Identifies Characteristic Pathologic Features of Benign and Malignant Breast and Lymphatic Tissue“

2014-2015
Sean Sachdev, MD, Northwestern University Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center

2013-2014
Eric Blaschke, MD, University of Chicago Medicine
E. Blaschke, MD, H. Abe, MD, PHD “MR Imaging Phenotype of Breast Cancer: Kinetic Assessment for Molecular”

2012-2013
Michelle Gentile, MD, Northwestern University
Gentile M, Usman A, Helenowski I, Pothiawala F, Small W. “Contouring Guidelines for the Axillary Lymph Nodes for the Delivery of Radiotherapy in Breast Cancers: Validation of the RTOG Breast Cancer Atlas”

2011-2012
Owen Sweis, MD, Loyola University
Sweis O, Vade A. “Use of Breast Shields in pediatric patients undergoing CT exams”