Awards

CRS sponsors four awards or distinctions. They are:

Grubbe_Emile_150pThe Grubbe Memorial Award of the Chicago Radiological Society (CRS) has been granted since 1964 to a CRS featured speaker each year for outstanding work in the radiological sciences. This prize is funded by the estate of Dr. Emil Grubbe, an early pioneer of the radiological sciences, and represents a continuing legacy of the rich history of radiology in our city that has been bestowed on the CRS.

Beginning in 1897, only two years after the discovery of the “roentgen ray” in Germany, Dr. Grubbe, at that time a medical student in Chicago, began using the new ray to diagnose disease and treat cancer. By the early-1900s, he was teaching and practicing diagnostic and therapeutic radiology at four institutions in the city.

His extraordinarily long and accomplished career was attained at the cost of radiation-induced illnesses, including cutaneous malignancies, which required amputation of the left hand. After Dr. Grubbe died in 1960, his estate bequeathed to the University of Chicago Department of Radiation Oncology funds for establishment of the “Emil H. Grubbe Medal of the Chicago Medical Society for Outstanding Work with X-rays,” which has evolved into the Grubbe Memorial Award of the Chicago Radiological Society.

2014-2015:  Aaron S. Field, MD, PhD
2013-2014: Not Awarded
2012-2013: Robert A. Novelline, MD
2011–2012: Teresa Woodruff, PhD
2010–2011: Alec Megibow, MD
2009–2010: Richard Gunderman, MD
2008–2009: Sundeep Nayak, MD
2007–2008: Michael Huckman, MD
2006–2007: Not awarded
2005–2006: N. Reed Dunnick, MD
2004–2005: James G. Smirniotopoulos, MD
2003–2004: Valerie Jackson, MD
2002–2003: Murray Dalinka, MD
2001–2002: Harvey L. Neiman, MD
2000–2001: Claudia I. Henschke, MD
1999–2000: David C. Levin, MD
1998–1999: Robert Zimmerman, MD
1997–1998: Joseph T. Ferrucci, Jr., MD
1996–1997: Ronald G. Evens, MD
1995–1996: Lee F. Rogers, MD
1994–1995: Not awarded
1993–1994: E. Robert Heitzman, MD
1992–1993: Kenneth L. Krabbenhoft, MD
1991–1992: Charles E. Putman, MD
1990–1991: Robert I. White, Jr., MD
1989–1990: Anne G. Osborn, MD
1988–1989: Kurt Amplatz, MD		 1987–1988: Stanley Baum, MD
1986–1987: Stanley S. Siegelman, MD
1985–1986: Juan M. Taveras, MD
1984–1985: Robert G. Fraser, MD
1983–1984: David E. Kuhl, MD
1982–1983: Richard H. Marshak, MD
1981–1982: Charles T. Dotter, MD
1980–1981: Harold Jacobson, MD
1979–1980: Benjamin Felson, MD
1978–1979: Rodney Million, MD
1977–1978: Luther W. Brady, MD
1976–1977: Morton Kligerman, MD
1975–1976: Simon Kramer, MD
1974–1975: Henry S. Kaplan, MD
1973–1974: Juan A. Del Regato, MD
1972–1973: Gilbert H. Fletcher, MD
1971–1972: Not awarded
1970–1971: Russell H. Morgan, MD
1969–1970: Edward W. Neuhauser, MD
1968–1969: Richard H. Marshak, MD
1967–1968: Earl E. Barth, MD
1966–1967: Eugene Pendergrast, MD
1965–1966: Leo Rigler, MD
1964–1965: Paul C. Hodges, MD

The Distinguished Service Award of the Chicago Radiological Society (CRS) was established in 1978 and is bestowed annually on a member who has brought honor to the Chicago radiological community through outstanding service in teaching, research, organizational work, or practice.

Previous Winners

2020-2021: Jay Korach, MD, FACR
2019-2020: Carl L. Kalbhen, MD, FACR
2018-2019: Abraham Dachman, MD
2017-2018: Michael Racenstein, MD, FACR
2016-2017:  Edward Melian, MD
2015-2016:  Aruna Vade, MD, FACR
2014-2015:  Joseph D. Calandra, MD
2013-2014: Ellen B. Mendelson, MD, FACR
2012-2013: Thomas H. Grant, DO
2011–2012: Kathleen A. Ward, MD
2010–2011: Kate Feinstein, MD
2009–2010: Gary L. Dillehay, MD
2008–2009: Richard A. Mintzer, MD
2007–2008: Thomas M. Anderson, MD
2006–2007: Geoffrey L. Smoron, MD
2005–2006: Gregory D. Moss, MD
2004–2005: Leonard Berlin, MD
2003–2004: Carl J. Vyborny, MD
2002–2003: Ruth G. Ramsey, MD
2001–2002: Robert P. Cavallino, MD
2000–2001: William L. Schey, MD
1999–2000: Jerry P. Petasnick, MD
1998–1999: Steven M. Pinsky, MD
1997–1998: Daniel J. Murphy, M.D
1996–1997: Lawrence H. Lanzl, PhD
1995–1996: Frank R. Hendrickson, MD
1994–1995: Andrew Poznanski, MD		 1993–1994: James J. Conway, MD
1992–1993: Lee F. Rogers, M.D.
1991–1992: Ulrich F. Danckers, M.D.
1990–1991: Frank L. Hussey, Jr., M.D.
1989–1990: Raymond L. Del Fava, M.D.
1988–1989: Franklin S. Alcorn, M.D.
1987–1988: Benjamin Felson, M.D.
1986–1987: Leon Love, M.D.
1985–1986: Richard E. Buenger, M.D.
1984–1985: Harold J. Lasky, M.D.
1983–1984: Howard C. Burkhead, M.D.
1982–1983: William T. Meszaros, M.D.
1981–1982: Theodore J. Wachowski, M.D.
1980–1981: Frank L. Hussey, Sr., M.D.
1980–1981: Earl E. Barth, M.D.
1979–1980: Harvey White, M.D.
1978–1979: Frederic D. Lake, M.D.

The Chicago Radiological Society (CRS) created this award in 2009 to honor Chicago-area radiologist Harold J. Lasky, MD (1922–2009), who played a pivotal role in developing the national quality assurance program that resulted in the Mammography Quality Standardization Act (MQSA) of 1994.

Dr. Lasky served as 1977–78 CRS president and as 1985–86 president of the Illinois Radiological Society. The Lasky Foundation Breast Cancer Fund Resident Award recognizes a resident CRS member for excellence in breast imaging research at the annual resident research competition.

Before 2012, this award was known as the Harold Lasky Annual Oration and was given by a speaker on the topic of breast imaging, leadership, or organized medicine. Past speakers included:

2011–12: Pat Basu, MD, “A White House Fellow’s view of Policy and Politics in Washington D.C.”
2010–11: Frank Lexa, MD, “Health Care Reform: Impact on Radiology in 2011 and Beyond”
2009–10: Richard Cooper, MD, “Male Mammography”
2008–09: Thomas Hoffman, JD, “Why the ACR Matters”

 

One of the highest honors the ACR can bestow on a radiologist, radiation oncologist, nuclear medicine physician or medical physicist is recognition as a Fellow of the American College of Radiology. ACR Fellows demonstrate a history of service to the College, organized radiology, teaching or research. Approximately 10% of ACR members achieve this distinction.

Current CRS members who have achieved the distinction of Fellow of the American College of Radiology include: