From the December 2011 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Recipient of the RSNA 2007 Outstanding Researcher Award, Dr. Hillman has received more than 20 grants as principal investigator or co-investigator, including the National Cancer Institute $23 million UO-1 award that led to the founding of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) in 1999. The network, for which Dr. Hillman was the principal investigator and chair from 1999 to 2007, received $192 million in grant funding and accrued more than 76,000 participants to imaging clinical trials during his tenure.
Under Hillman's leadership, ACRIN conducted more than 30 multicenter studies of imaging and cancer, including the ACRIN Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial that paved the way for reimbursement for digital mammography and prompted new screening guidelines for specific groups of women.
Educated at Princeton University and the University of Rochester, New York, the Miami Beach native began his radiology career as a resident at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now Brigham & Women's Hospital) in Boston. Dr. Hillman served as section head of genitourinary radiology and vice chair of radiology at the University of Arizona and chair of radiology at the University of Virginia before moving into his current positions as founding editor of the Journal of the American College of Radiology and chief medical officer of ACR Image Metrix. He also was the founding editor of Academic Radiology, editor of Investigative Radiology, and a longtime reviewer for Radiology. He has published more than 30 book chapters, 120 editorials and 170 peer-reviewed articles, including two defining works on the use of imaging by nonradiologists.
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Regularly addressing public policy issues such as the corporatization of radiology, Hillman's work on self-referral led to the development of federal legislation—the "Stark law"—as well as numerous state laws and new ethics guidelines for the American Medical Association.
Hillman has served as president of five radiological societies including the Association of University Radiologists (AUR) and the Society of Uroradiology (SUR). His extensive RSNA involvement includes serving four years with the RSNA Clinical Trials Methodology Workshop and developing the RSNA/American Roentgen Ray Society/AUR Introduction to Research Program. An RSNA member since 1981, Hillman delivered the Eugene P. Pendergrass New Horizons Lecture at RSNA's annual meeting in 1997.
Herbert Y. Kressel
Radiology editor since January 2008, Kressel is radiologist-in-chief emeritus of the Department of Radiology at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Mass., and Miriam H. Stoneman Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School.
