Among her vast achievements, Donaldson was the American Society for Radiation Oncology and American Board of Radiology's first female president. She received the Marie Curie Award of the American Association for Women Radiologists and the Elizabeth Blackwell Award of the American Medical Women's Association, along with gold medals from ACR, American Radium Society and ASTRO. She is one of a select few radiologists who are members of the Institute of Medicine.

Dr. N. Reed Dunnick


As chairman of the board, Dunnick will aid in implementing and developing programs and tools to translate research discoveries into clinical practice and enable focused learning and rapid information retrieval.

"As the pace of change in the health care environment quickens, the challenges to maintaining our intellectual leadership in medical imaging increase," he said in a statement. "Radiologists must take leadership roles in helping to improve the efficiency of health care, while enhancing the quality of the care we deliver."



Dunnick is the Fred Jenner Hodges Professor and chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Michigan Health system in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Awards Dunnick has received include the William F. Barry Jr. Award for Teaching Excellence from Duke University; the Gold Medal for Distinguished Services from the Academy of Radiology Research; the Gold Medal from the Society of Uroradiology. He was named honorary member of ASTRO and has been named on "The Best Doctors in America" list eight times.

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