An RSNA member since 1992, Dr. Thomas has served extensively with the RSNA Research & Education (R&E) Foundation. While a member of the R&E Foundation Board of Trustees from 2000 to 2006, Dr. Thomas started the Exhibitors Circle program aimed at attracting smaller annual meeting exhibitors as contributors to the Foundation. He currently serves as chair of the R&E Fund Development Committee and is also a member of the RSNA Centennial Committee. Dr. Thomas co-chaired the RSNA Scientific Program Committee from 1987 to 1992 and served as third vice president of RSNA in 1994.

Dr. Thomas ushered the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) into the MR imaging era by founding and chairing the Task Group on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. He has received the William D. Coolidge Award from AAPM and the Loevinger-Berman Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine (now the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging).


Principal or co–principal investigator on more than 20 grants, Dr. Thomas has authored more than 100 publications and edited six books and 20 book chapters.


SIIM The Roger A. Bauman, MD Award
The Roger A. Bauman, MD Award is presented for the best student paper each year at the annual meeting. This award was named to honor Dr. Bauman’s distinguished career in radiological informatics research and practice and his status as Founding Editor of the Journal of Digital Imaging. This year’s awardees, David Surrey, Richard E. Sharpe, Jr., Richard JT Gorniak, Levon Nazarian, Vijay M. Rao, Adam E. Flanders received the award for the paper,= “A Measure of Reporting Quality in a Training Facility Using a Single Metric.”


SIIM New Investigator Travel Awards
Travel awards are presented each year at the annual meeting to new investigators

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