OAK BROOK, Ill. - The Board of Directors of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) announces that Herbert Y. Kressel, M.D., will become editor of the journal Radiology in January 2008.

Dr. Kressel is the Miriam H. Stoneman Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, a position to which he was appointed in 1993. He is radiologist-in-chief of the Department of Radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he also served as president and chief executive officer from 1998 to 2000. In addition, Dr. Kressel serves as chair of the Institutional Participants Committee of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network.

"Radiology has established itself internationally as the premier scientific jounal devoted to imaging," Dr. Kressel said. "Serving as editor is an opportunity to contribute to the radiology profession and to help guide the scientific growth of the imaging sciences globally."
Dr. Kressel made his mark as a diagnostic radiologist in magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the abdomen and pelvis, with particular interest in imaging of the liver, pancreas, prostate and rectum. He has contributed greatly to the role of imaging in rectal and prostate tumor staging. He holds a U.S. patent for the externally moveable intracavity probe for MR imaging and spectroscopy.

A graduate of Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., Dr. Kressel earned his medical degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He completed a medical internship at the University of Washington Hospital in Seattle and a radiology residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he also completed a National Institutes of Health diagnostic radiology fellowship. Dr. Kressel then accepted a position as clinical instructor at UCSF. He became an assistant professor of radiology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1977 and was promoted to chief of the MR imaging section of the Department of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1982. He became a professor of radiology there in 1985.

Dr. Kressel served as an editorial board member of Radiology from 1985 to 1991 and is currently on the editorial board of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. He was also the editor of Magnetic Resonance Annual and Magnetic Resonance Quarterly. He is the author or coauthor of nearly 200 peer-reviewed scientific reports, books, book chapters and invited papers and has published more than 60 articles in Radiology over the past 30 years.

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