From the December 2016 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
He served as president of the Mount Sinai Hospital from November 2003 to September 2008. Drayer, who served as RSNA president in 2011, received his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In 1971, he received his medical degree from Chicago Medical School and went on to complete a medical internship and neurology residency at the University of Vermont in Burlington. Drayer completed his radiology residency followed by a neuroradiology fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Drayer’s academic appointments began in 1977 at the University of Pittsburgh Health Center. From 1979 to 1986, Drayer was at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., where he became professor of radiology and assistant professor of medicine (neurology).
In 1986, he was appointed chairman of the Division of Neuroimaging Research-Education at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Ariz., where he remained until 1995. Drayer then moved to The Mount Sinai Medical Center where he practices today. Since 1979, Drayer has reviewed manuscripts for nine medical journals, including Radiology, and was editor of Neuroimaging Clinics of North America from 1991 to 2005. He has authored or coauthored nearly 200 journal articles, 41 book chapters and two books. He is also a sought-after lecturer both nationally and internationally, having given more than 300 invited lectures and speeches.
Drayer’s many accolades include the Cornelius G. Dyke Award from the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) and the Distinguished Service Award from the American Board of Radiology (ABR). He received the ASNR gold medal in 2011. An RSNA member since 1980, Drayer serves as chair of the RSNA Research & Education (R&E) Foundation Board of Trustees. He served as RSNA first vice president in 2003. Drayer has been an active volunteer, serving as chair of the Public Information Committee, a member of the Public Information Advisors Network and the R&E Foundation’s Public Relations Committee. He moderated the RSNA Image Interpretation Session in 2004. Drayer was elected to the RSNA board of directors in December 2003, was liaison for the annual meeting and technology until 2008 and served as chairman of the board and president-elect in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
Drayer is a past president of the ASNR, as well as a founder of the Neuroradiology Education and Research Foundation of ASNR. Drayer is a fellow of both the American College of Radiology (ACR) and American Academy of Neurology, and a past president of the New York Roentgen Society. He is an active member in many neurology and radiology organizations, including the ACR, where he was chair of the Committee on Appropriateness Criteria’s Panel on Neurological Imaging from 1994 to 2003. A world-renowned abdominal radiologist, Dr. Robert J. Stanley became a leading authority in the early development of body CT imaging, and has been a mentor to future generations of radiologists.
