From the December 2016 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Stanley grew up in New Jersey, where he earned his undergraduate degree at St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, New Jersey. He then headed west and earned his medical degree at St. Louis University, where he also completed a medicine internship and a year of surgery residency before completing his radiology residency. More recently, he received a Master of Science degree in health administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), where he is professor emeritus in the Department of Radiology.
Stanley got his start in academic radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR), Washington University, St. Louis, and he joined the faculty after completing his radiology residency. He spent the next 11 years at MIR as director of the abdominal radiology section before leaving to serve as professor and chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham. Stanley’s involvement with whole-body CT began in earnest in the fall of 1975 when EMI Corp. collaborated with Washington University and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., for the implementation and evaluation of its first two whole body CT scanners in the United States. Given the opportunity, along with Stuart S. Sagel, M.D., to head up the newly created body CT facility, Stanley soon became an authority in the new imaging field.
Just prior to leaving MIR, Dr. Stanley and his co-authors, Dr. Sagel and Dr. Joseph K. T. Lee, completed the first edition of their landmark CT textbook, Computed Body Tomography with MRI Correlation, currently in its fourth edition. Over his 32-year tenure as chair of the Department of Radiology at UAB, Stanley saw the department grow in size and stature. During this time, he remained active in all aspects of abdominal radiology, and also served as a member of the Board of Chancellors of the American College of Radiology (ACR) for seven years, chairing the Commission on Standards and Accreditation, as well as being elected vice president of ACR. Under his chairmanship, 55 standards (now called practice guidelines) were created.
A prolific author of more than 180 scientific publications, Stanley also served as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR). Stanley continued to serve on the clinical faculty at UAB, primarily working with residents in their body CT education until July 2014, when he retired from the clinical faculty. Stanley has served in a leadership role in numerous radiology organizations. He is a founder of both the Society of Uroradiology and the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance (SCBT-MR) and served as president of both societies. In 2014, he was awarded the Walter B. Cannon Medal for distinguished contributions to GI radiology by the Society of Abdominal Radiology. And in 2014, he was awarded the first SCBT-MR gold medal for significant contributions to CT imaging. Stanley was an advisory editor and associate editor on the Radiology editorial board, and has also served on the RSNA Public Information Advisors Network.
