From the December 2016 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
During his tenure as chair, he was instrumental in implementing the automated radiology practice for digital imaging. During his career, Berquist has been a member or chair of more than 50 Mayo Clinic committees. He has held significant positions in several professional organizations, including ARRS, the American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America and Society of Skeletal Radiology. In 2006, he was appointed to the board of trustees of the American Board of Radiology. In 2008, he was named editor in chief of the AJR. Berquist is an accomplished author of 36 radiology textbooks, more than 200 book chapters and well over 100 peer-reviewed articles.
Charles E. Kahn Jr. is professor and vice-chairman of radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, and senior fellow of Penn’s Institute for Biomedical Informatics and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and his master’s degree in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin and received his M.D. degree from the University of Illinois. He completed his radiology residency at the University of Chicago. Kahn received the Association of University Radiologists Konica Visiting Scientist Award, the 1993 ARRS Scholarship and a Whitaker Foundation Research Award.
He received the Radiology Editor’s Recognition Award seven times and the Radiological Society of North America Honored Educator Award. He has served as assistant editor of AJR and associate editor of Radiology and has been elected fellow of the American College of Radiology and the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). He is a past ARRS president, DICOM Standards Committee co-chair, SIIM director-at-large and founding co-director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Kahn has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, authored more than 175 scientific presentations and given more than 80 invited lectures.
