Blumberg Elected American College of Radiology President

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Reston, Va. – The American College of Radiology (ACR) Council elected Albert L. Blumberg, M.D., FACR, of Baltimore, president of the American College of Radiology (ACR) during the recent ACR 90th Annual Meeting and Chapter Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.

Blumberg is a fellow of the ACR, serves on the ACR Executive Council, and is immediate past-chair of the ACR Commission on Radiation Oncology. He is Vice Chair, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Greater Baltimore Medical Center and a practicing radiation oncologist with Radiation Oncology HealthCare PA. Blumberg has served as president of the Baltimore County Medical Society and MedChi, the Maryland State Medical Society. He is a member of the board of the Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society and a past board member of GBMC Health Care Inc. Blumberg is also a former vice chair of the Maryland Council on Cancer Control and a past president of Smoke Free Maryland.

“Dr. Blumberg has shown outstanding leadership in every role in which he has served within the ACR and elsewhere in medicine. He is a longtime advocate of the radiology profession and a nationally recognized expert in radiation oncology. We look forward to his continued leadership as president of the ACR,” said ACR Board of Chancellors Chair, Paul H. Ellenbogen, M.D., FACR.

New ACR Officers Continued:

ACR Vice President — Geoffrey G. Smith, MD, FACR, of Casper, Wyo., was elected ACR vice president. Smith recently served as chair of the ACR Commission on Membership and the Committee on Chapters under the ACR Communications Commission. He is a fellow of the ACR and is a former member of the ACR Board of Chancellors, the ACR Council Steering Committee, and the RADPAC board. Smith is a practicing radiologist at Casper Medical Imaging, in Casper, Wyo.

ACR Speaker — Kimberly Applegate, MD, MS, of Atlanta, Ga., was elected to a two-year term as Council Speaker. Applegate is a fellow of the ACR, a member of the ACR Council Steering Committee, ACR Board of Chancellors, ACR Executive Committee and of the Image Gently Steering Committee. She is a former chair of the ACR Member Engagement Committee and College Nominating Committee. Applegate is director of practice quality improvement in the radiology department at Emory Healthcare and Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

ACR Vice Speaker — William T. Herrington, MD, FACR, of Athens, Ga., was elected to a two-year term Council Vice-Speaker.  Herrington is a fellow of the ACR and was a member of the ACR Council Steering Committee.  He has served on the ACR Committee on Leadership and Practice Development, ACR Governance Committee and ACR Human Resource Committee. Herrington is a practicing radiologist with Athens Radiology Associates, PC.

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The ACR is a national nonprofit association serving more than 32,000 radiologists, radiation oncologists, interventional radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and medical physicists with programs focusing on the practice of radiology and the delivery of comprehensive health care services.

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