American Roentgen Ray Society names new president during annual meeting
The American Roentgen Ray Society has elected a number of new leaders, including its new president, during this week’s annual meeting.
Jonathan Kruskal, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will become the 121st president of the first and oldest radiological society in North America, ARRS announced on Sunday. He will succeed Alexander Norbash, MD, ARRS’s president from 2020 to 2021.
Kruskal earned his PhD in molecular biology and liver tumor physiology in South Africa and came to the United States in 1987. In 1994, he finished his radiology residency training at Deaconess Hospital in Boston, where he stayed as an abdominal imaging staff member. In 2001, he was promoted to chief of abdominal imaging and took on the role of chair of radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2008.
“I am truly honored, and I look forward to serving as your president over the next year,” Kruskal said during his opening remarks at the 2021 ARRS Virtual Annual Meeting.
He went on to congratulate a handful of other newly elected ARRS officers, including President-Elect Gary Whitman, Vice President Erik Paulson, and Secretary-Treasurer Angelisa Paladin.
Kruskal also praised Norbash for leading the society through a “challenging and tumultuous year.”
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