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Herbert Y. Kressel, MD, Named Editor of Radiology¹

¹From the Radiological Society of North America, 820 Jorie Blvd, Oak Brook, IL 60523. Address correspondence to Marian Strassner (e-mail: mstrassner{at}rsna.org).

More than a year after an extensive search began to find a new editor for the premier research journal in radiology, the Board of Directors of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) is pleased to announce that Herbert Y. Kressel, MD, will become Radiology editor in January 2008. He succeeds Anthony V. Proto, MD, who has admirably and tirelessly served the journal, as well as the RSNA, since 1998. Dr Proto will retire as editor at the end of this year.

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A graduate of Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass, Dr Kressel earned his MD degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He completed a medical internship at the University of Washington Hospital in Seattle and a radiology residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he also completed a National Institutes of Health diagnostic radiology fellowship. Dr Kressel then accepted a position as clinical instructor at UCSF. He moved to Philadelphia, Pa, to become assistant professor of radiology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1977 and was promoted to chief of the MR imaging section of the Department of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1982. He became professor of radiology in 1985.

Currently, Dr Kressel is the Miriam H. Stoneman Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass, a position to which he was appointed in 1993. He is radiologist-in-chief of the Department of Radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he also served as president and chief executive officer from 1998 to 2000. He is also chair of the Institutional Participants Committee of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network.

Dr Kressel served as an editorial board member of Radiology for 6 years (1985–1991) and is currently on the editorial board of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. He was also the editor of Magnetic Resonance Annual and Magnetic Resonance Quarterly. He is the author or coauthor of nearly 200 peer-reviewed scientific reports, books, book chapters, and invited papers and has published more than 60 articles in Radiology over the past 30 years.

Dr Kressel is certified in diagnostic radiology by the American Board of Radiology and is currently licensed in Massachusetts. He holds a U.S. patent for the externally moveable intracavity probe for MR imaging and spectroscopy.

The recipient of numerous awards and honors, Dr Kressel has been widely recognized for his academic achievements and MR research. He is the recipient of a silver medal from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, and the Crues-Kressel Award from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. A member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society for medical school students, Dr Kressel received the Herron Award while at the University of Southern California.

An RSNA member since 1977, Dr Kressel served as a member of the Refresher Course Committee from 1990 to 1993. He has delivered six lectures at RSNA Scientific Sessions since 1979. Dr Kressel also has served in many capacities with the American College of Radiology, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the Association of University Radiologists, the Society of Computed Body Tomography, the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists, and the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

Well aware of the respect and stature Dr Kressel has earned in radiology as a researcher and leader, we were further impressed by his vision for the journal and its relationship to scientific advances in radiology. We have no doubt that his editorship will add luster to our premier journal and to his own prestigious career.

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