May Dispatches 2024

• Recognize Your ACR Peers for Their Outstanding Work
  
• 2025 ACRF Global Humanitarian Award Application Open
  
• Apply for the ACR Foundation Goldberg-Reeder Resident Travel Grant 
  
• Register for 2024 ACR Medical Student Research Fair
  
• Looks at Quality of Large Language Model Responses to RO Patient Care Questions
  
• Significant Benefits Seen After Five Years of Using Radiology AI ROI Calculator
  
• ACR Announces Recipients of Bruce J. Hillman Fellowship in Scholarly Publishing 

Recognize Your ACR Peers for Their Outstanding Work

Nominations are being accepted for three of the ACR’s highest recognitions. Recognize your peers for their notable contributions to the practice of radiology and outstanding service to the College and the profession with one of these three awards:

• The ACR Gold Medal is awarded by the BOC to an individual for extraordinary service to the ACR or to the discipline of radiology in teaching, basic research, clinical investigation or radiologic statesmanship. 
• ACR Honorary Fellows are elected by the BOC in recognition of outstanding contributions to the science or practice of radiology by individuals who — by virtue of residence, education, profession or lack of board certification — are ineligible for admission as members in any category other than international. 
• The Distinguished Achievement Award is awarded by the BOC in recognition of highly notable service to the College and the profession, or in recognition of other action or achievement that reflects in a uniquely favorable manner on the College and the profession at the national level. 

The nomination deadline is July 1. Learn more about the eligibility requirements. Nomination letters and letters of support should be emailed to awardsandhonorscommittee@acr.org and addressed to Chair, Awards and Honors Committee.

2025 ACRF Global Humanitarian Award Application Open

The Global Humanitarian Award (GHA) recognizes outstanding individuals, organizations and programs working to improve access to and equitable delivery of quality radiological services to areas of need throughout the world. The World Health Organization estimates that half of the world’s population lacks access to radiological services.

Deserving applicants will be awarded at the 2025 ACR Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Awards are given in three categories: individuals, organizations (including non-profit and industry groups) and non-radiologists (including medical physicists, radiologic technologists, ultrasonographers and other radiological personnel). 

Apply here by Aug. 31, 2024. Questions? Contact Meredith Amos.

Apply for the ACR Foundation Goldberg-Reeder Resident Travel Grant

Are you an ACR member-in-training who is interested in providing volunteer service to low-to-middle income countries? The ACR Foundation supports the Goldberg-Reeder Resident Travel Grant program which provides travel grants to interested members-in-training seeking to serve up to a month advancing radiology in one of these countries. All applications must be received no later than June 30. For more information, contact Meredith Amos.

Apply here by June 30, 2024.

Register for 2024 ACR Medical Student Research Fair

Join the ACR Medical Student Section for the second annual Virtual Research Fair on June 1 from noon to 2:30 p.m. ET. Medical students will present and discuss their ongoing and published projects (research, clinical cases, entrepreneurial ventures and art) that inspire them to pursue a career in radiology. 

ACR President Pamela K. Woodard, MD, FACR, will offer a keynote address about experiences and be available to answer students’ questions throughout the event. 

Register here. Registration will remain open until the noon start time on June 1. Questions? Contact Joan Lynch. 

New Study Looks at Quality of Large Language Model Responses to RO Patient Care Questions

JAMA Network Open recently published a study showing that ChatGPT answered questions regarding care with little risk of inaccuracies, suggesting that ChatGPT could be an important resource for radiation oncology (RO) patients. The chatbot was tested by clinicians at Northwestern University in Chicago using common care questions, with ChatGPT responding with responses compared to human experts. The only issue that Amulya Yalamanchili, MD, and her colleagues detected was that the readability was higher than recommended. 

The team wanted to verify if ChatGPT can provide promising answers for radiation treatment questions much like it has in other areas such as medical test questions and simplifying radiology reports. ChatGPT was given 115 questions from the group based on Q&As from sites sponsored by numerous organizations such as the ACR and RSNA. Three radiation physicists and three radiation oncologists ranked the responses based on how correct, complete and concise they were compared to answers from experts online using a five-point Likert scale. The team found that ChatGPT scored better or similar in 108 responses for correctness, 89 for completeness and 105 for conciseness. 

Read the full study here.

Significant Benefits Seen After Five Years of Using Radiology AI ROI Calculator

The benefits are positive regarding a calculator for assessing radiology AI, with the return deemed “substantial” after a five-year period following its introduction. The experts and researchers that built this tool aimed to help imaging leaders measure the quantity of comparative costs, estimated revenues and the value of AI platform use within U.S. hospitals. This calculator was built using a review of imaging AI-related literature and expert interviews, per a study published by the JACR^®. 

AI introduction to radiology workflow in hospitals has led to labor time reductions and delivery of ROI at 451% during this five-year period, with returns increasing to 791% when also keeping radiologist time savings in mind. Time savings for radiologists, based on the calculator, included more than 15 eight-hour workdays of wait time, 78 days in triage, 10 days in reading and 41 days in report time.

Read the full study here.

ACR Announces Recipients of Bruce J. Hillman Fellowship in Scholarly Publishing 

The ACR has awarded the 2024 Bruce J. Hillman Fellowship in Scholarly Publishing to Fatima Elahi, DO, MHA, and Madison Kocher Wulfeck, MD, MBA, CIIP. Elahi is completing her diagnostic radiology residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and will embark on a mammography fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Wulfeck is a cardiothoracic radiologist in Florida with Radiology Partners, and previously was on the JACR Trainee Editorial Board. 

The Bruce J. Hillman Fellowship in Scholarly Publishing allows its recipients, who are qualified staff radiologists or radiologists-in-training, with focused experience in medical journalism, editing and publishing, to gain more experience with the JACR^®. The fellowship is named after the founding editor-in-chief of the JACR, Bruce J. Hillman, MD, FACR, who held this position from the JACR’s launch in 2004 until 2019. Hillman passed away on Jan. 9, 2024.

Read the press release here.