Distinguished Service Award
In 2007, the Executive Board established the Distinguished Service Award to honor SRU members for outstanding service to the Society and to the field of radiology. The recipient is selected by the Executive Board.

Past Winners
Lawrence A. Mack Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lawrence A. Mack Lifetime Achievement Award honors SRU member Larry Mack, and is presented yearly to an SRU Fellow to recognize a career of outstanding achievement in ultrasound research.

Past Winners
Distinguished Educator Award
The Distinguished Education and Mentor Award recognizes an SRU Fellow for a career of outstanding achievement in ultrasound education and mentorship.

Past Winners
Rising Star
This award recognizes a fellow who has contributed in an exemplary fashion to the goals of the society and to the advancement of ultrasound as a subspecialty and who has been a fellow for less than 5 years. Decision is made by the Executive Board, and the award is presented at the fellows meeting. There is no advance announcement of this award to the fellows or the awardee; however, the award will be announced at the members business meeting. There is no monetary award or fee adjustment associated with the award.

Anna Lev-Toaff Award
Anna Lev-Toaff award is in memory of SRU Fellow Anna Lev-Toaff and supports women faculty at the annual meeting.

2022 Winner
Tara Morgan, MD
Past Winners
2021 Oksana Baltarowich, MD
2020 Priyanka Jha, MD
2019 Lori Strachowski, MD
2018 Sarah Durfee, MD
2017 Shuchi K. Rodgers, MD
2016 Roya Sohaey, MD
Barry Goldberg Award

2019 Winner
Paula Woodward, MD
Past Winners
2018 Harris Cohen, MD
2017 Edward Grant, MD
2016 Laurence Needleman, MD
Young Investigator Research Award
The Executive Board established the Young Investigator Research Award in 2017 to recognize an SRU member who has been in practice less than ten years post training.The award is given for a paper on original research in ultrasound and submitted to the Research Committee for review. The paper is presented at the annual meeting.

2018 Winner
Ami Gokli, MD
Past Winners
2017 Alina Makoyeva, MD
Member-In-Training Research Award
The Executive Board established the Member-in-Training research award in 2006 to recognize an SRU member, resident or fellow, for excellence in ultrasound-related research. The award is given yearly for the best original research paper submitted to the Research Committee for review. The paper is presented at the annual meeting.

2016 Winner
Jinghui Hu, PhD
University of Calgary
Presentation: Resolution of Indeterminate MRI with CEUS in Patients at High Risk for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Past Winners
2015
Theodora Potretzke, MD
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
Abstract: Bleeding Complications after Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Biopsy of Subcapsular Liver Masses: A Comparison with Nonsubcapsular Liver Masses and Random Liver Biopsy
2014
Patricia Jo, MD
University of Calgary
Abstract: Nodules in a Cirrhotic Liver: The Significant Contributions of Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS)
2013
Eric May, MD
Mayo College of Medicine
Abstract: Optimal Duplex Ultrasound Criteria in Stented Mesenteric Arteries
2012
Summit Sawhney, MD
University of Calgary, Alberta Health Services
Abstract: Can Ultrasound with Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Replace the Nonenhanced CT Scan in Patients with Contraindication to CT Contrast Agent Injection?
2011
Manish Dhyani, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Abstract: Shear Wave Sonoelastography: A New Method to Differentiate Intermediate Stages of Liver Fibrosis
2010
Daniel T. Ginat, MD, MS,
University of Rochester Medical Center
Abstract: Applying the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound Criteria for Thyroid Nodule FNA and Utilizing Ultrasound Morphology for Further Reducing the Negative FNA Rate
2009
Andrej Lyshchik, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Abstract: Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer with Quantitiative Color Doppler
2008
achit K. Verma, MD
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Abstract: Comparison of Sonohysterography and MRI in the Diagnosis of Adenomyosis
2007
Margarita Revzin, MD
North Shore University Hospital
Abstract: Diagnostic Criteria for Doppler Evaluation of Renal Stents
2006
Jared Christenson, MD
University of Rochester Medical Center
Abstract: Real-Time Sonoelastography Detection of Hepatic Radiofrequency Ablation Lesions in an in-vivo Porcine Model