John Fennessy, professor emeritus and former chair of the University of Chicago department of radiology, died earlier this month from complications following cardiac surgery. He was 82. 

Ed Yoder, CRA, former AHRA president, died last weekend after a difficult battle with cancer. The announcement came from current president Ernesto A. Cerdena, PhDc, RT, CRA, who wrote about Yoder for the AHRA’s Link blog. 

Greg Piefer, PhD, founder and CEO of SHINE Medical Technologies, has been awarded the Early-Career Achievement Award by the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering.

Doctors, including the director of the hospital’s radiology department, were treating patients like normal when the bulldozer tore through the wall of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University in Henan Province’s Zhengzhou City.

A Canadian radiologist has filed a human rights complaint after she says she was let go from her job while in the late stages of pregnancy. Michelle Ong, MD, was 35 weeks pregnant when she questioned something that was impacting patients, and the next thing she knew, she was told her position had been terminated.

On Dec. 17, Ohio Governor John R. Kasich announced that Amit Majmudar, MD, had been named the state’s first poet laureate. Majmudar writes fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. He is also a practicing radiologist, currently working for Radiology, Inc., in Columbus.

Considering a career change? A new way to share your expertise on radiology? This may be the job for you. The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Board of Directors has announced that Radiology, the journal published by RSNA since 1923, is searching for a new editor. 

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) has announced that the final attendance figure for its 2015 annual meeting in Chicago was 51,922, down from 56,026 at RSNA 2014.