Pendergrass Day
Steven Seltzer, MD, FACR
Annual Pendergrass Day Symposium and Evening Dinner Dance
Each year, residents, fellows, post-doctoral students, graduate students, research associates and faculty attend the Department's Pendergrass Day Symposium followed by a graduation celebration in the evening.
This year, the 34th Annual Pendergrass Day Symposium took place on June 12, 2009. Guest speakers included Steven E. Seltzer, MD, FACR, and Elliot R. McVeigh, PhD. Dr. Seltzer, Chairman of the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, presented the 34th Pendergrass Lecture entitled "Managing Radiology Utilization: The Good, the Bad and the Very Ugly".
Elliot R. McVeigh, PhD
Dr. McVeigh, a Massey Professor and Director for the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, presented the second annual Charagundla Lecture named after Sridhar R. Charagundla, a most promising faculty member, who passed suddenly at the young age of 34. Dr. McVeigh presented "Applications of Real-time MRI".
In addition, this year, over 43 abstracts were submitted with five selected for oral and seven for poster presentation. Please see the event's program referenced below for a full list of presentations as wall as previous lecturers.
The Friday evening graduation dinner dance for residents and fellows was held this year at the Four Seasons Hotel. During the gala, the annual Pendergrass teaching awards were presented:
- Baum-Laufer Award for Excellence in Service to the Penn Radiology Residency: Rajan Agarwal, MD, MBA
- Excellence in Teaching by a Radiology Fellow: Gregory Kicska, MD, PhD
- Excellence in Teaching by a Radiology Technologist: Karen Koebert, RT
- Wallace T. Miller Award for Excellence in Resident Teaching by a faculty member: Evan S. Siegelman, MD
- Roentgen Resident: Fellow Research Award-Rajan Agarwal, MD, MBA
 34th Annual Pendergrass Day Symposium Program (218KB) |
 Slideshow of photos from Pendergrass Day |
