ARRS Announces 2019 Gold Medalist


Jonathan S. Lewin has been named recipient of the ARRS 2019 Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Radiology. The award is ARRS’s highest honor, and will be presented at the ARRS 2019 Annual Meeting in Honolulu. 

Lewin serves as executive vice president for health affairs at Emory University, executive director for Emory’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center, president and CEO of Emory Healthcare, and chair of the board of directors of Emory Healthcare. At Emory, he is professor of radiology and imaging sciences, professor of biomedical engineering, and professor of health policy and management. 

Prior to his Emory appointment, Lewin served as the Martin Donner professor and chair of the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science at Johns Hopkins University. He was also the radiologist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 2004 until 2016, with secondary appointments as professor of oncology, neurosurgery, and biomedical engineering. From 2012 to 2016, he served as co-chair for strategic planning, and from 2013 to 2016, he served as senior vice president for integrated health care delivery for Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Before joining the faculty of Johns Hopkins, Lewin was the director of the division of magnetic resonance imaging at University Hospitals of Cleveland and professor and vice chair for research and academic affairs in the department of radiology at Case Western Reserve University.

Lewin received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Brown University in 1981 and his doctor of medicine from Yale University in 1985. Following his internship in pediatrics at Yale New Haven Hospital and residency in diagnostic radiology at University Hospitals of Cleveland, he completed a magnetic resonance research fellowship in Germany, a neuroradiology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic, and additional training in head and neck radiology at the Eye and Ear Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Lewin was president of ARRS from 2015 to 2016, as well as president of the Society of Chairs of Academic Radiology Departments, the Association of University Radiologists, the International Society for Strategic Studies in Radiology, and the Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research. He has also served on numerous national committees, editorial boards, and grant review groups for foundations, including the National Institutes of Health and the Task Force on MinimallyInvasive Cancer Therapy of the National Cancer Institute.

A pioneer in interventional and intraoperative MRI, Lewin has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts and 60 book chapters, reviews, commentaries, and other invited papers on topics including the basic science and clinical aspects of interventional MRI, functional MRI, head and neck imaging, MR angiography, small animal imaging, and the imaging of acute stroke.

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