American
Roentgen Ray Society Installs Deborah Baumgarten as President at Annual Meeting
San Diego, CA; April 29, 2025—The American Roentgen
Ray Society (ARRS) is proud to announce the installation of Deborah A.
Baumgarten, MD, MPH, as president of ARRS during the 2025 Annual Meeting held in San Diego, California.
Dr. Baumgarten, an internationally recognized leader in
radiology and a steadfast advocate for education, assumes the presidency after
years of distinguished service on the ARRS Executive Council. Her appointment
marks a new chapter in this society’s ongoing mission to advance medical
imaging and patient care through cutting-edge education, research, and
collaboration. Widely published and highly respected for her clinical
expertise, instructional insights, and leadership within the imaging community
at large, Dr. Baumgarten succeeds Angelisa M. Paladin,
MD, who served the society ably and honorably as its most recent president from
2024 to 2025.
The ARRS 2025 Annual Meeting in San Diego has convened
radiologists, educators, researchers, and industry leaders from around the
world to share scientific breakthroughs, explore innovations in imaging, and
set the course for the future of radiology.
Deborah A.
Baumgarten, MD, MPH, is a diagnostic radiologist, subspecialized in
abdominal imaging. Born in New York, she moved to Hollywood, FL, when she was 6
and a half. She was salutatorian on her high school class and lettered 4 years
as a member of the swimming team. She played club water polo for 2 years at
Brown University, graduating with honors in 1985, then went to Emory University
School of Medicine, receiving her MD in 1989. Her internship (1989-90), residency
(1990-94) and abdominal fellowship (1994-95) were all completed at Emory as was
a master of public health (2001). She spent 25 years as an attending at Emory,
earning the title of professor in 2010. At Emory, she was an associate program director
for 14 years and abdominal fellowship director for 19 years and served on
numerous institutional committees. She was associate abdominal division director
for over 10 years and abdominal division director for almost 3 years, before
leaving Emory to join the faculty at Mayo Clinic Florida as a professor in
February 2020. Her roles at Mayo Clinic include educational liaison for the abdominal
CT rotation, ultrasound operations committee, and organization of the resident
lectures for the abdominal division. She has been awarded fellow status in the
Mayo Clinic Academy of Academic Excellence and has earned silver status in the
Quality Academy. In addition to clinical activities, Dr. Baumgarten has
published 50 peer-reviewed papers, 19 invited symposia, review articles or book
chapters, 18 guidelines, and 60 abstracts. Her commitment to national radiology
societies is too long to list and include ARRS (Executive Committee); Society
of Abdominal Radiology (past president, 2014-2015; abdominal imaging editorial board);
Radiological Society of North America (Radiology, consultant to the editor; Radiology: Imaging Cancer, associate editor). She reviews for nine
journals (earning numerous awards and recognitions) and has been or is a member
of six editorial/advisory boards. She has given over 165 invited lectures and
has organized multiple in-person and online courses, including several
international courses. Other accomplishments include Emory Teacher of the Year
1997, 2004, 2014; Society of Abdominal Radiology Fellow (SAR), 2006; American
College of Radiology Fellow, 2010; American Board of Radiology Distinguished
Service Award, 2010, 2013, 2015; AJR Silver Award for Distinguished
Reviewing, 2018; AJR Gold Award for Distinguished Reviewing, 2025; SAR
Gold Medal, 2020; and Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound Fellow, 2023. She
married EJ Sadler in 2010 after meeting him online. In her spare time, she is
an avid exerciser and member of an indoor rowing gym, baker, reader, traveler,
and volunteer and is trying to improve her knitting skills and flexibility (the
stretching kind).
North America’s
first radiological society, the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS)
remains dedicated to the advancement of medicine through the profession of
medical imaging and its allied sciences. An international forum for progress in
radiology since the discovery of the x-ray, ARRS maintains its mission of
improving health through a community committed to advancing knowledge and
skills with the ARRS Annual Meeting, two
radiology journals—American Journal of
Roentgenology (AJR) and Roentgen
Ray Review (R3)—InPractice magazine, ARRS
Symposia, free-access multimedia from our Global Partner Societies,
as well as awarding scholarships via The
Roentgen Fund®.
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