Jonathan Kruskal, Douglas Katz Honored with ARRS Gold Medal

Pittsburgh, PA | April 13, 2026—The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) proudly announces that Drs. Jonathan B. Kruskal and Douglas S. Katz have both been awarded the 2026 ARRS Gold Medal.

The ARRS Gold Medal is the highest accolade bestowed by North America’s first radiological society and has honored illustrious service to radiology for more than four decades. It is awarded to physicians with a substantial record of service who continue to render distinguished service to both the practice and science of medical imaging and its allied sciences.

Drs. Katz and Kruskal received their Gold Medals during the opening ceremony of the 2026 ARRS Annual Meeting at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA.

Jonathan B. Kruskal, MB, ChB, PhD, FSAR, FACR, is the Melvin E. Clouse professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and chair of the department of radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He received his MB, ChB, from the University of Cape Town (1982) and joined the South African Liver Research Center, where he studied hepatic procoagulant dysfunction and developed a clinical assay for D-dimer as one component of his PhD, which he completed in 1987. Dr. Kruskal came to the United States in 1987 as a postdoctoral research fellow at Vanderbilt University, prior to moving to Harvard Medical School’s New England Deaconess Hospital (NEDH), where using his exteriorized mouse liver tumor model, he developed optical and molecular imaging probes to image and define the mechanisms by which colorectal metastases are established. Subsequently, as a radiology resident at NEDH, he continued this research and served as a Radiological Society of North America Scholar in 1998. Rising to division chief of abdominal radiology in 2001, vice chair of practice quality improvement in 2005, and chair of radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2008, his focus remains on peer learning and improvement, as well as practice and physician wellbeing areas, where he has garnered an international recognition. In these domains, as well as in abdominal radiology, Dr. Kruskal remains a prolific scholar, having published over 250 manuscripts. An internationally recognized lecturer and teacher, he has served as ARRS president (2021-22), president (2019-20) of the Society of Abdominal Radiology, deputy editor and chair of the Practice, Policy, and Quality Initiatives panel of RadioGraphics (2006-20), chair of the Quality Management and the Inter-Society Committees of the American College of Radiology (ACR), and as a member of ACR’s Board of Chancellors. “Jonny” will forever be indebted to his academic mentors: Ralph Kirsch, Mel Clouse, and Bob Kane.

Douglas S. Katz, MD, FACR, FASER, FSAR, is the vice chair for research for the department of radiology at NYU Langone Hospital–Long Island and a professor of radiology at NYU Long Island School of Medicine. Previously, he served as director of body imaging and vice chair for clinical research and education at the same institution (formerly Winthrop-University Hospital) from 1999 to 2018. Dr. Katz has coauthored 1,061 publications and abstracts, including 343 publications, and has been cited more than 11,200 times. He has cowritten or coedited 12 books and syllabi, including the Atlas of Emergency Imaging from Head-to-Toe, released in January 2026. A treasured member of ARRS since 1991, Dr. Katz served as a Categorical Course codirector during the 2018 Annual Meeting and ran the refresher course sections in abdominal imaging for multiple years. A frequent top reviewer for AJR, in 2020, he received the yellow journal’s Diamond Award. An associate editor for RadioGraphics, Dr. Katz has served as a consultant to the editor at Radiology since 2009. A seven-time winner of Attending of the Year Award at his institution, he also received the Radiological Society of North America’s Lifetime Honored Educator Award in 2023. Dr. Katz is a past president of the Long Island Radiological Society and has held various leadership roles in the American Society of Emergency Radiology and Society of Abdominal Radiology.

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)—ARRS Symposia, free-access multimedia from our Global Partner Societies, as well as awarding scholarships via The Roentgen Fund®.

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