Ruth Carlos Honored With American Roentgen Ray Society’s
Gold Medal
San Diego, CA; April
30, 2025—The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) proudly announces that
former ARRS president Ruth Carlos, MD, MS, FACR, has been awarded the
2025 ARRS Gold Medal.
The highest accolade bestowed by North America’s
first radiological society, the ARRS Gold Medal has been honoring illustrious
service to radiology for more than four decades. The ARRS Gold Medal is awarded
to physicians with a substantial record of service and who continue to render
distinguished service to both the practice and science of medical imaging and its
allied sciences.
Ruth Carlos was installed as the 119th president of
ARRS during the 2019 Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, succeeding Philip
Costello, MD. She was recognized as this year’s ARRS Gold Medalist during the opening
ceremony of the 2025 ARRS Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.
Ruth Carlos,
MD, MS, FACR, is a professor of radiology at Columbia University Irving Medical
Center and associate chair of research faculty development for the Department
of Radiology. She is a board-certified radiologist specializing in abdominal
imaging.
Dr. Carlos also
serves as the director of research in outcomes and care delivery for the Center
for Imaging Biomarkers and Innovation in Integrated Diagnostics (CIMBID) at
Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
A distinguished
leader and pioneer in the field of radiology, Dr. Carlos has held several
prestigious leadership positions that have shaped the direction of radiology
research and practice. She is the first woman editor-in-chief of a major
radiology journal, the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR),
which guides the management and practice of radiology. She has served as
president of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS), the Association of
University Radiologists (AUR), and the Radiology Alliance for Health Services
Research in Radiology. Currently, she chairs the GE AUR Research Radiology Academic
Fellowship (GERRAF), a national program supporting early-stage investigators in
health services research and care delivery.
Dr. Carlos’
influence extends to national policy, evidenced by her role as co-chair of the
National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Care Delivery Research (CCDR)
Development Committee, and she lends her expertise as a thought leader to the
National Academy of Medicine, the National Quality Forum, and the Joint
Commission. Her wealth of expertise spans health services research and policy,
health equity, and structural racism. Most recently, her work has focused on
social genomics, the negative biological effects of social and economic
marginalization and imaging biomarkers.
Dr. Carlos has
received numerous awards and honors. She is an elected fellow of the American
College of Radiology (ACR), and the Society of Computed Tomography and Magnetic
Resonance (SCBT-MR). She has received the Gold Medal from the Association of
University Radiologists (AUR), the Distinguished Educator Award from the
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), and the Stanford Medicine X
Research Challenge Grand Prize. A funded investigator of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH), she has been recognized for her research by
induction into the Academy of Radiology Research Council of Distinguished
Investigators reflecting top ten percent of all academic radiology faculty and
awarding of the Paul C. Hodges Excellence Award.
Dr. Carlos
received her medical degree from the University of Chicago, where she also
completed her diagnostic radiology residency. She then completed an abdominal
imaging fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She also holds a
master’s degree from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan.
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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