Society Awards
The Gold Medal
The Gold Medal of The Society for Pediatric Radiology is our most distinguished honor. The SPR Gold Medal is awarded to pediatric radiologists and others who have contributed greatly to the SPR and our subspecialty of pediatric radiology as a scientist, teacher, personal mentor, and leader.
Winner: James S. Donaldson, MD
Pioneer Honorees
Pioneer Honorees were first acknowledged in 1990 as a means to honor certain physicians who made special contributions to the early development of our specialty.
Winner: Josée Dubois, MD
Presidential Recognition Award
The Society bestows Presidential Recognition Awards on members or other individuals whose energy and creativity have made a significant impact on the work of the Society and its service to its members.
Winner: Misun Hwang, MD
Honorary Members
Since 1998, the Society extends Honorary membership to individuals outside of the North American pediatric radiology physician community who have made outstanding contributions to the care of children.
Winners: Wolfgang Hirsch, MD and Derek Roebuck, MD
Singleton-Taybi Award
Edward Singleton-Hooshang Taybi Award for Excellence in Education.
Winner: Jennifer Nicholas, MD
John Caffey Award Papers (1969-1998)
Caffey Award for Best Basic Science Paper
Winners:
Early Detection of Endothelial Injury in Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection Using Nanoparticle Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography; Laxman Devkota, Chen Zhang, Prajwal Bhandari, Deborah Vela, Zbigniew Starosolski, Ying H. Shen, Scott A. LeMaire, Ketan Ghaghada
Caffey Award for Best Clinical Science or Education Paper
Winners:
Predictive Capability of Fetal 4D Flow and Black Blood Slice to Volume Reconstruction for Prenatal Diagnosis of Coarctation of the Aorta (CoA); Lorna Browne, Richard M. Friesen, Erin K. Englund, Takashi Fujiwara, Paul Polak, Sarah Smith, Bettina Cuneo, Mehdi H. Moghari, Michael V. Zaretsky, Mariana L. Meyers, Emily M. Bucholz, Camila Londono Obregon, Alex J. Barker
Caffey Award for Best Non-Clinical Paper
Before 2023, non-clinical work was classified under the Caffey Award for Best Clinical Science or Education Paper category.
Winners:
Communicating Radiation Risk in Patient Decision Aids Involving Imaging: A Scoping Review of Presentation Format; Trey Baird, Melissa Previtera, Samuel L. Brady, Davene Wright, Andrew T. Trout, Shireen Hayatghaibi
Caffey Poster Awards
Winners:
Case Report: A Case of X-Linked Deafness/Incomplete Partition Type 3 with Radiologic Evidence of Hypothalamic Malformation; Mana Sheykhsoltan, Kelly Scriven, Michael Hoa, Arash Zandieh
Educational Poster: Imaging Evaluation of Pediatric Facial and Scalp Pathologies; Samantha Gerrie, Eman Marie, Helen Branson, Oscar M. Navarro
Scientific Poster: A Single One-minute Brain Scan for Generating Multiple Synthetic Image Contrasts from Quantitative Relaxometry Maps; Anandh Kilpattu Ramaniharan, Amol S. Pednekar, Nehal Parikh, Usha D. Nagaraj, Mary Kate Manhard
John Kirkpatrick Young Investigator Award
This award is given to the author of the best paper presented by a Resident or Fellow at the SPR meeting. Beginning in 1995, the award became known as the John A. Kirkpatrick Young Investigator Award.
Winner: Jasmine Haraburda
The Walter E. Berdon/Thomas L. Slovis Awards
The Berdon award recognizes the best Clinical Research paper submitted to the journal of Pediatric Radiology in the year preceding the meeting. This award was established to honor Walter Berdon who served as the North American Editor of Pediatric Radiology for 30 years and who stepped down as editor on June 30, 2003.
The Slovis award recognizes the best Basic Scientific paper submitted to the journal of Pediatric Radiology in the year preceding the meeting. This award was established to honor Thomas Slovis who served as the North American Editor of Pediatric Radiology following Dr. Berdon and who stepped down as editor on December 31, 2012.
Winners:
Best Basic Science Paper (Tom Slovis Award): Contrast-enhanced subharmonic aided pressure estimation for assessment of intracranial pressure in vivo; Abby C. Larson, Anush Sridharan, James K. Moon, Divyansh Agarwal, Jonathan Chang, Kirk D. Wallace, Flemming Forsberg, Ryne A. Didier
Best Clinical Paper (Walter Berdon Award): Assessment of Lung Ventilation of Premature Infants with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia at 1.5 Tesla Using Phase-resolved Functional Lung Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Jonathan P. Dyke, Andreas Voskrebenzev, Lauren K. Blatt, Jens Vogel-Claussen, Robert Grimm, Stefan Worgall, Jeffrey M. Perlman, Arzu Kovanlikaya