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.
Recipient: Brian D. Coley, 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.
Recipients: Taylor Chung, MD; J. A. Gordon Culham, MD; and Shi-Joon Yoo, MD, PhD
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.
Recipient: Susan Palasis, MD
Honorary Members
Since 1998, the Society has extended Honorary membership to any non-SPR member who has made outstanding contributions to the care of children.
Recipient: Winnie Chu, MB ChB, MD
Singleton-Taybi Award
Edward Singleton-Hooshang Taybi Award for Excellence in Education.
Recipient: Melissa Hilmes, MD
John Caffey Award Papers (1969-1998)
Caffey Award for Best Basic Science Paper
Winners:
Multi-parametric Ultrasound in Detecting Placental Insufficiency: A Pilot Study in a Guinea Pig Model of Pregnancy; Sophie Haddad, Laura M. Davis, David Q. Le, Laith R. Sultan, Kathrine Curtin, Rebecca Linn, Daeyeon Lee, Misun Hwang
Caffey Award for Best Clinical Science or Education Paper
Winners:
Multicenter Randomized Control Trial of Bowel Ultrasound for Diagnosis of Necrotizing Enterocolitis: Effect on Patient Centered Outcome;
Sarah S. Foster, Maura Sien, Alain Cuna, Jill Jones, Sherwin S. Chan
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:
Hidden Workload: The Number of Images per Study Requiring Interpretation is Increasing in Pediatric Radiology; Xinye Lu, Kelly Ainsworth, Nina Stein
Caffey Poster Awards
Winners:
Case Report: Protein-losing Enteropathy: Evaluation with Dynamic Contrast-enhanced MR Lymphangiography; Asmaa Aamir, Smita Bailey
Educational Poster: From Diagnosis to Treatment: US and MRI Imaging in Fetal Interventions; Georgios A. Sideris, Edward R. Oliver, Eyal Krispin, Alireza A. Shamshirsaz, Ryne A. Didier
Scientific Poster: AI-Driven MRI Approach for Fetal Health Assessment: A User-Friendly, Web-Based Tool for Radiologists; Valeria Pena Trujillo, Adham M. Alkhadrawi, Sebastian Gallo-Bernal, Saul Langarica, Camilo Jaimes, Michael Gee, Synho Do, Teresa Victoria
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: Adarsh Suresh
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