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The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) - through the RSNA Research and Education Foundation, supports radiology's future. Its mission is to improve patient care by supporting research and education in radiology and related scientific disciplines through funding grants and awards to individuals and institutions that advance radiologic research, education and practice.

Since 1999, the Healthcare Solutions Division of Canon U.S.A. has endowed the Canon U.S.A. RSNA Research & Education Foundation Research Medical Student Grant. This grant is designed to enable departments of radiology, radiation oncology, or nuclear medicine to provide research opportunities to promising medical students.

For more information: www.rsna.org/research/foundation

Research Medical Student Grant recipients of Canon U.S.A.:

Year Name Institution Research Title
2012 J. Daniel Carson, BS University of Mississippi Medical Center Complications and Costs Associated with Management of Bosniak IIF, III & IV Cystic Renal Lesions
  Caleb Leake, BS Mayo Clinic Risk of Contrast Induced Nephropathy (CIN): Contrast-Enhanced CT or CTA followed by Cardiac Catheterization
2011 Ankaj Khosla, BA Radiology Mayo Clinic Impact of Trans-endplate Cement Leakage on Vertebroplasty Outcomes
  Henry Andoh, BA Radiology Dartmouth Medical School Magnetic Resonance Imaging Features that Predict the Biologic Behavior of Head and Neck Cancer
2010 Yuan Rao, BEng, BS Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine Comparison and Correlation of FDG-PET and T2-FS MRI in the Assessment of Cervical Cancer
  Vignesh Arasu, BS University of California, San Francisco Diagnostic Accuracy Using Signal Enhancement Ratio (SER) in MRI-Detected Secondary Breast Lesions for Patients Undergoing Preoperative Staging
2009 Kristina Hoot, PhD Oregon Health & Science University Efficacy of Targeted Molecular Therapies Combined with Irradiation on Skin Squamous Cell Carcinomas
  Chintan Shah, BS Cleveland Clinic Foundation Evaluation of Hippocampal Damage and Episodic Memory Loss in Multiple Sclerosis Using DTI
2008 Samir Abboud, MD University of Maryland Role of Whole-Body CT Imaging Autopsy in the Investigation of Mechanisms of Blunt Force in Accidental Traumatic Death
2007 Kiran Sheikh, MD NYU Medical Center Perfusion MR Imaging methods for characterization of prostate cancer: Preliminary Experience
2006 Vishal K. Agarwal, BS David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Assessment of surgical hip dislocations
2004 Ayaz Rahman, BS Massachusetts General Hospital Progression of Coronary Artery Calcium by MDCT
2003 Mark Haupt, BS Northwestern University Medical School Rapid Evaluation of Cardiac Disease with MRI
2002 Gregory M. Heidman, BS University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School Phase Contrast Imaging using Vastly Undersampled Isotropic Projection Imaging (VIPR)
2000 Lillian Wang, MD Washington University NA - Departmental Grant for general research
1999 Jean-Pierre Gagne, MD, PhD Boston Medical Center NA - Departmental Grant for general research