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ISAACS SANDERS HONORARY LECTURE
Presented annually at the Midwinter Radiology Conference

The Isaac Sanders Honorary Lecture was inaugurated to honor Isaac Sanders, MD, FACR during the 1993 Midwinter Conference in recognition of his contributions to Radiology and to the Radiology community.    Dr. Sanders was a staff member at White Memorial Medical Center from 1965 to 1999.  He served as Director of Residency Training from 1967 to 1983, Chairman of the Radiology Department from 1983 to 1995, and served as Chief of Staff from 1983 to 1987.  Dr. Sanders was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year eight times, was awarded Lifetime Staff status at White Memorial in 1999, and was awarded honorary lifetime membership in the Association of Women Radiologists in 1994.

Dr. Sanders was active and influential in organized radiology at all levels.  He served LARS as ACR Councilor from 1979 to 1994 and was LARS President in 1977.  He was also President of the California Radiological Society in 1989 and Trustee of the American Board of Radiology from 1993 to 1999.  Dr. Sanders is a Fellow of The American College of Radiology, The American College of Physicians, and The American Academy of Pediatrics.  Dr. Sanders postponed retirement from practice in the 1990’s in order to remain eligible to be an active representative to the ABR while CAQ issues were being discussed and instituted.

During the 1993 Midwinter Meeting, Charles Schatz, MD, then President of LARS, along with Jay Mall, MD, President of the CRS and Lee Rodgers, MD, President of the ACR spoke about Dr. Sanders’ importance to radiology.

 

Year

 Honoree Lecture Topic
1993 Lee Rodgers, MD  
1994 David R. Holley, MD  
1995 David DiSantis, MD America and Radiation
1996 Victor Tabbush, PhD Economic Approach to Better Practice management
1997 Michael Brant-Zawadzki, MD, FACR Strategies for Radiology in Managed Care
1998 Daniel H Johnson, Jr., MD The National Picture: What's Happening in Medicine Today
2000 Steven C. Horii, MD Real Time Radiology: A New Paradigm
2001 Kenneth W. Chin, MD, FACR Radiology in the New Millennium
2002 Deborah M. Forrester, MD The Impact of Advanced Imaging on the Evaluation of Soft Tissue and Osseous Neoplasms
2003 Edward G. Grant, MD Advances in Ultrasound
2004 Marc S. Levine, MD Tumors of the Esophagus
2005 Anne G. Osborn, MD The New "New" WHO: 2005 Update on Etiology, Genetics, Classification, and Grading of Brain Tumors
2006 Kian Ang, MD Evolution of IMRT in Relation to Image-Guided Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancers
2007 Denise Aberle, MD Update on Lung Cancer Screening
2008 David S.K. Lu, MD, FACR Interventional Oncology - The Time Has Come
2009 Co-honorees: William G. Bradley, JR, MD and Michael Brant-Zawadzki, MD Off-site Night-time coverage: Does Teleradiology lead to Commoditization?
2010 James G. Smirniotopoulos, MD Pattern of Location - Supratentorial