The Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) has announced the grant recipients for its inaugural 2013 Research Award Program.
The following recipients were selected:
- "Is camera age an indicator of nuclear cardiology lab quality?" Principal investigator: Dr. Timothy Bateman, co-director of cardiovascular radiologic imaging at the Mid America Heart and Vascular Institute in Kansas City and professor of medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.
- "Establishment of IAC CT dose reference levels." Principal investigator: Dr. Chun Ruan, assistant professor/diagnostic imaging physicist at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City.
- "Laboratory accreditation in Medicare beneficiaries." Principal investigator: Dr. Tatjana Rundek, professor of neurology, vice chair of clinical research, and director of the clinical translational research division in the department of neurology of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
- "Radiation dose reduction implementation." Principal investigator: Dr. Scott Jerome, director of ambulatory outreach cardiology for the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is also an assistant professor at the University of Maryland.
