Mark Alson, MD
Mark Alson, MD, has been named this year’s winner of the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Burgess Gordon Memorial Award.
The award recognizes the CPT advisor who has demonstrated vast knowledge of the full range of CPT issues beyond their specialty area and who serves as an advocate for the CPT process, according to the AMA.
Alson is CPT Lead Advisor to the American College of Radiology’s (ACR) CPT Editorial Panel, as well as chair of the organization’s Economics Committee on Coding and Nomenclature. He is an editorial board member of the joint AMA/ACR coding publication Clinical Examples in Radiology and previously served as the ACR Liaison on the Radiology Coding Certification Board.
Alson practices in Fresno, California, where he is a founding member of Sierra Imaging Associates Medical Group and a women’s imaging specialist. The award was presented at the AMA’s CPT/Health Care Professionals Advisory Committee annual meeting, held February 2 to 4 in San Diego.
