About APDR

Jerome H. Arndt, MD
APDR President – 1992-94

The story of the Association of Program Directors in Radiology is a positive story. It is the story of how competitors put competition behind them. It is the story of how university-based program directors, seemingly comfortable in a world of the AUR, suddenly became willing to risk discomfort in a venture that ended an era, gave birth to an audacious offspring and a vibrant new spirit of unity that seemed to retain from the old all of the strengths and none of the frailties. That spirit invigorated the AUR affiliates, jump-started lethargic private/community hospital program directors and even attracted cooperative proposals from the larger, more broadly based radiological organizations. The APDR had sprung from a notion, picked up a broad base of support, and then grew beyond anything its founders anticipated.

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