About APDR

Ronald J. Zagoria, MD
APDR President 1997-1998

As the fifth president of the APDR I had the pleasure of succeeding Ingrid Peterson who did a superb job in mentoring me and preparing me for this position. By now, the APDR had matured and was a potent representative of program directors in radiology and interacted actively with the RRC and the ABR to promote the interests of radiology residency directors. Major activities during my term as president included dialogue with the RRC on designing an adequate template for goals and objectives for radiology residency programs. Goals and objectives were a relatively new requirement for accredited radiology residency programs implemented by the radiology RRC. The APDR set up a subcommittee which tackled the job of designing a template for goals and objectives which was later reviewed and approved by the Radiology RRC as satisfactory
to meet its requirements.

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APDR Achievement Award - Jerome Harrison Arndt, MD

In the late 1980's, a number of department chairmen, AUR members, and program directors began to listen to a tall Texan from Dallas who was concerned about the fact that the radiology residency program directors from institutions that were not affiliated with medical schools did not have a forum at any of our national meetings.

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