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Ruth C. Carlos, MD, MS, FACR is a Professor of Radiology, and serves as the Assistant Chair for Clinical Research at the University of Michigan. Dr. Carlos is an elected fellow of the American College of Radiology (ACR), Association of University Radiologists (AUR) and the Society of Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance (SCBT-MR), now the Society for Advanced Body Imaging (SABI). She has received the Gold Medal from the Association of University Radiologists (AUR), Distinguished Educator Award from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), the Radiology Alliance for Health Services Research Achievement Award and the Stanford Medicine X Research Challenge Grand Prize. A funded investigator of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), she has been recognized for her research by induction into the Academy of Radiology Research Council of Distinguished Investigators.
She has been named the first woman editor-in-chief of a major radiology journal, the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR) that informs the management and practice of radiology. She is the immediate Past President of the American Roentgen Ray Society and Vice-President of the Academy of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research. She has served as Vice-Chair of the University of Michigan Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, advising the President and Provost on faculty issues.
She holds leadership positions in the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group-ACR Imaging Network (ECOG-ACRIN), the largest NIH funded multidisciplinary multicenter clinical trials group focusing on imaging trials and is co-principal investigator and co-investigator on numerous ECOG-ACRIN clinical trials on prevention, surveillance and cancer care delivery. She co-chaired the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Care Delivery Research (CCDR) Development Committee and is Vice-Chair of the NCI CCDR Steering Committee.
Dr. Carlos currently chairs the GE AUR Research Radiology Academic Fellowship (GERRAF), a national program supporting early stage investigators in health services research and care delivery.
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