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For Release: May 21, 2010
David E. Kuhl, MD, Awarded 2010 ARRS Gold Medal
David E. Kuhl, MD, professor of radiology at the University of Michigan Medical School is a recipient of the American Roentgen Ray Society’s highest award, the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Radiology. Kuhl received the award on May 2 during a ceremony held at the ARRS 110th Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.
Kuhl received his undergraduate degree in physics from Temple University and his MD from the University of Pennsylvania. After completing a rotating internship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, he served two years in the United States Navy at the US Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, VA. He completed his residency and fellowship in radiology at the University of Pennsylvania and served on the faculty there until 1976, when he moved to the University of California Los Angeles. Since 1986, his academic home has been the University of Michigan. His research emphasis has been to image in living patients the earliest effects of degenerative disease on brain neurochemistry.
Kuhl, who has been called the father of emission tomography, has contributed greatly to the development of tomographic imaging in nuclear medicine. In the late 1950s, he developed a novel method of tomographic imaging of the distribution of radioactive isotopes in the body. In the mid-1960s, he succeeded in the axial transverse tomographic imaging of humans. This was before the development of X-ray CT, and the technology had a great impact on the development and evolution of various methods of computer tomography, including positron emission tomography (PET).
Kuhl has been an active member of numerous professional societies and organizations. He was a founding trustee of the American Board of Nuclear Medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Radiology and of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. He serves as an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
In 2009, Kuhl received the Japan Prize from the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan. He was awarded for his work in the field of technological integration of medical science and engineering and his contribution to tomographic imaging in nuclear medicine. He was also awarded the Charles F. Kettering Prize from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation in 2000 for the most outstanding recent contribution to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
About ARRS
The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) was founded in 1900 and is the oldest radiology society in the United States. Its monthly journal, the American Journal of Roentgenology, began publication in 1906. Radiologists from all over the world attend the ARRS annual meeting to participate in instructional courses, scientific paper presentations and scientific and commercial exhibits related to the field of radiology. The Society is named after the first Nobel Laureate in Physics, Wilhelm Röentgen, who discovered the x-ray in 1895.
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