We had two interesting visitors to TRS over the past month, both musculoskeletal radiologists.
The first Dr Sumathi Wable, is Director of MRI at the Albert Einstein Medical Center, one of our longstanding and cherished client hospitals, whose residents we enjoy working with and teaching. Dr Wable spoke on MRI of the glenoid labrum. Her lecture was a tour de force of elegant images and practical information on what is a complex conundrum for many radiologists (certainly myself!). The glenoid labrum is an intriguing little structure, given that it lends itself to a veritable alphabet soup of acronyms from SLAP to GLAD to ALPSA (incidentally, while on the subject of acronyms, I recently learnt thanks to the cricket world cup, that COW does not just refer to the Circle of Willis but also the Chance of Winning!). Dr Wable is originally from Bangalore and still has family here, which happily brings her back on a regular basis.
The second visitor, Dr Nogah Shabshin was part of a delegation from the Kellogg Recanati Business School in Tel Aviv, Israel’
musculoskeletal radiologist at Jefferson University, PA and is currently an MBA student at this school, something I find amazing and inspiring, given that she is also bringing up five children at the same time. Her lecture was on the subject of Stress Fractures, and she shared some interesting images and data from her research with MRI exams conducted on soldiers in the Israel army who undergo rigorous physical training and activity. Our interaction with the more than 20 MBA students and professors who constituted of the delegation was interesting and stimulating, as we retraced our entrepreneurial journey for them. Before leaving, they presented us with many generous gifts, including a Hamsa amulet for good luck which now hangs in my office.
Both lectures were broadcast live on the net using Cisco technology in an initiative supported by the Telerad Foundation.
Another outstanding e-lecture on Vascular anomalies of the head and neck was delivered by Dr Ashok Srinivasan, Assistant Professor of Neuroradiology at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. In keeping with the Telerad Foundation’s mission of bringing world class teaching to radiologists and residents across India and beyond, the lectures are available for any radiologist or PG anywhere, with internet access, to learn and enjoy!