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SPR's Early Years and Foundation

Foundations

The Foundation and Early Meetings of the Society for Pediatric Radiology
by N. Thorne Griscom, MD

Drs. Neuhauser, Caffey, Holt, Silverman and Taybi at the 1975 meeting in Atlanta Georgia

John Patrick Caffey was born in 1895, the year of Roentgen's discovery. He was trained in internal medicine at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis and at the University of Michigan and then in pediatrics at Babies Hospital in New York. His academic career in pediatrics was well underway at Babies Hospital when, in 1929, he was abruptly assigned to take charge of radiology as the hospital's first in-house radiologist (the position was actually titled "roentgenologist"). At first he tried to avoid this added duty, but he found he enjoyed it. He began to realize that the field was wide open for a physician of scholarly bent and pediatric background, and he seized his opportunity. He rapidly taught himself the range of normal appearances and the plain-film manifestations of children's diseases. His first radiologic articles dealt with the findings in lead poisoning, rickets, the hemolytic anemias, hemophilia, and syphilis. His meticulous, disciplined approach led, in 1945, to the first edition of Pediatric X-ray Diagnosis, a major step toward establishing pediatric radiology as a discipline within pediatrics (as Dr. Caffey probably expected) and radiology (as it turned out). The second edition of this enormously influential book was published in 1950 and the third edition in 1956. His description of infantile cortical hyperostoses ("Caffey's disease") appeared in 1945, and his observations on the frequent presence of fractures in the long bones of infants suffering from subdural hematomas- that is, battered children-were published in 1946, both in the American Journal of Roentgenology. During the 1950s he produced a whole series of reports defining the normal radiologic appearance of various bones and establishing the normality of several findings that had previously been considered pathologic.

John Caffey, MD

Edward Neuhauser, MD

1950's

The Jam Session

First Meeting - 1958

SPR is born - 2nd Meeting

3rd Meeting

References

And so it begins.....

Term and President

1958-59 Edward B. Neuhauser, MD*
1959-60 Frederic N. Silverman, MD*
1960-61 John F. Holt, MD*
1961-62 Arthur S. Tucker, MD*
1962-63 John W. Hope, MD*
1963-64 R. Parker Allen, MD*
1964-65 Edward B. Singleton, MD*
1965-66 J. Scott Dunbar, MD*
1966-67 Harvey White, MD*
1967-68 M.H. Wittenborg, MD*
1968-69 David H. Baker, MD*
1969-70 John A. Kirkpatrick, Jr., MD*
1970-71 Norman M. Glazer, MD*
1971-72 Bertram R. Girdany, MD
1972-73 Donald H. Altman, MD*
1973-74 Hooshang Taybi, MD*
1974-75 John L. Gwinn, MD*
1975-76 Lawrence A. Davis, MD*
1976-77 Marie A. Capitanio, MD*
1977-78 John P. Dorst, MD*
1978-79 Bernard J. Reilly, MB, FRCP (C)*

1979-80 Walter E. Berdon, MD*
1980-81 Andrew K. Poznanski, MD
1981-82 N. Thorne Griscom, MD*
1982-83 Virgil R. Condon, MD
1983-84 Jerald P. Kuhn, MD
1984-85 Lionel W. Young, MD*
1985-86 John C. Leonidas, MD*
1986-87 Derek Harwood-Nash*
& Denis Lallemand, MD (ESPR)
1987-88 Beverly P. Wood, MD*
1988-89 John F. O’Connor, MD*
1989-90 E.A. Franken, Jr., MD
1990-91 Donald R. Kirks, MD
& Hans G. Ringertz, MD, PhD (ESPR)
1991-92 William H. McAlister, MD
1992-93 M. B. Ozonoff, MD*
1993-94 Joanna J. Seibert, MD
1994-95 Eric L. Effmann, MD
1995-96 Kenneth E. Fellows, MD
& Paul S. Thomas, MD (ESPR)
1996-97 Diane S. Babcock, MD
1997-98 Charles A. Gooding, MD
1998-99 Robert L. Lebowitz, MD
1999-00 Thomas L. Slovis, MD *

2000-01 Janet L. Strife, MD*
& Francis Brunelle, MD (ESPR)
2001-02 Bruce R. Parker, MD
2002-03 Richard B. Towbin, MD
2003-04 David C. Kushner, MD
2004-05 Stuart A. Royal, MD
2005-06 George A. Taylor, MD
& Richard Fotter, MD (ESPR)
2006-07 Marilyn J. Goske, MD
2007-08 Marta Hernanz-Schulman, MD
2008-09 M. Ines Boechat, MD
2009-10 Neil D. Johnson, MD
2010-2011 Dorothy Bulas, MD
& Catherine Owens (ESPR), MD
2011-2012 Donald Frush, MD
2012-13 Sue C. Kaste, DO
2013-14 Richard Barth, MD
2014-15 Brian D. Coley, MD
2015-16 James S. Donaldson, MD
& Karen Rosendahl, MD, PhD
2016-17 Diego Jaramillo, MPH, MD
2017-18 Peter J. Strouse, MD

2018-19 Taylor Chung, MD
2019-20 Christopher I. Cassady, MD, FAAP

2020-21 J. Damien Grattan-Smith, MBBS
2021-22 Cynthia K. Rigsby, MD, FACR

* deceased

1980 Salt Lake City, Utah
1981 San Francisco, California
1982 New Orleans, Louisiana
1983 Atlanta, Georgia
1984 Las Vegas, Nevada
1985 Boston, Massachusetts
1986 Washington, D.C.
1987 & IPR'87 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1988 San Diego, California
1989 San Antonio, Texas
1990 Cincinnati, Ohio
1991 & IPR'91 Stockholm, Sweden

1992 Orlando, Florida
1993 Seattle, Washington
1994 Colorado Springs, Colorado
1995 Washington, D.C.
1996& IPR’96 Boston, Massachusetts
1997 St. Louis, Missouri
1998 Tucson, Arizona
1999 Vancouver, British Columbia
2000 Naples, Florida
2001 & IPR’01 Paris, France
2002 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2003 San Francisco, California
2004 Savannah, Georgia

2005 New Orleans, Louisiana
2006 & IPR 06 Montreal, Quebec
2007 Miami, Florida
2008 Scottsdale, Arizona
2009 Carlsbad, California
2010 Boston, Massachusetts
2011 & IPR 2011 London, England
2012 San Francisco, California
2013 San Antonio, Texas
2014 Washington, D.C.
2015 Bellevue, Washington
2016 Chicago, Illinois
2017 Vancouver, British Columbia

2018 Nashville, Tennessee
2019 San Francisco, California
2020 Miami, Florida (canceled)
2021 IPR - Rome, Italy
2022 Denver, Colorado

Visit the Awards page

David H. Baker, MD
Caroll Z. Berman, MD*
John Caffey, MD*
Arthur Childe, MD*
John B. Coleman, MD*
Guido Currarino, MD*
G. J. D'Angio, MD*
Lawrence A. Davis, MD*
J. Scott Dunbar, MD*

Samuel B. Feinberg, MD*
Adele K. Friedman, MD*
Bertram R. Girdany, MD*
Norman Glazer, MD*
John F. Holt, MD*
John Hope, MD*
William H.R. Howard, MD*
Theodore E. Keats, MD*
John Kirkpatrick, MD*
Eugene C. Klatte, MD

George E. Lerner, MD
Richard G. Lester, MD
John Munn, MD*
E.B.D. Neuhauser, MD*
Harold O. Peterson, MD*
Herbert Peterson, MD*
Joseph O. Reed, MD*
Steven E. Ross, MD
Eugene Saenger, MD*
Jacques Sauvegrain, MD*

Anthony Shiers, MD*
Charles Shopfner, MD*
Frederic Silverman, MD*
Edward Singleton, MD*
Evelyn Siris, MD*
Ralph Smith, MD*
Arthur Tucker, MD*
Eugene Van Epps, MD*
Byron Ward, MD*
Harvey White, MD*

*deceased

1958   Washington, DC
1959   Cincinnati, Ohio - Edward B. Neuhauser,
1960   Atlantic City, New Jersey - Frederic N. Silverman
1961   Miami Beach, Florida - John F. Holt
1962   Washington, DC - Arthur S. Tucker
1963   Montreal, Quebec, Canada - John W. Hope
1964   Minneapolis, Minnesota - R. Parker Allen
1965   Washington, DC - Edward B. Singleton
1966   San Francisco, California - J. Scott Dunbar
1967   Washington, DC - Harvey White
1968   New Orleans, Louisiana - M.H. Wittenborg
1969   Washington, DC - David H. Baker
1970   Miami Beach, Florida - John A. Kirkpatrick, Jr.
1971   Boston, Massachusetts - Norman M. Glazer
1972   Washington, DC - Bertram R. Girdany
1973   Montréal, Quebec, Canada - Donald H. Altman

1974   San Francisco, California - Hooshang Taybi
1975   Atlanta, Georgia - John L. Gwinn
1976   Washington, DC - Lawrence A. Davis
1977   Boston, Massachusetts - Marie A. Capitanio
1978   Denver, Colorado - John P. Dorst
1979   Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Bernard J. Reilly
1980   Salt Lake City, Utah - Walter E. Berdon
1981   San Francisco, California - Andrew K. Poznanski
1982   New Orleans, Louisiana - N. Thorne Griscom
1983   Atlanta, Georgia - Virgil R. Condon
1984   Las Vegas, Nevada - Jerald P. Kuhn
1985   Boston, Massachusetts - Lionel W. Young
1986   Washington, DC - John C. Leonidas
1987 IPR - Toronto, Ontario - Derek C. Harwood-Nash and Denis Lallemand (ESPR)
1988   San Diego, California - Beverly P. Wood
1989   San Antonio, Texas - John F. O’Connor

1990 Cincinnati, Ohio - E.A. Franken, Jr.
IPR'91 Stockholm, Sweden - Donald R. Kirks & Hans G. Ringertz, (ESPR)
1992 Orlando, Florida - William H. McAlister,
1993 Seattle, Washington - M. B. Ozonoff
1994 Colorado Springs, Colorado - Joanna J. Seibert
1995 Washington, DC - Eric L. Effmann
IPR’96 Boston, Massachusetts - Kenneth E. Fellows & Paul S. Thomas (ESPR)
1997   St. Louis, Missouri - Diane S. Babcock
1998   Tucson, Arizona - Charles A. Gooding
1999   Vancouver, British Columbia - Robert L. Lebowitz
2000   Naples, Florida - Thomas L. Slovis
IPR’01   Paris, France - Janet L. Strife & Francis Brunelle,(ESPR)
2002   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Bruce Parker
2003   San Francisco, California - Richard B. Towbin 2004   Savannah, Georgia - David C. Kushner
2005   New Orleans, Louisiana - Stuart A. Royal

IPR 06 Montréal, Quebec - George A. Taylor & Richard Fotter (ESPR)
2007   Miami, Florida - Marilyn Goske
2008   Scottsdale, Arizona - Marta Hernanz-Schulman
2009   Carlsbad, California - M. Ines Boechat
2010   Boston, Massachusetts - Neil Johnson
IPR 2011 London, England - Dorothy I. Bulas & Catherine Owens
2012   San Francisco, California - Donald P. Frush
2013   San Antonio, Texas - Sue Kaste
2014   Washington, DC - Richard Barth
2015 Bellevue, WA - Brian Coley
IPR 2016 Chicago, Illinois - Jim Donaldson & Karen Rosendahl
2017   Vancouver, British Columbia - Diego Jaramillo
2018   Nashville, Tennessee - Peter Strouse
2019   San Francisco, California - Taylor Chung
2020 Miami - cancelled due to pandemic - Chris Cassady
IPR '21 Rome, Italy - J. Damien Grattan-Smith & Andrea Rossi (ESPR)
2022 Denver, Colorado - Cynthia K. Rigsby, MD, FACR

Dr. John Kirkpatrick delivers the Walter Whitehouse MD Lecture at the University of Michigan in September 1986

If you missed,Unlocking the History of Pediatric Radiology, presented by Dr. Michael DiPietro and Special Guests, here's your opportunity to watch it on-demand (select the image below).

This event was held Wednesday, April 7, 2021

(Top: Past presidents assembled in New Orleans, 2005: (left - right) William McAlister, John O'Connor, David Kushner. Richard Towbin, Andrew Poznanski, Edward Singleton, Virgil Condon, Hooshang Taybi, Bruce Parker, Charles Gooding, Stuart Royal, David Baker, Jerry Kuhn, Eric Effman, Lionel Young, Thorne Griscom, Diane Babcock and Tom Slovis. Bottom: Past presidents assembled in Nashville, 2018 (from left to right): Brian Coley, Joanna Seibert, Jim Donaldson, Richard Barth, Richard Towbin, Neil Johnson, Marilyn Goske, Dorothy Bulas, Janet Strife, Diane Babcock, Sue Kaste and Don Frush.)

SPR Timeline - marking the 60th Anniversary - 1958 - 2018

Click on the images to review the Historical Timeline created by Dr. Alan Schlesinger.

SPR's Early Years and Foundation

Foundations

John Caffey, MD

Edward Neuhauser, MD

1950's

The Jam Session

First Meeting - 1958

SPR is born - 2nd Meeting

3rd Meeting

References

History at a Glance

SPR Video Library

Members Speak

Caffey

Holt

Silverman

Singleton

SPR Timeline - marking the 60th Anniversary - 1958 - 2018