RSNA 2024 Monday Plenary Session Dedication: William J. Casarella, MD
Casarella
Monday’s Plenary Session is dedicated to the memory of William J. Casarella, MD. Dr. Casarella was an RSNA Gold Medalist and former president of the American Board of Radiology (ABR) and the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS).
Dr. Casarella graduated cum laude from Yale University in New Haven, CT, and earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He completed an internship at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and an internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital before joining the U.S. Army as a flight surgeon. After military service, he completed a diagnostic radiology residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, where he stayed for 11 years, eventually becoming professor of radiology and chief of the cardiovascular radiology section.
Later recruited by Emory University in Atlanta to chair the institution’s Department of Radiology, Dr. Casarella expanded the department’s faculty and facilities and built a strong residency training program. He was eventually made executive associate dean for clinical affairs at Emory Healthcare.
Dr. Casarella is recognized as a pioneer in interventional radiology and credited with helping develop techniques used in cardiology, vascular surgery and neurosurgery today. In addition to holding leadership roles at the ABR and ARRS, he was a founding member and president of the Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, now known as the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR). Dr. Casarella also received gold medals from the American College of Radiology (ACR), ARRS and SIR.
A longtime RSNA member, Dr. Casarella presented the RSNA Annual Oration in Diagnostic Radiology in 1987. He served as an associate editor and consultant to the editor for Radiology and as a manuscript reviewer for RadioGraphics and other medical journals.
Dr. Casarella graduated cum laude from Yale University in New Haven, CT, and earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He completed an internship at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and an internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital before joining the U.S. Army as a flight surgeon. After military service, he completed a diagnostic radiology residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, where he stayed for 11 years, eventually becoming professor of radiology and chief of the cardiovascular radiology section.
Later recruited by Emory University in Atlanta to chair the institution’s Department of Radiology, Dr. Casarella expanded the department’s faculty and facilities and built a strong residency training program. He was eventually made executive associate dean for clinical affairs at Emory Healthcare.
Dr. Casarella is recognized as a pioneer in interventional radiology and credited with helping develop techniques used in cardiology, vascular surgery and neurosurgery today. In addition to holding leadership roles at the ABR and ARRS, he was a founding member and president of the Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, now known as the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR). Dr. Casarella also received gold medals from the American College of Radiology (ACR), ARRS and SIR.
A longtime RSNA member, Dr. Casarella presented the RSNA Annual Oration in Diagnostic Radiology in 1987. He served as an associate editor and consultant to the editor for Radiology and as a manuscript reviewer for RadioGraphics and other medical journals.