The Opening Session Dedicated to Hillman

The Opening Session Plenary on Sunday was dedicated to the memory of Bruce J. Hillman, MD.

Dr. Hillman was a renowned radiologist and founding editor of Academic Radiology and the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

Dr. Hillman enjoyed a long and decorated career, earning his medical degree from the University of Rochester in New York and training in radiology at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. He completed a research fellowship in genitourinary radiology at the National Institutes of Health, and later served at the University of Arizona in Tempe where he became professor and vice chair of radiology. 

In 1992, Dr. Hillman was appointed chair of the University of Virginia (UVA) Department of Radiology in Charlottesville where he was influential in developing the institution’s first outpatient imaging center. He also oversaw the transition from film-based imaging to a PACS system and served as president of UVA’s physicians’ corporation, the Health Services Foundation. 

Dr. Hillman served in many volunteer leadership roles including as president of several radiological societies and long-time member of the American College of Radiology (ACR) board of chancellors. Dr. Hillman also founded and chaired the ACR Imaging Network. 

He was awarded the 2007 RSNA Outstanding Researcher Award and the RSNA Gold Medal in 2011. Throughout his career he earned gold medals from the Association of Academic Radiology (formerly the Association of University Radiologists), Society of Uroradiology and the ACR.