title: ACR Presidential Address ACR: Imagine the World Without Her.
abstract: Imagine the world without the ACR. Imagine that Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen had died before November 8, 1895. Imagine that Albert Soiland, MD, had not founded the ACR in 1923. What would medicine look like now? The ACR is important in many ways: advocacy and economics, education, quality and safety, clinical research, publication, leadership, and diversity. The ACR is vital to patients, radiologists, and other physicians. The ACR is unique: No other organization or group of societies could fill the void. So instead of imagining a world without the ACR, imagine a better world-one in which patients always come first, and all imaging professionals are active members of the ACR. We are the lucky ones-we can change the world.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas, Texas; Radiology Associates of North Texas. Electronic address: plnbogen@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Paul H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Ellenbogen
mesh_terms: D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011871:Radiology / Q000639:trends*; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States
keywords: Advocacy and economics; diversity; unique educational offerings