New Beginnings

March. Marching along. On the early Roman calendar, March was the first month of the new year. Named for Mars, the Roman god of war, it contains the vernal equinox, the arrival of spring (and my birthday!). New beginnings.

At Applied Radiology, we have a new beginning to celebrate. We are thrilled to announce that Yasha Parikh Gupta, MD, has joined our body imaging section as the first radiology trainee member of our editorial board. Dr Gupta is the chief resident in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at the Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts. We know that Dr Gupta will be the first of many trainees to bring a unique perspective to our journal, and we look forward to the collaboration.

Unfortunately, new beginnings are often accompanied by sad endings. I am sorry to report that Phan T Huynh, MD, is retiring from our breast imaging section after seven years.

“Dr Phan Huynh joined us in early 2015 following the passing of Ellen Shaw de Paredes, MD, a longtime board member who spearheaded our breast imaging section,” said Kieran N Anderson, Vice President & Group Publisher of Anderson Publishing. “Dr. Huynh quickly stepped in and rolled up his sleeves to help us maintain a steady stream of important review articles and case studies supporting those specializing in breast imaging. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with Dr Huynh these last seven years, and we are incredibly grateful for the impact he’s had on Applied Radiology.” We extend our deepest gratitude for his service.

The tremendous hole that Dr Huynh leaves will be filled by not just one but two new members of our breast imaging section:

• T Kemi Babagbemi, MD, assistant professor of clinical radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Campus, New York, New York; and,
• Huong (Carisa) T Le-Petross, MD, FRCPC, FBSI, professor of radiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.

Please join me in welcoming Drs Gupta, Babagbemi, and Le-Petross to the Applied Radiology family.

You will see that our Global Health Imaging column has been expanded into a review article for this issue. “Developing Breast Imaging Services in the Low-Resource Setting” offers a terrific template for opportunities that radiologists and their partners can implement to improve access to much-needed breast imaging resources around the world.

Indeed, it may serve as a model for other radiology subspecialties to develop their own programs to help address healthcare inequities, which might very well turn into a new beginning for some of our underserved communities.