I am a breast imager; you are a visual scientist. Let's dance and make a better a Radiologist (Presentation Recording)

Twenty -five years ago, Dr Georgian-Smith completed a fellowship in Breast Imaging, and was looking for a job as a general radiologist. Through an unforeseen series of events, she stayed on staff at University of Cincinnati (U.C.) and never left academia. She teamed with her U.C. colleague, Dr Bill Shiels D.O., who had invented the 'turkey breast mo del,' to learn and teach the hand -eye coordination of interventional ultrasound. This model carried her around the world. More importantly, her interest in education blossomed. Her next move was to University of Washington in Seattle in the mid -1990’s. She began to ask, 'how do I see the finding ‘architectural distortion’ and why do others not see it? How can I teach what I see?.' It was not until a decade later when mammography became digital that these questions could be studied. The serendipitous meeting at the American Board of Radiology Oral Examination of the Irish perception investigators, Drs Brennan, McEntee, and Ryan, set up the team for collaboration. This work was supported by an RSNA Educational seed grant and was presented at RSNA in Chicago in 2011. What’s next? She is determined to see the integration of the basic science of visual perception with the integration of clinical Radiology curriculum. The time has come for our fields to work in concert to make a better radiologist.