Official Proceedings - AIUM

2013 AIUM Award WinnersJoseph H. Holmes Basic Science Pioneer AwardThe Pioneer Award, which honors an individual who has significantly contributed to the growth and development of medicalultrasound, was established in 1977. This special award was renamed in 1982 to honor Joseph H. Holmes, MD, whodied that year. Dr Holmes, the first person named as an AIUM pioneer, was an important figure to both the field of diagnosticultrasound and the AIUM. His early efforts in ultrasound research, which included tissue characterization andultrasound’s diagnostic use in polycystic kidney disease and orthopedics, helped advance the field of ultrasound andencourage others to conduct new research. Serving the AIUM in many capacities, Dr Holmes was president from 1968 to1970 and was editor of the AIUM’s official journal, which was then titled the Journal of Clinical Ultrasound, for nearly 10years. Each year, the Joseph H. Holmes Pioneer Award honors 2 current or retired AIUM members, 1 in clinical science and1 in basic science.Christy K. Holland, PhDYou wouldn’t necessarily expectthat a woman who spent her junioryear abroad at the UniversitätFreiburg and Hochschule für MusikFreiburg studying Beethoven andSchubert would be the recipient ofthe prestigious Joseph H. HolmesBasic Science Pioneer Award, butthen you would be underestimatingthe talents and breadth ofexpertise of Christy K. Holland,PhD. Dr Holland earned her bachelor’s degree in physics andmusic from Wellesley College and her PhD in engineeringand applied science from Yale University. She worked at Yaleuntil 1994 when she joined the Department of Radiology atthe University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Whileat the University of Cincinnati, she has served in theDepartment of Aerospace Engineering and EngineeringMechanics and in the Department of BiomedicalEngineering and Radiology in the College of Engineeringand Medicine. She is currently a professor in internal medicinein the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, BiomedicalEngineering Program.Dr Holland has a long history of reviewing manuscriptsfor 9 peer-reviewed journals beginning immediatelyon graduation, as well as extensive experience reviewing formultiple national, state, and private funding agencies,including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and theNational Science Foundation. This is just one of the factorsthat led to her appointment as the editor-in-chief ofUltrasound in Medicine and Biology (UMB), the preeminentjournal of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicineand Biology.A fellow of both the Acoustical Society of America(ASA) and the AIUM, Dr Holland has long been active incommittees and in leadership positions for both organizations.She was elected to the Executive Council of the ASAand to the AIUM’s Board of Governors and to its ExecutiveCommittee, where she served as secretary. Her particularinterest has focused on bioacoustics and bioeffects; adedicated member of the ASA’s Biomedical AcousticsCommittee, she cochaired the AIUM’s Mechanical BioeffectsConference and was a guest editor for the resulting publication,Mechanical Bioeffects from Diagnostic Ultrasound:AIUM Consensus Statements.Currently engaged in 8 separate research projectswith topics ranging from “Ultrasound-Assisted Thrombolysisfor Stroke Therapy” to “Targeted Liposomes for AcousticCardiovascular Imaging,” Dr Holland has served as principalinvestigator or coinvestigator on dozens of research grantsfrom the NIH and other organizations. With more than 85publications to her credit, Dr Holland is best known for herexceptional teaching abilities and the large number of students,postdoctoral fellows, and clinical fellows whom shehas advised. She may be musically gifted, but it is her ongoingscientific contributions to the growth and developmentof medical ultrasound for which she will be remembered.iv