Our Mission:
The ARS Foundation is dedicated to supporting organizations that improve the health of communities our members served and investing in the future of radiology.
ARS Foundation 2024 Annual Report
ARS Foundation 2023 Annual Report
ARS Foundation 2022 Annual Report
Current Partnerships/Projects:
Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute through the American College of Radiology (ACR) Foundation: The ARS Foundation has donated to the ACR Foundation to support the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute since 2015. Our goal in strongly supporting this institute has been to create a national “think tank” for radiology health policy research. We have been recognized by the ACR for our leadership work on this issue. After our first year of funding, we created a challenge match to strengthen the institute’s fundraising that has continued through the present. This challenge has received a much greater fundraising response than expected. Our challenge grant has been matched first by the ACR Foundation and then matched again by individual and group donors. Equally important, our leadership work on this topic has helped catalyze a shift in the ACR Foundation’s strategic direction toward supporting health policy research. We now have a position on their advisory board. One of our physicians, Dr. Andy Moriarity is serving on the Health Policy Institute Advisory Board.
In 2024, the Neiman HPI published 28 peer reviewed studies and continued to advance the resources available to policymakers and other stakeholders to inform the future. In 2024 HPI released interactive maps that visually correlate community social and environmental factors with cancer outcome measures and also developed and validated a new risk adjustment tool for predicting advanced imaging use, which is now publicly available on its website.
Harvey Neiman Health Policy Institute
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) – Research & Education Foundation: The ARS Foundation has donated to the RSNA R&E Foundation through the Visionaries in Practice (VIP) Giving Program since 2013. As a critical source of support, The RSNA Research & Education Foundation has awarded over 1,800 grants. According to their survey every $1 the R&E Foundation gives, investigators have received a minimum of $60 in additional funding from other sources. In 2024 alone, the R&E Foundation Board of Trustees approved 80 grants across 46 institutions and disbursed a record-breaking $5.26 million. This is all possible thanks to ARS support!
Radiological Society of North America – Foundation
The ARS Foundation are currently on hold. The ARS Foundation looks forward to resuming its support of all of these efforts in the coming years.
(On Hold) Michigan State University – Daniel Shumaker, MD Memorial Endowed Scholarship: The endowment was established in 2018 to honor the life, leadership and friendship of a colleague, and his advocacy for the profession of radiology and the patients Dr. Shumaker served across the state of Michigan. The award recognizes the multifaceted complexity of the human experience, and acknowledges that substantial contributions live beyond a life prematurely ended by addiction and mental illness. The endowment seeks to encourage talented young physicians to innovate and impact society through engaged careers in radiology, behavioral medicine and/or neuroscience. Through the generosity of our donors, scholarships have been provided to individuals with aspirations to address physician wellness through careers in radiology, behavioral medicine, neuroscience and/or organized medicine.
Letter from this years scholarship recipient
(On Hold) Emory University Center for Ethics / Michigan State University: The ARS Foundation has been supporting the work of Dr. John Banja with the Emory University Center for Ethics. Working with other national experts, this project focuses on the non-interpretive legal aspects of artificial intelligence and radiology that have been only superficially discussed until now. An additional project on perceptual error, radiology, and tort law has also been included into this work.
AI, Radiology and Ethics: A Podcast Series
(On Hold) Michigan State University: The ARS Foundation looks forward to its continued support of the strong research work of Dr. Adam Alessio and Dr. Saiprasad Ravishankar in the near future.
In addition, we have once again provided a significant matching grant for medical student scholarships at Michigan State University in honor of Dr. Daniel Shumaker, a former radiologist at Advanced Radiology Services.
(On Hold) Radiopaedia: Radiopaedia’s mission is to create the best radiology reference the world has ever seen and to make it available for free, forever, for all. Radiopaedia.org is freely accessible without payment or registration. Courses, subsidized by paying registrants form high income regions are made available online for free to 122 low and middle-income countries.
Video Link to statements by Dr. Frank Gaillard
2025 Officers
ARS Foundation President
Thomas Archambeau, MD
Vice President
Cheryl Buehler
Treasurer
TBD
Secretary