Radiological Society of North America

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The Radiological Society of North America, Inc. (RSNA) is a professional membership society committed to excellence in patient care through education and research. More than 41,000 medical imaging professionals are members of RSNA, including radiologists, radiation oncologists, medical physicists and allied scientists.

RSNA hosts the world’s largest annual medical meeting, which starts the last Sunday of November in Chicago. The society also publishes two highly respected peer-reviewed journals: the medical research journal Radiology and the freely accessible medical education journal RadioGraphics.

The presidency of the RSNA is held as a one-year term. As of 2008, the president of the RSNA was Dr. Theresa C. McLoud.

Based in Oak Brook, Illinois, RSNA was established in 1915.

The RSNA Research & Education Foundation provides research and education grants to young investigators.