GW Medical Community members inducted as Fellows in the American College of Radiology

Dr. Esma Akin posing for a portrait

GW Faculty member Esma A. Akin, M.D., and alumnus Roger S. Eng, Jr., M.D. '91, M.P.H. ‘92, have been inducted as Fellows in the American College of Radiology (ACR). Akin, who is an associate professor of radiology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and chief of nuclear medicine at the GW Medical Faculty Associates, received her medical degree from Hacettepe University School of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey. Eng is chief of radiology at the Chinese Hospital in San Francisco and president of the Golden Gate Radiology Medical Group. This is one of the highest honors bestowed by the ACR, a national non-profit association serving more than 34,000 radiologists, radiation oncologists, interventional radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians and medical physicists. The induction took place April 22 during the 89th ACR Annual Meeting and Chapter Leadership conference in Washington, D.C.  

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