Medical Imaging readers were asked to rank the industry's 10 best individuals or programs in 10 different categories based on factors including research, innovation and patient care and outcomes.

• Laurie Fajardo, M.D., UI Hospitals and Clinics radiologist, professor, and head, UI Department of Radiology, was ranked second in the category for Women's Imaging Specialist.
• John Buatti, M.D., UI Hospitals and Clinics oncologist, professor, and head, UI department of Radiation Oncology and professor of otolaryngology, was ranked ninth among radiation oncologists/cancer researchers.
• Mark Madsen, Ph.D., professor, UI Department of Radiology and professor of physics and astronomy, UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was tenth among nuclear physicist/nuclear medicine researchers.

Two other UI faculty members also were named runners-up in the survey:

David Bushnell, M.D., UI Hospitals and Clinics radiologist and professor, UI Department of Radiology, in the nuclear physicist/nuclear medicine researcher category John Chaloupka, M.D., UI Hospitals and Clinics interventional radiologist, professor, UI Department of Radiology, in the cardiovascular imager/cardiac catheterization director category.

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