American Board of Radiology appoints G. Donald Frey, PhD, as associate executive director for medical physics
July 31, 2011
CHARLESTON,SC – July29, 2011 – The American Board of Radiology (ABR) has appointed G. Donald Frey, PhD, as its new associate executive director for medical physics, effective January 1, 2012. Dr. Frey is professor of radiology for the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). He will replace Stephen R. Thomas, PhD, professor emeritus of radiology, University of Cincinnati, who has served the ABR as associate executive director of medical physics since 2006.
Dr. Frey, a diplomate of the ABR in medical physics, has been a member of the ABR Board of Trustees since 2006. He has served as an ABR examiner since 1996 and has been a member of many ABR committees, including the Physics Exam Restructuring Committee, the Physics Recertification Committee, and the ABR/ACR Committee on Competence. He is currently a member of the Medical Physics Exam Committee and the Physics Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Committee.
He is a fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), has twice served as president of the Southeastern Chapter of AAPM (SE-AAPM), and is a past president and chairman of the Board of Directors of AAPM. He served as chairman of the AAPM Education Council, has served twice as director of the AAPM summer school, and was director of the European summer school.
Dr. Frey is also a fellow of the American College of Radiology (ACR). He is a member of ACR’s Committee for Physics Education and is the independent physicist for ACR’s Magnetic Resonance Accreditation Program and a reviewer for ACR’s CT Accreditation Program.
He has served the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) as a member of the Refresher Course Committee and the Education Council. He is a public information advisor and has been vice-president of RSNA. Dr. Frey also is a reviewer for Radiology and RadioGraphics, has served on the editorial board of Physica Medica, and is an associate editor for the American Journal of Roentgenology.
He is a founding director of the Commission for the Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs (CAMPEP) and served as chairman and president of that organization in 2001. In addition to the organizations mentioned above, Dr. Frey is a member of the American Association of Physics Teachers, the Society of Nuclear Medicine, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the European Society of Radiology, and Sigma Xi. He serves as a co-director of the Medical Physics Program at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy.
Dr. Frey has made many contributions to scientific research and education, especially regarding the physical aspects of breast imaging and in setting standards for medical physics education. He has published numerous abstracts, books/book chapters, and articles in peer-reviewed journals. He received the SE-AAPM Service Award, Distinguished Service Recognition from AAPM, and the Editor’s Recognition Award from Radiology. In 2006, he was presented with the inaugural Jimmy O. Fenn Lifetime Achievement Award from SE-AAPM.
Dr. Frey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Canisius College, a Jesuit college in Buffalo, New York, where he was named a presidential scholar. He earned a doctoral degree in nuclear physics from the University of South Carolina, where he held NASA and National Science Foundation fellowships. After brief service in the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps, he began his academic career at MUSC, where he has been a faculty member since 1971. Additional duties at MUSC include service on the Radiation Control Council and the University Safety Committee.
Established in 1934, the mission of the American Board of Radiology (ABR) is to serve patients, the public, and the medical profession by certifying that its diplomates have acquired, demonstrated, and maintained a requisite standard of knowledge, skill, and understanding essential to the practice of diagnostic radiology, radiation oncology, and radiologic physics. The ABR is one of 24 Member Boards of the American Board of Medical Specialties.
