WINGED CADUCEUS AWARD

Dr. Kathirkamanathan Shanmuganathan (“Shan”), a pioneer and luminary in emergency and trauma imaging, who’s untimely passing in Fall 2019 left a void in our subspecialty. Dr. Shanmuganathan was a fellow of the American Society of Emergency Radiology and a 2014 recipient of the ASER Gold Medal. He was a prolific researcher, accomplished mentor, and master educator. Throughout his nearly 3-decade career Dr. Shanmuganathan coauthored >100 peer-reviewed journal articles, eighteen textbooks, and innumerable abstracts. After his medical schooling at the University of Sri Lanka, Dr Shan completed a residency at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in the UK followed by a fellowship at the University of Maryland in Musculoskeletal Radiology. Dr Shan had a long association with the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, USA. His seminal contributions and publications in the field of trauma radiology are known to one and all in the radiology community at a global level. Some of the key advances were made in the imaging of traumatic aortic injury, blunt splenic trauma, and the role of whole body CT, which is known as the “Shan Scan” in the Trauma and Emergency Radiology circles.