May 22, 2003

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Dr. Robert J. Stanley, professor of radiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has been named the new editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), the official journal of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS). He will officially take over the position November 1.

Stanley, a past president of ARRS, said he plans to change the journal to a Web-based, online process of manuscript submission and review.

The new editor will be based out of UAB, where he will continue to do clinical work. He just stepped down as chair of the UAB department of radiology after 20 years. Under his leadership, the program grew in size and stature, and is now recognized as one of the top training programs in the country.

Stanley currently is working on the fourth edition of his textbook on body-computed tomography with magnetic resonance correlation. He has also authored or co-authored more than 160 papers in the scientific literature.

He received his medical degree in 1963 from St. Louis University School of Medicine. After his radiology residency at St. Louis he joined the faculty at Washington University’s Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, where he served as director of abdominal radiology until joining the UAB faculty in 1982.