Radiology

Dr. Nathan B. Hyman, a radiologist and Jewish community leader, died Friday of cancer at his home in Mount Washington. He was 72."He was the consummate physician and a really wonderful guy," said Dr. Sherman Bearman, a radiologist who worked with Dr. Hyman for the last 20 years at the radiology practice of Copeland, Hyman and Shackman."

Saying they are losing money on each breast X-ray, some mammography centers are closing, and few new ones are opening, raising fears that women may encounter increasing difficulty getting screened. A year ago, 167 Maryland facilities performed mammograms, but the number has dropped to 150, according to the American College of Radiology, the professional group that accredits mammography centers. Nationally, the number of centers has slipped from 9,873 in March to 9,534 today , the American College of Radiology says.

Sometime this fall, X-rays taken in Westminster will zip through fiber-optic lines and be viewed moments later by specialists in Baltimore, Randallstown, Pikesville and dozens of other places in the metropolitan area.Through a network of nine hospitals set to go online later this year, radiologists will send and receive digitized X-rays, magnetic resonance images, ultrasound readings and nuclear medicine scans. Eventually, the system will include 30 physicians' offices.The network, costing between $2 million and $3 million, is being put together by Advanced Radiology, a Woodlawn-based consortium of radiologists formed last year.

Dr. Harry C. Knipp, a radiologist on the staff of Carroll County General Hospital for more than 11 years, was recently named a fellow of the American College of Radiology. The honor was announced during the ACR's annual meeting this fall in Phoenix, Ariz.The ACR, which has 28,000 members, appointed Dr. Knipp as a result of his contributions to the field of radiology. Fellowships in the college are awarded to members for significant scientific contributions to its literature.Criteria for selection also include performance of outstanding service as a teacher of radiology, service to organized medicine, and an outstanding reputation among colleagues and the local community as a result of long-term service.

A Carroll County jury awarded $430,000 yesterday to a former Mount Airy woman whose treatment of breast cancer was negligently delayed by a misinterpretation of a mammogram in 1993.Lawyers for Wendy Jane Shullenbarger, 39, of Shepherdstown,W.Va., filed the civil malpractice lawsuit in 1996 against Advanced Radiology of Pikesville and Westminster Imaging, which operates at Crossroads Square shopping center as Med-Care Imaging Inc., court records show.Shullenbarger subsequently had breast surgery and underwent chemotherapy treatments, court records show.

Stephanie Woodward Radiology/X-ray technologist Baltimore Washington Medical Center, Glen Burnie Age --38 Years on the job --19 Salary --$55,000 How she started --She learned of a radiology technology program during a career day in high school. A director of the radiology technology program at Harbor Hospital talked about the classes and showed some slides. "They explained it was an X-ray school and, after two years you could have a great career and make a good living. Right out of high school I started."

Dr. Paul Wolfe Roman, a radiologist who was chief of radiology at the former Lutheran Hospital for more than three decades, died of pneumonia Saturday at Sinai Hospital. The former Pikesville resident was 87. Born and raised in Baltimore, Dr. Roman was a 1930 City College graduate. He earned his bachelor's degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 1933, and his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Roman enlisted in the Army Medical Corps before World War II, and during the war served aboard a troop transport in the Atlantic theater.

The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions has filled out its leadership team, formally designating four more senior officials to aid the campus' medical czar, Dr. Edward Miller, in running the university's medical school and research hospital.Miller was placed in charge of the East Baltimore medical complex a year ago and has operated with an ad-hoc group of advisers who are aiding his drive to continue the center's push into the new world of managed care."Now it's time to get some permanency for these things," said Miller, whose formal title is chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine and dean of the Hopkins School of Medicine.

Dr. Robert M. Barnhart, 55, a radiologist at the Harbor Hospital Center and the Liberty Medical Center, died Monday after collapsing at his summer home on Wiltshire Lane in Severna Park.A memorial service will be held at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at Towson Presbyterian Church, Chesapeake and Highland avenues.Dr. Barnhart lived on Templeton Road in Towson. As a partner in Harbor Radiologists for more than 20 years, he was the senior attending physician in the imaging departments of both hospitals.

Dr. Martin W. Donner, retired chief of radiology, expert on 0) swallowing, diesServices for Dr. Martin W. Donner, retired head of radiology at the Johns Hopkins medical school and hospital and a world expert on swallowing, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Zion Lutheran Church near Baltimore's City Hall.Dr. Donner, who lived on South Wind Road in Ruxton, died Monday at Hopkins Hospital of complications after an apparently successful heart transplant March 6. He was 71.He became director of the Department of Radiology in the medical school and chief of radiology in the hospital in 1972.