Cheri Canon, the Witten-Stanley Endowed Chair of Radiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been selected to receive the 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award from the American Association for Women in Radiology. The award is the association’s highest honor. The award recognizes outstanding accomplishments in leadership, teaching, research, and scholarship that have impacted women in radiology professions.
“As a budding radiologist, I remember being so inspired by the prior recipients of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award,” Dr. Canon said. “I was in the audience for many of these ceremonies. These women were larger than life and instilled in all of us such optimism and inspiration. I am so honored and humbled by this award, and I hope that, although now in a virtual world, aspiring leaders will see someone who looks like her.”
Dr. Canon completed her undergraduate training at the University of Texas at Austin, followed by medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch. After completing her residency training in diagnostic radiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, she joined the faculty in the abdominal imaging section.