The W. Raymond Mize, Jr., M.D. Technology in Clinical Care Award
The Institute for Technology in Health Care has established awards in memory of W. Raymond Mize, Jr., M.D. (pictured left), the
first President of the Institute.
Dr. Mize died in 2004. He was born in Arkansas in 1932. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in
1954. He subsequently received his M.D. from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and interned in
Internal Medicine at Boston City Hospital in Boston. He then entered the Navy and was assigned to the Marine Corps
in Okinawa after which he returned to Washington, D.C., to study and practice Radiology, for his entire career,
with the firm of Grover, Christie and Merritt, which operated the Radiology Department for the Washington Hospital
Center in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the American College of Radiology and the Radiological Society of North
America. During Dr. Mize's tenure as President of the Institute it focused on technologic approaches to assist in the
clinical care of patients during the newly discovered crisis of HIV/AIDS.
He was interested as well in the rapid expansion of Radiology through Computerized Imaging, Sonography, Nuclear
Medicine, and the utilization of Radiology in performance of Angiography and other procedures resulting in more rapid
diagnosis and actual clinical care of patients.
Presentation or publication of papers regarding work or projects by which students and practitioners receive stimulus
to utilize technology in clinical care are eligible for the awards through accredited entities.
Additionally, Dr. Mize was particularly interested in the essential work and advancement of Radiology Technicians,
who through their accredited organizations or schools are also eligible for these awards. He was the medical director
of the School of Radiology Technology from 1981 onward at the Washington Hospital Center.
2007 Award:
Utilization of Archaeological Technology to Develop Insights Regarding Bone Health
An award was granted to the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History for the project Human Bone Density
in 17th Century America. This study will use DEXA scan imaging technology to analyze the bone health and general health
of the early settlers of Jamestown, VA and St. Mary's, Maryland.Douglas W. Owsley, Smithsonian Curator in the Anthropology
section has started on this project that could enhance knowledge in health care in a way that could further stimulate today's ongoing study of bone health in a positive way.
Bones from about 20 to 30 residents of Jamestown, Virginia and St. Mary's, Maryland are available for study at the Smithsonian
in a reasonable state of preservation from the viewpoint of an archaeologist. A study by DEXA scan has begun to determine
osteopenia or osteoporosis. Currently there is a vast amount of accumu-lated knowledge regarding these diseases.
Can the bones from yesteryear add to current knowledge by showing us differences between today's and a population of
Americans from the 1600's utilizing established archaeological technology combined with 20th century technology? Could
the results show us a relationship of osteopenia/osteoporosis to disease more prevalent then, such as osteomylitis, and
nutritional or other changes, helping to improve today's health care.
A study on the femurs, and thoracic spines of the above mentioned group could be matched to already known modern day
subjects of similar sex and age. Such differences or similarities could be useful in clinical medicine today.
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