Posted on June 15, 2001 at 12:00 p.m.

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Dr. Robert J. Stanley, chairman of the radiology department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), recently was named president of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS). Founded in 1900, the ARRS is the oldest radiology society in the United States.

Stanley joined UAB’s faculty in 1982. He previously served on the faculty of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo. He also was director of abdominal radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology there.

The professor has served in leadership roles with several other academic societies, including president of the Society of Uroradiology, the Society of Computed Body Tomography, the Society of Chairman of Academic Radiology Departments, the Southern Radiological Conference and the Alabama Academy of Radiology. He also was vice president of the American College of Radiology.