Anne Covey, M.D., Joins RSNA Board

CHICAGO (Dec. 1, 2024) — Anne Covey, M.D., was elected to the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Board of Directors today at the Society’s annual meeting. Dr. Covey will serve as the board liaison for public information and professionalism.

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Anne Covey, M.D.

“I am incredibly honored and grateful for the opportunity to serve on the RSNA Board of Directors,” Dr. Covey said. “My first interactions with RSNA were almost 30 years ago reading the ‘gray journal’ as a resident and attending my first annual meeting. Since then, I have come to appreciate the many other ways RSNA supports the future of radiology. I am excited to share my perspective as an interventional radiologist and to work with the other board members and RSNA staff to continue the mission of promoting excellence in patient care through education, research and innovation.”

Dr. Covey is an interventional radiologist and professor of radiology in New York City at Weill Cornell Medical College and an attending radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she has practiced since 2000.

Her expertise includes minimally invasive interventional radiology procedures, with specific interest in primary liver cancers and complex biliary interventions. She has published multiple studies on arterially directed therapies for primary and metastatic liver cancer, portal vein embolization and thermal ablation to treat liver tumors.  

Dr. Covey has lent her expertise as a reviewer for numerous scholarly journals and as an examiner for the American Board of Radiology (ABR). She has served as a trustee of the ABR since 2017. A longtime Society of Interventional Radiology fellow, she has served as an abstract reviewer and as a member of several task forces and committees. She is a writing member of the hepatobiliary panel of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and, since 2020, has been the interventional radiology section editor of the American Journal of Roentgenology. Her service to RSNA spans nearly a decade, including as an Education Exhibits Committee member, Case of the Day Coordinator and a member of the Interventional Radiology Subcommittee of the RSNA Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee. She has written several book chapters and edited two textbooks on interventional radiology.

Recognized for her leadership in education, Dr. Covey received the Medical House Staff Teaching Recognition Award and a Lifetime Service Award from the ABR. Castle Connelly and New York Magazine recognize her among the Top Doctors New York Metro Area. She was included on the Castle Connelly list of Exceptional Women in Medicine for the past two years.

Dr. Covey earned a bachelor’s degree at Cornell College in Ithaca, New York, and a medical degree at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. She completed an internship, residency in diagnostic radiology, and fellowship in vascular interventional radiology and diagnostic imaging at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, CT.