Dr. Linver is a busy lecturer on mammography, having presented over 400 talks throughout the United States and abroad. He is the author of over 40 published articles and chapters of textbooks on mammography, and a strong political proponent of quality mammography. Toward this end, he spearheaded the successful campaign to enact mandated quality mammography screening legislation in New Mexico in 1990, and served on the original National Mammography Quality Assurance Advisory Committee to the FDA under MQSA from 1994 to 1997. He helped author the A.H.C.P.R. document, "Quality Determinants of Mammography", and co-chaired the American Cancer Society's consensus conference in Chicago on screening mammography guidelines for pre-menopausal women in 1997.
He is vice president of the National Consortium of Breast Centers, past president of the New Mexico chapters of both the American College of Radiology and the American Cancer Society, and was a long-standing member of the A.C.R. BI-RADS Committee. He is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology, and was recently elected a Fellow of the Society of Breast Imaging, the first ever to receive this honor in the entire Mountain West. He is the recipient of the Nancy Floyd Haworth Memorial Lectureship “Spirit of Hope” award, the “People’s Caring Award” from People Living Through Cancer, the “Unsung Hero” award from the NCSL Women’s Network, and the “Lifesaver” Award from the American Cancer Society. He was chosen Albuquerque’s “Top Doctor” in Radiology by the physicians of Albuquerque in a poll by Albuquerque Magazine in 2005, 2006, and 2007.
Education
B.S.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, 1966
M.D.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA, 1970
Internship
San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco, CA, 1970-71
Residency
Diagnostic Radiology
Vanderbilt University Hospitals
Nashville, TN, 1973-74
Diagnostic Radiology
University of New Mexico Affiliated Hospitals
Albuquerque, NM, 1974-76
Board Certification
American Board of Radiology, 1976
American Board of Nuclear Medicine, 1976