Kari Jo Roellin, BS, RDMS, RVT

Kari Jo is bridging frontline sonography and radiology operations to improve imaging quality, efficiency, and patient care across Michigan. Over the past three years, in partnership with physician leadership, she has led the development and implementation of a digital ultrasound documentation workflow that improves communication between sonographers and interpreting radiologists while streamlining reporting across the organization. Now in place throughout multiple hospitals, this initiative has successfully navigated significant challenges under her continued guidance. Her resume credits the digital worksheet and reporting tools with improving documentation accuracy and raising workflow efficiency by up to 70%.

Kari Jo has become a trusted operational partner to physician leaders in ultrasound, breast imaging and pediatrics, providing analytical insights into breast imaging volumes and capacity planning to optimize resource allocation and maximize patient access. Since helping establish a modality operations program in 2021, she has built a collaborative model connecting physicians, hospital partners, technologists and operations teams.

A multi-credentialed registered diagnostic medical sonographer and vascular technologist with 13 years of experience, Kari Jo served at Corewell Health as lead sonographer and ACR accreditation coordinator while also teaching as a student preceptor, adjunct professor and emergency physician ultrasound educator.