ACR elects new officers, including McGinty as 1st woman chair in history
The American College of Radiology, at its 2018 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., announced results of an election for its new Board of Chancellors. Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA, previously the vice chair of the ACR Board of Chancellors, is the first woman elected chair of the board in the organization’s history.
McGinty is a faculty member at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, where she is the chief strategy officer and chief contracting officer for the Weill Cornell Physician Organization. Additionally, she is an editorial board member of the Journal of the American College of Radiology and a leader of the ACR’s work related to Imaging 3.0.
“Dr. McGinty is a renowned expert in health care strategy and economics. She has shown outstanding leadership in every ACR role in which she has served and is a tremendous choice to lead radiology as health care delivery and payment systems evolve from volume- to value-based care,” said William T. Thorwarth, MD, CEO of ACR, in a prepared statement.
In addition to McGinty, the following individuals were elected to positions on the ACR Board:
Vice Chair: Howard B. Fleishion, MD, MMM, chief of radiology services at Emory Johns Creek Hospital, Johns Creek, Georgia.
President: James A. Brink, MD, radiologist-in-chief at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Vice President: Marta Hernanz Shulman, MD, chief of pediatric radiology and medical director of diagnostic imaging at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
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