Leadership

This news channel page highlights examples of leadership in hospital and health systems. While healthcare leadership is often seen as the positions of chief executive officers, chief clinical officers, chief of staff, and chief information officers, it also can can be other individuals or the entire healthcare system that shows unique ways to enhance patient care and manage strategies, quality, safety and revenue initiatives.

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Radiologist recognized for accomplishments in cardiovascular imaging research

Pamela K. Woodard, MD, has been named the inaugural Hugh Monroe Wilson Professor of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis for her accomplishments in cardiovascular imaging and research.

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How understanding personality types improves teamwork in radiology

For radiologists to work well together—as a team and not a group of individuals—they must understand each other’s personalities, according to a recent analysis published in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

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How to improve the diversity of your radiology department's residency program

By developing a strategic diversity program, representatives from Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s department of radiology successfully improved the diversity of its residency applicant pool and residency training program. 

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4 ways to improve care for transgender, gender-diverse patients in radiology

Many transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) patients report experiencing discrimination when receiving healthcare services, according to a new analysis published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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The healthy (and unhealthy) ways radiologists cope with burnout

More than half of radiologists who experience burnout cope with those feelings through exercise, according to a new report from Medscape. Radiologists also handle such feelings by speaking with friends and family, sleeping, playing/listening to music and isolating themselves from others.

ASRT Foundation names winners of 2019 International Speakers Exchange Awards

The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) has announced the winners of the ASRT Foundation’s annual International Speakers Exchange Award.

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5 ways to reduce burnout among CT technologists, improve workflow

CT technologists, just like radiologists and other imaging professionals, can experience high rates of burnout. What can be done to combat burnout and keep patient care running smoothly?

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Imaging supervisor volunteers, starts scholarship to provide radiology services in areas of need

When Issack Boru was growing up in Ethiopia, his father suffered a head injury, but was unable to receive the care he needed due to a lack of medical imaging resources. This made an impact on Boru, who now works as a radiology imaging supervisor and volunteers to provide training all over the world.

Around the web

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.