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.

JACR announces "Best of 2016" articles

Four articles have been named by the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR) as the "Best of 2016" based on their advancement of radiology. 

Surface Oncology names new chief medical officer

Surface Oncology, an immuno-oncology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has appointed a new chief medical officer as it amps up its antibody product.

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Q&A roundtable with 2017 ACR gold medalists

Three candidates have been selected for The American College of Radiology's (ACR) highest honor as 2017 Gold Medalists, reviewed by the Board of Chancellors for their service and committment to the College or radiology.

American College of Radiology Names Gold Medalists, Honorary Fellows and Distinguished Achievement Awardee

Reston, VA - The American College of Radiology (ACR) Board of Chancellors (BOC) selected three innovators as 2017 Gold Medalists for their extraordinary service to the College or radiology. Honors will be bestowed during ACR 2017 - The Crossroads of Radiology, which will be held May 21?25, 2017, in Washington, DC.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia names a new radiologist-in-chief

The Children's Hopital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has named Kassa Darge, MD, PhD, as the new chair of the department of radiology and radiologist-in-chief, following an extensive national search. 

Tower Radiology Centers partners with not-for-profit West Florida Health

Tower Radiology Centers, the largest physician owned and operated outpatient radiology practice in Tampa Bay, is partnering with West Florida Health, a jointly owned not-for-profit company.

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Choosing the Leadership Path: It Takes a Mentor

Advocate Health launches a mentorship pilot program for female residents

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RSNA 2016: Tweet, tweet: Doctors can’t ignore growing influence of social media

The rising popularity of social media platforms offers radiologists the opportunity to engage with patient and colleagues in a way that wasn’t previously possible.

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.