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.

Stanford radiologist remembered for passion, generosity

Gerald Friedland, MD, professor emeritus of radiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, died earlier this month at the age of 82.  

April 22, 2016

RBMA unveils RBMA PARADIGM, its new annual conference

The Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) has announced it is launching a new annual conference for leaders in radiology, RBMA PARADIGM. The conference will replace the two annual meetings currently held by RBMA: The Radiology Summit and the Fall Educational Conference. 

April 22, 2016

Elekta announces new president and CEO

Elekta, a radiation therapy technology company based out of Stockholm, Sweden, announced this week that its board of directors has appointed Richard Hausmann its new president and CEO. 

April 21, 2016

Q&A: Cheri Canon, ACR 2016 program chair, on how this year’s meeting offers ‘something for everyone’

ACR 2016, the annual meeting of the American College of Radiology (ACR), is less than one month away. Cheri L. Canon, MD, ACR 2016 program chair, spoke with RadiologyBusiness.com about the upcoming meeting, which begins May 15 in Washington, D.C. 

April 20, 2016

Candescent Health appoints 3 new vice presidents

Candescent Health announced this week the addition of three new vice presidents. 

April 14, 2016

The future is now: 2 advantages of using more modern technology in radiology resident education

Recent technological advances have changed the way residents learn new information. And according to a study published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology, it’s now time for instructors to consider changing the way they teach. 

April 13, 2016

Charles Ray Jr. begins SIR presidency

The 6,100-member Society of Interventional Radiology has a new president. 

April 7, 2016

SIR honors radiologists at annual meeting

The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) posthumously honored Renan Uflacker, MD, earlier this week with its SIR Foundation Leaders in Innovation Award. The announcement was made at the organization’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Vancouver. 

April 4, 2016

Around the web

"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.

SCAI and four other major healthcare organizations signed a joint letter in support of intravascular ultrasound. 

The newly approved AI models are designed to improve the detection of pulmonary embolisms and strokes in patients who undergo CT scans.

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