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.

Radiology Protocols names new CEO

Medical imaging device manager Radiology Protocols named a new CEO July 29 to bring in new, experienced talent to its management team.

Sunayna Bakaya named medical director of imaging for three California hospitals

Sunayna Bakaya, MD, has been named the new medical director of imaging for three Long Beach, California, hospitals: Long Beach Memorial, Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach and Community Hospital Long Beach. She previously worked at all three facilities as chief of body imaging. 

Radiology Partners expands as Columbus Radiology joins the ranks

“Better together” is a term not taken lightly by radiology professionals. Columbus Radiology has joined Radiology Partners (RP), bringing RP's total number of facilities to 200 in seven states.

Radiology Trailblazers Named Leadership Luminaries

Reston, VA (July 26, 2016) — The Radiology Leadership Institute® (RLI) named E. Stephen Amis Jr., MD, FACR, and Glendon G. Cox, MD, MBA, MHSA, as this year’s Leadership Luminary Award recipients for their exceptional service to the medical specialty.

Radiology Leadership Institute announces award winners

The Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) announced this week that it has named E. Stephen Amis Jr., MD, and Glendon G. Cox, MD, MBA, MHSA, this year’s recipients of the Leadership Luminary Award. 

$4 million in radiology grants awarded to 101 recipients

More than 100 radiology research grant funds will see a total of $4 million of new funding this year. The money comes from the Radiological Society of North America’s Research and Education Foundation.

Learning radiology inside a ‘flipped’ classroom: 3 key takeaways

The “flipped classroom” learning approach—which involves students learning independently before applying what they learned inside interactive classrooms—has been shown to have a positive impact on radiology students, according to a study published in Academic Radiology.

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In radiology, educators must balance 'the known' and 'the unknown'

Modern radiology educators have grown too reliant on “the known”—asking straightforward questions with only one correct answer—and should consider embracing “the unknown,” according to a recent editorial published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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.