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.

The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates today elected Bobby Mukkamala, MD, an otolaryngologist from Flint, Michigan, as president-elect of the AMA for the 2025-2026 term. Mukkamala will be inaugurated as AMA president in June 2025. Photo courtesy of the AMA

AMA elects new president heavily involved in Flint water contamination response

The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates elected a new president and numerous other positions.

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RadNet and Radiology Partners CEOs among the ‘most influential’ leaders in Los Angeles

This is the seventh annual LA500 for the Los Angeles Business Journal and first to include RP's Rich Whitney, MBA, and RadNet's Howard Berger, MD. 

Drawing inspiration from the World War II “Why We Fight” campaign that rallied support for the U.S. war effort, American Medical Association (AMA) President Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, drew comparisons with the uphill battles physicians are facing today with dwindling reimbursements, physicians shortages, burnout and administrative fights against prior authorization burdens and attempts to preserve access to telehealth. #AMA #AMAHOD24 #AMAHOD2024 #HOD #HOD24 #HOD2024

AMA president calls for physicians to take war-time footing in fight over reimbursement, care quality

Drawing inspiration from the World War II “Why We Fight” campaign that rallied support for the U.S. war effort, AMA President Jesse  Ehrenfeld, MD, spoke on the uphill battles physicians are facing today.

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3 radiology providers tout new outpatient center openings across 3 states

Private equity-backed SimonMed has opened a new outpost in Houston, while Connecticut Breast Imaging and the American Oncology Network also are growing. 

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Physician says states must close practice-ownership loopholes being exploited by private equity firms

Jason E. Liebowitz, MD, made his case in an opinion piece published by JAMA Internal Medicine on June 3. 

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Radiology provider LucidHealth names associate CMO, plus new department chairs at Vanderbilt, Dartmouth

In other news, former Envision Healthcare CEO Jim Rechtin is slated to take over the top post at insurer Humana on July 1, while AHRA elected new board members. 

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Senators advance ACR-supported bill to prevent suicide and burnout among physicians

“Because of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, lives have been saved and livelihoods have been protected," ACR wrote recently. 

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Association of University Radiologists announces name change

The organization will now go by the Association of Academic Radiology after members voted on the switch at the society’s annual meeting in April. 

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.

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