RSNA fills out board of directors with new president, Rad Partners exec, and highly regarded equity expert
The Radiological Society of North America filled out its board of directors with four appointments announced at its annual meeting on Tuesday.
Renowned radiation oncologist Bruce Haffty, MD, assumes the role of board president, taking over for the departing Mary Mahoney, MD. A professor and chairman of radiation oncology at Rutgers Medical School, Haffty has helped author 50 books, chapters and theses in addition to nearly 400 articles.
His priorities will include expanding the society’s profile in medicine and collaborating with other medical societies and governmental agencies to promote radiology’s value.
“I am humbled and honored to serve as RSNA president for the coming year,” Haffty said in a statement. “This next year will revolve around the value and empowerment of imaging to our patients and collaborating physicians, and I look forward to a productive and exciting year,” he added later.
Under a recent change in the RSNA board’s bylaws, the society is not naming a president-elect this year as is customary. Meanwhile, University of North Carolina Senior Physician Executive Matthew Mauro, MD, has been reappointed as chair of the board to serve a second term. He’ll be tasked with presiding over the board and affairs of the society, while Haffty handles external relations through the president’s role.
RSNA filled out its seven-to-11-member board with two more additions Tuesday: Richard Heller and Jinel Scott, both MDs with their MBAs. Scott is a highly regarded expert in imaging equity and associate professor of clinical radiology at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn. She’s also director of emergency radiology, quality improvement and patient safety services at Kings County Hospital Center, also in NYC. Heller is associate chief medical officer for communications & health policy and national director of pediatric radiology at Radiology Partners. He’s also clinical associate at University of Chicago Medicine, Comer Children's Hospital in Chicago.
Marty Stempniak has covered healthcare since 2012, with his byline appearing in the American Hospital Association's member magazine, Modern Healthcare and McKnight's. Prior to that, he wrote about village government and local business for his hometown newspaper in Oak Park, Illinois. He won a Peter Lisagor and Gold EXCEL awards in 2017 for his coverage of the opioid epidemic.