Professional Associations

This page includes news coverage of medical associations and medical societies. Use these links to find focused news coverage from specific organizations: Cardiology Associations, Healthcare Associations, Radiology Associations.

5 avenues along which the 10-year-old Society of Abdominal Radiology is advancing

Did you know the SAR formed when the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists merged with the Society of Uroradiology?

 Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (USMS), is addressing health inequities in mammography using its Mammovan mobile breast imaging screening program. Gwendolyn Bryant-Smith, MD, explained how the program works. #RSNA #RSNA22

VIDEO: Bringing health equity to mammography and health screenings in Arkansas

Gwendolyn Bryant-Smith, MD, division chief of breast imaging and associate director for diversity, equity and inclusion at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas, discussed how her center addressed health inequities in mammography.

Emerging imaging technologies boosted by COVID research

As the field of radiology research adapted to withstand the pandemic’s challenges, it morphed in some decidedly beneficial ways.

ASNC 2023 president calls for nuclear cardiology to embrace new technology

American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) 2023 President Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, MD, said the subspecialty needs to up its game with new technology.

Healthcare leaders react to $1.7T government funding bill

Healthcare stakeholders throughout U.S. medicine, including radiology leaders, aren’t waiting for the ink to dry before speaking their minds.

Mahadevappa Mahesh, PhD, professor of radiology and a medical physicist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, explains a new American College of Radiology (ACR) effort to ensure that lower radiation dose X-ray images under Image Wisely and As Low as Reasonable Achievable (ALARA) meet diagnostic reading standards. He spoke to Radiology Business at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2022 meeting.

VIDEO: Making sure lower dose X-ray is still diagnostic quality

Mahadevappa Mahesh, PhD, professor of radiology and a medical physicist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, explains a new ACR effort to ensure that lower radiation dose X-ray images under Image Wisely and As Low as Reasonable Achievable (ALARA) meet diagnostic reading standards.

JACR’s top 5 articles of 2022

The Journal of the American College of Radiology has named five peer-reviewed papers its best of the year.

RSNA shows conference attendance, radiology research still recovering from COVID

In-person attendance for RSNA 2022 dipped by more than 11,000 compared with the last conference held before the global descent of the COVID-19 pandemic.   

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.