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.

Mount Sinai announces new global center focused on heart valve disease
The Adams Valve Institute—named after David H. Adams, MD—plans on uniting specialists to provide high-quality care, promote innovation and advocate for policy reform.
Hologic hires former Baxter International chief as next CEO
José E. Almeida is taking over the top role at the Massachusetts-based breast imaging vendor, replacing retiring longtime leader Steve MacMillan.
How leadership changes impact radiologist well-being
New survey responses delve into how management shakeups at the divisional level affect morale and physician burnout.
American College of Radiology elects new board leaders
Each of the members will assume their new role following the conclusion of ACR 2026, set to take place in Washington, D.C., in early May.
Interventional cardiologist Roxana Mehran elected ACC president
A prominent figure in the fields of interventional cardiology and women’s health is now leading the American College of Cardiology.

The leaders of the new Adams Valve Institute at Mount Sinai are Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD, PhD, director of aortic surgery and director of the Adams Valve Institute (left), and David H. Adams, MD, the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine, and cardiac surgeon-in-chief of the Mount Sinai Health System.

Mount Sinai announces new global center focused on heart valve disease

The Adams Valve Institute—named after David H. Adams, MD—plans on uniting specialists to provide high-quality care, promote innovation and advocate for policy reform.

Hologic hires former Baxter International chief as next CEO

José E. Almeida is taking over the top role at the Massachusetts-based breast imaging vendor, replacing retiring longtime leader Steve MacMillan.

How leadership changes impact radiologist well-being

New survey responses delve into how management shakeups at the divisional level affect morale and physician burnout.

American College of Radiology elects new board leaders

Each of the members will assume their new role following the conclusion of ACR 2026, set to take place in Washington, D.C., in early May.

Interventional cardiologist Roxana Mehran, MD, officially started her one-year term as the president of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) on the closing day of ACC.26, the group’s annual conference in New Orleans.

Interventional cardiologist Roxana Mehran elected ACC president

A prominent figure in the fields of interventional cardiology and women’s health is now leading the American College of Cardiology.

Physicians who feel they ‘fit in’ experience less burnout—and entertain fewer thoughts of quitting or cutting back

Three-fifths of 14,000 physicians surveyed, 60%, enjoy a strong sense of belonging within their organization. Better yet, four-fifths, 80%, feel their teammates have their back.

Moral distress in physicians: New study measures prevalence, offers interventions

Almost two in five physicians suffered moral distress in the two weeks leading up to their being asked about it by researchers. That was a markedly larger slice than the team observed in the general U.S. working population.

Cardiologist makes history with first commercial implant of new pacing lead for LBBAP

The first FDA-approved pacing lead specifically developed for LBBAP is now being implanted throughout the United States.