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.

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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. 

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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. 

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Medical societies call for more stringent radiation protection measures

The Society of Interventional Radiology and others are calling for updated safety standards that reach beyond patients and take into account the occupational hazards faced during fluoroscopy. 

heart doctors and surgeons working together. top cardiology hospitals in the United States.

Cardiologists lead push for new cath lab radiation safety standards

Several U.S. medical societies have collaborated on a new report advocating for better safety standards in cardiac catheterization labs. As one cardiologist described it, clinicians have shifted from "accepting risk" to "expecting better."

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Cardiovascular Business announces its Forty Under 40 Class of 2026

The Cardiovascular Business Forty Under 40 Class of 2026 represents an accomplished group of clinicians, researchers, entrepreneurs and administrators who are redefining what cardiovascular leadership looks like under the age of 40. 

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Themes to watch at the Radiology Business Management Association’s 2026 annual meeting

Radiology Business recently spoke with RBMA Co-executive Directors Linda Wilgus and Jessica Struve about the organization's PaRADigm meeting, which starts April 12 in Orlando, Florida. 

Amir Lerman, MD, a veteran cardiologist with Mayo Clinic, died unexpectedly on Feb. 23. He was 69 years old.

Pioneer cardiologist Amir Lerman remembered as a ‘true giant’ of the specialty

Lerman, who spent nearly 40 years with Mayo Clinic, was especially influential in the treatment of nonobstructive CAD. 

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New obesity statistics highlight importance of preventive cardiology

Cardiovascular health is much worse in some parts of the United States than others. Cardiologists in those high-risk areas can make a world of difference by embracing preventive cardiology and working to treat patients before it is too late.