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.

ACC President Cathie Biga, MSN, president/CEO Cardiovascular Management of Illinois, discusses a letter ACC sent to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stressing some of the big challenges facing healthcare and cardiology from Trump administration policies.

'We need to come together as a nation': Why science, not politics, should guide healthcare policies

ACC Immediate Past President Cathie Biga spoke to Cardiovascular Business about some of the challenges healthcare faces in the wake of mass layoffs and significant funding cuts put in place by the Trump administration.

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Radiology Business Management Association names annual award winners, new board

Sara Nofziger-Drew, vice president of revenue cycle services for R1 RCM, took home the RBMA's top honor, the prestigious Calhoun Award. 

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Outgoing President Pete Moffatt reflects on the 2025 RBMA Annual Meeting

"I feel very privileged to have led such an experienced and capable board of directors," the Radiology Business Management Association's 2024-2025 leader writes in a Radiology Business guest column. 

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Cardiologist begins term as ACC president with an eye on workforce issues, health equity and more

Christopher M. Kramer, MD, is a longtime cardiologist and cardiac imaging specialist. His one-year term as the head of the American College of Cardiology officially began at the end of ACC.25 in Chicago.

Video interview with Gregg Fonarow, MD, explaining the success of the AHA Get With The Guidelines-Stroke program, during AHA 2024.

American Heart Association program leads to substantial improvements in stroke care

Cardiologist Gregg Fonarow, MD, reviewed decades of data and discussed the long-term impact of the AHA's Get With The Guidelines-Stroke program.

NCH Rooney Heart Center is building a comprehensive program in Florida.

Bringing state-of-the-art healthcare to Florida heart patients

Naples Comprehensive Health is building up what it hopes will be a nationally recognized cardiology program. Robert Cubeddu, MD, and Dee Dee Wang, MD, spoke with Cardiovascular Business about the journey so far. 

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CEO of radiology provider Akumin departs abruptly after 1 year on job

Krishna Kumar, former CEO of Philips India, was replaced Monday by Henry Howe, the former CFO and interim CEO of Envision Healthcare. 

An FDA panel will discuss its recommendations related to Abbott's TriClip G4 transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) system for tricuspid regurgitation.

First comprehensive T-TEER resource examines best practices for tricuspid valve repair

"We wanted to ensure that every interventionalist, regardless of location or resources, has access to the best information possible," one co-author said.