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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71% of transgender and nonbinary patients have had a negative imaging encounter

Ultrasound exams contributed the highest rate of unexpected emotional discomfort, experts reported in AJR. 

Radiologist and White House advisor Scott Atlas threatens retaliation against critical former Stanford colleagues

Nearly 100 doctors, scientists and health policy experts at the California institution recently took Atlas to task for his approach to the pandemic. 

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Radiologists battling insomnia, depression and anxiety amid pandemic, but a few factors appear protective

Physicians working in private practice were “significantly” more likely to experience such psychological challenges, experts reported recently. 

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5 ways radiology can assume role of ‘value creator,’ rather than resource drain

The specialty must emphasize its myriad contributions to the care team to avoid this mischaracterization, experts wrote in JAMA. 

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Stanford scientists slam former colleague, radiologist and White House advisor over pandemic views

The dozens of faculty members include physicians, researchers, epidemiologists and health policy experts, who voiced their concerns in a letter shared. 

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Interventional radiology’s $68.4B inpatient footprint underscores ‘bedrock’ role in chasing the Triple Aim

IR docs treat about 1 in every 10 U.S. inpatients and with a sicker population sample, account for nearly one-fifth of all healthcare costs, according to a new analysis. 

3 lessons learned from a radiologist on the front lines of Black Lives Matter protests

Jabi Shriki, MD, served as part of a small medical team caring for individuals during Seattle's Capitol Hill Occupied Protest this summer. 

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Radiologists experiencing high levels of anxiety, psychological stress during pandemic, survey finds

Polling nearly 700 such physicians, about 61% of respondents labeled their anxiety levels at 7 or higher on a 10-point scale.