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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Radiologist spearheads pilot allowing COVID patients to talk with relatives via walkie-talkie

Weill Cornell Medicine's Marc Schiffman, MD, and a colleague came up with the idea after finding that video chats were too depressing for families and time-consuming for nurses. 

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Conducting video interviews during the COVID pandemic: Radiology experts offer their advice

Both imaging giant Radiology Partners and Boston University Medical Center shared hiring best practices from their institutions this week. 

Mednax names new CEO amid plans to exit radiology

The Florida-based physician firm has selected Mark Ordan—who previously led publicly traded long-term care real estate firm Quality Care Properties—as its new chief executive. 

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Renowned Pittsburgh professor, radiologist and nine-time Golden Apple winner dies

“He was probably the best teacher in our profession,” said longtime colleague and friend Jules Sumkin, DO. 

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RSNA doling out more than $4M in new grants to dozens of researchers

Altogether, the society's Research and Education Foundation is supporting 93 projects across 47 different institutions, officials announced Tuesday. 

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Physicians ask American Board of Radiology for greater lactation leeway when taking exams

Leaders with the American Association of Women in Radiology made their plea in an editorial published in Clinical Imaging.

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Testing smell, rather than fever, may be radiology practices’ best bet for screening patients

One recent study noted that patients with the disease were 27 times more likely to have lost their olfactory senses, compared to just 2.6 times more likely to display chills or an elevated temp. 

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JACR revising disclosure guidelines amid concern of corporate influence in noted imaging journal

Editor-in-Chief Ruth Carlos, MD, recently spelled out some of the changes in the July issue of JACR