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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Mayo Clinic radiologist comes out as a trans woman, goes viral on Twitter

Evelyn Carroll, MD, said she recently brought her "authentic self to work for the first time" at the Minnesota-based institution. 

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American Board of Radiology leadership meeting this week to mull virtual test-taking options

The discussion comes following intense pressure from numerous imaging interest groups, who last week implored the ABR to offer alternatives during the pandemic. 

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Radiology provider Envision pledges change following recent racially charged violence: ‘This must stop’

CEO Jim Rechtin said such actions will include “reinvigorating” the Nashville physician firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee and creating a plan within the next 60 days to promote change in its service areas. 

Human Resources

6 key considerations for radiology human resources departments as practices reopen during pandemic

HR professionals’ duties will include everything from contacting furloughed employees to delegating screening tasks.

COVID Healthcare Workers

COVID death toll among US healthcare workers approaches 600, including several in the radiology community

That number, from Kaiser Health News, represents hundreds more deaths than the 379 estimated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

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American College of Radiology forms new partnership to target under-imaged communities

Philanthropic nonprofit Rad-Aid deploys some 12,000 volunteers through outreach programs in 35 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. 

Testing Exam

‘Devastating impact’: Imaging groups implore American Board of Radiology to target testing alternatives

The newly formed Multispecialty Early Radiologic Career Coalition is appealing the ABR to either administer tests virtually—as other specialty boards are doing during the pandemic—or at local testing centers around the country. 

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Longtime Indiana interventional radiologist who never missed a day on the job dies from COVID-19

Franklin Sequeira, 72, of Cicero, passed away on June 1 after a months-long battle with the disease, according to his family.