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.

University of Alabama at Birmingham names new radiology chair
The UAB Department of Radiology has selected internationally recognized rad and researcher Mahmud Mossa-Basha, MD, as its next leader following a national search.
5 takeaways from new ACR, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine cybersecurity guidance
The two recently convened a panel of multidisciplinary stakeholders to discuss this issue, including radiologists, technologists, informaticists and physicists.
Radiology Partners moving its headquarters to Nashville
“It offers proximity to many of our partners, access to top healthcare talent and a strong ecosystem for collaboration," CEO Rich Whitney, MBA, says.
Fresh off name change, US Radiology Specialists hires former NFL player as chief medical officer
The Raleigh, North Carolina-based organization, which now goes by Lumexa Imaging, has selected radiologist Russell Stewart, MD, MBA, MS, to fill the key role.
Yale names new radiology chair, Rad Partners’ board addition, plus more leadership moves from ASTRO, Merit Medical
Christopher Whitlow, MD, is the Ivy League institution's new radiology leader, while John Chiminski joins the RP board, and Catheryn M. Yashar, MD, is set to become ASTRO president.

More evidence female radiologists are bearing the brunt of COVID-19’s impact on imaging

Female physicians with young children reported a “significant” decrease in work-from-home productivity compared to males in the same situation.

Private equity-backed LucidHealth inks partnership with ‘prominent’ Midwest radiology practice

The physician-owned management company's footprint now covers 29 hospitals and more than 100 clinics in the Badger State.

RSNA affirms commitment to in-person meeting in 2021: ‘Ready to get back to Chicago’

The announcement comes the same day HIMSS said it will require attendees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 if they want to attend its Las Vegas conference in August.

Newly launched Radiology Health Equity Coalition highlights specialty’s central role in addressing disparities

ACR President Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA, introduced the group during her presidential address.

54% of radiologists work in private practice, while other docs report lower ownership levels

The AMA survey found that 49% of patient care physicians worked in doc-owned practices, down from 54% in 2018 and the largest two-year change since the survey started.

Young radiologist’s recent untimely death exposes the ‘sinister side of burnout’ in medicine

Mayo Clinic neuroradiologist John Benson, MD, believes 36-year-old Gretchen Butler's suicide in March revealed the "profound toll that work can have on physicians.”

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Advice on optimizing an independent private radiology practice and keeping out corporate infiltrators

Kansas radiologist Kamran Ali, MD, and colleagues shared five take-home points for imaging providers seeking to retain their autonomy in the face of consolidation.

3 steps to eliminate unconscious bias in radiology recruitment and hiring

Radiology researchers recommend using a holistic approach to hiring and deploying structured interviewing, they wrote recently.

Leadership

University of Alabama at Birmingham names new radiology chair

5 takeaways from new ACR, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine cybersecurity guidance

Radiology Partners moving its headquarters to Nashville

Fresh off name change, US Radiology Specialists hires former NFL player as chief medical officer

Yale names new radiology chair, Rad Partners’ board addition, plus more leadership moves from ASTRO, Merit Medical