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.

Suhny Abbara, MD

Suhny Abbara named editor of new RSNA online journal

Suhny Abbara, MD, a professor of radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, has been named the editor of RSNA’s new online journal, Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging.

April 26, 2018

Radiology Partners adds former Baylor Scott & White Health CEO to board of directors

Radiology Partners has added Joel Allison, former president and CEO of Baylor Scott & White Health, to its board of directors. Allison has more than four decades of experience in healthcare and retired from his position at Baylor Scott & White Health in 2017.

April 24, 2018

Registration now open for 2018 RLI Summit

Registration is officially open for the seventh annual Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) Summit Sept. 7-9 at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the American College of Radiology (ACR) announced this week.

April 20, 2018

Nicholas Theodore named chairman of NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee

The National Football League (NFL) has named Nicholas Theodore, MD, Donlin M. Long Professor of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, the chairman of its NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee.

April 20, 2018
Patient

4 ways radiology providers can help patients fearful of cancer recurrence

It is common for cancer survivors to fear their cancer could return or progress at any time, and it's a feeling that takes a significant toll on both patients and their loved ones. According to a new commentary published in the American Journal of Roentgenology, this is an aspect of patient care that radiologists and radiology personnel don’t always spend enough time considering.

April 18, 2018

ASRT announces 2018 Award for Advocacy winners

The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) has announced the winners of its 2018 ASRT Award for Advocacy: The Pennsylvania Society of Radiologic Technologists and Brian Rich, board chair of the Texas Society of Radiologic Technologists.

April 16, 2018

5 habits of effective radiologists

A new analysis published in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology took an in-depth look at the habits of effective radiologists, building on the work of professor and author Stephen R. Covey.

April 12, 2018

Researchers uncover fluorescent dye with short-wave infrared capabilities

Researchers at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have uncovered the efficacy of an already-FDA-approved dye in achieving short-wave infrared imaging, according to a report issued this month.

April 10, 2018