Professional Associations

This page includes news coverage of medical associations and medical societies. Use these links to find focused news coverage from specific organizations: Cardiology Associations, Healthcare Associations, Radiology Associations.

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For radiology trainees eager to serve the less fortunate, home is where the need is

Radiology residents are no slackers when it comes to “giving back.” However, many seem to believe they must travel abroad to find medically underserved populations in serious need of charitable medical care.

Cardiologist Marsha Certain, MD, was murdered Thursday, April 19, in an apparent murder-suicide. She was 69 years old.

Cardiologist killed in apparent murder-suicide

Marsha Certain, MD, FACC, was an interventional cardiologist in Brunswick, Georgia, for nearly 40 years.

Video of Alexander Fanaroff explaining the details of the BE ACTIVE trial that gamified fitness for cardiac patients. #ACC #ACC24 #ACC2024

Motivation helps heart patients stay active

Alexander Fanaroff, MD, said the late-breaking BE ACTIVE clinical trial presented at ACC.24 offers a blueprint for how to get patients to be more physically active.

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Abortion is an essential component of healthcare, majority of ACR Council rules

“We want the policy that governs access to healthcare in our country to be informed by the evidence,” supporter Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA, told Radiology Business

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American College of Radiology Council votes to raise membership dues

Active national physician member dues will increase by about $90, with a smaller modification for young rads and medical physicists. 

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Q&A: Interventional cardiologist details key breakthroughs in tricuspid valve replacement and repair

How have recent FDA approvals for Edwards Lifesciences and Abbott changed patient care? Andrew Rassi, MD, answered that question—and many more—in a new interview. 

Video interview with ACC President Cathie Biga on goals for college over the next year and trends she saw at ACC 2024.

New ACC President Cathie Biga wants to improve quality reporting in cardiology

Biga, who originally trained as a nurse, specializes in the business side of cardiology. She also emphasized the increasing importance of AI and other new technologies. 

A study that analyzed patient outcomes in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in veterans showed outcomes for on-pump and off-pump procedures over 10 years to be similar. Photo by Jim Lennon

Anemia may help explain why women are more likely to die during heart bypass surgery

Finding new ways to avoid intraoperative anemia could go a long way toward improving outcomes for female CABG patients. The full analysis, based on more than 1.4 million patients, was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.