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.

Dave Waldrop, Calgary Scientific

Calgary Scientific Inc. hires Dave Waldrop to head global sales and marketing

Calgary – June 22, 2015 – Calgary Scientific Inc., a company known for creating innovative technology for the medical industry and beyond, announced today that Dave Waldrop has been named Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing.

June 22, 2015

RBMA15 Snapshots

Snapshots from the RBMA Spring Summit, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 7-9, 2015 at Caesar's Palace.

June 11, 2015
Patient records

Many physicians disagree with sharing entire medical record

Two-thirds of physicians are skeptical of giving patients access to their “entire medical record,” according to a new poll conducted by the physician social network SERMO.

June 9, 2015
Bogardus receives ACR Gold Medal Award

Oklahoma physician earns American College of Radiology Gold Medal

Reston, Va. — Carl R. Bogardus, Jr., MD, FACR, Professor, Clinical Director and Vice Chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Oklahoma University Medical Center, has been awarded the American College of Radiology (ACR) Gold Medal for outstanding achievement.

May 20, 2015
Jonathan S. Lewin, MD

Jonathan S. Lewin elected ARRS president

Leesburg, VA, May 1, 2015—Jonathan S. Lewin, MD, was elected the 115th president of ARRS at its 2015 Annual Meeting last month in Toronto. He succeeds Dr. Melissa Rosado de Christenson, who served as ARRS president from 2014 to 2015.

May 13, 2015

Levin joins Outpatient Imaging Affiliates board of directors

Outpatient Imaging Affiliates (“OIA”) announced today that world renown radiologist, David Levin, M.D., has agreed to formally join the OIA Board of Directors.

May 13, 2015
Schaaf receives N.C. governor's highest honor

Schaaf receives Order of the Long Leaf Pine

RALEIGH (APRIL 15, 2015) – Dr. Robert Schaaf, who served as president and managing partner of Wake Radiology for 27 years, was presented with The Order of the Long Leaf Pine at a special event on Monday, April 13, on behalf of the Governor of North Carolina.

May 12, 2015

vRad’s Thomas F. Osborne, MD, discusses benefits of CMO-CIO collaboration at Digital Health Innovation Summit

MINNEAPOLIS, MN—(May 11, 2015) vRad (Virtual Radiologic), the nation’s leading telemedicine company and radiology practice, announced that its Director of Medical Informatics Thomas F. Osborne, MD will give the presentation “Collaborating for Innovation: A CMO–CIO Partnership for Diagnostic Efficiencies and Quality” at the Digital Health Innovation Summit at Le Méridien Hotel in Philadelphia on May 14 at 9:50 am ET. The summit provides a forum for senior leaders and executives looking to utilize, innovate and develop digital initiatives within healthcare.

May 11, 2015

Around the web

"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.

SCAI and four other major healthcare organizations signed a joint letter in support of intravascular ultrasound. 

The newly approved AI models are designed to improve the detection of pulmonary embolisms and strokes in patients who undergo CT scans.

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