RLI Taking the Lead Podcast

Join us for an in-depth conversation about how Dr. Judy  Yee’s early leadership influences and experiences have shaped her current approach as department chair at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and her perspective on the importance of leadership development opportunities for women in radiology.

Get an inside look at the career of ACR Chief Executive Officer, William T. Thorwarth Jr., MD, FACR, and explore how great mentors and relationship building have been key to a career that has represented radiology both locally and nationally.

Hear a brief overview of the RLI’s newest podcast, “Taking the Lead”, which explores the varied leadership journeys of radiologists across the profession with host, Geoff Rubin, MD, MBA, FACR of Duke University.

Cheri L. Canon, MD, FACR, professor and chair, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Radiology, joins us to discuss the important topic of emotional intelligence and why practice makes perfect as you strive to develop higher EQ skills. She also talks about the importance of EQ for being an effective leader, recognizing burnout and building a better practice.

From the University of Virginia, Cree M. Gaskin, MD, professor and chief of musculoskeletal and intervention, associate chief medical information officer, and vice chair of informatics and operations, and Arun Krishnaraj, MD, MPH, associate professor and chief of the body imaging division and vice chair of quality and safety, discuss an artificial intelligence application that their department is...

Kurt A. Schoppe, MD, a board member and chair of Quality and Safety at Radiology Associates of North Texas, ACR advisor to the AMA RVU Update Committee and chair of the ACR Reimbursement and Practice Expense Committee joins us to explain how the RUC works, why it is important that radiology has a permanent seat on the RUC and the nuts and bolts of reimbursement.  He also offers advice for young ph...

Do Radiologists Have "Customers"?  Brent Wagner, MD, President of West Reading Radiology, Alexander M. Norbash, MD, MHCM, FACR, Professor and Chair of Radiology, University of California San Diego and Mark Carr, adjunct professor at Babson College discuss what exactly we mean when we talk about radiology's customers.  This episode really helps radiologists hone in on the many stakeholders radiolog...

What exactly is Lean Operations? And would implementing some of its tenets actually increase productivity or improve patient outcomes?  In this episode, we talk with Jim Brink, MD, FACR, radiologist-in-chief at Massachusetts General Hospital and Chair, ACR Board of Chancellors and Paul Mulligan, Ph. D., associate professor in the Technology, Operations and Information Management Division at Babson...

In the first new episode of 2018, we are talking with Amy Patel, MD, a breast imager at Beth Israel Deaconess and Rob Mackey, MD, a radiologist at Doctor’s Imaging Group in Gainesville Florida.  In this episode, we discuss what these two doctors wish they had known as they were entering residency, as residents and as they were first entering practice.  Dr. Patel provides great insights from the pe...

What was your best moment in medicine?  In this all-new episode of the Leadership Insider, we talk with Matt Hawkins, MD, director of pediatric interventional radiology at Emory University School of Medicine and Scott Taylor, PhD, associate professor of organizational behavior at Babson College about various ways we can leverage our relationships with our teams and others to foster sustainable cha...

What exactly is burnout and why is it impacting physicians, and in particular, radiologists, at increasing rates? In this timely episode, James Y. Chen, MD Associate Professor of Radiology, San Diego VA Medical Center and UCSD Medical Center and Carol Hamilton, MBA, SPHR, FACMPE, Chief Administrative Officer at West County Radiological Group, Inc join us to discuss some key signs of burnout that m...

Amy Patel, MD, was the first female chief resident in her program at the University of Kansas at Wichita and was also the only female in an otherwise all male program.  Dr. Patel, who is now a breast imager at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Imaging Center, joins us to discuss her experience as the first female chief resident, the importance of mentors to the rising generation and the power of diver...

Are you stepping into leadership for the first time? Or, are you looking to take on more responsibility and want to be prepared for when your time comes? With a new role comes new responsibilities, new team dynamics, increased expectations, greater demands on your time and new skill sets.  So what is a new leader to do? In this new episode, Geoff Rubin, MD, MBA, FACR professor of radiology at Duke...

In the second part of our conversation on AI, machine learning, and computer-aided diagnosis, we are joined by David Louis, MD, the Benjamin Castleman Professor of Pathology at HMS; chair of the Executive Committee on Research at MGH; and chair of the department of Pathology at MGH. Under his chairmanship, MGH Pathology has become a national leader in molecular diagnostics and pathology informatic...

No, the robots are not here to take your job. But, with the emergence of machine learning technologies, what exactly does that mean for radiology and how will it impact the workflows, processes and the nature of the job? In this exciting new episode, Mark Michalski, MD, the executive director of the Center for Clinical Data Science at Massachusetts General and Brigham Hospital joins us as we discu...

Alexander Norbash, MD, professor and chair of radiology at the University of California, San Diego, talks with Lakshmi Balachandra, MBA, PhD, assistant professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College, about steps that radiologists can take to be successful at negotiating and common negotiation errors that they need to avoid. Don't miss Dr. Balachandra's all new session at the 2017 Leadership Summi...

In this episode, we bring the radiology, legal, and business manager/accounting viewpoints together as we are joined by Larry Muroff, MD, FACR, CEO & president of Imaging Consultants, Inc., Tom Greeson, partner, Reed Smith LLP, and Tim Barrett, CEO of Radiology Associates for a great discussion on radiology practice integrations.   This in-depth discussion covers the various forms integrations can...

Cheri L. Canon, MD, FACR talks with Paul Mulligan, associate professor of technology and operations management at Babson College about how operational decisions can impact performance metrics and why operational decisions should align with business models.  Professor Mulligan offers great insights on how to track and improve performance metrics, how to make operational decisions to have a positive...

Richard Duszak Jr., MD, FACR, professor and vice chair of health policy and practice in the department of radiology and imaging sciences at Emory University School of Medicine, and Danny Hughes, PhD senior director of health policy research at the Neiman Health Policy Institute discuss the bundled payment model, how it fits in the transition from volume-to-value-based care, and how this model coul...

Join Geraldine B. McGinty, MD, MBA, FACR, vice chair of the ACR Board of Chancellors and chief strategy officer at Weill Cornell Medicine Physician Organization for an 8-minute deep dive into MACRA and learn key info about the law and what it means for radiology.  

This 6-minute episode is jam-packed with great insights into why personal branding is important and three steps you can take right now to creating a better personal brand for greater professional - and even personal - success. 

In the spirit of the New Year, as we all resolve to change and better, Frank Lexa, MD, MBA, talks with Anton Armbruster, PhD at the 2016 RLI Leadership Summit about why change is so difficult and how we can take practical steps to overcome the obstacles to make the changes stick.