December 28, 2021
What do you do when your high school aptitude test suggests a career as a short-order cook or airplane pilot? You go on to earn your medical degree from the University of Missouri‐Kansas City 6 year BA/MD program, complete your radiology residency at St. Francis Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh, and finish fellowships in Diagnostic Radiology and then Interventional Neuroradiology at Stanford University. From there you join the faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and become Chair and Professor of Radiology at Boston University School of Medicine before taking on your current role as Chair and Professor of Radiology at the University of California, San Diego, (UCSD) in the School of Medicine.
If this career journey sounds familiar, it is likely because you know this month’s guest, Alexander Norbash, MD, MS, FACR. In this very special conversation, host Geoffrey Rubin, MD, MBA, FACR traces Dr. Norbash’s leadership journey from London, England to Northwest Missouri where his later interest in the diversity space was born. Along the way, you will hear stories about the importance of connections, how every interaction with someone can have profound consequences, about the panel of mentors that have consistently guided his decisions and how he ended up choosing radiology.
Having held a number of leadership positions within both academic radiology as well as organized radiology including with the American Roentgen Ray Society, American College of Radiology, Society of Chairs of Academic Radiology Departments, and the Massachusetts Radiological Society, Dr. Norbash offers his insight into what it takes to be an effective leader, how to prepare for a new role and the importance an organization’s culture plays when calibrating your leadership approach.
Don’t miss this master class on leadership and find out whether the aptitude test was accurate after all!
