Power Hour Webinar

Moderators & Faculty

Frank J. Lexa, MD, MBA, FACR

Frank J. Lexa, MD, MBA, FACR is an academic neuroradiologist at the University of Pittsburgh where he is a Professor and the Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs. At Pitt, he also works in several capacities for UPMC International and teaches at the Katz business school. He is the 2022-2023 Vice President of the American College of Radiology and in this role also serves on the Board of the Canadian Association of Radiologists.

Dr. Lexa lectures, consults and writes extensively on issues at the interface of health care and business. He has authored over 160 peer reviewed papers as well as numerous articles in the general medical press and in alternative media and has also contributed multiple book and encyclopedia chapters. He has given over 2,000 academic, invited, educational, business and Grand Rounds lectures as well as chaired and directed numerous educational meetings for academic, professional and business organizations. His book “Leadership Lessons for Success in Health Care” takes a systematic approach to developing medical leadership skills.

He has chaired, co-chaired and served on several key national committees and task forces for major organizations in US radiology. He is the Chief Medical Officer of the Radiology Leadership Institute of the ACR as well as the Chair of the RLI Board. He co-led the ACR’s Five Year Strategic Planning process cycle which was completed in 2022. He is also the current chair of the ACR International Economics Committee and a member of the ACR International Commission. He served on the Board of Chancellors of the ACR for two terms as the Chair of the Commission on Leadership and Practice Development. He also served for six years as a founding co-chair of the Future Trends Committee for the ACR and was also on the Budget and Finance Committee.

In 2022, he began a three year term as the chair of the Intersociety Committee which brings together all of the key organizations in US radiology. He recently became a Vice-Chair for Education of the International Society of Radiology and launched leadership programs in Lusaka, Zambia and in the Philippines.

Jennifer E. Nathan, MD

Jennifer E. Nathan, MD had received her Bachelor of Arts at Miami University in Oxford, OH and medical degree at Medical College of Ohio in Toledo, OH. Her residency was in Diagnostic Radiology at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, and she completed her fellowship in Neuroradiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, MD. She currently serves on the ACR’s Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) board. She had previously served as the YPS member on the American College of Radiology (ACR) Board of Chancellors, on the Council Steering Committee, Chair of the ACR Young and early career Physician Section (YPS), Vice Chair on the ACR’s Membership Commission, and on the ACR Radiology Political Action Committee (RADPAC), She serves the American Board of Radiology (ABR) as part of the Neuroradiology Initial Certifying/Maintenance of Certification Committee. She is a lecturer on Neuroimaging for the American Institute for Radiologic Pathology (AIRP) in Silver Spring, Maryland. She holds academic appointments as Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD and as a Visiting Professor at NIH in Bethesda, MD.

Brent J. Wagner, MD

Brent Wagner, MD, MBA, is the Executive Director of the American Board of Radiology (ABR) in Tucson, Arizona, following more than a decade as a volunteer including service as an exam committee member, Trustee for Genitourinary Radiology, and President of the Board of Governors. His early career included an opportunity to serve as Course Director and faculty member in the Department of Radiologic Pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) in Washington, DC. Prior to joining the ABR full time in July 2020, he spent 22 years in a private practice group of 25 radiologists in Reading, Pennsylvania. During that time he held a variety of hospital leadership roles including department chair, group president, medical staff president, member of the leadership council, and chairman of the board of the health system.

Daniel A. Rodgers, MD

Dr. Rodgers is an MSK-trained general radiologist who serves as president of Kanawha Valley Radiologists, a small private practice in Charleston, WV. He is also the current president of the WV Radiological Society and chair of the Economics Committee for the ACR's Commission on General, Small, Emergency, and Rural Practices, in addition to serving on the ACR Council Steering Committee.