Dispatches April 2025

Time to Apply! 2026 ACRF Global Humanitarian Award Application Open

The World Health Organization estimates that half of the world’s population lacks access to radiological services. To help close this gap, the ACR Foundation Global Humanitarian Award recognizes outstanding individuals, organizations and programs working to improve equitable delivery of quality radiological services to areas of need throughout the world.

Awards will be presented at the 2026 ACR Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Awards are given in three categories: individuals, organizations (including non-profit and industry groups) and non-radiologists (including medical physicists, radiologic technologists, ultrasonographers and other radiological personnel).

Apply by Aug. 31, 2025, for consideration. Questions? Contact Meredith Amos.

College to Launch Early Lung Cancer Detection Registry

ACR’s Lung Cancer Screening Registry will become the Early Lung Cancer Detection Registry after undergoing expansion and evolution. The change is expected to take place in late 2025. The expansion will support diagnostic performance feedback on management of actionable incidental pulmonary nodules using current ACR Learning Network Recommendations Follow-Up Collaborative measures. These measures focus on the quality of radiology report recommendations and timely follow-up completion rates. In addition to the current performance feedback provided for lung cancer screening exams, the Early Lung Cancer Detection Registry will help healthcare organizations improve management of incidental pulmonary nodules through diagnostic performance feedback and benchmarking.

Read the press release.

News From the Radiology Leadership Institute®

Register for the 2025 RLI Summit

Register to attend the 2025 RLI Summit in Boston, Sept. 26–28, to build your resilience and efficiency while gaining essential tools to navigate today’s challenging radiology landscape. Join top-tier faculty from Babson College and renowned radiology leaders for a transformative weekend where you’ll develop these critical competencies to lead your practice:

• Persuasion: Guide decision-makers toward strategic outcomes.
• Finance: Craft strategies to encourage the C-suite toward budget decisions that support your practice.
• Mindset: Take charge, prioritize and make intentional decisions to achieve your goals.

Through hands-on breakout sessions and interactive case studies, you’ll apply these business strategies to radiology’s real-world scenarios. In addition, you’ll have opportunities to network with the best and brightest in the field.

Early bird pricing and team discounts are available. Register by May 15 to maximize your savings!

Enhance Your Residents' Learning With the 2025–2026 RLI Health Care Economics Milestones Program

The RLI Health Care Economics Milestones program offers a collaborative learning experience that is designed to meet ACGME requirements and helps develop well-rounded radiologists. Created with the help of health care economics experts and radiology program directors, this program will help residents gain insights into radiologist compensation, coding and the impact of emerging technologies and payment reforms on the future of practice.

This virtual program begins in September 2025 and spots are limited. Learn more and enroll your residents today.

Neiman Institute Fellowship in Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy Research

Apply for the Neiman Institute Fellowship, a unique chance for both fellows and junior faculty in radiation oncology and radiology to gain valuable experience in health policy research and clinical effectiveness. The fellowship’s goal is to foster new researchers who will contribute to the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute® (HPI) mission to provide evidence to inform health policy and radiology practice that promotes the effective and efficient use of healthcare resources and improves patient care. One fellow will be selected to learn and apply health services research methods and report and interpret results to demonstrate the value of imaging and understand health policy impact or implications.

Apply by June 2. For more information, including eligibility requirements, visit the HPI website.

Radiology Escapes: ACR Virtual Escape Rooms

Looking for a new team-building experience that works the mind and won’t break the bank? Look no further than ACR Virtual Escape Rooms. The College has put a spin on these puzzle-solving, clue-discovering rooms by adding in some radiology flare. Virtual escape rooms can be completed individually or in small groups of 4–6 at varying levels of difficulty, all while being free of charge. These escape rooms have been created to be completed in one hour.

For more information, visit the ACR Hub for Medical Educators.

CPI Features New Modules

Take a look at the CPI Pediatric Radiology Module 2025 and the CPI Editor’s Choice 2025: Pediatric Imaging modules. Buying both will allow you to gain access to 120 questions where you can claim up to 20 CME. The Pediatric Radiology Module 2025 features fresh content and 50 questions, while the Editor’s Choice 2025 Pediatric Imaging module contains 70 questions and features the best content from published pediatric cases from the past decade.

For more information, email the CPI team.

ACR Career Center Resources for Job Seekers

Utilize the ACR Career Center to find your next opportunity. Review current jobs that match your interests. Create a job seeker account to save jobs, apply for jobs and upload your CV for employers to connect with you.

Contact the Career Center for support.

News from the JACR®

Radiology’s Role in Identifying Victims of Domestic Violence

A new study published in the JACR® details how radiologists can detect patterns that could signal a patient is experiencing domestic violence. The issue of intimate partner violence (IPV) has been very prevalent in society; pre-pandemic, an estimated 47% of women in the U.S. had experienced IPV in their lifetime.

The researchers focused on hundreds of cases involving women reporting IPV in a medical setting, assessing imaging exams completed both in routine settings as well as when IPV is reported.

Aspects noted by the researchers included time and location of service as well as imaging frequency and injury patterns of patients. The researchers compared the results to groups of race- and age-matched controls not reporting IPV.

Among the observations the researchers made were:

• Women reporting IPV undergo imaging more often than those who do not.
• Victims are more likely to cancel routine mammograms.
• Victims are most often seen in emergency departments.
• Injuries are more common among women who report IPV, particularly cranial, facial and thoracic injuries.

Read the JACR study.

JACR®: Now Online-Only

The JACR® is now exclusively available online. This change, which took effect in January, delivers the same high-quality content our readers expect right to their devices. It also reflects the journal’s steadfast dedication to environmental sustainability.

Register for the monthly e-table of contents and article-in-press alerts. The journal also offers a monthly newsletter, the JACR Update, featuring the latest news, multimedia content and more.