Course Overview

Are you a radiologist ready for additional responsibility? 

 

Join the RLI Leadership Accelerator, a 12-week virtual course designed to enhance your leadership skills. 

 

Participants will:

 

  • Build your executive skills and drive change from the reading room to the boardroom.
  • Master management strategies for the hospital boardroom.
  • Develop expertise in radiology operations, negotiations, and finances.
  • Learn to be recognized as a leader by other departments.
  • Collaborate and grow with their peers.

     

 

Please contact the RLI at rli@acr.org with questions.

Key Features

Enhance your skills in:

 

  • Understanding the interplay between radiology and hospital operations.
  • Creating effective organizational structures.
  • Aligning diverse team members with performance goals.
  • Using financial analysis for improvement strategies.

 

Program Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

 

  • Recognize the critical relationship between radiology and hospital operations. 
  • Identify how to create the right organizational structure to navigate radiology and hospital operations. 
  • Describe how to align members of a team with diverse perspectives and backgrounds around performance goals. 
  • Identify how financial analysis can be used to develop improvement strategies.

Schedule

The RLI Leadership Accelerator combines live 90-minute virtual sessions with pre-read materials. Sessions are held Thursday evenings from 7pm–8:30pm (ET), featuring faculty presentations and interactive Q&A. Engage with peers and faculty via the ACR Engage platform, and receive CME credit for live sessions. The course concludes with an in-depth Q&A with all faculty.

All Sessions are Thursdays 7pm–8:30pm (ET)

Modules

Dates Topic Faculty
January 16, 2025 Organizational Structure of Healthcare Systems Judy Yee, MD, FACR
January 23, 2025 Performance Measures Jocelyn D. Chertoff, MD, MS, FACR
January 30, 2025 Interpreting Financial Statements Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD, MBA, FACR
February 6, 2025 Strategy and Transformation Through a Crisis and Beyond Rasu B. Shrestha, MD, MBA

Dates Topic Faculty
February 13, 2025 Understanding and Managing Costs Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD, MBA, FACR
February 20, 2025 Leadership, Organizational Structure, Design and Accountability Rasu B. Shrestha, MD, MBA
February 27, 2025 Building and Supporting Effective Teams Jocelyn D. Chertoff, MD, MS, FACR
March 6, 2025 Using Leadership Models and Roles for Success Judy Yee, MD, FACR

Dates Topic Faculty
March 13, 2025 Conflict Management Rasu B. Shrestha, MD, MBA
March 20, 2025 Leading From the Middle Jocelyn D. Chertoff, MD, MS, FACR
March 27, 2025 Business Planning: Forecasting Demands and Outcomes Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD, MBA, FACR;
April 3, 2025 Business Planning: Designing and Shepherding the Process Judy Yee, MD, FACR

Course Chair

Geoffrey Rubin, MD, MBA, PhD

Geoff Rubin, MD, MBA, FACR

Chair and Professor, Medical Imaging; Clinical Service Chief of Medical ImagingBanner University Medicine – Tucson

Course Faculty

Jocelyn Chertoff, MD, MS, FACR

Jocelyn Chertoff, MD, MS, FACR

Chair, Department of Radiology; Professor of Radiology; Professor of Obstetrics and GynecologyGeisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Judy Yee, MD, FACR

Judy Yee, MD, FACR

Rasu Shrestha, MD, MBA

Rasu Shrestha, MD, MBA

Accreditation & Credit Designation Statements

 

Physician Accreditation Statement
The American College of Radiology is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

 

Physician Credit Designation Statement
The American College of Radiology designates this live activity for a maximum of 18 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

Instructions to Receive Credit
In order to successfully complete the activity, participants must complete an activity evaluation and claim credit commensurate with their participation in the activity. Credit claiming instructions will be sent at the conclusion of this activity.

 

Contact Information

For information about the accreditation of this program, please contact the ACR.

 

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships
The ACR Disclosure Policy:  The American College of Radiology (ACR) adheres to the policies and guidelines, including the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited CE, set forth to providers by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), stating those activities where continuing education credits are awarded must be balanced, independent, objective, and scientifically rigorous. All persons in a position to control the content of an accredited continuing education program provided by ACR are required to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible company within the past 24 months.  All financial relationships reported are identified as relevant and mitigated by ACR in accordance with the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited CE in advance of delivery of the activity to learners. The content of this activity was vetted by ACR to assure objectivity and that the activity is free of commercial bias.  All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated by ACR.

 

The following planners and managers have no relevant financial relationships to disclose:


Maddy Gerhart, Anne Marie Pascoe, Jennifer Pendo, Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD, MBA, FACR

 

The following faculty members have no relevant financial relationships to disclose:


Jocelyn D. Chertoff, MD, MS, FACR, Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD, MBA, FACR, Rasu B. Shrestha, MD, MBA, Judy Yee, MD, FACR