Dispatches March 2025

College Nominating Committee Call for Nominations

The College Nominating Committee is tasked with making recommendations for the College’s elected and selected annual positions, encouraging all active ACR members to consider a role in College leadership and governance to lead the future of radiology. Below are some of the positions that the ACR Council will vote on at ACR 2025.

Officers

President

• Timothy L. Swan, MD, FACR, of Marshfield, WI, has been recommended to run for a one-year term.

Vice President

• Johnson Benjamin Lightfoote, MD, FACR, of San Dimas, CA, has been recommended to run for a one-year term.

Council Steering Committee

Of the following seven candidates, four are to be elected in a contested election by the Council to serve a two-year term on the CSC:

• Juan C. Batlle, MD, MBA, FACR, of Boulder, CO
• David T. Boyd, MD, MBA, FACR, of Great Falls, VA
• Ryan K. Lee, MD, MBA, of Wayne, PA
• Neel Madan, MD, of Concord, MA
• Elizabeth P. Maltin, MD, FACR, of Syosset, NY
• Ian A. Weissman, DO, FACR, of Wauwatosa, WI
• Kimberly S. Winsor, MD, of Flagstaff, AZ

See a full list of positions and candidates.

Radiology-TEACHES Modules Relaunches

Radiology-TEACHES modules have been relaunched with content focused on case scenarios and the ACR Appropriateness Criteria®, from JACR® Patient-Friendly summaries to Bulletin articles to help craft these modules for maximum positive impact for anyone interested through four modules.

• The Family & Community module dives into issues a family medicine provider may come across.
• The Internal Medicine module focuses on advanced-imaging scenarios.
• The Sustainability module looks at the different workflows and safest imaging workups for patients.
• The Contrast Safety module is a good tool for learners who need remediation regarding exams and over-ordering contrast exams.

News From the JACR®

IT Change Helping Radiologists Increase Same-Day Reads

Harvard-affiliated physicians were aided by radiology researchers who made a simple IT change to help push more same-day imaging reads for on-site visits. Researchers aimed to change radiologists’ imaging queues to prioritize clinic visits occurring within the next four hours as opposed to those occurring after the four-hour range.

Experts wrote in the JACR that this tweak led to “actionable communication” being available at the time of the appointment at 56%. Along with this, the “actionable communication” time available prior to the appointment increased to 45%, improving by 24.3%. This study included 21 clinics in January 2021.

Read more in the JACR. Read the full article.

CME Opportunities With JACR

Did you know that you can earn continuing medical education (CME) credit just for reading the JACR? Each issue of the journal includes a variety of CME-designated articles that offer insights into professional development, clinical practice guidance and teach larger lessons related to the field of radiology and the health care environment — and the process is about as simple as it gets.

Each CME-designated article is identified by an icon in the issue’s table of contents. Instructions for receiving credit are hyperlinked in the article’s abstract with the prompt, “Access the CME Activity.” After logging in, the reader will review the article to claim CME credit from the ACR.

CME activities and credits for the JACR are free to ACR members. To browse the journal’s extensive and ever-growing collection of CME-designated articles, visit our CME library.