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RLI Leadership Accelerator

Maximizing Your Impact from the Reading Room to the Boardroom

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Course Overview

Are you a radiologist ready for additional responsibility?  

The Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) Leadership Accelerator is a transformative 9-week virtual program that empowers forward-thinking radiologists with the leadership, business and operational tools needed to drive innovation and lead within complex healthcare organizations.

The program is structured in three Modules:

  1. The Hospital Board Room
  2. Stewarding the Department
  3. Influencing Change at the Hospital Level

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.

Pricing

 Price
 Member  $695
 Nonmember  $1095
 Member in Training  $445
 Military/VA/USPHS  $445

Schedule

Participants review pre-recorded lectures in preparation for engaging in a one hour weekly live session focused on hospital operations, finance, performance metrics, team building and strategic influence—emerging as confident, capable healthcare leaders. 

Modules

DatesTopicFaculty
 February 5, 2026Organizational Structure of Healthcare Systems / C-Suite Roles and Organizational Decision Making TBD
 February 12, 2026 Interpreting Financial StatementsGeoffrey D. Rubin, MD, MBA, FACR
 February 19, 2026 Hospital Operations and Performance Measures Kurt Schoppe, MD

DatesTopicFaculty
 February 26, 2026 Understanding and Managing CostsGeoffrey D. Rubin, MD, MBA, FACR
 March 5, 2026 Surprising Roles of Leadership and Their Impact on Interpersonal Relationships  Kurt Schoppe, MD
 March 12, 2026 Building and Supporting Effective Teams  TBD

DatesTopicFaculty
 March 19, 2026 Leading from the Middle TBD
 March 26, 2026 Business Planning: Designing and Shepherding the Process Kurt Schoppe, MD
 April 2, 2026 Business Planning: Financial ForecastingGeoffrey D. Rubin, MD, MBA, 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

Kurt A. Schoppe, MD

Kurt A. Schoppe, MD

President, Radiology Associates of North Texas, PAFort Worth, TX

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