Registration Details

This focused leadership course will give you the tools and know-how to build your executive skill set and drive change from the reading room to the boardroom.

2026 RLI Leadership Accelerator

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