May 17, 2016, Washington, DC — The American College of Radiology (ACR) Board of Chancellors has elected James A. Brink, MD, FACR, as its chair. Also elected were Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA, FACR, who will serve as vice chair, and Howard B. Fleishon, MD, MMM, FACR, who will serve a second term as secretary-treasurer. The new officers took office at ACR 2016 — The Crossroads of Radiology®, the all-member annual meeting held in Washington, DC.

“A long-time advocate for radiology and high-quality patient care, James Brink has shown outstanding leadership in every ACR role in which he has served, most recently as vice chair,” said ACR Chief Executive Officer (CEO) William T. Thorwarth, MD, FACR. “We look forward to his continued outstanding leadership as chair of the ACR Board of Chancellors,” said Thorwarth.

Brink Chair James A. Brink, MD, FACR

Brink was nominated by the board Nominating Committee and elected by the Board of Chancellors as its chair. He is radiologist-in-chief at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Juan M. Taveras Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston. An internationally recognized expert in radiation safety, Brink was instrumental in developing the ACR/RSNA Image Wisely® program. He is a past chair of the ACR Commission on Body Imaging, past co-chair of Image Wisely and serves on the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR) editorial board.

Geraldine Vice Chair Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA, FACR
McGinty was nominated by the board Nominating Committee and elected by the Board of Chancellors as vice chair. She has served the last four years as chair of the ACR Commission on Economics and is an editorial board member and reviewer for JACR. She is a leader of the College’s Imaging 3.0™ efforts to ensure that radiologists are prepared to function effectively in emerging alternate payment models and value-based payment systems. McGinty has also served as the ACR representative to the American Medical Association (AMA) Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC). She serves as assistant chief contracting officer and assistant professor of radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and as an assistant attending radiologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, both in New York.

Fleishon Secretary-Treasurer Howard B. Fleishon, MD, MMM, FACR
Fleishon was nominated by the board Nominating Committee and re-elected by the Board of Chancellors as secretary-treasurer. He has held numerous roles within ACR, including council speaker, vice chair of the Commission on Government Relations and chair of the Radiology Advocacy Network (RAN). Fleishon is currently chair of the ACR Foundation executive committee. He serves as chief of radiology services at Emory Johns Creek Hospital, Johns Creek, GA, and division director of community radiology services at the Emory department of radiology and imaging services, Atlanta, GA.

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