Radiology

Lumexa Imaging — formerly known as U.S. Radiology Specialists — has tapped Russell Stewart, MD, as chief medical officer.  Dr. Stewart is a musculoskeletal radiologist and previously served as chief clinical officer for clinical analytics firm Covera Health, according to…

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System has named Christopher Whitlow, MD, PhD, as systemwide radiologist-in-chief and Yale New Haven Hospital’s chief of radiology, effective Oct. 20.  Dr. Whitlow will also serve as chair of the department of radiology and biomedical…

As part of an international clinical trial, Jacksonville-based Mayo Clinic in Florida has become the first U.S. site to target metastatic breast cancer with the radiopharmaceutical actinium-225. The trial drug, which contains actinium-225, was developed to treat a subtype of…

The American College of Radiology has expressed support for the No Surprises Enforcement Act, introduced to Congress July 23 as a reinforcement measure of the No Surprises Act, which was signed into law in 2020. The No Surprises Enforcement Act…

New York City-based Columbia University has appointed Jasnit Makkar, MD, as chief of its division of emergency radiology.  Dr. Makkar joined Columbia’s radiology department in 2016 and previously served as director of the diagnostic radiology residency program from 2021 to…

Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare recently standardized radiology services across eight recently acquired hospitals in Illinois.  When the purchase was finalized in March, Prime committed $250 million to facility upgrades, capital improvements, system upgrades and technology investments.  Prime has deployed the…

Children represent less than 1% of publicly available medical imaging data, according to a preprint study published June 10 in MedRxiv.  To analyze the inclusion of children’s imaging data, researchers reviewed 181 public medical imaging data sets from The Cancer…

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine debuted its new mobile mammogram van during a free community health fair on July 13.  The van — equipped with Siemens’ 3D mammography technology in a private, air-conditioned suite — was made possible by philanthropic donations, and…

One of the country’s largest outpatient imaging providers, US Radiology Specialists, is taking a bold step forward this year with a new CEO and rebrand to Lumexa Imaging. The rebrand, announced July 8, signals more than a cosmetic change —…

U.S. Radiology Specialists, a physician-owned outpatient medical imaging provider, has rebranded to Lumexa Imaging.  The new name is “rooted in the concept of illumination,” Melissa Weston, senior vice president of marketing for Lumexa Imaging, said in a July 8 news…