The American College of Radiology (ACR) has joined the Society for Participatory Medicine (SPM) as a bronze-level member.
The SPM is devoted to promoting participatory medicine, a movement in which networked patients become responsible drivers of their health and in which providers encourage and value them as full partners, according to the society.
As an SPM bronze organization member, the ACR will collaborate with patients and health professionals and caregivers, said ACR CEO Dr. William Thorwarth Jr. The collaboration will include efforts aimed at influencing policy, conducting research, and educating others in best practices in participatory medicine.
In other ACR news, the organization has awarded nearly a dozen scholarships for its 2016 Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) Leadership Summit, to be held in September in Wellesley, MA.
Eleven radiology residents and fellows received the awards, which will cover the cost of registration, lodging, and travel and are provided by the ACR Foundation's RLI fund:
- Dr. Aditi Desai of Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Dr. Laura Eisenmenger of the University of Utah School of Medicine
- Dr. Kelsey Anne Flynt of the University of Michigan
- Dr. Vivek Kalia of the University of Vermont College of Medicine
- Dr. Daniel Robert L'Heureux of Rush University Medical Center
- Dr. Dana Lin of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
- Dr. Kazim Narsinh of the University of California, San Diego Medical Center
- Dr. Amy Patel of the University of Kansas School of Medicine
- Dr. Sarah Pittman of Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Dr. Devaki Shilpa Surasi of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
- Dr. Joseph Wildenberg, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania
