In Brief

Brink Elected Chair of American College of Radiology

JAMES BRINK was elected chair of the American College of Radiology by its Board of Chancellors.

The board also elected Geraldine McGinty as vice chair, and Howard Fleishon to serve a second term as secretary-treasurer. They took office at ACR’s annual meeting, held in Washington, D.C. Bibb Allen Jr. was elected president and Cheri Canon was elected vice president.

Brink is radiologist-in-chief at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Juan M. Taveras Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. He helped developed the ACR/RSNA Image Wisely program, and is a past chair of the ACR Commission on Body Imaging and serves on the Journal of the American College of Radiology editorial board.

McGinty 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. She has also served as the ACR representative to the American Medical Association Relative Value Scale Update Committee. 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.