The HVPAA Radiology Collaborative is co-directed by Pamela Johnson, MD from Johns Hopkins Hospital and Yoshimi Anzai, MD, MPH from University of Utah. With the approval of their department chair, 30 academic medical centers (listed below) joined the radiology collaborative and are participating on multicenter performance improvement initiatives designed to improve the value of care we deliver.
Our mission:
- Increase appropriate use of imaging exams by decreasing low value tests and increasing high value exams, through performance improvement initiatives and education
- Deliver high value interpretations that optimize use of downstream tests and treatments
- Protect patients from unnecessary surgery, emergency department visits and avoidable hospitalizations
Our initiatives:
- Consensus standardized management recommendations based on ACR AC®, ACR incidental finding white papers and other society evidence-based guidelines.
- Phase I: lung nodule, thyroid nodule, AAA
- Phase II: adrenal nodule, ovarian cyst, small renal mass
- Phase III: pancreatic cyst, renal cyst
- Harmonizing abdominal CT protocols to reduce unnecessary multiphase imaging, which delivers a higher radiation dose and a higher cost for the patient, as detailed in the new ACR Choosing Wisely® recommendations
- Developing standardized reporting to better guide management decision making: leading PE-RADS with the American College of Radiology
- Pooling data to establish benchmarks for emergency department imaging positive exam rates before and after performance improvement interventions
- Rad/EMed/ID: Reduce imaging-driven antibiotic overuse in nonbacterial lower respiratory infection and noninfectious bacteriuria/pyuria (pursuing AHRQ funding with ACR CRI)
- Design, develop and test measures of radiology value related to optimizing patient management
Our educational program:
A leading principle of high-value practice is avoidance of unnecessary tests and treatments in accordance with established clinical practice guidelines. To reinforce this practice, we designed an in person CME/MOC educational program (Order Wisely®) that reviews appropriate use of imaging exams, lab tests, medications, transfusions and procedures. An understanding of the evidence behind appropriate ordering and prescribing is important to change long-standing practice habits and overcome concerns about missed diagnoses. Included are presentations on best imaging exam selection for the 8 CMS Priority Clinical areas, to ensure that providers are prepared for the CMS Appropriate Use Program, which will include evaluation of their ordering appropriateness beginning in January 2020. All of the lectures are recorded and available free on our website at www.hvpaa.org/order-wisely.
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HVPAA Radiology Collaborative Roster
Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Michael K. Atalay, MD, PhD
- Director, Imaging Research
- Director, Cardiac MRI and CT
- Asst. Professor, Diagnostic Imaging & Medicine
David Swenson, MD
- Quality Officer
- Assistant Professor, Diagnostic Imaging
Jonathan Movson, MD
- Director of Radiology Informatics
- Assistant Professor (Clinical), Department of Diagnostic Imaging
Baylor Medical School
Alexandre Frigini, MD
- Director of Quality Assurance/Quality Control and Radiology Peer Review
- Director of Medical Student and Allied Health Education
Marc Willis, DO
- Associate Chairman for Quality Improvement
- Chief of Musculoskeletal Imaging and Intervention
- Associate Program Director, Diagnostic Radiology Residency
- Associate Professor, Radiology and Orthopedic Surgery
Ann Marie Marciel, MD, PhD
- Vice Chair of Research
- Chief of Emergency Radiology
- Assistant Professor of Radiology
Baylor University Medical Center
Kennith F. Layton, MD, FAHA
- Vice-Chairman, Department of Radiology
- Director, Interventional Neuroradiology
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology
- Assistant Program Director, Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program
Baystate Medical Center
Stephen C. O’Connor, MD
- Vice Chair, Department of Radiology, Baystate Medical Center
- Medical Director of Quality, Radiology Department, Baystate Medical Center
- Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Einstein Healthcare Network (TJUH affiliate)
Ryan K Lee, MD, MBA
- MRI Safety Officer
- Director of MRI
- Section Chief, Neuroradiology
Peter S. Wang, MD
- Director of Body CT and MRI
- Director of Medical Students
- Department of Radiology
- Einstein Healthcare Network
Florida Hospital
Jeremy Burt, MD
- Medical Director of Research, Department of Radiology
Henry Ford Hospital
- Associate Program Director – Radiology Residency
Indiana University School of Medicine
Mark S. Frank, MD, MBA
- Professor of Clinical Radiology and Imaging Sciences
- Director, Clinical Informatics
Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Vice Chair of Quality, Safety & Value, Department of Radiology
- Director of Appropriate Imaging, Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Radiology Residency Program Director
- Physician Lead Health System High Value Care Committee
Brandyn Lau, MPH
- Director of Radiology Value Informatics
Lisa Mullen, MD
- Assistant Professor of Breast Imaging
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Franco Verde, MD
- Associate Radiology Residency Program Director
Medical College of Wisconsin
- Associate Professor of Radiology
- Director of Quality Improvement for Diagnostic Radiology
Michigan Medicine (Formerly University of Michigan)
Ella Kazerooni, MD
- Interim Chair, Department of Radiology
- Professor, Radiology, Internal Medicine – Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
- Associate Chair for Clinical Affairs
- Director, Cardiothoracic Radiology
- Service Chief, Diagnostic Radiology
Matthew Davenport, MD
- Associate Professor, Radiology and Urology
- Associate Chair, Quality
- Chair, Michigan Radiology Quality Collaborative
- Director, Body MRI
- Division of Abdominal Radiology
Prasad Shankar
- Assistant Professor, Radiology
- Division of Abdominal Radiology
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Mark DeLano, MD FACR
- Director, Division of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
- Medical Director, Department of Radiology, Spectrum Health System
Christopher M Chambers MD, PhD, FACS
- Spectrum Health Vice President-Research
- Chief, Section of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Andrew Moriarity, MD
- Body Imaging Education Director, College of Human Medicine, MSU
- Quality Committee Co-Chair, Advanced Radiology Services
Midwestern University
- Gregory Henkle, MD
- Vice Chair and Radiology Residency Director
NYU Langone Health System
Danny Kim, MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Radiology
- Director of Quality and Safety, Department of Radiology
Stella Kang, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology
Leon Rybak, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology
- Vice Chair of Operations
Ankur Doshi, MD
Ochsner Clinic Foundation
Stephen Johnson, MD
- GI/GU Imaging Section Head
Penn State College of Medicine
- Chairman of Radiology
- Distinguished Professor of Radiology and Orthopaedic Surgery
- Co-Director of Medical Student Education for Dept. of Radiology
- Associate Professor, Department of Radiology
Presence Saint Francis Hospital
Joseph Calandra, MD
- Chair and Residency Program Director
Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson
Jeffrey Kempf, MD, FACR
- Residency Program Director
- Chief of Nuclear Imaging
Stanford Medical Center
Daniel Rubin, MD
- Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Radiology (Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford) and Medicine (Biomedical Informatics Research)
- Director of Biomedical Informatics, Stanford Cancer Institute
- Director, Scholarly Concentration in Informatics and Data Driven Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine
- Department of Radiology
Terry Desser, MD
- Professor of Radiology
- Division of Abdominal Imaging, Department of Radiology
University of Alberta, Canada
Christopher Fung, MD
- Department of Radiology
University of California Davis
Ramit Lamba, MD
- Professor of Radiology
- Chief of Abdominal Imaging and Director of CT
- Associate Chair (Business and Finance) – Department of Radiology
Jonathan Hargreaves, MD
- Director of Radiology Residency Quality Improvement
University of California San Diego
Alexander Norbash, MD
- Chair and Professor of Radiology
University of Connecticut Medical School
Marco Molina, MD
- Director, Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program
- Section Head, Abdominal Imaging and Ultrasound
- Assistant Professor of Radiology
University of Maryland Medical Center
Eddie Herskovits, MS, PhD
- Vice Chair, Informatics
- Professor of Radiology
Jade Wong, MD
- Professor of Diagnostic Radiology
- Vice Chair, Quality & Patient Safety
University of Nebraska
- Professor of Radiology
- Hospital Service Chief
- Medical Director Marketing & Scheduling
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Assistant Professor, Radiology
- Co-Director, Automated Radiology Recommendation Tracking Engine
Mary Scanlon, MD
- Residency Program Director, HUP
- Section Chief, ED
- Vice Chair, Education, Radiology
- Professor of Clinical Radiology
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Tharakeswara K. Bathala, MBBS, MD
- Assistant Professor of Radiology
University of Texas Southwestern
Cecelia Brewington, MD.
- Professor and Vice Chairman
- Division Chief, Community Radiology
- Department of Radiology
David Fetzer, MD
- Assistant Professor, Abdominal Imaging Division
- Medical Director of Ultrasound
- Chief of Abdominal Imaging Interventional Services
Travis Browning, MD
- Associate Professor
- Director of Quality, Department of Radiology
- Medical Director, Medical Informatics
Kanupriya Vijay, MD
- Assistant Professor of Radiology
University of Utah Health Sciences
Yoshimi Anzai, MD
- Associate Chief Medical Quality Officer
- Professor of Radiology
University of Wisconsin
Elizabeth S. Burnside, MD, MPH, MS
- Professor (Tenure), Department of Radiology
- Chief of Breast Imaging Section
- Associate Dean, School of Medicine and Public Health
- Deputy Director, Institute of Clinical Translational Science
Radiology Partners Research Institute (multiple academic affiliates)
Rich Heller, MD
- Chair of radiology for Advocate Children’s Hospital
- VP Clinical Services and National Director of Pediatric Radiology at Radiology Partners
Upma Rawal, MD
- Director of Quality
- Radiology Partners
Jay Bronner, MD, MBA
- Chief Medical Officer
- Radiology Partners