The American College of Radiology (ACR) has elected Christoph Wald, MD, PhD, as chair of its Board of Chancellors, with Gregory N. Nicola, MD, elected vice chair. Amy L. Kotsenas, MD, was re-elected secretary-treasurer.
The officers will assume their roles following the ACR's annual meeting to be held May 2 to 6 in Washington, DC.
Wald is a professor of radiology at the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine in Rochester, MN, and previously served as vice chair of the Board of Chancellors and chair of the ACR Commission on Informatics. He completed his medical training at the University of Bonn Medical School and postgraduate radiology training at Lahey Clinic in Boston, where he later served as radiology chair and medical staff president.
Nicola serves as a physician partner and executive at the Hackensack Radiology Group and is one of 22 physician voting members of the American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee. Kotsenas is a professor of neuroradiology and clinical informaticist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.
ACR also named three new board members: Tessa Cook, MD, PhD, who will chair the ACR Commission on Informatics; Lauren P. Nicola, MD, who will chair the ACR Commission on Economics; and Ben C. Wandtke, MD, who will chair the ACR Commission on Quality and Safety.
