Rawson elected to American College of Radiology leadership

Dr. James V. Rawson, Chairman of the Department of Radiology and Imaging at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, has been elected to a three-year term on the 33-member Board of Chancellors of the American College of Radiology.

Rawson, who holds the P.L., J. Luther, Ada Warren Endowed Chair of Radiology at MCG, also was recently named President of the Georgia Radiological Society, the Georgia chapter of the national group.

His leadership roles with the American College of Radiology include serving as Chair of the Committee on Governmental and Regulatory Issues in Academic Radiology, the Committee on Economic Issues in Academic Radiology, and the Committee on Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Patient Classification.

He is on the editorial board of the Journal of the American College of Radiology and just completed an 11-year term as Chair of Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System/Ambulatory Payment Categories for the college.

Rawson has served on the Georgia Radiological Society’s Executive Committee since 1999.  His other national leadership roles in radiology include serving on the Association of University Radiologists Board of Directors, as a Councilor for the Board of the Society of Chairs of Academic Radiology Departments, and a one-year term on the Society of Health Systems Content and Connections Committee.