GE Chair Jeffrey Immelt to deliver keynote address at RLI inaugural event

Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman and CEO of GE, will provide the keynote address at the American College of Radiology’s Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) inaugural event, July 12, 2012, at the Hotel Orrington on Northwestern University’s Evanston, Ill., campus.

The inaugural event is invitation-only and will feature a variety of topics to be developed into the RLI’s curriculum, which combines face-to-face learning in a variety of geographic locations, team projects, case analysis and web-based distance learning.

The RLI, a multi-level, multi-year academy will offer instructors from universities offering MBA and MPH degrees, a range of advanced leadership courses building to levels of proficiency and certification and the opportunity to earn continuing medical education credit.
Evan Godt
Evan Godt, Writer

Evan joined TriMed in 2011, writing primarily for Health Imaging. Prior to diving into medical journalism, Evan worked for the Nine Network of Public Media in St. Louis. He also has worked in public relations and education. Evan studied journalism at the University of Missouri, with an emphasis on broadcast media.

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