Siegel becomes CQO at RadSite

Eliot L. Siegel, MD, has joined RadSite, a certification and accreditation agency for imaging quality, as its chief quality officer (CQO).

In this role, Siegel will help oversee and promote the integrity of all quality-based programs and research initiatives for RadSite.   

Siegel also serves as professor and vice chair at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, department of diagnostic radiology, as well as chief of radiology and nuclear medicine for the Veterans Affairs Maryland Healthcare System, both located in Baltimore. He has been responsible for the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) National Biomedical Imaging Archive, and was workspace lead for NCI’s caBIG In Vivo Imaging Workspace.

 

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