Emerging Issues Grants
The R&E Foundation developed the Emerging Issues grant to rapidly and effectively address urgent issues that threaten the health and wellbeing of disparate populations.
Emerging Issues Topic: Interventions/Solutions to Increase Radiology Workforce Diversity and/or Decrease Healthcare Disparities
Promote novel, exploratory interventions to mitigate the negative impact of deficient workforce diversity and/or widening health care disparities in the fields of radiology and radiology oncology.
Daniel W. Golden, MD, MPHRush University
A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial to Compare Standard Radiotherapy Patient Education to Patient Education Enhanced by a Graphic Narrative Discussion Guide
Gelareh Sadigh, MD
University of California, Irvine
Empowering Latinx Patients Lung Cancer Screening Uptake (Empower Latinx)
Akos Varga-Szemes, MD, PhD
Medical University of South Carolina
Domestic and Global Remote Training of MRI Technologists for Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging
Emerging Issues Topic: Value Based Radiology: Applying Implementation/Improvement Science to Deliver High Quality and Efficient Care in Today’s Resource-constrained Healthcare Environment
Encourages research to quantify and increase the value of radiology in patient care including improvements in operational efficiencies, equipment utilization, exam acquisition time, worklist prioritization and interpretation time.
Bruno Hochhegger, MD, PhDD'Or Institute
Optimizing Radiology Examination Scheduling Through the Development and Implementation of a Deep Learning Based Prediction Model of Patient Non-Attendance
Aaron D. Sodickson, MD, PhD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Streamlining CT Acquisition, Post-Processing and Reproducibility Across a Multi-Hospital Radiology Enterprise
Emerging Issues Topic: Environmental Impact and Sustainability of Radiology
Supports research addressing radiology’s environmental impact and the critical intersection of sustainability, imaging value and the future of radiology.
Kate Hanneman, MD, MPHUniversity Health Network
Sustainability, Environmental Exposures, and Impact on Medical Imaging Utilization in Radiology (SEMI-RAD)
Andrew Hernandez, PhD
University of California, Davis
Comprehensive Energy Metering and Energy Efficiency-driven Protocol Optimization in CT and MRI
Sean Alexander Woolen, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Identifying MRI Scanning and Cooling Approaches for Energy Reduction in Radiology: A Path to Decarbonizing MRI Operations