RSNA in Brief—July 2025

RSNA 2025: Imaging the Individual will be held Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 at McCormick Place in Chicago. Registration for the annual meeting will open in late July. This year, the spotlight is on precision medicine. As imaging professionals around the world continue to define personalized care, the RSNA annual meeting stands as the ultimate destination for innovation, expertise and meaningful collaboration.

The RSNA Medical Student Travel Scholarship is offered to medical students interested in pursuing a career in radiology. RSNA will award 15 scholarships of $1,000 each to offset travel and hotel costs associated with attending the RSNA annual meeting.

Nariman Nezami, M.D., is the 2025 RSNA William R. Eyler Editorial Fellow, and Ali Tejani, M.D., CIIP, has been named the 2025 RSNA William W. Olmsted Trainee Editorial Fellow. Kevin Fung, M.B.B.S., was selected as the recipient of the RSNA International Editorial Fellowship. Read the full story in RSNA News.

"Radiology Reimagined: Advancing Clinical Practice Through AI Innovation" will bring together global leaders in radiology and AI for a new RSNA Spotlight Course in Barcelona, Oct. 16-17, 2025. This two-day experience will explore the real-world application of AI tools across diverse practice settings. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the AI evaluation and deployment lifecycle and examine the role of generative AI. Didactic sessions, case-based learning and interactive discussions will prepare attendees to lead evidence-based AI implementation and champion innovations that improve both patient outcomes and professional practice.

Enrollment is now open for the RSNA Quality Certificate. Designed for busy professionals, this certificate offers six brief on-demand modules, each followed by a knowledge check. Participants gain essential skills and confidence to lead quality improvement initiatives in their practice.

RSNA now offers a Chest Certificate as part of the RSNA Imaging AI Certificate Program. AI is rapidly transforming the way chest radiologists handle the high volume of cases by optimizing workflow integration and automation. The curriculum in the Chest Certificate course will enable radiology professionals to:

• Gain hands-on experience and develop practical skills through case-based learning
• Responsibly integrate AI tools to optimize workflow and automate tasks
• Bring structure and speed to reporting to better handle high imaging volumes
• Flag critical findings faster
• Assess model performance
• Explore insights from the latest research

Each of the six case-based modules allow participants to learn at their own pace through a series of pre-recorded videos and a variety of hands-on activities that build on concepts established in the previous modules. Modules will be released monthly.

RSNA continues to expand its government relations efforts to advocate for policies that support radiologists, protect access to imaging and advance medical research. By engaging with policymakers, the RSNA Government Relations Committee works to ensure that the value of radiology in patient care and innovation is clearly understood and effectively represented. On June 4, Libby O'Hare, Ph.D., RSNA director of Government Relations, served on an expert panel in a virtual Town Hall hosted by the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research (Academy). The conversation focused on the fiscal year 2026 federal budget and appropriations process and its impact on imaging and radiology research.

The R&E Foundation will open its next grant application cycle in October, and several funding opportunities are available. Research grants allow investigators at all stages of their career to advance the radiologic sciences. Education grants support radiology educators who are developing new ways to teach, assess, and promote future leadership in radiology. In addition, the Foundation has introduced targeted funding opportunities for researchers advancing groundbreaking work in emerging, priority and underfunded areas.

Academic radiologists and radiation oncologists across all career stages can gain career development support with the Applying Comparative Effectiveness and Quality Improvement Research and Education (ACQUIRE) Program. Participants in this program will gain tools for research in health care delivery and clinical effectiveness along with practical skills, peer support, and mentored research in the form of an intensive hybrid learning program. Participants select from three available program tracks that each include in-person and virtual instruction over the course of a total of two days:

• Evidence Synthesis/Quality Improvement
• Observational Research/Health Care Delivery Science
• Economic Evaluation/Decision Science

Registration is open for the 2025 Creating and Optimizing the Research Enterprise (CORE) workshop to be held Oct. 28-29, 2025, at RSNA headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois. CORE is intended for radiology chairs, vice chairs for research, researchers and research administrators from departments of radiology, radiation oncology and nuclear medicine, as well as radiology faculty/clinicians interested in learning more about radiology research. The workshop features a combination of presentations, case studies and group discussions. The application deadline is Aug. 15.