When the ultrasound program she’d planned on was cancelled a week before classes, Nikki Smith, ARRT (R)(CT), gave X-ray a try on a whim. Today she’s X-Ray Operations Manager at WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital — and building a leadership career rooted in human connection.
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After stumbling into radiology at a college career fair, Amy Rutledge, MBA, CRA, RDMS, built a career that carried her from sonographer to Director of Imaging Services at Piedmont Macon and Macon North. Her guiding principle: keep the patient at the center of every decision.
X-ray tech by day, barre instructor and livestock-showing mom the rest of the time — Kathryn Foland, RT(R), on juggling a full life and finding her peace at the barre.
For ASRT, advocacy begins with how policy decisions affect the people receiving medical imaging and radiation therapy services.
This is the bystander effect in the workplace: the tendency to remain passive when other people are present, often because we assume someone else will respond, question whether the situation is serious enough or worry that speaking up will create conflict.
For imaging service professionals, staying current requires more than learning how a system operates at a single point in time. Equipment configurations, software versions and service requirements continually change.
The year 2026 finds the radiology department at a critical juncture. As a radiology professional, I have witnessed firsthand how the sheer velocity of imaging demand threatens to outpace the human capacity for nuanced interpretation.
Unfortunately, after getting promoted to management, the habits that made them successful at the technical level are hard to leave behind.
An employee can wear the same badge, attend the same huddles, and cover the same call schedule as everyone else, yet still leave work wondering, “Do these people actually see me as part of the team?”
More than half of adults and about 60% of children in the United States have unhealthy diets, which can contribute to higher rates of health factors such as high blood pressure and obesity, and lead directly to poor health outcomes including death from chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease.
