28th Anniversary Presentation of the

H. Leonard Warres Lecture

Stephen J. Swenson, MD, MMM

Radiology in a Flat World

May 21, 2008 12:30 pm

Radiology Conference Room N2E14C

Stephen J. Swensen, MD, is a professor of radiology in the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine (Rochester, MN) and is the Mayo Clinic Director for Quality. He served as chair of the Department of Radiology at Mayo from 1998 to 2006. He received his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) and completed residency training at the Mayo Clinic and a fellowship in thoracic radiology at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston, MA). In 2004 he received a master’s degree in medical management from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz School of Public Policy and Management (Pittsburgh, PA).

Dr. Swensen is a past president of the Society of Thoracic Radiology and the Fleischner Society. He has chaired the American College of Radiology’s Quality Metrics Committee and the Radiological Society of North America’s Continuous Quality Improvement Initiative. He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles. Among his latest publications are:

1. McMahon PM, Kong CY, Johnson BE, Weinstein MC, Weeks JC, Kuntz KM, Shepard JA, Swensen SJ, Gazelle GS. Estimating Long-term effectiveness of lung cancer screening in the Mayo CT Screening Study. Radiology. 2008 May 5. [Epub ahead of print]
2. Swensen SJ, Cortese DA. Transparency and the "end result idea". Chest. 2008;133:233–235. 
3. Froehling DA, Daniels PR, Swensen SJ, Heit JA, Mandrekar JN, Ryu JH, Elkin PL. Evaluation of a quantitative D-dimer latex immunoassay for acute pulmonary embolism diagnosed by computed tomographic angiography. Mayo Clin Proc. 2007;82:556–560.
4. Johnson CD, Swensen SJ, Glenn LW, Hovsepian DM. Quality improvement in radiology: White paper report of the 2006 Sun Valley Group meeting. J Am Coll Radiol. 2007;4:145–147. 
5. Swensen SJ. Reliably better, faster, and cheaper soufflés. J Am Coll Radiol. 2007;4:86–87. 
6. Johnson CD, Swensen SJ, Applegate KE, Blackmore CC, Borgstede JP, Cardella JF, Dilling JA, Dunnick NR, Glenn LW, Hillman BJ, Lau LS, Lexa FJ, Weinreb JC, Wilcox P. Quality improvement in radiology: White paper report of the Sun Valley Group meeting. J Am Coll Radiol. 2006;3:544–549.
7. Swensen SJ, Johnson CD. Radiologic quality and safety: mapping value into radiology. J Am Coll Radiol. 2005;2:992–1000.
8. Swensen SJ, Johnson CD. Sun Valley Group manifesto. J Am Coll Radiol. 2005;2:646–648. 
9. Aubry MC, Thomas CF Jr, Jett JR, Swensen SJ, Myers JL. Significance of multiple carcinoid tumors and tumorlets in surgical lung specimens: Analysis of 28 patients. Chest. 2007;131:1635–1643. 
10. Bach PB, Jett JR, Pastorino U, Tockman MS, Swensen SJ, Begg CB. Computed tomography screening and lung cancer outcomes. JAMA. 2007;297:953–961. 
11. Midthun DE, Swensen SJ, Hartman TE, Jett JR. Lung cancer screening results: easily misunderstood. Mayo Clin Proc. 2007 ;82:14–15. 
12. Lindell RM, Hartman TE, Swensen SJ, Jett JR, Midthun DE, Tazelaar HD, Mandrekar JN. Five-year lung cancer screening experience: CT appearance, growth rate, location, and histologic features of 61 lung cancers. Radiology. 2007;242:555–562.
13. Christensen JA, Nathan MA, Mullan BP, Hartman TE, Swensen SJ, Lowe VJ. Characterization of the solitary pulmonary nodule: 18F-FDG PET versus nodule-enhancement CT. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2006;187:1361–1367.

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About Diagnostic Radiology Grand Rounds and CME Credit

Targeted audience: health care providers

Learning objectives:

(1) Understand the business case for quality;

(2) Understand the characteristics of a culture of safety; and

(3) Understand the risks of commoditization.

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