sponsored by The Neiman Institute & AIRP
Course Description
This FREE virtual course introduces residents to key concepts in health policy research, comparative effectiveness research, and big data analytics from top researchers in the field lead by Course Director, Stella Kang, MD, professor of radiology and vice chair of clinical research for the Department of Radiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and Co-Director, Pina Sanelli, MD.
The nine on demand sessions and one live session will be available during the AIRP four week Radiologic Pathology Correlation Courses. You do not need to be registered for the AIRP course to attend the CER course.
Pre-registration is required to get access to the course modules and to recognize participants who complete the lectures. At the end of the course attendees and their program directors will receive a personal certificate of completion.
The online lectures touch upon the following topics:
1. Big Data, Predictive Analytics, and Machine Learning in Imaging
2. Measuring Value in Imaging with Costs and Outcomes
3. Decision Analysis and Evidence Synthesis to Influence Policy
4. Innovative Comparative Effectiveness Trial Designs for Imaging
5. Translating Evidence into Policies and Practice
6. Career Tracks at the Intersection of Health Policy and Radiology
2025 Course Dates:
August 4 – 29, 2025 (virtual)
September 8 – October 3, 2025 (in-person)
October 13 – November 7, 2025 (virtual)
Upcoming Live Session:
Date: Thursday, August 7 from 12 – 1PM
Speaker: Joshua Hirsch, MD, director of Interventional Neuroradiology, chief of the Interventional Spine Service, vice chair of Interventional Radiology Quality & Safety and associate Departmental Quality Chair at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
Title: Improving Vertebral Compression Fractures Outcomes Through Data-Driven Policy
2022 On Demand Sessions:
CER 101 – Health Services Research: An Introduction
Speaker: Stella Kang, MD – Assistant Professor of Radiology, Department of Radiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
CER 102 – Understanding Test Characteristics and Bayes Theorem
Speaker: Pina Sanelli, MD, FACR – Professor, Institute of Health Innovations and Outcomes Research, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
CER 103 – Development, Implementation & Evaluation of an Informatics Tool for Radiologists
Speaker: Dorothy Sippo, MD, MPH – Principal Investigator and Attending Radiologist, Yale University
CER 104 – Informatics for Studying Radiology Outcomes
Speaker: Tessa Cook, MD, PhD – Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania
CER 105 – Publishing Studies: The Editor Perspective
Speaker: Ruth Carlos, MD, MS – JACR Editor-In-Chief
CER 106 – Patients’ Barriers to Imaging Access
Speaker: Gelareh Sadigh, MD – Neuroradiologist and Assistant Professor of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University
CER 107 – How Decision Models Inform Cancer Screening Policy
Speaker: Kathryn Lowry, MD – Assistant Professor, University of Washington
CER 108 – Computer Models and Effectiveness of Imaging
Speaker: Ajay Malhotra, MBBS, MD – Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine
CER 109 – Health Policy Research: Current Topics, Resources and Data
Speaker: Elizabeth Rula, PhD – Executive Director of the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute
CER 110 – Economics of Equity
Speaker: Eric Christensen, PhD – Principal Research Scientist at the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute
Past Live Sessions:
Date: February 20, 2025 Speaker: Melissa Chen, MD – Associate Professor, Department of Neuroradiology, Division of Diagnostic Imaging, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Title: Reimbursement Models of New Technology in Radiology
Date: October 31, 2024 Speaker: Connie Chang, MD – Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Diagnostic and Interventional Musculoskeletal Radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital
Title: Bone Density Screening, with a Focus on Asian Americans: A Multi-Institutional Collaborative Effort
Date: August 8th, 2024 Speaker: Paul Yi, MD, Incoming Associate Member and Director of Informatics & IQAI at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Title: AI Policy Research: Considerations for Developing Fair, Safe, and Trustworthy AI in Radiology
Date: March 28th, 2024 Speaker: Pina Sanelli, MD, FACR – Professor, Institute of Health Innovations and Outcomes Research, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Title: Value of Imaging in Healthcare
Date: February 27th, 2024 Speaker: Resmi A. Charalel, M.D. M.P.H, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine
Title: Comparative Effectiveness Research: The 5 W’s
Date: November 1, 2023 Speaker: Howard Forman, MD, MBA, FACR – Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Public Health (Health Policy), Management, and Economics at Yale University.
Title: Radiology compensation: Why does it vary so much?
Date: September 28, 2023 Speaker: Pina Sanelli, MD, MPH, FACR – Professor of Radiology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell & Professor in Health System Science at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Title: Introduction to Clinical Effectiveness and Outcomes Research
Date: August 9, 2023 Speaker: Jason Naidich, MD, MBA – Chair, Department of Radiology and SVP, Chief Learning & Innovation Officer at Northwell Health
Title: Practical Applications of Health Services Research
Date; March 15, 2023 Speaker: Richard Heller, MD – Associate Chief Medical Officer Communications & Health Policy & National Director of Pediatric Radiology at Radiology Partners
Title: Health Policy Matters Affecting Radiology and Its Future
Date: February 8, 2023 Speaker: Patricia Balthazar, MD – Assistant Professor, Abdominal Radiology & Imaging Informatics, Emory University
Title: Introduction to Health Services Research
Date: October 19, 2022 Speaker: Christoph Lee, M.D., M.S., MBA – Professor of Radiology at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine
Title: “Using Artificial Intelligence for Breast Cancer Screening: Promises and Challenges”
Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2022 Speaker: Eric Christensen, PhD – Principal Research Scientist at the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute
Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Speaker: Stuart Cohen, MD, MPH – Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Innovations & Outcomes Research, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Rosenkrantz, MD – Professor and Director of Health Policy in the Department of Radiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 Speaker: Gelareh Sadigh, MD – Neuroradiologist and Assistant Professor of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 Speaker: Pina Sanelli, MD, FACR – Professor, Institute of Health Innovations and Outcomes Research, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Date: Wednesday, August 4 , 2021 Speaker: Stella Kang, MD – Assistant Professor of Radiology, Department of Radiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Director of this course
2025 Meeting Registration Links
August 4 – August 29, 2025 Registration Link
September 8 – October 3, 2025 Registration Link
October 13 – November 7, 2025 Registration Link
Please contact AIRP Support with any questions.