From the December 2011 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
This year’s recipient, Robert Goldstein, MHA, FACMPE, began as an administrative resident at the Ochsner Clinic in 1975 and works for Cone Health as executive vice president, Cone Physician Network and LeBauer HealthCare. He has dedicated more than 35 years to his profession, community and the association. While continuing to manage the 100-provider multiple-specialty group, LeBauer HealthCare, he directed the establishment of the Cone Physician Network, designed to consolidate the employed physicians of Cone Health and provide a vehicle for employment of community physicians. This initiative now encompasses more than 300 physicians. Recently, he has been intimately involved in the creation of a clinically integrated network, the TriadHealthCare Network, a Collaborative effort of independent and employed physicians with Cone Health senior management.
RSNA Gold Medal: Robert R. Hattery, Bruce J. Hillman and Herbert Y. Kressel
In a tradition that originated in 1919, Gold Medals are presented each year to individuals who have rendered exemplary service to the science of radiology and who have received unanimous approval by the RSNA Board of Directors.
Robert R. Hattery, M.D.
In a career spanning more than three decades, Hattery, a professor of diagnostic radiology, has maintained a patient-centered philosophy, stressing in his 2006 RSNA President's Address that "medicine can only succeed when it is wrapped up in human values."
Born in Phoenix, Hattery found a home for the majority of his academic career at the Mayo Clinic, Mayo Medical School and Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minn. He arrived as a resident in 1967 and by 1981 was named chair of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, a post he held for the next five years. From 1994 to 1998, Hattery served as chair of the Mayo Clinic Board of Governors, becoming the chief executive officer for all of Mayo Clinic's operations in Rochester. In 2002, the year he retired from the Mayo Clinic, Hattery was named Teacher of the Year—an honor he earned twice before at the institution. He is currently a professor emeritus at the Mayo Clinic.
