Establishing a strategic commercial partnership for an outpatient imaging centerot staying active clinically as an academic department chair

摘要

I was chairman of the Department of Radiology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital from 1986 until I semiretired in 2002. Although the hospital's capital budget process was reasonably generous to us over the years, by around 1998 I felt we were falling behind. We had substantial backlogs in MRI and CT, and a PET scanner wasn't even on the horizon. When I pleaded with the hospital administration for additional equipment, they told me that the board of trustees couldn't approve more dollars for radiology. After a year or two of this, I lost patience and told them I wanted to go outside and broker a deal to bring in private investment capital in a joint venture. Somewhat reluctantly, they agreed, probably to shut me up more than anything else.