Salem, Mass. – North Shore Medical Center (NSMC) physician John A. Patti, M.D., of Lynnfield, Mass., was elected vice chair of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Board of Chancellors during the ACR’s 85th Annual Meeting and Chapter Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Patti is the immediate past chair of the ACR Commission on Economics, current chair of the ACR Task Force on Value Added and vice chair of the ACR Commission on Government Relations. He is the incoming chair of the RADPAC Political Action Committee, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).

A member of the radiology staff at NSMC since 1975, Dr. Patti served as the Chief Financial Officer of his 30-member practice, Commonwealth Radiology Associates, Inc., for 23 years and is its immediate past board chair. Dr. Patti is board certified in diagnostic radiology, and a graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine.

“Dr. Patti has shown outstanding leadership in every role in which he has served within the ACR and elsewhere. He is a longtime advocate of the radiology profession and a nationally recognized expert in the field. We look forward to his continued leadership as vice chair of the ACR Board of Chancellors,” said ACR Executive Director Harvey L. Neiman, M.D.

The ACR is a national nonprofit association serving more than 32,000 radiologists, radiation oncologists, interventional radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and medical physicists with programs focusing on the practice of radiology and the delivery of comprehensive health care services.