ACR The American College of Radiology Learning Network

June 27th, 2023

The ACR Learning Network is a place where organizations come to support one another in improvement. Over the last couple years, the Learning Network has supported 43 projects from organizations across the country through learning collaboratives focused on improving four areas of care: increasing lung cancer screening rates for at risk populations, improving breast positioning in mammography, improving prostate MR image quality, and improving the completion of appropriate follow-up recommendations from imaging examinations. I will discuss what the network is, how we support improvement, collaboration, and developing measures and the results from our first two learning collaborative cohorts.

Kandice Garcia Tomkins

Kandice Garcia Tomkins is a radiology nurse by training and has been working as a Quality Manager for the past 9 years. In addition to managing daily improvement, she has worked closely with Dr. David Larson to develop quality improvement education programs such as RITE (Realizing Improvement through Team Empowerment) and ACIS (Advanced Course in Improvement Sciences). Currently, Kandice is working with the ACR (American College of Radiology) to create a network of national Learning Collaboratives to solve problems throughout radiology. Kandice currently lives in Denver, Co with her husband Ryan and two daughters, Mila and Brooklyn.