New Staff Hires and Promotions: March 2, 2009

Posted 08:16 AM, March 02, 2009, by jaruiz

Douglas Cathon, MA, ARRT, has joined our Department as our Radiology quality manager at Stanford Hospital and Clinics. Prior to coming to Stanford, Mr. Cathon worked at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He has over 30 years of management experience working in quality management; leading community programs; and teaching business and health courses, on topics including principles of management, organizational behavior, organizational theory, and human resources. Mr. Cathon has published a book entitled Management Dominos and has over 40 publications in professional journals on subjects such as stress management, performance, buying a computer system, and marketing. Other key areas of his experience include quality assessment and improvement; imaging operations management; departmental policy and procedural manuals; Certificates of Need and RFP's; cost analysis; coding/billing; supply control; and short- and long-range planning.

In addition, Mr. Cathon has clinical experience from his work as a radiological technologist in all areas of radiology and from his service in the Navy as a hospital corpsman with experience as an operating room technician; lab technician; X-ray technician; and pharmacy technician. In the Navy, he was also the leading petty officer on a number of duty stations, which included 10 ships, 2 clinics, and 4 hospitals, and he has 5 years of experience as a Total Quality Management instructor. In 1982, Mr. Cathon received a Navy Achievement Award for designing a medical department on board a ship. His educational background includes an MA in human resource development from Webster University, St. Louis, MO; an MA in health services management from Webster University, St. Louis, MO; a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Education (medical technology and business) from Wayland Baptist University, Plainview Texas; and EPIC-Radiant certification in the radiology RIS system. He is also an American Health Care Radiology Administrators Fellow.

When he is not at work, Mr. Cathon enjoys spending time with his two children and four grandchildren as well as driving his 94 Corvette.

(Image courtesy of Mark Riesenberger)