Former Pacific Radiology Group CEO Lance Lawler plans to address the potential effects of artificial intelligence on the profession during his two-year tenure as president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR), promising to promote the benefits of AI rather than the hype.

Pacific Radiology is one of 24 organisations worldwide that signed up in 2017 to take part in IBM's Watson Health collaborative to help develop cognitive computing tools in medical imaging.