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President’s Message MessageDear Colleagues,For the most part 2009 has indeed been a busy andchallenging year for many. It is good to see someupturn in the world economy which has also seen thereserves of ISRRT improve as well.You will see from the Reports from the Boardmembers that they have been working hard intheir various portfolios on your behalf – it is worthremembering that they are also working daily in fulltime employment so spend much of their spare timeon ISRRT activities.You will also sadly have read an Obituary forPeter Lloyd, the late husband of our Director ofEducation. Peter died in September 2009, and wesend our sincere condolences to Cynthia. Many ofyou will have met and even worked with Peter onISRRT projects. His good natured enthusiasm madehim great fun to be with and he will be sadly missedby us all.Sandy Yule, our CEO, will mention in his report,the ISRRT Board Meeting which was held in HongKong earlier this year July 2009 and was a productiveand concentrated two days of activity. While it isan expense for the Board to meet it is essential foroverall management and planning. We plan a locationbased on the cheapest fares and access and thankMaria Law and the Hong Kong Poly U for theirsupport as well as the Hong Kong Societies whohosted us for an evening.I was invited to represent the ISRRT at theAnnual National Meeting of the Canadian Societyin June 2009 and present the Address at the OpeningSession. It was a good opportunity to join with theCanadian Council Member Rita Eyer to promote theinternational education work of ISRRT and to alsothank the Canadian Society for their generous andstrong support of ISRRT. They were very generousand warm hosts during my visit.I was also able to meet with the representativesof the Society of Radiographers at the UK meetingand meet with the staff at the John Rylands Libraryof the Manchester University to discuss and sign theagreement for them to officially hold the materialforming the Archives of the ISRRT. This material willbe used as the basis of a formal History of the ISRRTwhich will be produced to mark the 50th Anniversaryof the ISRRT to be celebrated in Canada in 2012.Of more practical benefit however is the workbeing done on the educational front in many locationsfrom Tanzania to Fiji – Cynthia Cowling, CaesarBarare and Jenny Motto headed up a team which hasbeen widely commended for its work with QA inDigital Imaging and we hope this will be the basis forongoing projects. The Fiji project in conjunction withWorld Health has been similarly acknowledged andwe thank Soji from the Fiji School of Medicine forhis work on this project.You will also have been advised of the recentrecognition of the role of ISRRT by the RadiologicalSociety of North America (RSNA). We are seen asthe focus for Technologists internationally and this isan excellent fit with the plan to increase activities forTechnologists at the RSNA Meeting. Our AmericanSociety colleagues are also increasing their exposureat the RSNA Meeting so it now becomes a veryworthwhile event on the Technologists calendar.Cynthia Cowling and I will be presenting materialwith an International focus at the Associated SciencesForum and giving those attending increased accessto ISRRT. We also offer any Society Representativesattending the RSNA Congress the opportunity to joinus for an informal Meeting of interested Societies– a forum to exchange current issues affectingtechnologist Societies internationally. The date, timeand location are available from the CEO.We have also strengthened our relationship withboth the World Health Organisation (WHO) andThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).We have invited Dr Madan Rehani, an expert onRadiation Protection from IAEA to attend our WorldCongress in 2010 and to be part of a focus of thisimportant issue. I commend you to read the regularupdates from the IAEA on radiation protection topicswhich are very relevant to us all.http://rpop.iaea.org/RPOP/RPoP/Content/Documents/Whitepapers/NewsletterFinal.pdfThe planning for the ISRRT World Congressin September 2010 is well in hand and promises astimulating educational program as well as enjoyablesocial activities. Abstract applications are now beingreceived via the ISRRT website – www.isrrt.orgIt was also been my pleasure in September 2009to attend as a guest, the Annual National Meeting ofthe Chinese Society of Imaging Technologists (CSIT),held in the city of Wuhan in mid China. While thisSociety is not a member of ISRRT, they have beenofficial observers at our last two World Congressesand ISRRT Council Meetings. 800 technologistsattended their meeting with visitors from Korea, HongContinued on the next pageVolume 45 – No. 2 3