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CEO REPORT
Chief Executive report
Dimitris Katsifarakis
ISRRT Chief Executive
DEAR Council Members, Associate Members and readers of the News & Views. I trust this
current edition of the News & Views finds you all full of energy and productivity in your
daily work with patients and colleagues.
The past four months have been full of activities for the ISRRT Board, and for me particularly
as we have to work on matters assigned by the Council to us, since April.
The Council consists the driving force of the ISRRT, shapes the future of the Organization
and determines the targets that the Board must fulfill. When the targets are attained, Societies’
members will enjoy a more homogeneous, powerful and respectful radiography profession.
ISRRT Board works on the council decision on reshaping the funding model. A new funding
model design needs detailed data collection and a careful process, in order to be sustainable and
efficient over the next years. President Mrs Donna Newman has called council members of their
respective societies, to provide specific data for the Board to shape a new proposal. I want to
thank the Council members who responded back to me on time by providing the required data.
Our collaboration with important world organisations, such us the WHO, and the IAEA
give the chance for the radiography profession to present our professional perspective to them.
Radiography (imaging and therapy) profession’s voice must be loud and clear into meetings
organised by WHO and/or IAEA amongst other radiology related professions, based on evidence
and data. Data must be collected by a survey which was assigned by the ISRRT President to the
Regional Director Europe, Mr Tim Agadakos who would also serve as the contact officer. Council
members were invited to take part by providing their societies responses. Thanks to council
members’ enthusiastic participation, a comprehensive response rate was achieved, and the results
are now at the stage of analysis. As soon as answers are processed and finalised, they will become
available to the council members.
Collaboration with the WHO is getting more and more productive. ISRRT suggested to the
WHO to focus to radiography professionals as an important professional force among health care
workers.
With respect to this aim, our next collaboration plan 2019-2021 is focusing on:
– The promotion of radiographers/technologists’ health and safety, including prevention of
musculoskeletal disorders and “burn-out” syndrome.
– To provide technical support to WHO for the identification of gaps and needs of radiographers/
technologists for better health care.
– To support the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
(WHO FCTC) in radiography schools, medical imaging and radiation sciences around the
world. This can be achieved by educating and resourcing radiography schools to reduce the
impact of tobacco use among the medical radiation sciences and its practitioners. Our aim is to
create a tobacco-free profession for the benefit of all.
– To provide Technical Support to WHO for the development of the lists of Priority Medical
Devices, to provide the framework for Tobacco Control through promotion of Tobacco free
radiographer’s schools,
– To support WHO’s work on promoting the implementation of the Bonn Call-for-Action to
improve radiation protection in health care.
ISRRT has gained
the respect and the
acknowledgement
by the IAEA over
the past years.
Attributed to the hard
work of ISRRT’s
representatives
during the relevant
Technical Meetings
(TM), and the
detailed evidencebased
thesis ISRRT
has presented during
the meetings. The
level of recognition
Guerbet booth at RSNA, Levi Cheng, Donna Newman and Dimitris
Katsifarakis.
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