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Lisa Jane Field
Master’s degree in Medical Imaging; Post Graduate
Certificate in Osteoporosis and DXA reporting; Post
Graduate Diploma in Image Interpretation;
Bachelors in Science with Honours Diagnostic
Radiography.
I am a Consultant Radiographer. I qualified as a
diagnostic radiographer in 1997 from the University
of Salford, UK. I specialised into image reporting in
2003 and became the Lead Reporting Radiographer
at Bradford teaching hospitals in 2005 where I
implemented the trusts first radiographer reporting
system. I have been a consultant radiographer since
2013 at the trust I currently work at which is The Mid
Yorkshire NHS Trust. My main responsibility is to lead the reporting service and a team of
advanced practitioners in delivering an immediate 7 day reporting service. I am also the
clinical lead for the DXA (Dual Energy Absorptiometry) service and the osteoporosis lead for
Radiology. I am an associate lecturer at the University of Derby on the DXA reporting module
and the osteoporosis and falls module. I am a member of the Consultant Radiographer
Advisory Group at the UK Society and College of Radiographers since its inception in 2009,
and a member of the Royal Osteoporosis Society. I have a keen interest in the prevention of
fragility fractures in the elderly population and have written a chapter on DXA in the Clark’s
special Procedures book in Diagnostic Radiography 2020. I am also currently writing a new
DXA textbook Clark's Essential Guide to DXA in Clinical Practice to help promote the use of
DXA and highlight the importance of preventing fragility fractures. I am a huge advocate for
promoting advanced and consultant practice in radiography to improve patient outcomes and
management. I wanted to share my personal experiences with other health care professionals
and promote what we did as a front line profession during the COVID 19 pandemic. I wanted
to contribute to this textbook from an historical perspective as hopefully we will never have
to live and work through a pandemic on this magnitude ever again and I wanted something
to keep forever to share with my grandchildren and their children on how we defeated the
deadly virus of 2019!
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