PHYSICS COMMITTEE REPORT
The Physics Committee is proposing a program to encourage the Medical Physicists who practice in Ohio to become more aware of the values of membership in the American College of Radiology and in the Ohio State Radiological Society.
We have secured from the offices of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) a mailing list of all physics members of the AAPM who reside in Ohio.
We intend to secure mailing lists of medical physicists who may live in adjacent states and who practice in Ohio.
We intend to contact all these medical physicists by letters from the committee and from the President of the OSRS explaining the values of membership to physicists in both the ACR and OSRS. We also intend to explain the contributions physicists can make to the radiology profession (both physics and medicine) by working with our radiologist colleagues on both professional and political matters.
One difficulty in assembling all medical physicists under one umbrella is that the organization of the AAPM is by regions rather than by states. In Ohio we have the Ohio River Valley Chapter that includes physicists from central and southwestern Ohio, from northern and central Kentucky and from central and southeastern Indiana. We also have the Penn-Ohio chapter that includes physicists from eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. In addition, the physicists in northeastern Ohio have their own organization and the physicists in northwestern Ohio align themselves with southern Michigan organizations.
With the increase in governmental involvement, it is important that the Ohio physicists speak with one voice to governmental agencies and coordinate their efforts with those of the radiologists so the OSRS can have the greatest impact.
We propose that the 2002 annual meeting of the OSRS be a joint meeting with the medical physicists in Ohio.
The Physics Committee feels the long history of involving medical physicists in the activities of the radiological community (i.e. membership on the executive committee of the RSNA, etc.) provides us with a unique opportunity to move toward more cooperation.
Jerome G. Dare, PhD., MS
George W. Callendine, Jr., PhD
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