Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences

In this episode, JMIRS Deputy Editor Mark McEntee speaks with Dr. Tobias Heye, a diagnostic radiologist at the Universitätsspital Basel in Switzerland about sustainability in radiology.

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Join JMIRS Editor-in-Chief Amanda Bolderston as she speaks with Naman Julia-Anderson (UK Research Radiographer, Allied Health Professional Clinical Advisor with Macmillan and co-host of RadChat, the UK radiation therapy podcast).

Naman is the award-winning author of "Structural Racism in Radiation-Induced Skin Reaction Toxicity Scoring". Read the full article here.

The transcript of this chat is available here.

Lene Andersen is an author, advocate, accessibility consultant, and photographer. She joins Natasha Batchelor, a mammographer who has been involved in the disability world through allyship, education and advocacy to talk about their recently co-authored JMIRS paper.

Their conversation with Amanda ranges from barriers in breast screening, ways to improve accessibility and how individual practitioners, clinics, and funding agencies can make much-needed change.

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A conversation with JMIRS Deputy Editor Mark McEntee and Peter Hogg

Stephen Starkman is a visual artist based in Toronto. His work has been shown internationally and published in several book projects. He has transformed his recent experience with incurable lung cancer into a visually stunning new book. Stephen has shared some of the images from his book, “The Proximity of Mortality” with JMIRS with an accompanying narrative and discusses the process of writing his book and his experience of treatment with JMIRS Editor in Chief Amanda Bolderston in our latest podcast.

Stephen's website

Stephen's Instagram

Globe & Mail book review of "The Proximity of Mortality"

JMIRS Narratives Collection

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Christina Malamateniou from City University (London, UK), and Lisa Di Prospero from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Toronto, Canada). Lisa and Christina are co-guest editors for the December 2022 JMIRS Leadership Special Issue. They talk to EIC Dr. Amanda Bolderston about their personal and professional experiences of leadership, curating the special issue and what they learned along the way. This is followed by three quotes from Sharona Bookbinder, Sandra Kwon and Shaunteque Harris, discussing the qualities of a great leader and their own leadership statements. 

Along with this podcast, a leadership-themed Spotify playlist was created by soliciting ideas from our readership. We asked contributors to describe why they chose the song, and a few of their responses are below:

Lelainia Lloyd is a rare disease patient, author and JMIRS board member from Burnaby, Canada. She was diagnosed with Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD) in 2012. She joins Amanda to talk about her work as a patient advocate, her role as a board member and the significant impact her JMIRS papers have had. 

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Journal article 1: A Tale of Two MRIs

Journal article 2 (with Belinda Godwin): Recognising and mitigating the potential for diabetic emergencies in MRI

NMOSD Your Way podcast

Gathering of Kindness 2022 event (November 7th to 11th)

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Mark McEntee at University College Cork in Ireland, who interviews Dr. Christina Malamateniou from City University of London in the UK, and Dr. Sarah Lewis from the University of Sydney in Australia. Learn about the difference between research integrity and ethics, the importance of staying up-to-date with current best practices in ethics, and some top tips for ethical practice in research. 

A discussion with JMIRS Editor-in-Chief Amanda Bolderston, Sidsel Pedersen and Shay Kohli. Topics include the need for LGBTQ2S+ education, pregnancy checking and the new Society and College of Radiographers Guidelines as well as the importance of being uncomfortable!

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Sidsel's JMIRS article "Determining pregnancy status"

SCoR Inclusive pregnancy status guidelines for ionising radiation: Diagnostic and therapeutic exposures

CAMRT Identity Matters CPD course

A discussion with JMIRS Editor-in-Chief Amanda Bolderston and Sarah Hamilton. Sarah is a patient partner and brain tumour survivor and talks to Amanda about her work advocating for patients and improving the healthcare system, what it's like dealing with "scanxiety" and what she'd like Medical Radiation Technologists to know when working with cancer survivors.  

Sarah's story has been transcribed and will be published in the upcoming Volume 52.3 under the title "Imaging through the looking glass" (available In Press shortly).