£1,000 travel bursary offered for award designed to promote worldwide innovation in radiation safety
The BIR/GE Radiation Safety Travel award aims to share best practice in radiation safety. Participants are asked to submit a design for a new tool or resource to improve radiation safety in healthcare. This could be innovative software or a novel use of new technologies. It might be a device or object to warn, protect or assess protection provided.
The winner of the award, which is kindly supported by GE Healthcare, receives a £1,000 bursary to travel to a relevant scientific conference of their choice to present the innovation.
Applicants must complete the form at www.bir.org.uk/radiationsafetyaward, giving details of the resource or tool in less than 500 words, and return to awards@bir.org.uk. Closing date for applications is 30 April 2020.
GE Healthcare will not be part of the decision making process. The award will be presented at the BIR Annual Congress on 5-6 November 2020.
Peter Hiles, Chair of the BIR Radiation Safety Special Interest Group, said “This award not only inspires innovation in radiation safety but also encourages professional development and good practice. We thank GE Healthcare for supporting this initiative.
Simon McGuire, Regional General Manager Northern Europe, GE Healthcare, said “GE Healthcare is delighted to support this award, showcases best practice and the sharing of knowledge in radiation safety.”
Notes to Editors
About The British Institute of Radiology
The British Institute of Radiology is an international membership organisation for everyone working in imaging, radiation oncology and the underlying sciences.
Our aims are to:
- support the work of our members and their colleagues to achieve professional excellence
- provide continuing professional development for our multidisciplinary community
- publish cutting edge research for our authors and readers across the world
- influence and connect with the wider professional sector.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.
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