Patient and Staff Safety with Focus on Radiation Dose ReductionCommunicating Radiation Dose, Risk and Benefit: Nov. 27, 2pm-3:30pm

Speakers discuss how to communicate dose, risk and benefit of medical imaging procedures to patients, public and physicians and review the impacts of the Image Gently and Image Wisely campaigns.

When: Sunday, Nov. 27, 2:00-3:30
Where: E351

Speaker information:
Mahadevappa Mahesh, PhD, chief physicist, department of radiology, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
G. Donald Frey, PhD, professor of radiology for the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston
James A. Brink, MD, chair, department of diagmostic radiology, Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn.

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