A Series of 12 Webinars – Bridging the Gap with the Canadian Professional Practice in Radiography

Internationally Educated Medical Radiation Technologists (IEMRT)

Valentina Al Hamouche, MRT(R), MSc.: Valentina holds an M.Sc. Health Systems Management, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK and B.Sc. (Hons) in Radiography Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, UK Applied Health Sciences Department, Division of Radiography. She has also received a FAETC: Further Adult and Education Teacher’s Certificate from the College of North-East London, UK (1991), and a Diploma in Radiologic Technology American University of Beirut-Medical Centre Radiologic Technology Training Program, Lebanon. In 1994, she has pursued further education and training in radiation safety sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the International Center of Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste Italy. She has over 25 years of radiography teaching experience at different Universities in Canada and abroad. She is a registration committee member at the College of Radiological Technologists of Ontario (CMRTO). She is certified with the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists (CAMRT). In 2017 she founded VCA Education Solutions for Health Professionals, Inc. In 2018, she was appointed to represent CMRTO at Accreditation Canada.

Dr Euclid Seeram, PhD, MSc, BSc, FCAMRT, currently serves as honorary senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, and a member of the Medical Image Optimization and Perception Group (MIOPeG)-Faculty of Health Sciences; adjunct associate professor at Monash University-Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences; adjunct professor at Charles Sturt University-Faculty of Science; and Adjunct Associate Professor-Faculty of Health, University of Canberra; in Australia. He has published more than 50 papers in professional radiologic technology journals and has had 20 textbooks published on computed tomography, computers in radiology, radiographic instrumentation, digital radiography, and radiation protection. He is a founding member of the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences and is now on editorial boards for Radiography, an International Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy; Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal, and Open Journal of Radiology, Journal of Allied Health; Journal of Social Science & Allied Health Professions, and serves on the international advisory panel for the Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences. His current research interests are related to radiation dose optimization in computed tomography and digital radiography imaging systems, as well as in radiation protection related to diagnostic imaging.

Hassan Al-Khalidi MRT(R), MRT(MR): Mr. Al Khalidi has worked for 17 years in the disciplines of Radiography and MRI in different countries. Among other roles, Mr. Al Khalidi was an MRI Clinical education specialist at Medical professionals providing training to technologists and Physicians on GE MRI machines and workstations. Training includes low and high field magnets (0.2Tesla, 1.5Tesla, 3Tesla). He was performing all routine and advanced MRI exams (neuro, musculoskeletal, body, enhanced and non-enhanced angiographic exams, cardiac, total body, brain perfusion, spectroscopy and fiber tracking in addition to distal run off angiography.