A Series of 12 Live 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.

Professor 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.

Ralph Berzghal, MRT(R),  Ralph received his diploma in Radiologic Technology from the American University of Beirut. He worked a couple of years in Beirut in MRI, CT scan as well as General Radiography. In 2009, he moved to Dubai and became a Manager of a Radiology Department in one of the leading medical groups in the country.  Beside his management position, he was appointed as a Chair of Radiation Protection committee for our group of 2 Hospitals and 11 clinics. In 2017, he graduate with a MSc degree in International Management from the University of Liverpool in UK. In 2017, he moved to Canada and got his certification with CAMRT in the discipline of Radiography. He worked at the Toronto General Hospital in CT and General radiography. Currently, he is working at the Toronto Western Hospital in General Radiography.

At the end of each webinar you will have a Competency Based QUIZ.