PROGRAM DIRECTOR at university of NEBRASKA IS named asrt president-elect
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Members of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists have chosen Connie L. Mitchell, M.A., R.T.(R)(CT), to serve as their president-elect. Ms. Mitchell is the director of the radiography program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Neb. She currently serves on the ASRT Board of Directors as vice president and previously served as secretary-treasurer.
As president-elect, Ms. Mitchell will serve three more years on the ASRT Board of Directors. She will serve as the Society’s president-elect in 2006-2007, as president in 2007-2008 and as chairman of the board in 2008-2009. “As president-elect, I commit to represent the membership through sound, informed decisions for the betterment of our profession,” said Ms. Mitchell.
In other election results, Hospital Corpsman First Class Michael C. Latimer, B.S., R.T.(R), was selected as ASRT vice president. He currently serves as the head of the radiology department at the U.S. Naval Hospital at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Long active as an ASRT volunteer, he currently is the Society’s secretary-treasurer. “I am honored to be allowed to serve the members of the ASRT for another year on the Board of Directors, and I thank everyone for their support,” Mr. Latimer said.
ASRT members elected Diane Mayo, R.T.(R)(CT), as their secretary-treasurer. She is quality assurance coordinator for diagnostic imaging at St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital in Jackson, Miss. Ms. Mayo has been a member of many ASRT committees and is a previous chairman of the Mississippi Society of Radiologic Technologists.
The three newly elected officers will be installed at the conclusion of this year’s ASRT Annual Conference, June 9-13 in Denver. Also at this year’s conference, current president-elect Cynthia Daniels, M.S., R.T.(R), will take over as ASRT president and current president Catherine Parsons, B.S., R.T.(R)(M)(QM), FASRT, will become chairman of the board.
Voters also filled 24 out of 28 chapter delegate seats in the ASRT House of Delegates. Each of the ASRT’s 14 chapters is represented by two delegate seats in the House, and the seats went to the two candidates in each chapter who received the most votes. If a chapter had only one eligible candidate, the second seat will remain unfilled. The Sonography Chapter had no eligible candidates, so both seats will be unfilled.
This year’s election marked the first time that chapter delegates were selected by ASRT members nationally instead of regionally.
Newly elected delegates for the Bone Densitometry Chapter are Mary Carrillo, Mesa, Ariz., and Pam Johnson, Minneapolis. Representing the Cardiovascular-interventional Chapter will be Colleen Dawson, El Dorado Hills, Calif., and Deborah Herndon, Eagle, Idaho. The Computed Tomography Chapter will be represented by Lori Suzanne Fisher, Flowood, Miss., and Dava Smith, Sagamore Hills, Ohio.
Members of the Education Chapter chose Jan Clark, Glen Allen, Va., and Bill May, Saltillo, Miss., to represent them. The Mammography Chapter will be served by Shirley Pinette, Guilford, Conn., and Donita Shipman, Mora, Mo.
Sandra Helinski, West Allis, Wis., will fill one of the delegate positions for the Magnetic Resonance Chapter. Voting for the other MR position resulted in a tie between Sharon Zigan of Browerville, Minn., and Cathy Dressen of Monticello, Minn. The tie vote will be decided by lot at this year’s House of Delegates meeting.
Management Chapter delegates are D. Richelle Heldwein, Pocatello, Idaho, and Amy Hofmann, Bismarck, N.D. The delegate for the Medical Dosimetry Chapter is Connie Bonner, Springfield, Ohio, and the delegate for the Military Chapter is SMSgt. Victor Ogden, Landstuhl, Germany. Elected to represent the Nuclear Medicine Chapter were David Gilmore, Boston, and Mary St. Peter, Middlebury, Vt.
The Quality Management Chapter will be represented by Daniel Gilbert, Scottsbluff, Neb., and Nina Kowalczyk, Columbus, Ohio. Newly elected Radiation Therapy Chapter delegates are Grace Girts, Middleburg Heights, Ohio, and Sandra Hayden, Beverly Hills, Mich. Representing the Radiography Chapter will be Nancy Adams, Tupelo, Miss., and Jill Schulz, Waterloo, Iowa.
The new delegates will begin their terms of office immediately following the 2006 House of Delegates meeting in Denver, and they will be seated as voting delegates at the 2007 House of Delegates meeting in Albuquerque, N.M.
Voting in the 2006 ASRT election was open from Feb. 1 to March 10. Of 118,123 ASRT members eligible to vote in this year’s election, 2,440 cast a ballot, for a 2 percent participation rate.
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