DIRECTOR OF CANCER CENTER IN OREGON
ELECTED TO LEAD ASRT IN 2004-2005


Members of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists have chosen Dawn M. Fearn, M.A., R.T.(R)(T)(QM), CMD, as their president-elect.  She will take office in June.
A member of ASRT since 1994, Ms. Fearn currently is the organization's vice president and previously served as its secretary-treasurer.
Ms. Fearn is director of the Samaritan Regional Cancer Center in Corvallis, Ore.  She also manages the Mario Pastega House, a low-cost housing alternative being built in Corvallis for patients and family members of patients receiving treatment at Good Samaritan Hospital.
As president-elect, Ms. Fearn will serve three years on the ASRT Board of Directors: one year as president-elect, one year as president and one year as chairman of the Board.  Her presidential year will run from June 2004 to June 2005.
Ms. Fearn said she plans to focus on work force recruitment and retention issues during her presidential year.  She also hopes to expand ASRT's role as an advocate for radiologic science issues in the legislative arena.
"It is an honor to be entrusted with leadership of the ASRT," said Ms. Fearn.  "I promise to continue to advocate for quality care for all our patients and for high professional standards for all who perform medical imaging and radiation therapy."
In other election results, ASRT members chose Catherine L. Parsons, R.T.(R)(M)(QM), for the office of vice president and Cynthia K. Daniels, M.S., R.T.(R), as secretary-treasurer.
Ms. Parsons is administrative director of the medical imaging department at Cumberland Medical Center in Crossville, Tenn.  She is currently secretary-treasurer of the ASRT and has been a member of the ASRT Committee on Bylaws, the Mammography Chapter Steering Committee and the Committee on Managers and Administrators.
Ms. Daniels is education coordinator at Jewish Hospital College of Nursing and Allied Health in St. Louis, Mo.  She has been a member of the ASRT Committee on Chapters and Task Force on Governance Restructuring.  She also served in the ASRT House of Delegates as an affiliate delegate from Missouri.
Ms. Parsons and Ms. Daniels will begin their one-year terms of office at the ASRT Annual Conference this June in Las Vegas, Nev., where current ASRT President Donna Newman, B.A., R.T.(R)(CNMT), will turn over the reins to Eileen Maloney, M.Ed., R.T.(R)(M), FASRT.
ASRT elections take place each February, with members asked to fill three Board positions as well as to choose R.T.s to represent them in the ASRT House of Delegates. All active members are eligible to vote.  Of approximately 100,000 ballots mailed in this year's election, 4,081 were returned, for a 4.08 percent response rate.
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