Trevor Beniston, 2024 CPRA conference committee chair, introduces the conference theme and subthemes and invites readers to submit abstracts, panel proposals, and papers for the Anthony J MacKay Student Paper Contest.
The Meritorious Service Award recognizes significant services provided to the Canadian Radiation Protection Association (CRPA) or to the radiation protection community in general. This year there were two recipients: Sunil Choubal and Jill Robertson.
The most recent conference, the first in-person event since COVID, was held in Halifax, NS, on May 15 to 18, 2023. Here are some photos from the conference.
There is lots of news in the CRPA(R) Prep article for this issue. We congratulate the newest CRPA(R)s who passed the exam held in Halifax in May, announce that we will be holding CRPA(R) exams separately from the annual conference again this fall, let you in on plans for an exam preparation course, advise you of the recently adopted recognition status expiry date, and confirm that there will be another exam at the annual CRPA conference in Edmonton in June 2024.
The Meritorious Service Award recognizes significant services provided to the Canadian Radiation Protection Association (CRPA) or to the radiation protection community in general. This year there were two recipients: Carole Savoie and Jeff Fleming.
This coming February, CRPA joins with the Health Physics Society, the American Academy of Health Physics, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, the American Nuclear Society, the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, and the Mexican Society of Irradiation and Dosimetry to host the first ever North American Regional Congress for the International Radiation Protection Association. This will be a hybrid event held both virtually and in person in St. Louis, Missouri.
With deepest regret, we note the passing of Dr. Norman E. Gentner on January 14, 2021, in Renfrew, Ontario.
Richard V. Osborne Founders’ Award and Meritorious Service Award.
