The Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging

The Alliance

The Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging –  the Image Gently Alliance  -is a coalition of health care organizations dedicated to providing safe, high quality pediatric imaging nationwide. The primary objective of the Alliance is to raise awareness in the imaging community of the need to adjust radiation dose when imaging children. The ultimate goal of the Alliance is to change practice.   

The Alliance chose to focus first on computed tomography (CT) scans. The dramatic increase in the number of pediatric CT scans performed in the United States in the past five years and the rapid evolution, change and availability of CT technology and equipment well justify this Alliance strategy.  The campaign's second focus, safety in pediatric interventional radiology, began in late August, 2009.

Founding Organizations:

Alliance Organizations:

The Alliance Steering Committee (formerly "The Writers Group")

The Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging began as a committee within the Society for Pediatric Radiology in late 2006. In 2007, The SPR leadership reached out to friends and colleagues in sister societies representing the key members of the imaging team, ACR, ASRT and AAPM, to form "the Writers Group." These organizations developed the concept of the Alliance and their representatives developed the campaign in the summer of 2007.

The current Alliance Steering Committee members and the organizations they represent are:

Marilyn Goske, MD, Alliance Chair - SPR
Kimberly Applegate, MD,  SPR and ACR 
Dorothy Bulas, MD, SPR
Jennifer Boylan,  MA, SPR
Penny Butler, ACR
Michael Callahan, MD,  SPR
Brian Coley, MD, SPR and ACR
Steven Don, MD, SPR
Shawn Farley, ACR
Donald Frush, MD,  ACR and SPR 
Marta Hernanz-Schulman, MD,  SPR and ACR 
Diego Jaramillo, MD, MPH,  SPR
Neil Johnson, MD, SPR
Sue Kaste. DO, SPR 
Greg Morrison, CAE, MA, RT(R), CNMT,  ASRT
Ceela McElveny, ASRT
Manrita Sidhu, MD, SPR and SPIR 
Keith Strauss, AAPM and SPR
 

The Image Gently Campaign and the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging rely on the generous donations of resources from the founding organizations (Society for Pediatric Radiology, American College of Radiology,  American Society for Radiologic Technologists, and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine), all Alliance Organizations, supporters and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The leadership grafeully acknowledges the time, talent and expertise from representatives of GE Healthcare, Phillips Healthcare, Toshiba America and Siemens Medical Systems who are committed to improving healthcare for children through activities related to this campaign.

The Alliance is grateful for the unrestricted educational grant from GE Healthcare made in 2007.  The campaign does not accept corporate financial donations at this time.

Although great care has been taken to maintain the accuracy of Information contained in this website and its posted publications, neither the Alliance nor the Alliance organizations assume any responsibility for consequences which may arise from their use.