IOMP Developing Countries Committee
  Dr. Andries van Aswegen, Chairman
Department of Medical Physics
University of the Orange Free State
PO Box 339
Bloemfontein, 9300
South Africa
gnbiava@med.uovs.ac.za
27-51-405-3158 - Office
27-51-448-8610 - Fax
  Committee Members

 

Ms. Mariana Levi de Cabrejas     
(South & Central America)
Comision Nacional Energia Atomica
Direccion de radioisotopes y radiaciones
And Libertador 8250
1429, Buenos Aires
Argentina.

macabre@cnea.edu.ar
541-242-0404 - Home
541-962-9839 - Fax

 

Dr. Stelios Christofides     (Middle East)
Head, Medical Physics Department
Nicosia General Hospital
1450 Nicosia
Cyprus.
cstelios@cytanet.com.cy
357-2-801771 - Off
357-2-369170 - Fax
 
Dr. Kwan-Hoong Ng     (South East Asia & Far East)
University of Malaya
Radiology Department
Lembah Pantar
Kuala Lumpur, 59100
Malaysia.
dwlng@tm.net.my
60-3-750-2088 - Office
60-3-758-1973 - Fax
 
Dr. Abdus Sattar Mollah    
(Indian subcontinent & surrounding countries)
Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology
Ganakbari, Savar
GPO Box 3787
Dhaka-1000
Bangladesh.
asmollah@dhaka.agni.com
880-2-4191224 - Office
880-2-863051 - Fax
 
Dr. Marta Wasilewska-Radwanska      (Eastern Europe)
University of Mining & Metallurgy
Head, Medical Physics Department
Faculty of Physics & Nuclear Techniques
Al. Mickiewicza 30
Pl-30-059 Krakow
Poland.
radwanska@novell.ftj.agh.edu.pl
48-12-617-3002 - Office
48-12-634-0010 - Fax
 
Mr. Habib Zaidi      (Northern Africa)
Division of Nuclear Medicine
Geneva University Hospital
CH-1211 Geneva
Switzerland.
hzaidi@dmnu-pet5.hcuge.ch
41-22-372-7165 - Office
41-22-372-7169 - Fax
 
Dr. Wynand Strydom     (Central & Southern Africa)
Department of Medical Physics
P.O. Box 146
Medunsa, 0204
South Africa.
wjstry@medunsa.ac.za
27-12-521-4390 - Office
27-12-521-4384 - Fax
  
Mr. Mohammed K. Zaidi     (Communications)
Radiological & Environmental Sciences Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy, Idaho Operations Office
850 Energy Drive, MS-4149
Idaho Falls, ID 83401-1563, USA.
zaidimk@inel.gov
208-526-2132 - Office
208-526-2548 - Fax
 
Dr. Marilyn Stovall     (IOMP Libraries program)
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Radiation Physics Department
Box 544, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard
Houston, TX 77030-4095, USA.
mstovall@notes.mdacc.tmc.edu
713-792-3240 - Office
713-794-1371 - Fax
 
Ms. Ann Dixon-Brown     (IOMP Twinning program)
Department of Medical Physics
Churchill Hospital
Headington, Oxford OX3 7LJ
United Kingdom.
brownad@rdd-phru.cam.ac.uk
44-1865-225-448 - Office
44-1865-225-443 - Fax

 

Report from the Developing Countries Committee.

 The Developing Countries Committee (DCC) is one of the standing IOMP committees and its objectives are:

 To contact national organizations for medical physics in the developing countries to ascertain the need for spare parts or journals.

  • To contact national organizations for medical physics in the industrialized countries to ascertain the availability of spare parts or journals according to a list prepared from answers to the above inquiries.
  • To also give the list to "Medical Physics World" (MPW) so that MPW can publish it and act as a clearing house.
  • To negotiate on behalf of IOMP with IAEA, WHO and other agencies for financial support, and in addition with those national organizations for medical physics that have offered spare parts or journals.
  • To contact manufacturers on behalf of IOMP to secure financial support for colleagues from developing countries to visit training centers, regional congresses, etc.
  • To organize information from developing countries for publication in MPW so that people in these countries will not feel so isolated.
 In order to assure a meaningful term of office of the DCC, the following are some of the goals identified.
  • The continued development of the Libraries Programme. In this respect Marilyn Stovall, the IOMP Curator, is doing invaluable work.
  • To continue the project of transferring donated equipment (spare parts) to Developing Countries (DC’s). Contact person is Mohammed K. Zaidi. The financial burden of shipping costs and customs regulations in many countries often act as a deterrent in achieving this goal.
  • To give support to DC’s in order to establish Medical Physics as an acknowledged profession. Hopefully the DCC can tie in with the action Keith Boddy is launching with the International Labour Office in this regard.
  • To support the "Twinning Project" (co-ordinated by Ann Dixon-Brown) whereby Medical Physics departments in DC’s are linked with more established departments for assistance.
  • To investigate meaningful access to the Internet for DC’s including the supply of computer hardware.
 These are a few preliminary objectives of the DCC. Any suggestions on additional aims or the practical implementation of the objectives will be highly appreciated. Please feel free to contact me.
 
 Andries van Aswegen, Ph.D. Tel: +2751 4053158
Dept. of Medical Physics Fax: +2751 4488610
University of the Orange Free State e-mail: gnbiava@med.uovs.ac.za
P O Box 339
Bloemfontein, 9300
South Africa

 

For any corrections to this portion of the IOMP Homepage, please contact M. Zaidi at zaidimk@id.doe.gov