31 March 2025

During the ASMIRT/NZIMRT 2025 Opening Ceremony Advanced Practitioner Awards were presented to Alison Brown, Nick Woznitza and Mary Job. An Advanced Practitioner is a professional who fulfils all expectations for the ASMIRT Certified Practitioner and demonstrates expertise across seven dimensions of practice, with evidence for each dimension. This year three advanced practitioners continued working in the advanced practitioner space and have been awarded their ASMIRT re-credentialling certificate.

Post Graduate Study Scholarships support medical radiation practitioners to undertake postgraduate study to enhance skills and further develop knowledge within their discipline of practice.

This year's scholarship winners are:

• Chris Parsons – Graduate Diploma in Health Professional Education course at the Australian Catholic University.
• Daniel Ho – Master of Magnetic Resonance Technology course at the University of Queensland.
• Gabriella La Macchia - Graduate Certificate in Analytics of Medical Imaging Data course at the University of Wollongong.
• Jessica Hazlewood - Master of Leadership (Health & Human Services) course at the University of Tasmania.
• Madeleine Jordon - Graduate Certificate of X-ray Image Interpretation course at Monash University.

Each year, ASMIRT awards up to two Research Grants in medical imaging and radiation therapy. Each of the grants are for up to $10,000 and are designed to encourage researchers to develop projects which will add to the body of knowledge of their profession.

This year's Research Grant was awarded to Associate Professor and Radiation Therapist Georgia Halkett for her project ‘Supportive care of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People receiving radiation therapy in Australia: Does healthcare professional education require improvement?’

Each year ASMIRT provides two Novice Researcher Grants to support novice researchers who are new to research. The grants are up to the value of $5,000 each.

In the Radiation Therapy Category, Anelyn Chui was awarded a researcher grant for ‘Prioritisation of the benefit of deep inspiration breath hold technique for radiotherapy in right sided breast cancer’  

In the Medical Imaging Category, Kate Ryan was awarded a researcher grant for ‘Exploring the landscape of Interprofessional Education and collaborative practice in the radiography workforce in Queensland.’

Each year Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences (JMRS) original articles are assessed by members of the JMRS international advisory panel and/or members of the editorial review board and a prize awarded to the best original MI and best RT articles. The prize is a short video byte which is played during the awards ceremony and saved – along with the full text of the article - on the JMRS website.

The award for Best Original Article (Radiation Therapy) went to Ke Cao et al, for their article "Using a new artificial intelligence-aided method to assess body composition CT segmentation in colorectal cancer patients" (Article available here.)

The award for Best Original Article (Medical Imaging) went to Stephanie Plunkett et al, for their article “Survey of maternal anxiety and perceptions towards foetal MRI and pre-scan education” (Article available here.)

Congratulations to these very deserving winners!