Legislative and Regulatory Update
Presentations
(Tuesday, 3/29/2022) 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM [Central Time (GMT-5)]
Room: Celestin D-E
This session brings together several experts to provide attendees with current perspectives about health policy, as well as legislative and regulatory developments, that may impact medical physicists.
Mr. Reiter will provide an overview of the current political environment in Congress and its potential impact on legislation impacting clinical medical physics practice, research programming and funding, medical use of radiation, and health policy. In addition, he will prognosticate about the midterm election year dynamics and how they may impact health policy going forward. Mr. Reiter will address potential challenges and opportunities for advancing ongoing and new AAPM advocacy initiatives within the federal legislative environment.
Mr. Martin will speak about current and trending issues that are important to AAPM’s advocacy in Congress and state legislatures, as well as in federal and state agencies, including the practice of medical physicists, radiation safety, research-related initiatives, and medical physicist licensure. In addition, Mr. Martin will discuss the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) activities, including those related to the NRC’s re-evaluation of Training and Experience requirements for Authorized Users (AUs) and those addressing medical event reporting for extravasations. Mr. Martin will talk about the work AAPM government relations is doing on these issues and where these activities fit within AAPM’s advocacy priorities.
Ms. Elee will provide an update on Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors (CRCPD) collaborations with AAPM, and CRCPD initiatives that are relevant to the medical physicist community. The annual summary of reportable medical events reported to CRCPD and analyzed in collaboration with AAPM will be presented. In addition, Ms. Elee's presentation will examine trending issues that state regulators are concerned about that may impact medical physicists including the update of the suggested state regulations.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn about the political environment impacting medical physicists and the medical use of radiation, research funding, and health policy.
2. Learn about current legislative and regulatory issues impacting the practice of medical physicists and how AAPM government relations is advancing advocacy priorities.
3. Learn about CRCPD/AAPM collaborative activities and better understand trending state regulatory issues that may impact the practice of medical physicists.
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