Author: Jonathan Cole

Radiography is my second career, my first was working as a industrial chemist for Amersham International in their manufacturing labs. My team made beta emitting radiolabelled (P32 / S35) nucleotides for the life science industry. I took redundancy from that role after 10 years (6 in the labs and 4 in technical support) and went back to university to study radiography. I qualified in 2009 and have been a senior advanced practitioner radiographer and RPS at Luton & Dunstable hospital for the last 6 years. I am the first and only radiographer at Luton to have completed the barium swallow advanced practice course, so I do my own screening lists independently of a radiologist. I also report my own studies as an autonomous practitioner. Over the last 18 months, together with the speech & language therapists, I have pioneered the introduction of our joint video-fluoroscopy clinics. ...

Dr. Kevin A. Wunderle is a board certified clinical medical physicist for the Cleveland Clinic Health System which is based in Cleveland, Ohio. He has an academic faculty appointment as an Associate Professor of Radiology in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University where he is active in teaching imaging and physics to medical trainees. He received his Master’s degree in Medical Physics from Cleveland State University and PhD in Medical Physics from the Wayne State University School of Medicine. Dr. Wunderle is very active with the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) serving in leadership positions for several committees and task groups including as chair of the Radiographic and Fluoroscopic Sub-Committee and vice-chair of the Imaging Physics Committee. He also serves in various capacities for other organizations such as the Intenational Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC), and the American College of Radiology (ACR). Dr. Wunderle’s clinical area of expertise and...