 |
|
|
|
 |
|
PARCA's international Board of Directors consist of representatives active in the day to day operations of the digital healthcare environment from educational and provider institutions. In addition to the day to day operation of PARCA in conjunction with the Executive Secretary, Tammy Grazer, the Board’s responsibilities include specifying the requirements for the certification examinations and eventual recertification and monitoring the applicability and validity of examine questions. The Board retains consultants who have specialized knowledge in specific areas of medical informatics to prepare the examination questions.
|
Our executive secretary is:
|
Tammy Grazer
 Tammy holds a BBA in Economics from the University of North Texas (UNT). Prior to working with PARCA, she worked for UNT in many capacities including training a large number of staff members. During her time as an educator she spent considerable time researching statistics and leading a team on campus improvement.
|
Our Board of Directors are:
|
John Anthony Carrino, M.D., M.P.H.
 John is an Associate Professor of Radiology and Orthopaedic Surgery at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and Section Chief of Musculoskeletal Radiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has a long history of involvement in medical imaging informatics. He directed the deployment of one of the first large scale enterprise-wide U.S. military PACS known as the MDIS (Medical Diagnostic Imaging Support) project. He has worked with clinical decision support systems at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He currently acts as the director of the Faculty IT advisory committee in the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science at Hopkins. He has strong interests in musculsokeletal diagnostic imaging, image guided therapy (IGT), medical informatics, and health services research. Current areas of interest include image quality, decision support, information system integration and Research PACS. Dr. Carrino is an active participant in numerous medical societies related to musculoskeletal imaging, interventional radiology, MRI and informatics. He was a board member and served on numerous committees for SIIM (Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine). He is one of the representatives of the American College of Radiology (ACR) to the DICOM standards committee and has long participated in the base standard working group (WG6). He currently is also a board member of PARCA (PACS Administrators Registry and Certification Association). He has given invited lectures on the operational aspects of PACS and DICOM at numerous conferences. Dr. Carrino has written numerous scientific and review papers on musculoskeletal imaging, image guided intervention and informatics.
|
Larry John Filipow, Ph.D., MS, BS
 Larry is a Qualified Medical Physicist with 27 years experience in research, education, clinical practice and management of medical physics related diagnostic imaging programs. Specifically: responsibilities in radiological equipment purchasing; specifications writing; equipment quality control program development and implementation; acceptance testing; strategic planning and operations and personnel management; resident and graduate research; training and supervision; and image management and communications systems (PACS/IMACS).
|
Michael Ong, MS, BS, MSSR
 Michael is a Senior Radiographer at the National University Hospital (NUH), Singapore. He is the President of the Singapore Society of Radiographers (SSR) since 2006 to the present and is on several professional advisory panels and boards. He is also a visiting fellow at the London South Bank University, U.K., since 2002. His clinical interests as a Radiographer include orthopedic imaging and MRI. He assumed the PACS administrator role in end 2006 and had been involved in multiple IT initiatives such as filmless Radiology, CCOE, and Orthopedic digital templating.
|
Jamie Osland, B Applied Science (MRT)
 Jamie is a Nuclear Medicine Technologist, has an IT background and is a PACS system administrator for Western Health - a multi-site hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He has broad experience supporting RIS, PACS, and Speech Recognition systems from several vendors. He has implemented PACS, RIS, and voice systems from the ground up, and over 10 years experience working with Healthcare IT and application support across large hospital and private Radiological groups in Australia. Director of Osland Consulting, a consulting company specialising in Health IT, his experience and commitment to the development of the PACS Administrator field brings energy to PARCA.
|
Charles E. Willis, Ph.D., DABR
 Chuck is a diagnostic radiologic physicist and Associate Professor in the Department of Imaging Physics, UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He has been working in the field of digital radiographic imaging since 1987. He was involved with early implementation of large-scale PACS in the MDIS Project from 1992-1995, and at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii from 1995-1997. He was an Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine from 1997-2004 assigned to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas as the Chief of Electronic Imaging during their transition to filmless imaging. He is active in the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (formerly the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology). Chuck brings to PARCA a historical perspective on the development and fielding of clinical PACS.
|
Our current PARCA consultants are:
|
Edward M. Smith, ScD, FACNP
 Edward is Professor at the Department of Imaging Sciences of the University of Rochester Medical Center. Ed has been involved with PACS for many years both from a user and consultant perspective. He has published and taught extensively about this subject. Ed is also the program and course director of the many PACS meetings held every year in San Antonio. Because of his broad experience and involvement with the PACS field, Ed is an excellent contributor to PARCA.
|
|
|
|
|
 Special Offers |
|
|
We are pleased to announce that members of PARCA can receive free ITN subscriptions.
|
|
|
|
| FAQs |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|