FWD/CRSO Meeting Invitation and Call for Papers

[Ninni Jacob <ninni_jacob@BROWN.EDU>]

Greetings Fellow RSOs!



We along with our RSO colleagues at the ten campuses of the University of 

California would like to invite you to the 2003 - 19th Biennial CAMPUS 

RADIATION SAFETY OFFICERS MEETING held in conjunction with the 48th 

American Radiation Safety Conference and Exposition.



The ten campuses of the University of California system have come together 

to host the 19 Biennial Campus Radiation Safety Officers (CRSO) Meeting on 

July 23 and 24 in San Diego. This year the CRSO has decided to hold their 

meeting in conjunction with the 48th American Radiation Safety Conference 

and Exposition which will be held in San Diego from July 20 to 24th



  ABOUT CRSO -



The CRSO is a non-profit organization that is composed of university and 

hospital radiation safety officers from Canada and the United States.  The 

goals of this organization is to give campus radiation safety professionals 

the opportunity to share their experience and expertise by presenting 

frank, practical, and effective solutions to the ever-changing problems 

encountered in institutional radiation safety program.



This collaboration provides an exciting opportunity for campus radiation 

safety professionals to take advantage of the rich professional development 

and research presentations provided by the HPS society while collaborating 

with their peers at the CRSO conference.  The HPS summer school topic of 

University Health Physics also provides a perfect compliment to the CRSO 

conference. In addition to workshops, lectures, and break out sections, 

CRSO registration will give attendees access to the HPS conference 

exhibitor and poster booths and to the always popular HPS/ CRSO Night Out 

on the Bay Cruise.



The 2003 CRSO meeting will provide an exciting opportunity for radiation 

safety professionals who work in an academic, medical, or bio-tech setting 

to come together to further the practice of applied health physics.  The 

University of California and the Campus Radiation Safety Officers look 

forward to welcoming you to sunny San Diego for this great opportunity for 

professional development.







CALL FOR PAPERS





CRSO Sessions



The CRSO Meeting program committee is looking for speakers who would be 

interested in presenting papers on topics relevant to campus radiation 

safety professionals and/or leading a discussion section about such 

topics.  If you are interested in presenting, please e-mail Ken Smith 

ksmith@ucsc.edu before February 15, 2003 .





JOINT HPS/CRSO Session



A special joint session will be held with the RSO Section of the HPS. 

People that are interested in presenting at this opening session need to 

complete the HPS on-line abstract submittal form found here: 

http://hps.org/newsandevents/annualabstracts.cfm



Please note that the deadline for the special session is February 7, 2003. 

You need to submit your abstracts ASAP. If you are interested in the CRSO 

session only you have until February 15, 2003.





CONFERENCE REGISTRATION



Information about the CRSO registration cost and process will be made 

available on the CRSO web site: www.crso.org. Please refer to that site in 

the coming months for complete conference information.



As a result of this year's collaboration with the Health Physics Society, 

CRSO attendees will have access to the same discounted hotel, car, and 

flight discounts as HPS attendees.  They can also use the HPS roommate 

referral service in order to reduce lodging costs.   A discounted 

registration price will be available for those planning on attending both 

conferences. The CRSO web-site http://www.crso.org will have additional 

information on rates at hotels surrounding the conference center.



UPDATE YOUR CRSO INFORMATION



The CRSO will be sending out a post-card to all the members in our 

database. At present it is not possible to view your current information on 

the web, but you can e-mail Paul Steinmeyer prstein@radpro.com and ask for 

your information. If you know your information is out of date, or if you 

would like to join our organization please complete our on-line 

registration form at http://www.radpro.com/crso.html. (There is no cost to 

join!)







PLEASE INVITE YOUR COLLEAGUES





Please help us advertise the CRSO meeting by passing on this invitation to 

any of your colleagues who might be interested in attending. For any CRSOs 

that have previously attended one of these conferences, please fell free to 

add your own thoughts regarding the value of this conference.



If you have any questions or are interested in presenting please feel free 

to contact Ken Smith at ksmith@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-3911. We are 

looking forward to seeing many of you in sunny San Diego.





On behalf of the U.C. RSOs      On behalf of CRSO



Ken Smith, RSO UC Santa Cruz    Ninni Jacob, President CRSO







Ken Smith, CHP



_____________________________________________________________________



Radiation Safety Officer / Laboratory Safety   voice: (831) 459-3911



Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S)          cell: (831) 212-3911



University of California                         fax: (831) 459-3209



1156 High St.                                 e-mail: ksmith@ucsc.edu



Santa Cruz, CA 95064                             web: ehs.ucsc.edu



Watch Pager: (866) 457-8509 or e-mail 8664578509@skytel.com









************************************************************************

You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To unsubscribe,

send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu  Put the text "unsubscribe

radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail, with no subject line.

You can view the Radsafe archives at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/