"Good progress made in USA talks"
March 20, 2007
AFR Secretary, Mark Viner met with AFR USA co-ordinator Nancy Adams and Professor Gil Brogdon, Patron of AFR at the recent meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in San Antonio, Texas. 
Top of the list for discussion was the proposal to form a USA branch of AFR which would be affiliated to the UK branch and form part of a wider International Association. Proposals for these exciting developments had been agreed at the AFR committee meeting in Manchester in January, and the talks in the USA had been arranged in order to progress the discussions.
The proposal has been welcomed by professional associations on both sides of the Atlantic with the Society and College of Radiographers and the American Society of Radiologic Technologists expressing interest and support for the move. The proposal to create an international committee had previously been discussed at a meeting of the ISRRT education committee at the Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting in Chicago last November and had also received strong support.
Nancy Adams, AFR member and the USA co-ordinator has been asked by the ASRT President to form a task force to address forensic issues in the USA and steer the new branch into existance. Nancy will be attending the UKRC meeting in Manchester later this year and giving a presentation on her experiences as a forensic radiographer following Hurricane Katrina.
It is hoped that the USA branch will beformalised during 2007 with the first meeting of the international committee taking place at the ISRRT congress in Durban, South Africa in 2008.
