Donna Newman B. A. RT ( R ) CNMT FASRT
Director of Professional Practice ISRRT
Donna Newman currently serves as the Director of Professional Practice for the International Society of
Radiographer and Radiologist Technologist. She liaises with the WHO, PAHO and IAEA relating to any
projects relating to radiation protection and professional practice issues.
She served on the committee for the rewrite of the new IAEA Safety Series ‘Radiation Protection and
Safety in Medical Uses of Ionizing Radiation’. She served as a speaker on behalf of the ISRRT at many
important international conferences representing the technologist view.
She is a manager in the PET CT department at Sanford Health Systems in Fargo, North Dakota, the
largest rural health care system in the United States where she helped start the Oncology PET and Cardiac
PET departments. She led the accreditation process by the American College of Radiology for both
Oncology PET and Cardiac PET departments. She also led the accreditation with the Joint Committee on
Educational programs in nuclear medicine to become a preceptor site with South East Technical College,
Sioux Falls and teaches nuclear medicine students. She works with a cardiologist on a PET research
project. She served on the licensure committee for the state of North Dakota and helped create a licensure
bill making it law for all professionals working in the field of radiology to have national certification in
order to perform x-rays.