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OBGYN.net Editorial Advisor
Ultrasound

Joan P. Baker MSR, RDMS, RDCS - USA

Interviews and articles with Joan Baker

 

Qualification Summary

I have had 32 years experience in the field of sonography with 27 of those years spent in management. My experience started out clinical and became teaching at the baccalaureate level. I am multiskilled in allied health & have taught in more than one discipline. I have hired and fired. I am a self starter and motivator and enjoy the challenge of problem solving and critical thinking.

Work Experience
Instructor Program Chair	1997-present 1993-1997
Bellevue Community College Bellevue, Washington Full Time Tenured Faculty Diagnostic Ultrasound Manage 8 full time & part time faculty. Responsible for didactic & clinical curriculum Submit and defend the department budget for a biennium. Teaching as well as administrative responsibility. Responsible for adherence to accreditation standards	1989
Consultant in Marketing Diagnostic Ultrasound Corporation Kirkland, Washington Identified markets for a bladder scanner Set up clinical trials in nursing homes Advised company on adjustments to product design Advise led to redesign of instrument now being marketed	July -Aug. 1989
Assistant Professor Chair of Allied Health Seattle University, Seattle, Washington Set up a new Department of Allied Health Chaired 5 different baccalaureate majors Managed 18 part-time faculty, FT secretary, 100 students. Design and sequencing of academic and clinical courses	1977-1983
Providence Hospital Seattle, Washington Department Chair Nuclear Medicine/Ultrasound Opened and managed the department Expanded procedures in Nuclear Medicine Introduced ultrasound to the medical staff	1970-1976

Details of previous work experience available upon request including details of opening of the Dept. of Ultrasound for Stanford and immigration to USA.

Education

Liverpool Technical College (Branch of Liverpool University)

Royal Infirmary, Liverpool, England

Radiographers Training Training in ultrasound did not exist. Pioneer of field in 1961

Professional Activities

Current

• President SDMS Sept 1997-1999
• President-elect SDMS 1995-1997
• Past Chair Legislative Committee
• Chair MSI project
• Site visitor JRCDMS (ACCREDITATION)
• Interview Committee for faculty & students

Past

• Member Conference Management Committee
• Member Distance Learning Committee BCC
• Member Communications Committee BCC
• Search committees for hiring of Division Chair
• SDMS Board for Region 1
• Vice-Chair SDMS Educational Foundation
• Past Chair JRDMS
• Created a new occupation (Sonographer) under USOE
• Involved in the change of a congressional law

Radiation Health & Safety Act

• First Chair ARDMS
• Founder & First President SDMS
• Legislative Committee for SDMS
• Member AMA Committee on Essentials
• Panel of Consultants AMA
• National Delegate Nuclear Medicine

Honors

• Delegation Leader to China for Citizens Ambassador Program ‘95 & ‘98
• Recognition award for outstanding service in U/S field
• First Fellow of SDMS
• First President of SDMS
• First Chair ARDMS
• World Who’s Who of Women 1976
• Joan P Baker Pioneer Award
• Invited speaker to XXIV Cogress Brasileiro de Angiologia,
• VI Seminario Internacional de Radiologia, Rio de Janeiro
• Invited speaker to IX World Congress of Cardiology, Moscow, 1982
• USSR sports medicine of the Soviet Union Moscow 1978

Presentations & Publications

• Alaska Conference
• RSNA 75th Anniversary speaker
• State Board of Education hearing
• SDMS annual meetings for many years
• Two video tapes with national circulation
• Publications in JRCDMS
• Quoted Wall Street Journal 1993
• Licensure Issues for Sonographers Reviewer 1990
• Book on History of SDMS published 1995
• Parenting Magazine March 1995
• Many more publications 1997-98

Community Activities and Service

• Past President Kirkland National Little league World Champions in 1982. Set up data base in order to manage the league and its rapid increase in size after the win. Dealt with parents and a community with great expectations. Raised $43,000 in 5 months to avert financial disaster caused by the expenses necessary to support the winning team.
• Registrar Lake Washington Youth Soccer Association. Responsible for assigning and registering 5,000 children of all ages to teams. Inherited the task with only 5 months before season started and records in a "shoe box" Involved delegating tasks and turning what appeared to be a doomed program into a success. I was replaced by three people.
• Served on a small committee appointed by the City to recognize the people of the city who had contributed in a national manner. Wrote the regulations for the Plaza of Champions which is a monument of plaques honoring citizens of Kirkland who have made outstanding contributions.
• President of the Parents Association of Pacific Northwest BalletSchool. Managed the children and their parents who performed in professional ballets such as the Nutcracker. Assisted with the ballet school’s accreditation by COPA.