Personal Introduction

My name is Sharon Moore. I have been a Radiologic Technologist for 35 years. I finished my preliminary career training in 1973. Upon completing that part of my education, I became a registered board certified radiologic technologist. In the next phase of my education, I completed a four year college program and received my Bachelor of Science degree in Radiologic Sciences. I have been involved in many facets of the Radiology profession through the course of 35 years and seen many changes to the health care industry.
My career has given me the opportunity to be involved in the role as a technologist with general radiology exams, emergency room procedures, operating room procedures, radiation therapy treatments and simulation, nuclear medicine studies, quality assurance, education and hospital administration. As my career progressed, I wore many hats including but not limited to: a technical coordinator in a very large hospital in Manhattan, a VP in a small community hospital, a clinical instructor, professor and clincial coordinator within hospital and college base educational programs in New Jersey. Now, I have joined forces with Barry Weinstein, President of Capital Medical Equipment, Inc. located in New Jersey. Many of you know Barry. I myself, have known him approximately 20 years. I met Barry through his father, Harvey. We remained in close contact through the years and now it brings us together in the buy/sell imaging equipment arena.

When looking back on my teaching, the areas that I most enjoyed were in radiation physics and equipment operations. I taught all aspects of radiation physics for radiography, ultrasound, nuclear medicine and radiation therapy. In addition, I taught about equipment operations and how physics are related. Based on my extensive experience in this field, I have developed a very strong understanding between physics and equipment.

I must point out that my knowledge is not name brand specific, but is applicable to all manufacturers. I am pleased to say that I will be posting blogs on a variety of topics to help educate our community. You can access this information anytime on our company's web site http://www.capmedonline.com/. Since I have a passion for teaching, I believe a forum setting would be a ideal place to educate and discuss equipment. So I have taken it upon myself to set up a blog for the purpose of educating. By reading the blog and presenting feedback, I hope the process will aid all of us with buying/selling our products.

My first topic which has many components for discussion, will be divided into a series of blogs on Digital Fluoroscopy. Part I has been posted and there will be a continuation of this until the topic has been completed. I will then continue to select a variety of topics that will help to educate our community.

Some of these topics you may be familiar with and some you may not. I encourage any readers to submit responses/comments if you wish. My goal is to help our community to be better prepared to handle basic equipment knowledge while serving the medical profession on day to day and long term projects. I hope that you find this educational and fun.

I look forward to hearing your feedback. Let's enjoy this ride together!