ISCD Learning
FRAX for the Technologist: Origins to Current Trends
Includes Multiple Live Events. The next is on 12/03/2025 at 7:00 PM (EST)
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Activity Description
This course covers the origins of the FRAX (Fracture Risk Assessment) algorithm, to current trends using the FRAX in a clinical setting. The FRAX is used in a variety of ways, and this course will explain why this information is vital for the technologist to know.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the origins of FRAX.
- Explain why patient information and risk factors for a FRAX are vital to patient care.
- Describe what information FRAX gives us and how it’s used.
Instructions
Attend the live airing of the webinar. After, you will be asked to evaluate the activity online and then be allowed to claim credit and print your certificate.
Registration Fees
Cancellation Policy
ISCD reserves the right to cancel the program, change dates, and/or the location/method of offering. All program fees will be refunded if a program is canceled unless the registered participant elects to transfer to another program.
ASRT Credit Designation
This activity has been approved by ASRT for 1.00 Category A Continuing Education credits.
Deadline to Claim Credit
Participants will have 90 days from the live activity end date to complete the activity survey and claim continuing education credit.
Sherri Ford, R.T.(R)(M)(BD)(ARRT), CBDT
Research Interventionist
Wake Forest University
Sherri Ford has an extensive work history in clinical medicine and research. In her role as a Research Interventionist, she has the opportunity to work with members in a group, as well as one on one, to help them achieve wellness goals. During the past 7 years, she has been involved in several research projects with Wake Forest University. She has also designed and written a bone densitometry curriculum for technologists who are preparing for the certification exam, and she holds dual certifications with the ARRT and ISCD in diagnostic imaging/bone densitometry. She has been performing DXA scans since 1996 and is able to use her DXA experience in her current role as a Research Interventionist. She manages both DXA machines on campus (Wake Forest University) and is responsible for training staff and grad students reviewing scans to ensure proper acquisition and analyzation, especially research study exams.
John Monk, R.T.(R)(QM)(BD)(ARRT), CBDT
DXA Specialist
M Health Fairview | Imaging Service Line
John is the DXA specialist at Fairview Health Services, a healthcare provider based in Minneapolis but serves most parts of Minnesota. John began his career performing scans on a Lunar (now GE Lunar) in 1996. He became certified as a CDT through the International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) in 1997, then became a CBDT in 2008. John was an adjunct instructor for the Minnesota State College and University System, teaching Bone Densitometry 1 and 2 from 2003 to 2011 to imaging students. John has performed scans on all GE Lunar models. John was also an item writer and cognitive objective writer for the first national exam in Bone Densitometry through the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) in 2001.
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The ISCD maintains a policy on the use of commercial support, which ensures that all educational activities sponsored by the ISCD provide in-depth presentations that are fair, balanced, independent, and scientifically rigorous. ISCD requires faculty, planners, managers, and other individuals and their spouse/life partner who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest they may have as related to the content of this activity. All identified conflicts of interest are thoroughly vetted by ISCD for fair balance, scientific objectivity of studies mentioned in the materials or used as the basis for content, and appropriateness of patient care recommendations. Individual disclosures are included in the course material. No Commercial Support has been provided for this activity
Disclaimer
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Disclosure of Unlabeled Use
This educational activity may contain a discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. ISCD does not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications. The opinions expressed in this educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of any organization associated with this activity. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
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Attendee Cancellation Policy
All changes in registration must be made in writing to education@iscd.org. Purchase of on-demand or enduring educational materials are non-refundable.
Course Changes or Cancellations
ISCD reserves the right to cancel the program and change the dates of the offering. All program fees will be refunded if a program is canceled unless the registered participant elects to transfer to another progr
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