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Clinical nurse Clinical Nurse Specialist
Consultant, Ireland
Susan van der Kamp - short biography
Susan van der Kamp graduated from St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland (cum laude). Her involvement with DXA scanning started in 1994 when she was part of a team that established a DXA service as part of a multi-disciplinary bone health service St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin. She combined scanning patients as a technologist with the running of a number of pharmaceutical clinical trials. Susan became co-director of the Bone and Joint Unit in the hospital in 2005.
In 2006 Susan conducted a national audit of DXA services in Ireland, which was to lead to the setting of DXA standards across the island of Ireland. In her role as DXA Technologist, Susan set up bimonthly workshops in 2007, participated in the National Steering Group on the Prevention of Falls and Fractures in Ireland’s Ageing Population 2008 and established a paediatric DXA service in 2012.
Susan set up a DXA fracture liaison service (FLS) in 2016 and became part of a multidisciplinary FLS group with monthly meetings. In 2017 Susan set up ‘Capture the Fracture’ and her achievements in the fracture liaison service were recognised in Oxford, UK in 2018 through a top poster winning competition.
Demonstrating a particular interest in precision studies to improve and maintain quality standards (of which she has completed several) the emphasis on the importance of quality standards in DXA scanning has been demonstrated by winning a number of international awards.
Having retired from public service she currently works in two DXA centres. In addition, she provides DXA staff training on Hologic installations throughout the island of Ireland as a consultant to HSL (Hospital Services Limited). She is one of the founding members of the Irish DXA Society which was established in 2018.
Saturday, April 1, 2023
8:15 AM – 9:15 AM
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose