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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will broadcast a webinar on 22 April 2020, 4 p.m. CEST (10 a.m. Eastern) for information on health care workers at the front line of the COVID-19 outbreak response.

Participants of the webinar will learn about:

• Strategies to work safely while under stress without jeopardizing radiation protection and safety.
• Arrangements to protect health workers using radiation sources for COVID-19 infections.
• Arrangements for facilities converted into pandemic hospitals.
• Difficulties faced by health workers when using personal protective equipment (PPE) to avoid COVID-19 infections and reuse of PPEs.
• Projections for possible dose increase for workers due to an extended screening.

The webinar is being presented by Jessica Clements, chief medical physicist and regional radiation safety officer for the Southern California Region of Kaiser Permanente in the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, and Enis Özyar, MD, professor of radiation oncology at the Acibadem University, School of Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, Istanbul, Turkey.

For more information and to register, see the IAEA website.