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Emily Caffrey, Meeting Task Force Chair

Did you enjoy the Women's History Month posts? Come to the Women in Radiation Protection Special Session at the HPS Annual Meeting!

The 68th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society (HPS) will be held 23–27 July 2023 in National Harbor, Maryland. Building on the incredible success of the Women's History Month social media promotion of wonderful women of health physics, our first HPS annual meeting spotlight session is WiRP—the Women in Radiation Protection Special Session!

This session will be held Wednesday, 26 July, 10 am–12:10 pm. It features many of the women you saw spotlighted last month and covers many topics that are especially relevant in the post-pandemic world. It also contains not one, but TWO panel discussions. The goal of this special session is to provide an open and welcoming space for health physicists to discuss developing soft skills as an individual, what makes a manager successful in the current work atmosphere, and challenges health physicists may face when looking to switch to a different specialty.

For the first half of the session, we will compare supervisory skills and challenges, examine how to supervise a team that is completely remote or hybrid, consider strategies for creating a positive work-life balance, and develop soft skills useful for pregnancy consultations. In the second half, we will focus attention on the hard skills required in different subfields of health physics and challenges individuals may face when transitioning areas.

For more information on the 68th Annual Meeting of the HPS, visit the meeting website.