Defining the Medical Imaging Requirements for a Rural Health Center

Caridad (Cari) Borrás, D.Sc., DABR, DABMP, FACR, FAAPM, FIOMP, a Spanish national, went, as a Fulbright scholar, to the USA, where she worked as a radiological physicist in Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington DC. There, she managed for 15 years the radiological health program of the Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization and then, for 2 years, went to Recife, Brazil, as a Visiting Professor of the Federal University of Pernambuco. She chaired for nine years the Science Committee of the International Organization for Medical Physics and, for six, co-chaired/chaired the Health Technology Task Group of the IUPESM. For her scientific, educational and professional contributions to medical physics, she has been given awards by the IUPESM, the Spanish (SEFM), American (AAPM), Latin American (ALFIM) and International (IOMP) medical physics societies, by the American Board of Radiology and by the American College of Clinical Engineering.