The Australian and New Zealand Society for Paediatric Radiology is a professional society for doctors who specialise in the medical imaging of children in Australia, New Zealand and neighbouring countries. The society’s previous name was the Australasian Society for Paediatric Imaging (ASPI). The Society was formed over 20 years ago. The major activity of the Society is our annual scientific meeting by tradition held the week after the annual scientific meeting of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR).

Paediatric radiologists train for many years. After medical school, internship (1 year) is followed by resident (1-3 years) and registrar training (5 years) to qualify as a radiologist – a specialist in medical imaging. Following qualification as a specialist radiologist, further training, usually 1-2 years, is undertaken as a fellow in paediatric radiology, allowing qualification as a paediatric radiologist. Sometimes, further subspecialisation is performed in areas such paediatric neuroradiology, interventional radiology or nuclear imaging.

Paediatric Radiologists take particular care to combine a caring and reassuring atmosphere for the child and their family with state of the art technology and knowledge. Of particular interest is working with the lowest extremes of ionising radiation to ensure that any risk from x-ray exposure is minimised. The ANZSPR is a member organisation of the Image Gently campaign. There are members of ANZSPR in the imaging departments of childrens hospitals, general hospital and private practices throughout the region.

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