Susan van der Kamp RN CDT qualified as a general nurse cum laude at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin. She holds the position of osteoporosis nurse specialist. She helped to establish the DXA unit in 1994 in St. Vincent’s University Hospital as the initial DXA technologist of which she became Co-Director. She has been active as a DXA technologist for 26 years and is particularly interested in practical aspects of DXA service. She has trained many DXA technologists in Ireland. She has been innovative in establishing clinical activities related to DXA. In addition, she has initiated education programmes for nurses and the general public. She won a Young Technologist Award at the Annual Meeting of ISCD in 2002 and was awarded ‘best abstract by a technologist’ at the Annual Meeting of ISCD in 2013. She is on the ISCD Faculty for Osteoporosis Essentials and has taught courses in Ireland, the USA and the Lebanon, since 2009. She has published a number of clinical papers on DXA and has had a recent interest in the application of DXA to the early diagnosis of atypical femoral fractures. In 2018 Susan received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Irish Osteoporosis Society. Susan currently works in the DXA unit in the Blackrock Clinic, Dublin and she is a DXA technologist trainer for installations of DXA machines (Hologic) throughout the island of Ireland.
