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News Release: January 25, 2010
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SDMS Foundation Announces Major Gift
January 25, 2010
The Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (SDMS) Foundation is pleased to announce
that Joan and Don Baker of Kirkland, Washington have made a major gift to the new
SDMS Foundation to support its mission and goals. Ms. Baker was a founder of the
SDMS in 1970, the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS) in
1975, and served on the Board of the SDMS Educational Foundation from 1989-1991
(which remained affiliated with SDMS until May 2009). She has twice served as SDMS
President and served as the chair of Allied Health at Seattle University and Program
Chair of the Ultrasound Technology Program at Bellevue Community College (now known
as Bellevue College). Her husband, Don Baker, is an electrical and bio-engineer
credited with the discovery, development, and medical application of continuous
wave and pulsed Doppler technology. He helped form one of the country’s leading
ultrasound equipment companies and worked tirelessly to promote the adoption and
use of medical ultrasound throughout the world. In recognition of these accomplishments,
he received the University of Washington Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus Award in 2002.
Shannon Boswell, BS, RDMS, RDCS, RVT, FSDMS, the SDMS Foundation’s President, expressed
the SDMS Foundation’s Board’s sincere appreciation and gratitude for the unsolicited
gift stating, “Joan and Don Baker’s donation sets the bar for professionalism and
dedication to the sonography community.” The gift will help support the Foundation’s
Certification Examination Grant program, which provides financial and educational
assistance to SDMS members who are working to become credentialed in diagnostic
medical sonography. The grant program helps both students seeking their first credential
as well as experienced sonographers wishing to advance their career by earning another
sonography credential.
The donation will also help support a new initiative by the SDMS and SDMS Foundation
related to Joan Baker’s personal passion of helping sonographers with repetitive
stress injuries that have negatively affected their careers. Additional information
on this new initiative will be announced later this year. Detailed information about
the SDMS Foundation’s Certification Examination Grant Program as well as its other
grants and scholarships is available online at http://www.sdmsfoundation.org/programs.aspx.
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