AAPM 46th Annual Meeting

last revised: July 21, 2004 at 8:08am

2004 AAPM Committee Schedule
The Westin Convention Center Hotel • 1000 Penn Avenue • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

All Council, Committee, Subcommittee, and Task Group minutes must be received in the Headquarters Office (Fayette Room, Westin) by 10:00 AM on Tuesday, July 27.

Chairs who wish to make changes to this schedule - please contact karen@aapm.org

*all rooms are located on the 2nd level of the Westin unless otherwise indicated*


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TIME
ROOM
COMMITTEE
CHAIR

FRIDAY, JULY 23

3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Fayette AAPM Headquarters Office  
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Butler West Compensation Committee  
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM Butler East Executive Committee  

SATURDAY, JULY 24

8:00 AM - 6:00 PM Fayette AAPM Headquarters Office  
Show Office C Conv Ctr AAPM History Committee Interviews  
8:00 AM - NOON Butler East Executive Committee  
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Westmoreland West Radiation Therapy • TG#105 Monte Carlo in Clinical Treatment new time I. Chetty/B. Curran
NOON - 2:00 PM Cambria West Education and Training of Medical Physicists • SC Medical Physicist Workforce R. Rice
Westmoreland Central Medical Physics Education of Allied Health Professionals • SC Training and Practice of Medical Dosimetry L. Sweeney
Cambria East Meeting Coordination • SC Education Program J. Allison
Butler West Radiation Therapy • TG#100 Update of TG 40, Quality Assurance in Radiation Therapy
S. Huq
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Armstrong International Affairs • SC Middle East Affairs B. Arjomandy
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Butler East Journal Business Management C. Marshall
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Westmoreland East Continuing Professional Development • SC Summer School P. Feller
Cambria West Education and Training of Medical Physicists • SC Summer Fellowship Program G. Sandison
Westmoreland Central Medical Physics Education of Allied Health Professionals B. Schueler
Cambria East Meeting Coordination • SC Scientific Program D. Pickens
Westmoreland West Radiation Therapy • TG#68 Intracranial Stereotactic Positioning Systems A. Lightstone
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Armstrong Newsletter Editorial Board A. deGuzman
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Butler West Biological Effects • TG#8 Volumetric Tissue Response Models in Radiation Therapy Sapareto/Niemierko
Lawrence Radiation Therapy • TG#57 Rewrite of NCRP #49 Deye/Wu
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Westmoreland East Continuing Professional Development • SC RSNA Education Coordination P. Sprawls

Cambria West
CANCELED 7/5/04

Continuing Professional Development • SC Remotely Directed Continuing Education J. Gallet
Cambria West Education and Training of Medical Physicists • SC Medical Physics Residency Education and Promotion new date/time R. Lane

Cambria East

Ethics
new date/time
D. Freedman
Somerset East Professional Economics J. Hevezi
Westmoreland West Radiation Therapy • TG#62 Diode In-Vivo Dosimetry E. Yorke
Washington Room Radiation Therapy • TG#71 Monitor Unit Calculations J. Gibbons
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Butler East Electronic Media Coordinating G. Starkschall
Somerset West Radiation Therapy • SC Calibration Laboratory Accreditation S. Huq
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Butler West Biological Effects J. Deasy
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Westmoreland East Continuing Professional Development M. Yester
Somerset East Education and Training of Medical Physicists • SC Secondary Education and Training R. Ritenour
Lawrence Medical Physics Education of Physicians R. Massoth
Cambria East Meeting Coordination • SC Logistics R. Miller
Armstrong Nuclear Medicine J. Halama
Butler West Professional Information & Clinical Relations P. Halvorsen
Washington Radiation Therapy • SC IMRT J. Palta
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Westmoreland West Radiation Therapy • SC Low Energy Interstitial Brachytherapy Dosimetry J. Williamson
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Cambria West Finance • SC International Education Funding M. Giger
Somerset East International Affairs • SC Latin American Affairs Y. Pipman
Armstrong Nuclear Medicine • TG#7 Radionuclide Therapy & Data Acquisition Methods
L. Williams

SUNDAY, JULY 25

7:00 AM - 8:45 AM Westmoreland Central Public Education K. Hogstrom
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM Fayette AAPM Headquarters Office  
Show Office C Conv Ctr AAPM History Committee Interviews  
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Somerset West Medical Physics Education of Physicians • AAPM/RSNA Tutorial on Physics in Radiology M. Mahesh
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Executive Boardroom /26th FL Diagnostic X-Ray Imaging • CT Noise Metric Task Group added June 8 P. Judy
Somerset East Education and Training of Medical Physicists • TG#1 Revision of Report #44 - Academic Program for MS Degree in Medical Physics A. Feldman
Lawrence AD HOC Committee on Organization and Governance M. Weinhous
Cambria West General Medical Physics • TG#5 Photodynamic Therapy Physics

S. Brahmavar for F. Hetzel

Butler East Investment Advisory R. Stark
Butler West Professional Information & Clinical Relations • SC Legal Information/Risk Management J. Masten
Crawford West /3rd FL Professional Services • Placement Service T. Potts
Allegheny II Radiation Therapy • SC Molecular Imaging in Clinical Radiation Oncology D. Bourland
Westmoreland West Radiation Therapy • SC Intravascular Brachytherapy B. Thomadsen
Westmoreland East Radiation Therapy • TG#106 Commissioning Equi PMent and Procedures I. Das
8:00 AM - NOON Washington Meeting Coordination B. Curran
9:00 AM-10:00 AM Somerset West International Affairs • SC Exchange Scientist Program R. Wu
Armstrong Medical Physics Education of Allied Health Professionals • Preliminary TG Physics Educator Resource Guide B. Schueler
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Allegheny III /3rd FL

Radiation Therapy • TG#69 Radiographic Film for Megavoltage Beam Dosimetry

S. Pai
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Armstrong Biological Effects • TG#7 Complexity Theory D. Herbert
Cambria West General Medical Physics S. Brahmavar
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Cambria East International Affairs • SC Asian Oceanic Affairs R. Wu
Butler East International Affairs • SC African Affairs new date/time D. Bourland
10:00 AM - NOON Lawrence Ad Hoc Committee on Exposure Limits P. Biggs
Crawford West /3rd FL Diagnostic X-Ray Imaging • TG#102 Assessment of Typical CTDI Values Boone/Wilson
Westmoreland C Education and Training of Medical Physicists B. Paliwal
Somerset West Government and Regulatory Affairs J. Masten
Butler West Professional Services Committee • SC Professional Survey B. Poffenbarger
Allegheny II /3rd FL Radiation Therapy • SC QA Physics of Cooperative Trials G. Ibbott
Westmoreland West Radiation Therapy • SC Thermal Therapies J. Hazle
Westmoreland East Radiation Therapy • TG#70 Clinical E-Beam Therapy in the Era of TG-51 B. Gerbi
Somerset East Research • SC National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering P. Carson
11:00 AM - NOON Armstrong Biological Effects • TG#5 The Design of Experiments in Radiation Biology D. Herbert
Cambria West International Affairs • SC European Affairs Marinello/Cygler
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Crawford East /3rd FL

Professional & Public Relations

M. Fox

NOON - 2:00 PM Armstrong Biological Effects • TG#6 Dose Equivalence in Brachytherapy D. Zellmer
Lawrence Diagnostic X-Ray Imaging • TG#15 Digital Mammography for Stereotactic Localization A. Karellas
Crawford West /3rd FL Diagnostic X-Ray Imaging • TG#16 Standards for Noise Power Spectrum Analysis A. Maidment
Somerset West Diagnostic X-Ray Imaging • TG#22 Testing of Film Processors O. Suleiman
Somerset East Diagnostic X-Ray Imaging • TG#23 CT Dosimetry canceled C. McCollough
Cambria East Education Council Mower/Schueler
Cambria West International Affairs • SC International Scientific Exchange Programs Mustafa/Niroomand-Rad
Butler West Magnetic Resonance • TG#1 MR Acceptance Testing & QA E. Jackson
Butler East Membership R. Zwicker
Westmoreland East Regional Organization D. Pavord
Westmoreland Central Research R. Mackie
Allegheny III /3rd FL Medical Physics Board of Editors C. Orton
NOON - 5:00 PM Washington Finance M. Giger
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Westmoreland West Professional Council G. White
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Somerset West Awards & Honors M. Martel
Somerset East Development J. Gray
Westmoreland Central Diagnostic X-Ray Imaging C. Wilson
Crawford West / 3rd FL History J. Dare
Cambria West International Affairs A. Niroomand-Rad
Lawrence Magnetic Resonance E. Jackson
Allegheny III /3rd FL Publications J. Dawson
Butler West Radiation Protection R. Lieto
Allegheny II /3rd FL Radiation Therapy • TG#72 Clinical Implementation and Quality Assurance for IntraOperative Radiation Therapy Using Mobile Electron Linear Accelerators S. Beddar
Butler East Radiation Therapy • TG#76 The Management of Respiration Motion in Radiation Oncology P. Keall
Westmoreland East Radiation Therapy • TG#101 Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy S. Benedict
Armstrong Radiation Therapy • TG#104 Kilo Voltage Localization in Therapy Yin/Wong
Executive Boardroom /26th FL Radiation Therapy • High-Energy Brachytherapy Dosimetry Working Group added June 18 Z. Li
Cambria East Regional Organization • SC Recruitment of Young Physicists into Medical Physics R. Smith
Crawford East /3rd FL Ultrasound E. Boote
4:00 PM- 5:30 PM Westmoreland Central (proposed) TG on Standardization of Exposure Indices in Digital Radiography added June 9 Shepard/Wang
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Westmoreland East Radiation Therapy • TG#74 Output Factor in Air T. Zhu
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM Westmoreland Central Radiation Therapy Herman/Li

MONDAY, JULY 26

8:00 AM - 6:00 PM Fayette AAPM Headquarters Office  
Show Office C Conv Ctr AAPM History Committee Interviews  
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Westmoreland Central Science Council part I Palta/Boone
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Butler East Radiation Therapy • TG#75 Radiographic Imaging Doses in Radiation M. Murphy
NOON - 1:30 PM Westmoreland Central Science Council part II Palta/Boone
NOON - 2:00 PM Butler East Rules C. Marshall
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Butler East ABR Review B. Paliwal
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM Allegheny Ballroom and Foyer AAPM Awards Ceremony and Reception, ticket required  

TUESDAY, JULY 27

6:00 AM River Avenue below the 9th Street Bridge 5K Run / Walk, pre-registration required  
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Room 330 Conv Ctr Chapter Representatives Breakfast  
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM Fayette AAPM Headquarters Office  
Show Office C Conv Ctr AAPM History Committee Interviews  
10:00 AM Fayette Deadline for Council, Committee, Subcommittee, and Task Group minutes. Board Book goes to print.  
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM Carnegie Science Center

Night Out, ticket required

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28

8:00 AM - 6:00 PM Fayette AAPM Headquarters Office  
Show Office C Conv Ctr AAPM History Committee Interviews  
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Room 405 Conv Ctr Exhibitors' Breakfast  
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Room 405 David L. Lawrence Convention Ctr Meeting Coordination • SC Technical Exhibits J. Marbach
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room 315, Conv Ctr New Member Symposium  
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM Grand Ballroom A, Conv Ctr AAPM Annual Business Meeting  

THURSDAY, JULY 29

8:00 AM - NOON Fayette AAPM Headquarters Office  
8:00 AM - NOON Butler East Executive Committee  
NOON - 1:00 PM Somerset Board of Directors Luncheon  
1:00 PM - 6:00 PM Westmoreland Board of Directors  
Other Scheduled Functions

SATURDAY, JULY 24

8:00 AM - 6:00 PM Room 329, Conv Ctr AAPM Diagnostic Physics Review Course  
Room 330, Conv Ctr AAPM Therapy Physics Review Course  
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Westmoreland Central Physics Committee of the American Brachytherapy Society B. Thomadsen

SUNDAY, JULY 25

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Cambria East CAMPEP-Graduate Education Program Review Committee  
8:00 AM - NOON Room 329, Conv Ctr AAPM Diagnostic Physics Review Course  
Room 330, Conv Ctr AAPM Therapy Physics Review Course  
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Crawford East /3rd FL CAMPEP-Residency Education Program Review Committee  
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Lawrence ICRU - CT J. Boone
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Executive Boardroom /26th FL CAMPEP Board of Directors  

MONDAY, JULY 26

8:00 AM - NOON Room 402, Conv Ctr QA and Phantom Products Vendors' Meeting organized by NEMA  
10:00 AM - NOON Butler West CAMPEP Board of Directors added July 8  
Butler East Radiological Physics Committee for ABR
added May 12
W. Hendee

TUESDAY, JULY 27

8:00 AM - NOON Room 402, Conv Ctr Radiation Therapy Systems and Product Vendors' Meeting organized by NEMA  
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Room 332, Conv Ctr Educators' Day  
NOON - 2:00 PM Westmoreland Central Association of Iranian Physicists in Medicine A. Meigooni
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Westmoreland Central IMPAK  

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Room 405, Conv Ctr Exhibitors' Breakfast  
NOON - 1:30 PM Butler West ASTRO Radiation Physics Committee  

THURSDAY, JULY 29

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Marquis A, Courtyard Hotel DICOM Working Group 7, Radiation Therapy Objects Standardization  

FRIDAY, JULY 30

8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Butler Room Workshop on Grantsmanship (pre-registration required)  
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM Marquis A, Courtyard Hotel DICOM Working Group 7, Radiation Therapy Objects Standardization