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Brachytherapy Subcommittee (BTSC)

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Activities
  1. Identify and address the medical physics needs of the brachytherapy community
  2. Educate and provide guidance to the AAPM membership and brachytherapy community in matters of brachytherapy physics
By-Laws:Not Referenced.Rules: Not Referenced.
Standing?This is not a standing committee.
Approved Date(s):n/a
Committee Keywords: BTSC
Chair

Susan Richardson
Subcommittee Chair

2025 Roster

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VOTING AppointmentsThere are 20 voting members.

needs updatingManik Aima, PhD, MS

1/1/2022 - 12/31/2027 Member
up-to-dateÅsa K. Carlsson Tedgren, PhD

1/1/2023 - 12/31/2025 Liaison - GEC-ESTRO (ex officio)

needs updatingGil'ad N. Cohen, MS

8/3/2023 - 12/31/2026 Chair,  Working Group on Interstitial Brachytherapy with Recoil Short-lived Alpha Emitti (ex officio)
8/22/2019 - 12/31/2025 Liaison - ABS Physics committee
needs updatingJ. Adam M. Cunha, PhD

12/1/2022 - 12/31/2025 Member

up-to-dateChristopher L. Deufel, PhD

1/1/2025 - 12/31/2027 Chair,  Working Group on Brachytherapy Clinical Applications (ex officio)
1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025 Member
needs updatingGabriel P. Fonseca

1/1/2024 - 12/31/2026 Chair,  Working Group on Model-Based Dose Calculation Algorithms in Brachytherapy (ex officio)

needs updatingIleana Iftimia, PhD

1/1/2023 - 12/31/2025 Member
needs updatingMalcolm R. McEwen, PhD

1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025 Member

needs updatingMahta M. McKee, MS

3/14/2024 - 12/31/2026 Subcommittee Vice Chair
needs updatingTarun K. Podder, PhD

1/1/2023 - 12/31/2025 Member

up-to-dateJoel Poder, PhD, MS

6/16/2023 - 12/31/2025 Chair,  Task Group No. 56.B - Update of the AAPM TG56 report (TG56.B) (ex officio)
needs updatingSusan L. Richardson, PhD

1/1/2024 - 12/31/2026 Subcommittee Chair

needs updatingAlexandra Rink, PhD

3/4/2025 - 12/31/2027 Member
needs updatingDaniel J. Scanderbeg, PhD

1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025 Member

needs updatingLevent Sensoy, PhD

1/1/2023 - 12/31/2025 Member
needs updatingFrank-Andre Siebert, PhD

1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025 Member - ESTRO

up-to-dateSamantha J. Simiele, PhD

4/1/2021 - 12/31/2026 Member
up-to-dateChristopher J. Tien, PhD

9/15/2023 - 12/31/2025 Chair,  Task Group No. 59.B/Report 61.B: High dose-rate brachytherapy treatment delivery (ex officio)

up-to-dateJavier Vijande, PhD

1/1/2025 - 12/31/2027 Chair,  Working Group on Brachytherapy Dosimetry (ex officio)
up-to-dateShima Y. Tari, PhD

3/4/2025 - 12/31/2027 Member
NON-VOTING AppointmentsThere are 5 non-voting members and guests.

needs updatingHossein Afsharpour, PhD

8/5/2025 - 12/31/2026 Guest (nonvoting)
needs updatingShadi Chitsazzadeh, PhD

7/30/2024 - 12/31/2025 Guest (nonvoting)

up-to-dateJessica R. Lowenstein, MS

1/1/2025 - 12/31/2025 Liaison - IROC (ex officio, nonvoting)
needs updatingChristopher S. Melhus, PhD

1/1/2025 - 12/31/2025 Guest (nonvoting)

up-to-dateRyan Turner, MS

12/11/2024 - 12/31/2025 Guest (nonvoting)
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