Items of Note

Important notices, upcoming deadlines, and events happening in the Medical Physics community.

• Call for 2025 Awards and Honors Nominations
  Submission Period: January 1 — February 26, 2025
  The 2025 Awards and Honors Nomination System will be open from January 1 to February 26, 2025, accepting nominations for association awards that will be presented at the AAPM 67th Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Washington, DC, in July 2025.
  Learn More & Submit a Nomination 


• Let your voice be heard. Visit AAPM’s current Take Action campaign.
  Your support is crucial in protecting the future of healthcare and scientific advancement. AAPM has enabled a letter-writing campaign, if you wish to communicate with elected officials directly and highlight the potential impacts of recent Executive Orders and proposed cuts to NIH.
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• AAPM Newsletter
  January/February 2025 Issue Available.
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• AAPM Publications
  • AAPM task group report 314: Fault recovery in external beam radiation therapy
    View Report 314
  • AAPM Task Group Report 325: MRI static magnetic field homogeneity measurement and evaluation procedures – Guidance and resources
    View Report 325
  • AAPM Task Group Report 299: Quality control in multi-energy computed tomography
    View Report 299
• AAPM Webinars
  Missed any of our previous webinars? Archived webinars can be found here.
  
  
  • AAPM Webinar Series on MP3.0 Transformational Medical Physics (2025)
    Topic: Episode #23: The End of Not Knowing: Future of Data-Driven Oncology
    Speaker: Fox
    Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM ET
    Register for AAPM Webinar Series on MP3.0 Transformational Medical Physics (2025):
    Episode #23: The End of Not Knowing: Future of Data-Driven Oncology
    
  • The ABR Continuing Certification Process: Updates from the ABR
    Topic: How are OLA Questions Developed, Scored, and Evaluated? What Happens to the Comments Submitted by Participants?
    Synopsis: Most ABR diplomates participate in Continuing Certification, of which Part 3 is Online Longitudinal Assessment, or OLA. Participants have expressed questions about OLA, particularly how OLA is scored, how to interpret the dashboard, and why the current cumulative score moves up and down, seemingly independent of whether questions are answered correctly or not. While we will touch on the other topics, the focus in this webinar will be an explanation of OLA scoring.
    Speakers: Babcock, Kanal, Moderator: Ibbott
    Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM ET
    Register for Present and Future of Photon Counting CT
    
  • New 2025 CPT Codes for MR Safety: Diagnostic MRI or MR-guided Therapy/intervention
    Synopsis: Six new CPT codes for 2025 have been introduced for the additional work to perform MR exams for patients with implanted devices or foreign bodies. Three of these codes include medical physicist/MR Safety Expert time to support these services. This webinar aims to describe the medical physicist work involved with the provision of these services and the required documentation to bill the codes. While diagnostic MRI will drive most utilization of the new codes, these services are also performed in the MR-guided interventional setting or the MR-simulation/MR-guided therapy setting. A final discussion of the initial CMS rate-setting for these codes will be provided for both the non-facility (billing under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule) and hospital outpatient settings (billing under HOPPS).
    Speakers: Edmonson, Smith Fuss, Ferenci
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM ET
    Register for “New 2025 CPT Codes for MR Safety: Diagnostic MRI or MR-guided Therapy/intervention”
    
  • AAPM Webinar Series on Advances in Medical Physics (2025)
    Topic: Webinar #41: Advanced Imaging and Dosimetry for Theranostics
    Speaker: Bednarz
    Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM ET
    Registration Coming Soon!
    
• AAPM Grand Challenges
  • Actinium-225 quantification and SPECT/CT reconstruction (ACTI-QUANT) Grand Challenge
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  • Generalizable Dose Prediction for Heterogenous Multi-Cohort and Multi-Site Radiotherapy Planning (GDP-HMM) Grand Challenge
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• AAPM Member Profile
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• Confex
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• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (EDIC)
  AAPM members, please feel free to use this anonymous and confidential resource to inform the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (EDIC) of any comments, questions or concerns you have regarding EDI within AAPM or your experience as a medical physicist.
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