Items of Note

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

• Trump Administration Directives Impacting Federal Funding and NIH – a Statement from AAPM’s Government Affairs Team (as of Wednesday, Jan. 29, 5pm EST)
  Recent rapid-fire Executive Orders and directives from President Donald Trump’s administration have led to disruptions at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The most recent directives are effective immediately and impact many agencies under the HHS, including NIH.
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• 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 


• 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 Advances in Medical Physics (2025)
    Topic: Webinar #40: Clinical Developments in Spatially Fractionated Radiation Therapy: The Critical Role of Physicists
    Synopsis: This 60-minute webinar will provide an overview and update of the clinical developments in spatially fractionated radiation therapy (SFRT), a rapidly evolving field in radiation oncology, characterized by intentional highly heterogeneous dose distributions to tumors. GRID and Lattice technologies, clinical implementation, treatment approaches and patient outcome experience (tumor response, tumor control, survival) will be reviewed.
    Speaker: Mayr
    Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM ET
    Register for “Clinical Developments in Spatially Fractionated Radiation Therapy: The Critical Role of Physicists”
    
  • 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
    Registration Coming Soon!
    
  • 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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• AAPM Mentorship Program
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• Confex
  Confex, an abstract system, is used for all AAPM meeting program development. If you’re an author or submitter for any AAPM meeting program, please watch for and whitelist the email address aapm@confex.com.
• 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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