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January 9, 2025 |
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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
- AAPM Newsletter
January/February 2025 Issue Available.
Read the Issue
- 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 | How to Navigate AAPM as a Student and Trainee
Synopsis: Led by active AAPM volunteers, this webinar will offer guidance to students and trainees on how to make the most of AAPM’s resources. We will discuss the structure of AAPM, how AAPM benefits you throughout your career, and how you can help AAPM with your involvement.
Speakers: Cetnar, Miller, Baretto, Jermain
Thursday, January 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM ET
Register for AAPM Webinar | How to Navigate AAPM as a Student and Trainee
- 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 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
- Generalizable Dose Prediction for Heterogenous Multi-Cohort and Multi-Site Radiotherapy Planning (GDP-HMM) Grand Challenge
Learn More & Participate
- AAPM Member Profile
Global Volunteer Information Section added.
Update Your Member Profile
- AAPM Mentorship Program
Sign-up as a mentee or mentor at any time, as the program is an on-demand service.
Become a Mentor or a Mentee
- 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.
Learn More & Send Feedback
- AAPM Website
Is something on the website not working as it should? Please send an email to helpdesk@aapm.org - the AAPM IS Team
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AAPM Meetings
Don't miss these important meetings and deadlines.
Mark your calendar now! |
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Updates in Proton Radiation TherapyFebruary 14 - 16, 2024 | Virtual Continued On-Demand Access
Artificial Intelligence for Clinical Medical PhysicistsJuly 20, 2024 | Los Angeles, CAMeeting Website
2024 Review CoursesJuly 20 - 21, 2024 | Los Angeles, CAMeeting Website
Innovations in QA: Moving Toward Efficient QA ProgramsOctober 28 - 29, 2024 | VirtualMeeting Website
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2025 Summer School
Clinical MR Physics: State-of-the-Art Practice
June 19 - 24, 2025 | University of Denver | Denver, CO Save the Date!
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RSNA 2024
Dec. 1–5, 2024 | Chicago, IL
Virtual Access
Nov. 30–Dec. 4, 2025 | Chicago, IL Save the Date!
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Corgi Phantom:
The Corgi Phantom is designed to evaluate cone beam CT systems. The modular phantom can be configured for different scan sizes, providing tests for multi-axis high resolution, sensitometry, cone beam artifacts, and uniformity. Additionally, the phantom includes holes for measuring dose. |
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Liver Phantom:
The Liver Phantom combines the advantages of objective test objects and anthropomorphic elements for evaluation of advanced iterative processing. The phantom includes low contrast test objects designed both for ROC tests along with conventional patterns, metal artifact inserts, and beads for MTF calculations. |
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Chapter Meetings
Southern California Chapter Midwinter Symposium
January 10, 2025 | Sheraton Universal Hotel, East-West Ballroom |
2025 MRV-AAPM Mock Oral Exam
January 25, 2025 | Virtually via Zoom |
DVC AAPM Mock Oral Exam 2025
February 1, 2025 | Virtually via Zoom |
SWAAPM Annual Meeting - Celebrating the Students, Trainees AND Vendor partners
February 13-15, 2025 | Baton Rouge, LA |
Connecticut (CAMPS) Meeting
February 25, 2024 | TBD |
Arizona AAPM Chapter Annual Meeting 2025
March 01, 2025 | Phoenix, AZ |
New England Chapter Winter Meeting
March 07, 2025 | Dover, MA |
Midwest Chapter Spring Meeting
April 12, 2025 | Chicago, IL |
FLAAPM Spring 2025 Chapter Meeting
April 30 - May 4, 2025 | Lake Buena Vista, FL |
NWAAPM 2025 Spring Meeting
May 2, 2025 | Portland, OR |
North Central Chapter (NCC-AAPM) Spring Meeting
May 2, 2025 | Bloomington, MN |
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Endorsed | Sponsored Meetings
Nuclear Medicine Tutorials - Covering Nuclear Medicine Basic Science
Ongoing | Online |
PSI Winter School for Proton Therapy
January 13 - 16, 2025 | Switzerland |
29th Annual Mammography Update for Physicists
January 25 - 26, 2025 | Medical Technology Management Institute | Virtual |
ALFIM 2025 - X Congreso Latinoamericano de Física Médica, II Congreso Ibero Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Física Médicato
March 9-12, 2025 | Antigua, Guatemala |
Mammography Workshop 2025
April 4, 11, 17 & 25, 2025 | Canadian Organization of Medical Physics |Virtual |
11th MR in RT Symposium
April 14 - 16, 2025 | New York, NY |
Patient Communication for Medical Physicists Workshop
May 8 - 9, 2025 | UC San Diego | Virtual |
2025 International TBI Symposium
June 16-17, 2025 | Virtual |
29th Annual Mammography Update for Physicists
September 27 - 28, 2025 | Medical Technology Management Institute | Virtual |
2nd Symposium on Molecular Radiotherapy Dosimetry
November 6-8, 2025 | Athens, Greece |
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Congress
Physician Payment Patch and Other Key Health Reforms Scrapped In Scaled-Back Continuing Resolution
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