Items of Note

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

• Proposed Dues Changes
  An important discussion will take place during the 2024 Annual Business Meeting (ABM) regarding a board-proposed membership dues increase.
  Learn More 
• AAPM Supports AIP DEIBA Strategy
  To spur collaboration and advance goals towards achieving diversity, AIP’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, & Accessibility (DEIBA) Strategic Plan addresses the continued under-representation of racial and ethnic minorities, women, LGBTQ+ people, and people with disabilities in STEM. It represents the collective thinking of the AIP Federation/Member Societies - including AAPM - and builds upon AIP’s existing programmatic efforts to improve diversity and create a culture of inclusion and belonging.
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• AAPM Global Needs Assessment Survey for Medical Physicists
  If you are a medical physicist working in a Low-to-Middle-Income Country (LMIC), the AAPM Global Needs Assessment Committee would appreciate your help in responding to this confidential survey. Responding to this survey is estimated to take about 15 minutes or less.
  Take the Survey
• AAPM Grand Challenges
  • 2024 Call for Grand Challenge Proposals
    Deadline: July 31, 2024
    Learn More & Submit
    
• AAPM Webinars
  Missed any of our previous webinars? Archived webinars can be found here.
  
  • AAPM Webinar Series on Global Research and Scientific Innovation Committee: School on Research Excellence
    Topic: Open-Source AI & Machine Learning Tools for Medical Physics Applications
    
    • Clinical Implication of AI | Leigh Conroy, PhD, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto
    • High-Dimensional Space Data Visualization | Lei Xing, PhD, Stanford University
    • Artificial Generative Intelligence | Wei Liu, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Arizona
    • Open-Source Auto-Segmentation | Phillip Chlap, Radformation
    Thursday, June 6, 2024 at 12:00 PM ET
    Register for Open-Source AI & Machine Learning Tools 
    
• 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 now being 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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