Items of Note

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

• AAPM at RSNA 2022
  AAPM Reception; AAPM Committee Meetings; RSNA/AAPM Physics Symposium; AAPM Booth.
  More on AAPM at RSNA 2022
• Comments Requested
  
  • New Task Group Proposals (under Science Council)
    Deadline: November 30, 2022
    View & Submit Comments 
  • Medical Physics Practice Guideline 8.b: Linear Accelerator Performance Tests
    Deadline: December 5, 2022
    View & Submit Comments 
• Request for Proposals (RFP)
  2024 Summer School
  Deadline: November 30, 2022
  Submit a Proposal
• AAPM Newsletter
  November/December 2022 Issue Available.
  Read the Issue
• IHE-RO
  Call for Nominations: Planning Committee - Physics Co-Chair
  Deadline: November 28, 2022
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• AAPM Publications
  
  • Academic Program Recommendations for Graduate Degrees in Medical Physics: AAPM Report No. 365 (Revision of Report No. 197)
    View AAPM Report 365
  • AAPM Report 373: The Content, Structure, and Value of the Professional Doctorate in Medical Physics (DMP)
    View AAPM Report 373
• AAPM Funding Opportunities
  • 2023 DREAM - Diversity Recruitment Recruitment through Education and Mentoring Program
    Deadline: February 2, 2023
    Learn More & Apply
  • 2023 Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Program
    Deadline: February 2, 2023
    Learn More & Apply
  • 2023 ASTRO-AAPM Physics Resident/Post-Doctoral Fellow Seed Grant
    Deadline: February 15, 2023
    Learn More & Apply
  • 2023 Research Seed Funding Grant
    Deadline: April 12, 2023
    Learn More & Apply
  • 2023 AAPM / RSNA Doctoral and Masters Graduate Fellowships
    Deadline: April 27, 2023
    Learn More & Apply
• AAPM Webinars
  • Webinar #31 | AAPM Webinar Series on Advances in Medical Physics
    LET-Based Proton Planning - From Development to Clinical Implementation
    Pencil beam scanning (PBS) proton therapy provides highly conformal tumor coverage and superior tissue sparing. But it also introduces additional complexities when dealing with variable relative biologically effective (RBE) dose due to varying high linear energy transfer (LET) at the end of proton ranges. The oversimplified RBE=1.1 in standard care proton therapy has negatively impacted the efficacy of PBS. In this webinar, we will discuss the current progress on developing LET-based proton planning. Recently we have developed a novel tool of dose-LET volume histogram (DLVH) to visualize dose, LET, and the structure volume in one plot, and performed LET-related toxicity studies in both PBS-treated prostate and head-neck populations facilitated by a concept of seed spot analysis. Based on these and other results, we have developed the LET-guided robust optimization to prospectively redistribute high LET from nearby OARs to tumors to minimize toxicity. This has been integrated into our GPU-accelerated and Monte Carlo-based in-house planning system, Shiva, for routine clinical use. Some DEMOs of this system will be given to show the clinical translation of our results.
    Speaker: Wei Liu
    Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 12:00 PM ET
    Register Now 
  • AAPM Webinar on Understanding 2023 Medicare Reimbursement
    A 90-minute webinar will provide an overview of the Medicare 2023 final rules which impact policy and payments to physicians, freestanding cancer centers, hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs). Bring your questions to be addressed during the 30 minute Q&A following the presentation.
    Speaker: Wendy Smith Fuss
    Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 12:00 PM ET
    Register Now 
• AAPM Mentorship Program
  The AAPM Mentorship Program match process is now live! It is not too late to sign-up as a mentee or mentor, as the program is an on-demand service.
  Become a Mentor or a Mentee 
• Confex
  AAPM is excited to announce Confex, an abstract system which will now be 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 
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