Items of Note

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

• 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.
• 2023 AAPM Spring Clinical Meeting
  Abstract Submission Open
  Deadline: November 1, 2022
  Start Your Submission
• International Day of Medical Physics 2022
  Medical Physics for Sustainable Healthcare
  November 7, 2022
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• International Day of Radiology 2022
  Radiologists & Radiographers Supporting Patients
  November 8, 2022
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• AAPM at RSNA 2022
  AAPM Reception; AAPM Committee Meetings; RSNA/AAPM Physics Symposium; AAPM Booth.
  More on AAPM at RSNA 2022
• Request for Proposals (RFP)
  2024 Summer School
  Deadline: November 30, 2022
  Submit a Proposal
• AAPM Publications
  AAPM Task Group Report 303 Endorsed by the ABS: MRI Implementation in HDR Brachytherapy – Considerations from Simulation to Treatment
  View AAPM Task Group Report 303
• IOMP
  • Call for Editors-in-Chief for Medical Physics International (MPI)
    Deadline: November 18, 2022
    Learn More & Apply
  • IOMP Newsletter
    Vol. 4, No. 5, October 2022
    Read Now
• AAPM Publications
  AAPM Task Group Report 303 Endorsed by the ABS: MRI Implementation in HDR Brachytherapy – Considerations from Simulation to Treatment
  View AAPM Task Group Report 303
• 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 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 #16 | AAPM Webinar Series on MP3.0 Transformational Medical Physics
    Metamorphosis: How & When to Transform a Research Project Into Commercial Product
    Medical physicists often come up with new, exciting ideas that have commercial potential. However, very rarely do they pursue commercialization, largely because of the notion that doing so is beyond their scope. The aim of this talk is to help surmount this hurdle by providing medical physicists with the knowledge required to bring an idea or project to commercial fruition.
    Speaker: Michelle Svatos
    Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 12:00 PM ET
    Register Now
  • 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 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 
• 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
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