The course is aimed at advanced tasks connected with the use of statistical methods in data handling and interpretation. It covers the methods of inferential statistics most frequently used in the medical field, and the treatment of errors in surveys and uncertainties in radiation protection. The focus is on worked examples

This e-learning event was accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) with 28 CPD credits and is intended for practicing clinical Medical Physicists who are involved in data management and research. The course is accredited at EQF level 8, as required for continuing professional development for MEPs. 

Content

• - Experiment design: Hypothesis testing, Sample Size determination for different study designs.
• - Reproducibility of different observers; Agreement between two methods of clinical measurement.
• - Evaluation of a diagnostic test– Sensitivity, specificity, diagnostic accuracy, ROC methods.
• - Applied regression analysis. Analysis of variance, Analysis of Covariance, multiple regression, logistic regression.
• - Survival analysis – Relative risk, odds ratio. Survival curves with Kaplan Meyer; Log-rank test; Cox models.
• - Biases and errors in surveys.
• - Uncertainty in radiation protection.

 Course structure

The course is structured in 13 hours of video-lectures, selected from those given live during the 3 ESMPEs on Statistics held in Prague and Athens. You can watch and listen to each video as many times as you like. Before each lecture there is a list of “learning objectives”, which you must demonstrate that you have assimilated in order to obtain the CPDs.

 Tutorship and Forum

A discussion forum and an online tutor are available to participants, who can post questions in the forum for everyone or specifically for the tutor, Dr Marco Brambilla, the scientific chair, who is available to answer any doubts or questions. Give him maybe a few days, but he will definitely answer you.

 Final exam

The final exam is mandatory. CPDs credits are obtained by passing the final multiple-choice exam, which will be presented to you when you have attended the entire 13-hour video lectures package. Questions and answers are randomized. The exam has a minimum score of 75%, you can retake it 3 consecutive times, but if you fail you have to retake the course. You then have 2 more attempts to pass the exam.

 Organisers

Brendan McClean (Chair of the School)

Marco Brambilla (Scientific Chair)

Veronica Rossetti (Chair of Education and Training Committee)

 Details

EFOMP in collaboration with the Italian Association of Medical Physics (AIFM) would like to invite you to the next ESMPE on 24^th-26^thOctober 2024.

MRI is unquestionably the most complex but also the richest and most versatile imaging method. Although inherently quantitative, MRI has been used largely as a qualitative imaging technique, with the main limitation being the subjective nature of the results. An increasing number of diagnostic problems in clinical medicine require a quantitative assessment of tissue structure, physiology and function, which demand in-depth and systematic training.

This course is addressed at medical physicists who seek a general overview of the basic principles of MR imaging, from signal generation to image reconstruction, with a special focus on optimization and quantification techniques. Technological advances in hardware as well as in software will be presented, including advanced MR sequences used in clinical routine and artifact management. The importance of standardization in clinical quantitative MRI will be underlined and an emphasis will be placed on quality assurance and multicenter comparison, including safety aspects.

This two-and-half day event will be accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation forMedical Physics) and is intended for practicing clinical Medical Physicists who are involved in clinalMRI. This course has been accredited by EBAMP as a CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 8 (26 CPDs + 9 CPDs for attendees who also successfully pass the exam).

ESMPE have decided this event to be in a hybrid format. All talks will be given their on-site in Milan

but participants can choose to attend the school on-site (limited number of participants) or online.

Content

MRI physics: signal generation, contrast, signal localization. MRI technology

Clinical sequences and fast imaging techniques Quantification in MRI, quantitative advanced techniques Quality assurance in quantitative MRI

Metrology and intercomparison

Organisers

B. McClean (Chair of the School)

L. Altabella, I. Tsougos (Scientific Chair)

EFOMP, in collaboration with the Czech Association of Medical Physicists (CAMP) and COCIR invite you to the next ESMPE on AI in Medical Physics. The school will be organized as a 2.5 days hybrid (remote and in presence) meeting, which will be held in Prague from 5^th to 7^th of October 2023.

The school will focus on advanced Medical Physics aspects of Artificial Intelligence and aims at presenting practical methodology, state-of-the-art and future developments of AI. In order to be able to participate to the school, the remote self-training part, available at https://e-learning.efomp.org/ , needs to be completed. Students who did not attend the on-line and propaedeutic module of the school will not be able to enroll to the face-to-face event.

The School is accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) as a CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 8 with 41 CPD points. Attendees who also successfully pass the course examinations obtain an extra 17 CPD points for an overall total of 58 CPD points. The School is intended for Medical Physicists or associated professions who wish to expand their knowledge in Artificial intelligence. ESMPE have decided this event will be in a hybrid format. All lecturers will give their talks on-site in Prague but participants can choose if they want to attend the school on-site (limited number of participants) or online, it will be live-streamed.

Content for the face to face event

• AI for dose and protocol optimization
• AI for workflow optimization and automation
• Advanced Quality Assurance for AI medical devices
• Regulatory aspects
• Session with industry (only for in presence)

Organisers

Federica Zanca, Alberto Torresin (Scientific Chairs)

Brendan McClean (Chair of the ESMPE), Efi Koutsouveli (EFOMP Vice President)

Jaroslav Ptáček, Lucie Súkupová (CAMP)

This one day satellite meeting will be held in conjunction with the 3rd European Congress of Medical Physics and teaching sessions covering the main topics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and focusing mainly on Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL).

These methods are becoming increasingly essential in the field of medical physics and healthcare in general. The methods are also developing fast and there is a clear need to provide training of the fundamentals and recent findings concerning AI/ML/DL techniques to medical physicists in Europe. 

This is the motivation to create this ESMPE module. The event will be accredited by EBAMP (European Board for Accreditation in Medical Physics) and is intended for practising clinical Medical Physicists who are involved in any of our sub-fields. The main lecture topics are related to radiology and radiation therapy applications. 

Organizers: Mika Kortesniemi, Annalisa Trianni (Scientific Chairs)  Alberto Torresin (Chair of the School)

EFOMP in collaboration with the SIG_FRID and the Czech Association of Medical Physics (CAMP) would like to invite you to the next ESMPE on 13th-15th February 2025.

The school will be aimed at introducing the basic concepts of dosimetry applied to radionuclide therapy and Theranostics. The school will cover the methods of basic dosimetry including MIRD scheme, voxel-dosimetry, and radiobiology with practical examples of different radionuclide treatments. 

This two-and-half day event will be accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) and is intended for practicing clinical Medical Physicists who are involved in nuclear medicine therapies. There will be an optional examination at the end for those seeking a higher level of certification beyond attendance. 

ESMPE have decided this event will be in a hybrid format. All lecturers will give their talks on-site in Prague, but participants can choose if they want to attend the school on-site (limited number of participants) or online, it will be live-streamed. 

Please note: All times shown are in CET

Content

Introduction to basic dosimetry methods. 

Advanced image quantification methods for image-based dosimetry. 

Different dosimetry calculation methods. 

Relevance of dosimetry. 

Workflows. Commissioning and validation. 

Practical examples and hands-on dosimetry exercise. 

Final exam

The final exam is voluntary. Participants can gain additional credits when successfully pass the test. 

Organisers

Lidia Strigari, Julia Brosch-Lenz (Scientific Chairs) Joao Seco (Chair of the School)

The European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics (EFOMP)1 is an umbrella organization for 36 National Member Organisations which together represent around 10000 medical physicists and clinical engineers working in the field of medical physics. Supporting bodies of EFOMP are its 6 advisory committees, the European School for Medical Physics Experts (ESMPE), the European Journal of Medical Physics (EJMP), Working Groups and Special Interest Groups (SIGs).

The first EFOMP SIG (Radionuclide Internal Dosimetry / SIG_FRID) was officially created in February 2021. The SIG_FRID is a permanent structure with an objective to create a network of medical physicists working in radionuclide dosimetry and fulfil the need for networking, education, research and professional exchanges in this field.

EFOMP SIG_FRID organised the 1^st EFOMP Symposium on Molecular Radiotherapy Dosimetry in Athens, Greece from November 9^th to November 11^th 2023. The Symposium gave the opportunity:

• to review and share ongoing developments in radionuclide imaging and dosimetry;
• to consider how personalised treatments may improve effectiveness at a time of rapid expansion of theragnostics and molecular radiotherapy
• to discuss networking and synergies within a multi-disciplinary community at a time of challenge and opportunity.

This event brought together, for the first time, 180 physicists and clinicians with a strong interest in molecular radiotherapy. Scientific aspects concerning imaging, internal dosimetry and radiation protection was discussed in addition to clinical practice. A main aim of the meeting was to share experience and resources. It has been an opportunity for stakeholders to build networks, to discuss how to move forward and to establish close working relationships between academia, the clinic and industry.

The Symposium was hosted by the Hellenic Association of Medical Physicists and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Its structure was composed of an Organising and Scientific Committee and within the programme there were 8 regular sessions , 3 ePoster sessions, 2 Continuous Professional Development (CPD) sessions, a Round table and a Sponsor Session. EFOMP policy statement NO. 19: Dosimetry in nuclear medicine therapy – Molecular radiotherapy 2 was officially presented here.

This abstract book contains the abstracts of the 1st Symposium on Molecular Radiotherapy Dosimetry. All studies were presented as oral communications during the event and were also available during the meeting.

This event has been accredited by the European Board for Accreditation in Medical Physics (EBAMP) as a CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 7^” and has been judged to have 19 hours of educational experience, which, according to the EBAMP protocol is equivalent to 27 CPD points (Accreditation Code for the event is: APP00249).

The EFOMP in collaboration with EURADOS, IRPA, the Kaunas University of Technology and the Lithuanian Association of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering organised ESMPE school in Individual dosimetry in medical applications 2021.

The school is a 1-day satellite Workshop before and in conjunction with the 15th International Conference “Medical Physics in the Baltic States 2021», which will be held on 5-6 November 2021 in Kaunas, Lithuania.

The school will be aimed at advanced tasks connected with staff dosimetry in medical applications. The school will cover all the aspects related to the establishment of a programme of individual monitoring for workers in medical facilities.

The workshop PET-CT " PET-CT Molecular Imaging: physics, advances & clinical applications" took place virtually on February 6, 2021 in the memory of our colleague and member of the Hellenic Association of Medical Physics (HAMP) board Maria Kotzasarlidou, who lost the fight with COVID-19 in December 2020.

The educational event is jointly organised by the Medical Physics Unit of the University of Athens, the Hellenic Association of Medical Physicists and is supported by the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics

The ESMPE will organise medical physics education and training events specifically targeted towards Medical Physicists who are already MPEs or would like to achieve MPE status.

These events are open to all European Medical Physicists and will be accredited by an independent body to ensure that they are at the required educational level, i.e., Level 8 of the European Qualifications Framework. 

The ESMPE is committed to document, implement and maintain a quality management system and continually improve its effectiveness in order to assure a quality service to individuals attending the School.

Organizers: Jaroslav Ptáček, Tereza Kráčmerova (Czech Republic), Manuel Bardiès (Scientific Chair), Alberto Torresin (Chair of the School)

e-learning editing :  AVC-ČVUT, z.s. and Christos Alexakos (EFOMP Web Master)

e-learning supervisor : Alberto Torresin

The Czech Association of Medical Physicists in collaboration with EFOMP and Department of Dosimetry and Application of Ionizing Radiation of Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague would would like to present the ESMPE e-learning course on the EFOMP School for Medical Physics Experts - Prague, Summer 2013. 

The school will be aimed at advanced tasks related to PET/CT - from specification of PET/CT system properties to image reconstruction, fusion and evaluation. This two-and-half day event will be an EFOMP accredited one and is intended for practicing clinical Medical Physicists who want to become a Medical Physics Expert in Nuclear Medicine.

EFOMP and ESMPE hugely wish to thank all the speakers who  have dedicated and shared some of their  valuable and precious  time to the success of this experience for the  benefit and professional growth of our MPE Community. We look forward to welcoming them again.

Organizers: Jaroslav Ptacek, Martin Steiner (Czech Republic) Carmel Caruana, Marco Brambilla, Alberto Torresin, Peter Sharp, Stelios Christofides (EFOMP)

e-learning editing:  Jaroslav Ptáček, Alberto Torresin

e-learning supervisor: Alberto Torresin

ESMPE European School for Medical Physics Experts 

School on Advanced Radiotherapy Technology

21st-22nd May 2025, Trieste, Italy

 ESMPE in conjuction with the 12th Alpe Adria Medical Physics Meeting (AAPM), would like to invite you to the next ESMPE to be held from 22 to 24 May 2024 at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy.

The meeting is organized in cooperation with the Medical Physics Societies of Austria, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia and hosted by the Italian Association of Medical Physicists (AIFM).

A pre-meeting EFOMP School on New Technologies in Radiotherapy will be held on 21-22 May, free of admission for participants of the Alpe Adria meeting.
This one day event will be accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) and is intended for practicing clinical Medical Physicists.

Content

New technologies in Medical Physics: FLASH, SFRT, Radionuclide Therapy and SBRT

 Organisers

Joao Seco , Marco Esposito

The EFOMP in collaboration with EURADOS, the University of Novi Sad and the Serbian Association of Medical Physics (SAMP) would like to invite you to the next ESMPE in out of field doses and associated risks of cancer in Radiotherapy. 

The school will be organized as a 1-day satellite Workshop on the 19th October before and in conjunction with the 11th Alpe Adria meeting, which will be held in Novi Sad, Serbia. 

The school will be aimed at advanced tasks connected with patient dosimetry in Radiotherapy. The school will cover all the aspects related to the establishment of a programme of assessment of out-of- field doses during a radiotherapy treatment. 

The event will be in a hybrid format. All lecturers will give their talks on-site in Novi Sad but participants can choose if they want to attend the school on-site or online.

This course has been accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) as a CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 8 and has been judged to have 6 hours of educational experience, (including 1 hour of interactive discussion) which, according to the EBAMP protocol is equivalent to 14 CPD points. It is intended for practicing clinical Medical Physicists who are involved in dosimetry in radiotherapy and in patient radioprotection. it will be live-streamed.  

Content

• Epidemiology of second cancer Dosimetry of non target doses 
• Estimation of out-of-field doses 
• Out-of-field doses in pediatric patients
• Contribution of imaging to out-of-field doses 
• Risk estimations in out-of-field doses  

Organisers 

Brendan McClean, (Chair of the School)  

Marco Brambilla (EFOMP)  and Liliana Stolarczyk  EURADOS  (Scientific Chairs) 

Borislava Petrovic (SAMP), Efi Koutsouveli (EFOMP) 

The school will explore the advantages and limitations of different approaches to adaptive radiotherapy using imaging modalities available today , as well as a look to the future of adaptive radiotherapy. This one one-day event will be accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) as CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 8 and is intended for practicing clinical Medical Physicists who are involved in Radiotherapy.

Organisers

Christoph Bert Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Erlangen, Germany

Ben Heijmen Erasmus University Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Oliver Jäkel DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Efi Koutsouveli Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece

Jamie McClelland University College London, UK

Brendan McClean Saint Lukes Radiation Oncology Network, Dublin, Ireland

Niklas Wahr DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

EFOMP jointly with COCIR would like to invite you to the next ESMPE in Hybrid Approaches in Radiation Therapy. The school will be organized as a 2-day virtual meeting, which will be held on 12^th–13^th October 2021.

The school will be focused on therapies and devices using hybrid concepts in which the classical radiation therapy is nowadays fused with a second approach to establish the current treatment standard. The aim will be presenting the background, practical methodology, state-of-the-art and future developments. All of the lectures will be delivered live (i.e. not pre-recorded).

This two-day event has been accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) as a CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 8 and awarded 23 CPD credit points. The school is intended for Medical Physicists Experts who wish to expand their knowledge in hybrid radiation therapy approaches. Certificates of attendance will be issued to those who attend the whole course.

Content

• Radiation therapy concepts
• Image guided radiation therapy (IGRT)
• Adaptive radiation therapy (ART)
• Surface guided radiation therapy (SGRT)
• Brachytherapy

Organisers

Alberto Torresin (Chair of the School),

Christoph Bert and Jose Perez-Calatayud (Scientific Co-Chairs)

Efi Koutsouveli and Thomas Amorgianiotis (EFOMP online platforms)
 

EFOMP would like to invite you to the next ESMPE in Particle Therapy: State of the art and future developments. The school will be organized as a 2-day virtual meeting, which will be held on 10th-11th December 2020.

The school will be focused on the Medical Physics aspects of Particle Therapy and will be aimed at presenting the state-of-the-art and future developments in Particle Therapy.

This two-day event will be accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) as a CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 8 and is intended for Medical Physicists Experts who wish to expand their knowledge in Particle Therapy. Certificates of attendance will be given to those who attend the whole course.

The school will be aimed at improving the skills in the ­field of the inverse planning for IMRT and VMAT in daily clinical practice.

This one day satellite meeting will be held in conjunction with the 2nd European Congress of Medical Physics and teaching sessions covering the main topics of inverse planning will provide the background for live exercises using clinical cases.

The event will be accredited by EBAMP (European Board for Accreditation in Medical Physics) and is intended for practising clinical Medical Physicists who are involved in radiotherapy treatment planning.

Topics:

• Objective functions for IMRT planning: physical and biological optimization
• Practical IMRT/VMAT planning
• Knowledge Based treatment planning
• Managing tradeoffs in radiation therapy: the multicriteria optimization

EFOMP and ESMPE hugely wish to thank all the speakers who  have dedicated and shared some of their  valuable and precious  time to the success of this experience for the  benefit and professional growth of our MPE Community. We look forward to welcoming them again.

Organizers: Brendan McClean (Scientific Chair), Gianfranco Loi, Eva Samsøe, Marco Brambilla (Chair of the School)

e-learning editing :  Alberto Torresin and Christos Alexakos (EFOMP Web Master)

e-learning supervisor : Alberto Torresin

The school aims to present the draft EFOMP Digital Breast tomosynthesis Quality Control Protocol with opportunities for discussion and feedback. This feedback will be taken into account in the final version of the protocol.

This one-day event will be accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) as CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 8 and is intended for practicing clinical Medical Physicists who are involved in mammography/digital breast tomosynthesis.

Organisers

Ruben van Engen Dutch expert Center for screening, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Ioannis Sechopoulos Radboud university medical center and Dutch expert Center for screening, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Niall Phelan BreastCheck, Dublin, Ireland

Alistair Mackenzie National Co-ordinating Centre for the Physics of Mammography, Guildford, UK

Nick Marshall University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium

Valentina Ravaglia Medical Physics Department, AUSL Romagna, Italy

The EFOMP and COCIR (The European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry) in collaboration with the Czech Association of Medical Physicists and the Department of Dosimetry and Application of Ionizing Radiation of Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague would like to present the  ESMPE e-learning course on Computed Tomogaphy.

The school will be aimed at advanced tasks connected with Computed Tomography. The school will cover the main physics aspects of the CT technology, Dosimetry and Optimization.

This edition is jointly organized by EFOMP and COCIR. Lecturers identified by COCIR will give insides on the technical solution adopted by manufacturers in the relevant fields of CT dose reduction and optimization.

This two-and-half day event will be accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) and is intended for practicing clinical Medical Physicists who are involved in Computed Tomography. As in last year’s school, there will be an optional examination at the end for those seeking a higher level of certification beyond attendance.

EFOMP and ESMPE hugely wish to thank all the speakers who  have dedicated and shared some of their  valuable and precious  time to the success of this experience for the  benefit and professional growth of our MPE Community. We look forward to welcoming them again.

Organizers: Jaroslav Ptácek, Tereza Hanušová (Czech Republic), Mika Kortesniemi (Scientific Chair), Marco Brambilla (Chair of the School)

e-learning editing :  Alberto Torresin and Christos Alexakos (EFOMP Web Master)

e-learning supervisor : Alberto Torresin

EFOMP in collaboration with the Czech Association of Medical Physics (CAMP) would like to invite you to the next ESMPE on 8^th-10^th February 2024.

The school will be aimed at advanced tasks connected with the use of uncertainty analyses and statistical methods in data handling and interpretation. The school will cover the methods of inferential statistics most frequently used in the medical field in the first day, and the treatment of errors an uncertainties in medical imaging, radiation dosimetry, radiomics and epidemiology in the following days. The focus will be on worked examples.

This two-and-half day event will be accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) and is intended for practicing clinical Medical Physicists who are involved in data management and research. There will be an optional examination at the end for those seeking a higher level of certification beyond attendance.

ESMPE have decided this event will be in a hybrid format. All lecturers will give their talks on-site in Prague but participants can choose if they want to attend the school on-site (limited number of participants) or online, it will be live-streamed.

Content

• Sample Size determination. Sample size determination for different study designs
• Evaluation of a diagnostic test – Sensitivity, specificity, diagnostic accuracy, ROC methods
• Applied regression analysis. Analysis of variance, Analysis of Covariance, multiple
• regression, logistic regression
• Survival analysis – Relative risks Odds ratio. Survival curves with Kaplan Meyer; Log-rank
• test; Cox models
• Reproducibility and repeatability in radiomics.
• Errors an uncertainties in radiation dosimetry – Theory of error and uncertainty analysis:
• Type A and B uncertainty, assessment of the quality of a measurement or calculation.
• Agreement in Radiotherapy – How to assess agreement in Dose distributions and Volume

Organisers

Brendan McClean (Chair of the School)

Marco Brambilla (Scientific Chair)

The school will be aimed at advanced tasks connected with the application of statistics in Medical Physics.

This one day satellite meeting will be held in conjunction with the 2nd European Congress of Medical Physics and will cover the methods most frequently used in medical statistics.

The event will be accredited by EBAMP (European Board for Accreditation in Medical Physics) and is intended for practising clinical Medical Physicists who are involved in data management and research.

EFOMP and ESMPE hugely wish to thank all the speakers who  have dedicated and shared some of their  valuable and precious  time to the success of this experience for the  benefit and professional growth of our MPE Community. We look forward to welcoming them again.

Organizers: Marco Brambilla (Scientific Chair and Chair of the School), Peter Sharp

e-learning editing :  Alberto Torresin and Christos Alexakos (EFOMP Web Master)

e-learning supervisor : Alberto Torresin

The European Congress of Medical Physics 2024 Warm Up webinar presents "Funding opportunities for Medical Physics Research"

Lecturers-Panelists

Prof. Dr. Christoph Hoeschen, Professor, Chair 'Medical Technical Systems'  and acting Head of Institute for Medical Technology, Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

Dr. Csilla Pesznyák, Associate Professor at Budapest University of Technological Economics Hungary, National Institute of Oncology, Centre of Radiotherapy,  Budapest, Hungary

National Institute of Oncology, Centre of Radiotherapy, Budapest, Hungary

President of European Nuclear Education Network (ENEN)

Ane Appelt is a qualified clinical medical physicist in the radiotherapy department at St James's University Hospital, Leeds and an associate professor at the University of Leeds.  She is involved in numerous clinical trials of new radiotherapy treatment strategies and is currently leading a multicentre, competitively funded, randomised dose-escalation trial. She is principal investigator or co-investigator on active grants worth over £5.2 million.

Her research interests include: Quantitative radiation oncology; Optimisation of radiotherapy for anorectal and lung cancer patients and for re-irradiation; Innovative treatment strategies for rectal cancer, including non-surgical treatment & Design and conduct of clinical trials.

Lorenzo Nicola Mazzoni is a medical physics expert and radiation protection expert currently working at the Medical Physics Unit of Prato-Pistoia, AUSL Toscana Centro, in Italy. He started his research in statistical mechanics applied to protein models, and then moved to the field of medical physics, dealing with quantitative medical imaging, particularly MRI, and radiation protection in hospital settings.

He is a lecturer in various safety and training courses and has been teaching the master's program in magnetic resonance at the University of Florence for many years. He is currently a member of the EFOMP European and International Matter committee, a member of the ECMP 2024 scientific committee, the EFOMP representative to the ICRP, and a member of the ICRP TG 127.

The aim of the series of talks was to bring Medical Physicists closer together during the Covid19  first and second wave in 2020, discuss new working processes and practices, issues arising in our working environments, share approaches to providing physics services through the pandemic, define novel strategies and prepare ourselves for the challenges to come. 

Following on from EFOMP president's Marco Brambilla’s communication on the corona virus in March 2020, it became clear that many physicists were having similar experiences in adapting their medical physics service in the Covid19 era. It was also evident that sharing of good scientific knowledge and experience would help defeat the virus (or instead perhaps “would help in the fight against the virus”).

The webinars are organised by IAPM (Irish Association of Medical Physicists) and EFOMP with contribution from the Medical Physics societies of Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and UK. Lectures have a duration of 45 minutes and 15 minutes discussion with audience interaction and polls.

EFOMP Organizers: Paddy Gilligan, Efi Koutsouveli, David Lurie.

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"Case report", a clinical case related to dosimetry will be discussed with plenty of time for discussion. 'Streamlined dosimetry workflow for Lu177-PSMA therapy from BC Cancer, Vancouver, Canada'

Lecturers-Panelists:

Scientific meeting ‘Radiobiology for radionuclide therapy & dosimetry’

'Radiobiology in radionuclide therapy: necessity when determining the dose-effect relationship'

'Biologically driven dosimetric modelling: bridging the gap between radionuclide therapy and radiotherapy'

'Are dose constraints resulting from EBRT directly transferable to radionuclide therapy?'

Lecturers-Panelists:

Julie Nonnekens, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Giulia Tamborino, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Lidia Strigari, IRRCS University Hospital of Bologna, Italy

"Dosimetry Case report"; clinical cases related to dosimetry will be discussed during this series of webinars with plenty of time for discussion.

"Case report" Clinical case "Calculation of lung dose in cases of unexpected pneumonitis after liver treatment with 90Y glass microspheres"

Lecturers-Panelists:

This webinar focuses on the scope of the Early Career/Young professionals

1. Patient dosimetry and introduction to virtual imaging trials (VITs) for quality assessment and optimization in dental CBCT imaging;
2. Quality assurance of CBCT devices in Belgium

This webinar has been accredited by EBAMP as a CPD event for Medical Physicists and has been granted 10 CPD points at EQF Level 8. The Accreditation Code for the event is APP00311.

The purpose of the course is to introduce medical physicists to new tools and methods that can be applied in QA routines to improve efficiency and quality of work. These methods include automation of image-based QA, application of model observers and AI-based image quality analysis. The course also includes topics related to patient specific dosimetry, dose tracking and protocol management systems; tools that are essential for a medical physicist. The course will also discuss how to adopt these topics in the training of future medical physicists. Every webinar will also include a practical demonstration of a QA- or dosimetry-related topic.

The programme has been accredited by EBAMP as CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 7 and awarded 23 CPD credit points.

 NACP Organisers: Daniel Aadnevik, Ahmed Jibril Abdi, Mika Kortesniemi, Touko Kaasalainen, Angelica Svalkvist, Joanna Sierpowska