EFOMP-AAPM Global Early Career Research Subcommittee (GECRSC) is excited to present a collaborative webinar on "Bridging Continents: Inspiring Journeys of Medical Physicists Between Europe and North America"!
This webinar will feature both established and early-career (EC) medical physicists, including Global Rising Stars (GRS), who will share their unique experiences, perspectives, and advice. Learn about the valuable pathways that individuals from Europe can take when navigating transitioning into clinical and academic medical physics in Europe to North America, including crucial steps for pursuing medical physics research, board certifications, and building a robust professional network. Gain insider perspectives on navigating academic medical physics, including differences and securing research grants, and opportunities for leadership and professional development at institutional to international scales. Our speakers will offer insights that can propel your career in medical physics forward.
Speakers:
Thomas Bortfeld, PhD, Chief of Physics Division and Professor of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Jenny Bertholet, PhD, Academic-Clinical Medical Physicist, Insel Gruppe, Switzerland
Viktor Iakovenko, PhD, Assistant Professor in Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern, USA
Moderators:
Morgan Aire, Louisiana State University, USA
Antonio Jreije, PhD, Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, Lithuania
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.
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
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.
A new series of EFOMP-COCIR webinars are planned between March and October 2021. These webinars will give an overview of IEC standards related to different disciplines such as radiotherapy, nuclear medicine, diagnostic imaging, radiation dosimetry and electrical systems.
COCIR Organizers: Riccardo Corridori
EFOMP Organizers: Loredana Marcu, Emer Kenny, Efi Koutsouveli
EC-SIG ECMP 2024 warm-up webinar "Working in Industry – tips for the medical physicist"
Lecturers-Panelists
Jim O’Doherty, Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern PA, United States
Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, United States
Radiography & Diagnostic Imaging, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
This "warm-up webinars series" is a precursor to the 3rd European Congress of Medical Physics (ECMP 2020) which will take place virtually, initially planned to take place in Torino, Italy, in June 2021.
Organisers: Mika Kortesniemi, Efi Koutsouveli, David Lurie, Paddy Gilligan
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)
Providing experts in the field of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiologic Physics with high-quality practical (EQF8) training is what the EUTEMPE team stands for. Unfortunately, COVID-19 is preventing us from doing this in the way we love: welcoming you to our facilities where you interact with our experts and gain practical experience, top level knowledge, skills and competencies. However, our aim of sharing our knowledge to help colleagues in our field grow as medical physicists has not changed! We just needed to find other ways to do this! Hence, we are very happy to announce a series of EFOMP-EUTEMPE didactic webinars, followed by online masterclasses, which are free of charge. The webinars will be in a familiar format, introducing a specific subject by means of a presentation, with room for interaction with the lecturers. The online masterclass for each topic will follow on two weeks after the original webinar. The masterclasses, which have a greater number of educational hours, will provide the opportunity to delve deeper into the subject, gaining a more comprehensive understanding of the topic and helping cement the knowledge gained. The Masterclasses will consist of a mix of (short) lectures and short (group) assignments, and they will be highly interactive!
EUTEMPE Organisers: Danielle Dobbe, Ruben van Engen
EFOMP Organisers: Paddy Gilligan, Efi Koutsouveli, David Lurie