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Fall 2017 Symposium

The presentations from the fall 2017 Symposium

Bruce Thomadsen, Ph.D. Professor AAPM President-Elect University of Wisconsin	AAPM Initiatives in Patient Safety
Cedric Yu, Ph.D. Professor University of Maryland	Radiation Treatment Techniques: Where to find rooms for improvement?
Sam Beddar, Ph.D. Professor The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	In-Vivo Dosimetry for External Beam Radiation Therapy and Brachytherapy
Jonathan Feddock, M.D. Associate Professor University of Kentucky	Advancing Care Through Teamwork - How Medical Physicists and Medical Doctors Can Work Together to Create Change
Jun Deng, Ph.D. Professor Yale University	Deep Learning with Big Health Data for Early Cancer Detection and Prevention
Anil Sethi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Loyola University Medical Center	Clinical Implementation of SRS/SBRT
Quan Chen, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of Kentucky	Engaging with the community to promote radiation therapy and professional medical physics

Spring 2017 Educational Symposium & Newsletter

A summary of the most recent chapter meeting and chapter news is available in the Spring chapter newsletter.

Chapter Newsletter

Friday April 11th: Meet and Greet!

ORVC members and their families, vendors, and students/residents enjoyed socializing and perusing recent research work by students/residents representing the 7 medical physics programs in our Chapter region.

Saturday, April 12th: Educational Symposium

OHINKY Competition

There were 12 selected presenters out of 21 submissions for our annual student/resident/junior scientific presentation competition. This year, we created a trophy – the OHINKY Trophy that will be passed along each year to the school represented by the winning presentation. Our judges were:

Chris Allgower, Ph.D. (IU Health Proton Therapy Center)
Indra Das, Ph.D., FAAPM (Indiana University School of Medicine)
Michael Gossman, M.S., FAAPM (Tri-State Regional Cancer Center)
E. Ishmael Parsai, Ph.D., FAAPM (University of Toledo Medical Center)

All participants, including poster presenters, received a prize of $100 for their contribution to the meeting with the first, second and tied-for second winners getting $300 and $175 respectively. The presentations were given by (click on presenter name to access PDF version of presentation):

Huisi Ai, Indiana University School of Medicine Erfan Akbari, University of Kentucky Vibha Chaswal, The Ohio State University Adam Dalhart, University of Toledo Medcial Center
Michael Hardin, University of Cincinnati (1st Place, $300)
Dimitra Leheta, University of Toledo Nathanial Macey, University of Toledo Kate Noa, The Ohio State University Nava Paudel, University of Toledo Jason Wu, Purdue University
Gregory Warrell, University of Toledo (2nd Place – tie, $175)
Sean Tanny, University of Toledo (2nd Place – tie, $175)

Dr. Michael Knopp, Professor of Radiology, Chair, Novartis Image Research, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center was the James G. Kereiakis Honorary Keynote Speaker. Dr. Knopp spoke about the collaboration of diagnostic and oncology scientists and the resultant Imaging and Radiation Oncology Core Group, part of the National Cancer Institute’s Clinical Trial Program. Dr. Knopp is co-chair of this important group.

Dr. Howard Elson then presented an introduction to the process of creating a Doctorate of Medical Physics program at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Elson is a member of the AAPM Working Group on a Professional Doctorate Degree.

The Ohio River Valley Chapter of the AAPM