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AAPM Southern California Chapter

Midwinter Symposium

 

 

January 30, 2026

Hilton Universal Hotel, Sierra Ballroom

 

Steven Goetsch, Education Chair

Marianne Plunkett, Education Co-Chair

Sherry Liu, Maryam Bostani, Members

 

President:  Zhilei (Julie) Shen

President-Elect:  Michael Reilly

Past President:  Chengyu Shi

Treasurer:  Talon J. Thompson

Secretary:  David Hoffman 

Secretary-Elect: Mengying Shi

AAPM Board Representative:  John Matthew Wait

 

 

CAMPEP MPCEC, ASRT credits and MDCB Credits applied for

 

 

www.aapm-scc.org

 

Registration linkhttps://scc-aapm.square.site/

 

 

2026 Corporate Sponsors

 

The Southern California Chapter of AAPM wishes to acknowledge the generous contributions of our Commercial Affiliates who have underwritten this meeting.

 

 

PLATINUM              

 

GE Healthcare
Imalogix
Leo Cancer Care 
MedLever
PTW North America
RaySearch
Spectrum Dynamics
Sun Nuclear

 

  

GOLD                     

                                 

Brainlab
CDR Systems
Gold Anchor
LAP of America
Linatech
Mevion
NELCO Worldwide
PACS Health-The Phantom Lab

 

 

                   

AAPM Southern California Chapter

Midwinter Symposium, Friday January 30, 2026

 

7:00 A.M.                     Continental Breakfast 

 

 8:00   A.M              Jessica Clements, University of Vermont “Launching a New Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Program:  A review of program blueprints and necessary tools”

 

8:50   A.M     Jimm Grimm, Thomas Jefferson University ealHeal“Reirradiation Dose-Time Recovery Factors”

 

9:40   A.M.                 COFFEE BREAK (30 minutes)


10:10 A.M.     Julianne Pollard-Larkin, MD Anderson Cancer Center “Thriving in Medical Physics:  How to Navigate Rad Onc Workforce Challenges”

        

  

11:00 A.M.      AAPM President Elect Andrew Maidment, University of

Pennsylvania, “Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Radiology”

 

  

12:05 P.M.                 Lunch and Platinum Talks 

  

1:40 P.M.           Zhilei (Julie) Shen, AAPM SCC Chapter President, USC Medical Center “NRG Recommendations on Dose Summation”

 

  

2:30 P.M.        Wensha Yang, University of California San Francisco Medical Center “Functional Avoidance Liver Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Guided by MR Multitasking-driven Abdominal Integrated Imaging”

 

3:20   P.M.                 Coffee Break (30 minutes)

  

3:50 P.M.  Benjamin Wedro, Gundersen Clinic, “The Power of Clarity”

                            

4:40 P.M.    Chunhui Han, City of Hope Medical Center “Intensity Modulated TBI/TM(L)I:  Whole Body Irradiation in the Modern Era”

 

 

5:30 P.M.                   Adjourn

 

 

Zhilei Liu Shen, PhD
President
University of Southern California
Chengyu Shi, PhD
Past-President
City of Hope Orange County
Michael Reilly, PhD
President-Elect
University of California Irvine
David Hoffman, PhD
Secretary
California Cancer Associates for Research and Excellence
Mengying Shi, PhD
Secretary-Elect
University of California Irvine
John Matthew Wait (Matt)
National Board Representative
Kaiser Permanente
Talon Thompson
Treasurer
Kaiser Permanente SCPMG
Medical Imaging Technology and Informatics
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