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AAPM Southern California Chapter

Midwinter Symposium

January 10, 2025

Sheraton Universal Hotel, East-West Ballroom

Steven Goetsch, Education Chair

Marianne Plunkett, Education Co-Chair

Sherry Liu, Maryam Bostani, Members

President:  Zhilei (Julie) Shen

Past President:  Chengyu Shi

Treasurer:  Talon J. Thompson

Secretary:  David Hoffman

AAPM Board Representative: John Matthew Wait

Approved for 6.64 CAMPEP MPCEC, 8.25 ASRT credits and 8.0 MDCB Credits

The vendors and attendees to register:  https://scc-aapm.square.site/ 

Approved for CAMPEP MPCEC, ASRT and MDCB Credits

2025 Corporate Sponsors

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

PLATINUM              Elekta

GT Medical

Leo Cancer Care

PTW North America Corporation

RAD Technology Medical Systems

Spectrum Dynamics Medical, Inc.

Sun Nuclear, a Mirion Company

Teleflex

Varian, a Siemens Healthineers Company

GOLD                        Brainlab

CDR Systems

C-Rad

Gold Anchor

IBA

iRT Systems

Isoaid

LAP of America Laser Applications, L.L.C.

MD Anderson

MIM Software Inc.

NELCO

Orfit Industries

PACS Health

Radformation

RaySearch Labs

SDX System

Standard Imaging

The Phantom Laboratory/Image Owl

Vision RT

AAPM Southern California Chapter

Midwinter Symposium, Friday January 10, 2025

7:00 A.M.                   Continental Breakfast 

8:00   A.M      Daniel Hyer, University of Iowa, “MRI Linacs”

8:50   A.M     Brian Pogue, University of Wisconsin, “Clinical Cherenkov Imaging and FLASH Translational Work in Radiotherapy”

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

10:10 A.M.     Art Olch, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, “The PENTEC Reports”

11:00 A.M.     Robin Miller, AAPM President Elect, “Navigating Professional Growth:  Mastering the Art of Mentorship, Coaching and Sponsorship”

11:50 A.M.    Michael Moyers, Shanghai Carbon Ion Facility, Special talk     

12:05 P.M.                Lunch and Platinum Talks 

1:40 P.M.          Di Zhang, UCLA Medical Center, “Initial Experiences in  Photon Counting CT”

2:30 P.M.     Meg Barker, Memorial Care Long Beach, “Surface Guided Radiotherapy and Transition to Tattooless”

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

3:50 P.M.  Jim Lamb, UCLA Medical Center, “New Approaches to Big Data and AI in Radiotherapy Research and Operations”

4:40 P.M.     Rob Hobbs, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, “State of the Art and Challenges in Therapeutic Radiopharmaceutical Dosimetry”

5:30 P.M.                  Adjourn