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 Mengying Shi

AAPM Board Representative: John Matthew Wait

CAMPEP MPCEC, ASRT credits and MDCB Credits applied for

www.aapm-scc.org

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 Leo Cancer Care

PTW North America Corporation

(RaySearch)

GOLD Brainlab

Linatech

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. 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