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AAPM Southern California Chapter
Midwinter Symposium
January 10, 2025
Steven Goetsch, Education Chair
Marianne Plunkett, Education Co-Chair
Sherry Liu, Maryam Bostani, Members
President: Zhilei (Julie) Shen
President Elect: TBD
Past President: Chengyu Shi
Treasurer: Talon J. Thompson
Secretary: David Hoffman
AAPM Board Representative: John Matthew Wait
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
Teleflex
GOLD LAP Lasers
PACS Health
Sun Nuclear
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
10:00 A.M. Art Olch, Children’s
Hospital of Los Angeles, “The PENTEC Reports”
10:50 A.M. Robin Miller, AAPM President Elect, “Navigating Professional Growth: Mastering the Art of Mentorship, Coaching and Sponsorship”
11:40 A.M. Di Zhang, UCLA Medical Center, “Initial Experiences in Photon Counting CT”
12:30 P.M. Lunch and Platinum Talks
1:45 P.M. Bette Blankenship, Alliance Medical Physics, “Program Development and The Regulatory Approval Process for Implementing a Theranostic Program”
2:35 P.M. Meg Barker, Memorial Care Long Beach, “Surface Guided Radiotherapy and Transition to Tattoless”
3:15 P.M. Coffee Break
3:40 P.M. Jim Lamb, UCLA Medical Center, “New Approaches to Big Data and AI in Radiotherapy Research and Operations”
4:30 P.M. Rob Hobbs, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, “State of the Art and Challenges in Therapeutic Radiopharmaceutical Dosimetry”
5:20 P.M. Adjourn