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AAPM Southern California Chapter
Midwinter Symposium
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
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