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2026 JPL Virtual Tour

8:30-9:30 am on Friday Nov. 6, 2026

Email zhilei.shen@med.usc.edu for Zoom Meeting Link.

The AAPM-SCC Chapter Board has reserved a virtual educational tour of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as an opportunity to bring our community together. The tour is open to our medical physics community, including students, residents, and faculty/staff physicists. We hope you can join us for this engaging opportunity to learn more about JPL and connect with fellow members of our chapter. 

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2027 AAPM Southern California Chapter Midwinter Symposium

February 5, 2027

Hilton Universal Hotel, Sierra Ballroom

Registration link: https://scc-aapm.square.site/

Member physicists, dosimetrists, therapists: $105 by 1/29/2027, $135 up to the day before the event, $165 onsite

Non-Members: $135 by 1/29/2027, $165 after that

Emeritus Members: $50

Full-time Student, Residents/Postdocs: $50 (refund after attending)

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

7:00 A.M.  Continental Breakfast 

8:00 A.M.  Announcements

8:10 A.M   Clarissa Do O’, PhD, California Institute of Technology, “Beyond the Lab Coat:  Bringing Authenticity to Careers in STEM”

8:50 A.M   Amar Kishan, MD, UCLA Medical Center, “Online Adaptive Radiotherapy”

9:40 A.M.  COFFEE BREAK (30 minutes)

10:10 A.M. Serdar Charyyev, PhD, Stanford University Medical Center, “Building a Clinical and Scientific Program for Upright Proton Therapy”

11:00 A.M. AAPM President Elect Eric Ford, PhD, University of Washington, “From Research to Practice:  Medical Physicists Advancing Quality, Safety and Research”

12:00 P.M. Lunch and DIAMOND & Platinum Talks 

1:40 P.M. Kun Qing, PhD, City of Hope Medical Center, “Quantitative MRI to Automatically Delineate Intraprostatic Tumor for RT”

2:30 P.M.   Brian Anderson, PhD, UCSD “AI in Radiation Therapy:  Where it Works, Where it Doesn’t and What’s Next”

3:20 P.M.   Coffee Break (30 minutes)

3:50 P.M.  Billy Loo, MD, Stanford University Medical Center, “The Road to Clinical Translation of FLASH Radiation Therapy”

4:40 P.M.    Liangzhong (Shawn) Xiang, PhD, UCI Medical Center, “Radioacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging”

5:30 P.M.    Adjourn