AAPM Southern California Chapter

Midwinter Symposium

 

January 26, 2024

Sheraton Universal Hotel, East-West Ballroom

The online registration website is: https://scc-aapm.square.site/

 

Steven Goetsch, Education Chair

Marianne Plunkett, Education Co-Chair

Sherry Liu, Maryam Bostani, Members

 

President:  Chengyu Shi

President Elect:  Zhilei (Julie) Shen

Past President:  Jessica Clements

Treasurer:  Talon Thompson

Secretary:  David Hoffman

AAPM Board Representative:  Tyler Fisher

 

 

Approved for CAMPEP MPCEC, ASRT and MDCB Credits

 

 

www.aapm-scc.org

 

 

2024 Corporate Sponsors

 

The Southern California Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM-SCC) wishes to acknowledge the generous contributions of our Commercial Affiliates who have underwritten this meeting.

 

PLATINUM           Elekta

GammaTile

Leo Cancer Care

Medlever

MVision AI

Sun Nuclear, a Mirion Medical Company 

Varian, a Siemens Healthineers Company

 

   

GOLD                  Brainlab

CDR Systems

C-Rad

CQ Medical

Diagnomatic

DYN’R US Inc. SDX Respiratory Gating System

GE Healthcare

Gold Anchor™

IBA

Isoaid

K&S Associates, Inc.

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

Limbus AI

Ludlum Measurements, Inc.

MD Anderson

MIM Software Inc.

NELCO

PACS Health

Perspective Therapeutics

PTW North America Corporation

Radcal

Radformation

RaySearch Labs

RefleXion Medical

Standard Imaging

The Phantom Laboratory/Image Owl

Vision RT   

 

 

AAPM Southern California Chapter

Midwinter Symposium, Friday, January 26, 2024

 

 

  

7:00 A.M.                   CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 

 

8:00   A.M      Emilie Soisson, University of Vermont:

Surviving a Cyberattack and Preparing for the Next One

 

 

8:50   A.M     Indrin Chetty, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center:

Applications of Machine Learning and Radiomics in Medical Imaging

 

9:40   A.M.                COFFEE BREAK

10:00 A.M.     M. Mahesh, AAPM President Elect:

Coming Together and Advancing Medical Physics Even Further  

  

10:50 A.M.     Mary Ellen Jafari, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group:

 The Role of the Physicist in CT Scanner Specification and Purchase

 

11:40 A.M.    Sharon Qi, UCLA Medical Center:   

AI Based Segmentation and Its Clinical Implementation in Radiotherapy

  

12:30 P.M.                LUNCH AND PLATINUM TALKS 

  

1:45 P.M.     Xenia Ray, UCSD Medical Center:

Personalizing Patient Care with Adaptive Therapy

  

2:35 P.M.     Hualin Zhang, USC Medical Center:

Physics, Dose Metrics and Clinical Implementation of Spatially Fractionated Radiation Therapy Spatially Fractionated and Microbeam Radiation Therapy

 

3:15   P.M.                 COFFEE BREAK 

  

3:40 P.M.  Peter Maxim, University of California Irvine:

PHASER:  A Platform for Clinical Translation of FLASH Therapy                    

4:30 P.M.     Maryam Bostani, UCLA Medical Center:

ACR Dose Index Registry CT Reports Update

 

5:20 P.M.                  ADJOURN

 

2023 Fall Meeting:   Dear AAPM-SCC members, Manasa Pinisetty, Senior Health Physicist from the California Department of Public Health, will give a presentation updating us on California therapeutic physicist regulations, on Thursday, November 16th, 2023 at 5pm – 6pm (PST).  The meeting will be held remotely. Use the Teams link provided below if you would like to attend.

Sincerely,
President: Chengyu Shi, PhD
Past-President: Jessica Clements, MS
President-Elect: Zhilei Liu Shen, PhD
Secretary: David Hoffman, PhD
Treasurer: Talon Thompson, MS, MSc
National Board Representative: Tyler Fisher, MS
aapm-scc.org

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The followings are presentations by the speakers during the Southern California Chapter AAPM Mid-Winter meeting on Feb 3, 2023.

SAVE THE DATE! 2023 Mid-Winter Meeting February 3, 2023   Registration is now open! https://scc-aapm.square.site/    Our education committee has finalized an exciting IN-PERSON program to be held February 3, 2023 at the Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City, Los Angeles. CAMPEP MPCEC, ASRT and MDCB Credits are offered for the program. A virtual option will not be offered. We can't wait to see you! Registration includes breakfast, lunch, and breaks.    8:00   A.M.    LIJUN MA, University of Southern California, “From Model U to Esprit:  A Physicist’s Tribute to Dr. Steven Goetsch”    8:50   A.M     IGOR BARANI, MD, Barrows Neurological Center, Topic to be announced     9:40   A.M.     Coffee Break  10:00 A.M.      JOHN ADLER, Stanford University, “Next Generation Brain Radiosurgery”    10:50 A.M.     T. ROCKWELL MACKIE, University of Wisconsin Emeritus, Topic to be announced    11:40 A.M.   AMY YU, Stanford University Medical Center, “From Transitional Research to Clinical Implementation”     12:30 P.M.     Lunch and Platinum Talks     2:00   P.M.     QIHUI LYU, UCLA Medical Center, “Pair Production Tomography”     2:50   P.M.     Touseef Ahmad Qureshi, Cedars-Sinai, “Risk Stratification of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Using AI Analysis of Abdominal CTI Images”     3:40   P.M.      KEVIN MOORE, UCSD Medical Center, “AAPM Working Group on Radiation Treatment Planning”    4:35   P.M.     TODD PAWLICKI, University of California San Diego and AAPM President Elect, “Quality, Safety, Medical Physics and the AAPM”    05:25 P.M.     ADJOURN          SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE AAPM VIRTUAL FALL MEETING SAVE THE DATE! The AAPM Southern California Chapter is pleased to invite you to participate in the Fall Meeting which will be held on Tuesday, October 11th, from 5:30-6:30pm. In keeping with tradition, we will be hosting representatives from the California Radiologic Health Branch to discuss updates. The speakers will be able to address any questions you may have as well. This year, however, the talks will be held virtually. We understand that a lot of us are experiencing "Zoom fatigue" and appreciate your patience. This meeting is free for all members! In addition, this will be a joint meeting between the Northern and Southern California chapters, so be sure to sign up as virtual seats are limited. Please RSVP via the signup button below, and a link will be emailed to you by Monday, October 10th. Please ensure you check your spam filters if you haven't heard from us! Please put any questions you have for our speakers in the comment box at signup   CDPH RHB Update - Manasa Pinisetty - Senior Health Physicist         click here to register     AAPM Southern California Chapter 2022 Norm Baily Awards and MedPhys SLAM The Southern California Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM-SCC) wishes to announce two student / resident competitions for 2022: our annual Norm Baily Awards and the MedPhys SLAM Event. The event will be held LIVE at the Aresty Conference Center at the University of Southern California (1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, CA) on Tuesday May 24, 2022 at 7:00pm.   The 2022 Norm Baily Award has two award categories: a graduate and a post-doc/resident category. Any graduate student in a medical physics program in the Southern California Chapter is eligible for the Graduate Student Award, and any medical physics resident of medical physics post-doctoral fellow is eligible for the Resdient/Post-doctoral Award.   To participate, please send a 300-word abstract of your own work with optional 2 pages of supporting documents (up to 750kB) no later than midnight on Sunday, May 15, 2022. All submissions should be emailed to Steve Goetsch at: Steven@sdradiotherapy.com   Award Certificates and cash prizes will be awarded to the First and Second place winners in each category. The award winners will be notified prior to the Norm Baily Awards Ceremony, or no later than Friday May 20th 2022.   Additionally, all students/residents/post-docs are invited to participate in the MedPhys SLAM Event! This is a research communication competition that will be judged LIVE May 24th, the same night as the Norm Baily Awards. Presenters have 3 minutes to give the what, how, and why of their research and convince a panel of judges that their work is impactful and important. To participate in the MedPhys SLAM event, just affirm your interest with your Norm Baily submission. A single winner will be chosen and will represent our chapter at the National MedPhys SLAM Competition to be held at the 2022 AAPM Meeting, and will receive a travel grant of $1000.   The 2022 Norm Baily Awards and MedPhys SLAM even will be held LIVE on May 24th, 2022 at 7:00pm. There are plans to live-stream the event as well; non-competitors are welcome to view online. Registration details will be provided soon and the meeting link will be provided to all registrants/participants.   Those interested in attending, please use this updated squarespace form to register: scc-aapm.square.site We encourage all students, postdocs and residents in Southern California to participate in this competition!       AAPM - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER MID-WINTER MEETING - MARCH 2022 Registration is now open! https://scc-aapm.square.site/ Students and trainees may register for free in advance by emailing the chapter treasurer, Zhilei (Julie) Shen, or for $25 at the meeting.  Our education committee has finalized an exciting IN-PERSON program to be held March 18, 2022 at the Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City, Los Angeles. CAMPEP MPCEC, ASRT and MDCB Credits are offered for the program. A virtual option will not be offered. We can't wait to see you!   7:00 A.M. Continental breakfast   8:00   A.M.     AN LIU, City of Hope Medical Center: “Biologically Guided Radiation Therapy”   8:50   A.M      NELS KNUTSON, Washington University, “Cardiac Ablation with Radiation Therapy”   9:45   A.M.     Coffee Break 10:15 A.M.     EMILIE RONCALI, UC Davis, “Quantitative dosimetry for radiopharmaceutical therapy as a tool to improve patient care and clinical trials” 11:05 A.M.     SHERRY LIU, Kaiser Permanente, “Radiation Therapy in the Pandemic Era” 11:35 A.M. SEAN ZHANG, City of Hope Medical Center, “Accreditation for Radiation Therapy Departments”   12:15 P.M.     Lunch and Platinum Talks   1:45   P.M.     MINSONG CAO, UCLA Medical Center, “MR Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy (MRgART)”   2:35   P.M.     ZHAOYANG FAN, USC Medical Center, “Multi-Task MRI for Abdominal Radiotherapy and Real Time Beam Guidance”   3:25   P.M.     SABEE MOLLOI, UC Irvine “Update on CT Scanning Technology”   4:15   P.M.     KE SHENG, UCLA Medical Center “From VMAT to ROAD, the Path to X-ray FLASH Therapy”   05:05 P.M.     ADJOURN Sincerely, your AAPM-SCC representatives     SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE AAPM VIRTUAL FALL MEETING 2021 Hello! This is an invitation from the AAPM Southern California Chapter that the Fall Meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 2nd, from 5:30-6:30pm. In keeping with tradition, we will be hosting representatives from the California Radiologic Health Branch to discuss updates. The speakers will be able to address any questions you may have as well. This year, however, the talks will be held virtually, via GoToMeeting. We understand that a lot of us are experiencing "Zoom fatigue" and appreciate your patience. This meeting is free for all members! In addition, this will be a joint meeting between the Northern and Southern California chapters, so be sure to sign up as virtual seats are limited. Please RSVP via the signup button below, and a GoToMeeting link will be emailed to you by Monday, November 1st. Please ensure you have whitelisted SignUpGenius, and check your spam filters if you haven''t heard from us! Confirmed speakers: Joji Ortego Principal Radiation Protection Specialist Los Angeles County Public Health Radiation Management   Tanya Ridgle Principal Radiation Protection Specialist Los Angeles County Public Health Radiation Management     AAPM - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER MID-WINTER MEETING (JANUARY 2021) Due to the uncertainty resulting from the pandemic, as well as the recent ''Stay At Home Order'' in Southern California, the AAPM-SCC Mid-Winter Meeting is postponed indefinitely. We are sorry to miss you this year, and are looking forward to meeting in person again! Sincerely, your AAPM-SCC representatives               SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE AAPM VIRTUAL FALL MEETING 2020

We hope this message finds you healthy and well. The AAPM Southern California Chapter would like to announce the Fall Meeting will be held on Thursday, October 15 from 5:30-6:30pm. In keeping with tradition, we will be hosting representatives from the California Radiologic Health Branch to discuss updates to regulations. The speakers will be able to address any questions you may have as well. This year, however, the talks will be held virtually, via GoToMeeting. We understand that a lot of us are experiencing "Zoom fatigue" and appreciate your patience.   Confirmed speakers: Lisa Russell Supervising Health Physicist Inspection, Compliance and Enforcement Section Radiologic Health Branch California Department of Public Health Phillip Scott Senior Health Physicist Regulations Unit Radiologic Health Branch California Department of Public Health John Galicia Senior Health Physicist Registration Unit Radiologic Health Branch California Department of Public Health     Some topics of interest include the following updated documents: DPH-10-007 Health & Therapeutic Medical Physicist Authorization - new description of a Therapeutic Survey Physicist (TSP) and Therapeutic Calibration Physicist (TCP) Information Notice: Changes to Mammography Machine and Physicist Applications DPH-17-009 Radiologic Technology Act Regulations: RTCC Recommendations   This meeting is free for all members! Please RSVP via the signup button below, and a GoToMeeting link will be emailed to you prior to the meeting. Please put any questions you have for our speakers in the comment box at signup.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UPDATE FROM THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE AAPM

 

Dear Southern California Chapter members: We are writing to inform you that we have made the decision to postpone the Spring Meeting and also the Norm Baily Awards, to coincide with our Fall Meeting. We have all been affected in one way or another by the pandemic and the prudent thing to do is to cancel so that we can focus on our critical duties and staying well; the health and safety of our members, students, venue staff, and public are our greatest concerns. Universities and venues are closing or restricting access to mitigate virus spread, and we understand that it is difficult for our students, residents, and post-docs to participate in research competitions right now as well. If you have already registered for the Spring Meeting, we will refund your registration fee. We will of course update you when we have more information about the Fall Meeting. These are uncertain times and we hope you are staying safe and sane out there.

 

Sincerely, your AAPM-SCC representatives

 

2020 Norm Baily Awards Meeting 

Date: Tuesday May 5, 2020 (POSTPONED)

UCLA J.D. Morgan Athletic Center - Press Room

Don't Miss This Meeting in the Beautiful UCLA Athletic Center

More Details

 

Program: 

4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Board Meeting 

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Social Hour 

6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner 

7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Presentations

 

Cost

$30 for Food and Drink (students / residence exempt) - Registration

Directions

Directions to a number of on-campus UCLA facilities can be accessed by clicking HERE

RSVP

Please RSVP to Sharon Qi  

 

 

 

 

AAPM Southern California Chapter

Midwinter Symposium, Friday, January 24, 2020

Sheraton Universal Hotel, Los Angeles

AAPM-SCC has requested 7.0 hours of CAMPEP credit

 

Online Registration Here  - - - Square Link - - -

 

 

07:00 A.M.    Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

 

08:00 A.M.       Dr. Stan Benedict, UC Davis

                        Biologically Guided Radiation Therapy (BGRT):

                        Optimizing Therapy Delivery with Integrated Linac and PET Imaging

 

08:50 A.M        Dr. Caroline Chung, MD, MD Anderson

                        Clinical Use of MRI Linac

 

 

09:45 A.M.    Coffee Break

 

 

10:15 A.M.       Dr. Peter Maxim (Indiana University)

                        FLASH, Grid and Lattice Radiotherapy

11:15 A.M.       AAPM-SCC Speakers 

 

                        Dr. Ricardo Rademacher, Genesis

                        An Introduction to Medical Linac Compound Refractive Lens

 

                        Dr. Xenia Ray, UCSD

                        Knowledge Based Planning and Evaluating Publicly Available Prostate Routines

 

 

12:15 P.M.     Lunch and Platinum Talks

 

 

01:45 P.M.       Dr. Jerry White, AAPM Ethics Committee

                        Revisions to the AAPM Code of Ethics:  The What and Why of the New Document

 

02:35 P.M.       Dr. Vasant Kearney, UCSF

                        Computer Vision in Adaptive Radiotherapy

 

03:25 P.M.       Dr. James Cooley

                        TBD

 
04:15 P.M.       Dr. Grace Kim, UCSD

                        An Integrated Streamlined Quality Management Program in Radiation Therapy

 

05:05 P.M.     ADJOURN

 

 

 

 

 

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2019 AAPM-SCC Fall Meeting 

Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2019

 

Cost: $30 for Food and Drink (students / residents / postdocs exempt)

Beckman Center

100 Academy, Irvine, CA 92617

Directions:

http://www.thebeckmancenter.org/about/mapanddirections/index.htm

 

Program: 

4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Board Meeting 

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Social Hour 

6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner

7:00 – 8:00 p.m. "RHB Update". Presented by Lisa Russell, RHB X-Ray Inspection, Compliance, and Enforcement Section Chief.

 

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2019 Norm Baily Awards Meeting and MedPhys Slam 

Tuesday May 14, 2019

UCSD Moores Cancer Center

 

Cost: $30 for Food and Drink (students / residents / postdocs exempt)

Date: Tuesday May 14, 2019

 

Venue: UCSD Moores Cancer Center, 2nd Floor

3855 Health Sciences Drive

San Diego, CA 92093

Directions:  Click Here

 

Program:

4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Board Meeting

5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Social Hour

6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Dinner

7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Presentations, MedPhys Slam Competition and Awards Ceremony

 

Register Here - https://squareup.com/store/scc-aapm

 

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AAPM-SCC Midwinter Symposium

Sheraton Universal Hotel, Los Angeles
Friday, January 25, 2019

AAPM-SCC has requested 7.0 hours of CAMPEP credit

 

Online Registration Here  - - - Square Link - - -

 

 

7:00 A.M.       Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:00 A.M.       Dr. Michael Moyers, Shanghai Heavy Ion Center

                        “Update on Proton and Heavy Ion Therapy”  

 

8:50 A.M        Dr. Indrin Chetty, Henry Ford Hospital

                        “MRI Linacs” 

 

 

9:45 A.M.       Coffee Break

 

 

10:15 A.M.    AAPM President Elect Dr. Saiful Huq

                        “IAEA-AAPM Code of Practice for Small Field Dosimetry:  TRS 483”

 

11:15 A.M.    AAPM SCC speakers: 

 

Drs. Victoria Yu and Nzhde Agazaryan, UCLA School of Medicine

“IAEA Correction Factors in Clinical Examples”

Dr. Todd Atwood, UC San Diego Medical Center

“Medical Physics Patient Consultation”

Dr. John Lewis, UCLA School of Medicine

“MR Simulator project”

 

12:15 PM       Lunch and Platinum Talks

 

 

1:45 P.M.       Dr. Eric Ford, U of Washington

                        “Improving Quality of Care Through Incident Learning:

                          Four Years of the National RO-ILS System”

 

2:35 P.M.       Dr. Tony Seibert, UC Davis

                        “Certification and Maintenance of Certification:  What, Why and How?”

3:25 P.M.       Dr. Amy Yu, Stanford University

                        “A Novel Integrated Quality Assurance Phantom for Radiation Therapy”

 
4:15 P.M.       Dr. Laura Cervino, UC San Diego

                        “Surface guided radiation therapy”

 

 

5:05 P.M.       Adjurn

 

 

 

 

 

 

2018 AAPM-SCC Fall Meeting 

Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2018

 

Cost: $30 for Food and Drink (students / residents / postdocs exempt)

JD Morgan Athletic Center - Press Room

325 Westwood Plaza,

Los Angeles, CA 90095

Directions:

https://www.recreation.ucla.edu/map-and-directions

 

Program: 

4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Board Meeting 

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Social Hour 

6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner

7:00 – 8:00 p.m. "RHB Update". Presented by Lisa Russell, RHB X-Ray Inspection, Compliance, and Enforcement Section Chief, followed by Resident/Postdoc presentations.

 

Register Here - Registration Link

 

 

 

 

2018 Norm Baily Awards Meeting 

Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2018

The Cove @ UC Irvine Applied Innovations

5141 California Avenue, Ste. 200
Irvine, CA 92617

 

Program: 

4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Board Meeting 

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Social Hour 

6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner

7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Presentations and Awards Ceremony

 

Register Here - https://squareup.com/store/scc-aapm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AAPM Southern California Chapter
Midwinter Symposium
Friday, January 26, 2018
Sheraton Universal Hotel, Los Angeles

This meeting has applied to CAMPEP for approval of 6.67 MPCEC hours
This meeting has applied for approval of 8.0 MDCB hours

 

 

 

7:00 A.M.     Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 A.M.      Dr. Rock Mackie, University of Wisconsin Emeritus Professor

“Confessions of a Serial Medical Entrepreneur”

  

8:50 A.M.     Dr. Kevin Moore, UCSD

“Clinical Automated Planning:  When to Let the Robots Drive”

 

 

10:00 A.M.      Coffee Break

10:20 A.M.   Dr. Nzhde Agazaryan, UCLA School of Medicine

“Single Isocenter Treatment for Multiple Cranial Targets”

 
11:10 A.M.   Dr. Gustavo Olivera, 21st Century Oncology

“Clinical Implementation of In-vivo Dosimetry at Large Scale:

 Paving the Way to Adaptive Dose Recalculation”

 

12 NOON     Lunch and Platinum Talks

 

1:30 P.M.     Dr. Jasmin Miller, Keiser University

“Hot Topics in Nuclear Medicine Therapy and Oncology”

 

2:20 P.M.      Dr. Jennifer Johnson, Landauer, Inc.

“Healthcare and Reimbursement in the US”

3:10 P.M.     Dr. Stephen Kry, MD Anderson

“The IROC Phantom Program”

 
4:00 P.M.     Dr. Art Olch, USC Children’s Hospital

“Pediatric Radiation Therapy:

 Planning, Delivery, Normal Organ Concerns and Second Tumors”

 

5:00 P.M.     ADJOURN

 

 

 

 

 

          2017 Fall Meeting Program

Tuesday October 10, 2017

 

AAPM-SCC.ORG - EVENTS

 

Cost: $30 for Food and Drink (students / residents / postdocs exempt)

Date: Tuesday October 10, 2017

 

Venue: UCSD Moores Cancer Center, 2nd Floor

3855 Health Sciences Drive

San Diego, CA 92093

Directions:  Click Here

 

Program:

4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Board Meeting

5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Social Hour

6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Dinner

7:00 p.m. "RHB Update". Presented by Lisa Russell, RHB X-Ray Inspection, Compliance, and Enforcement Section Chief,  followed by Resident/Postdoc presentations (TBA)

 

Registration site for non-trainees: REGISTER HERE

 

 

Please RSVP to Dan Scanderbeg dscanderbeg@ucsd.edu directly if you are a student/resident/postdoc

 

 

 

 

2017 Norm Baily Awards Meeting 

Date: Tuesday May 9, 2017 

UCLA J.D. Morgan Athletic Center - Press Room

Don't Miss This Meeting in the Beautiful UCLA Athletic Center

 

Program: 

4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Board Meeting 

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Social Hour 

6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner 

7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Presentations

 

 

Cost

$30 for Food and Drink (students / residence exempt) - Registration

 

Parking
The J.D. Morgan Center is easily accessible from Lot 4, 8 and 7 ($12 per vehicle)

Click HERE for a detailed map of parking structures

The main UCLA campus map with additional parking information is located HERE

 

Directions
Directions to a number of on-campus UCLA facilities can be accessed by clicking HERE

 

RSVP

Please RSVP to Dan Scanderbeg dscanderbeg@ucsd.edu

 

 

 

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2017 Midwinter Workshop

AAPM Southern California Chapter

Friday, January 27, 2017

Sheraton Universal Hotel, Los Angeles

 

Click Here for Meeting Registration or Corporate Sponsorship

 

7:00 A.M.       Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 A.M.       Rebecca Howell, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
                        “Results from Voluntary Peer Review of Beam Output”

8:50 A.M.       Matt Brown, UCLA
                                “Computer Vision and Machine Learning in Diagnostic Imaging and Clinical Trials”

 

10:00 A.M.    COFFEE BREAK

10:20 A.M.    Steven Sutlief, UCSD
                        “Troubleshooting with Linear Accelerators”

 
11:10 A.M.    James Lamb, UCLA
                        “MRI Guided Radiotherapy: Current Status and Clinical Applications”

12 NOON       LUNCH AND PLATINUM TALKS

 

1:30 P.M.       Bruce Thomadsen, University of Wisconsin, AAPM President-Elect

                        “AAPM Initiatives in Patient Safety”

 

2:20 P.M.       Charles Limoli, UCI

                               “Space Brain:  How Cosmic Radiation Affects Astronaut Cognition:  Causes, Consequences and Resolutions”

3:10 P.M.       Grace Kim, UCSD

                        “The RO-ILS System and Patient Safety”

 
4:00 P.M.       Adam Turner, Ironwood Medical Center

                               “Novel Methods in High Efficiency Treatment Planning with the RayStation Treatment Planning System”

 

5:00 P.M.       ADJOURN

 

This meeting has applied to CAMPEP for approval of up to 8 MPCEC hours.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2016 Fall Chapter Meeting

 

Tuesday October 11, 2016
 

UC Irvine Faculty Club
http://www.uclub.uci.edu/

 

801 East Peltason Drive, Irvine CA 92697
Directions: http://www.uclub.uci.edu/directions

 

Program:
   4:00 – 5:00 p.m.   Board Meeting
   5:00 – 6:00 p.m.   Social Hour
   6:00 – 7:00 p.m.   Dinner
   7:00 – 8:00 p.m.   “RHB Update” Presented by Lisa Russell

Lisa Russel, Supervising Health Physicist, Inspection, Compliance, and Enforcement Section California Department of Public Health Radiologic Health Branch

 

 

 

 

2016 Norm Baily Awards Program 

Date: Tuesday May 10, 2016 

UCSD Moores Cancer Center, 2nd Floor 

3855 Health Sciences Drive 

San Diego, CA 92093 

 

Directions: 

http://radonc.ucsd.edu/patient-info/Pages/maps-direction.aspx 

 

Program (tentative): 

4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Board Meeting 

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Social Hour 

6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner 

7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Presentations at Goldberg Auditorium 

 

 

 

 

AAPM Southern California Chapter
Midwinter Workshop Friday, January 29, 2016
Sheraton Universal Hotel, Los Angeles

 

7:00 a.m. REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:00 a.m.   Sonja Dieterich, University of California Davis Medical Center, “Detector Selection and Clinical Skills for Small Field Dosimetry”

8:55 a.m.  Wayne Beckham, British Columbia Cancer Agency, “Prospective Outcomes Evaluation and Support Initiative (POSI) in British Columbia”

9:50 a.m. COFFEE BREAK

10:10 a.m. Kristy Brock, University of Michigan Medical Center, “Designing Safe, Efficient, and Intelligent Adaptive Radiotherapy Strategies through Dose Accumulation”

11:00 a.m.  Art Olch, Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, “Implementation and Clinical Experiences with Daily Patient Quality Assurance using EPID based Exit Dosimetry”

12 noon   LUNCH and PLATINUM TALKS

1:30 p.m.   Incoming AAPM President Elect Melissa Martin, “Future of Medical Physics:  AAPM’s Perspective on the Role of the Medical Physicist”

2:20 p.m.  Shirish Jani, Sharp Memorial Hospital “SRS/SRT:  Latest in Technology and Treatment Planning”

3:10 p.m.  Eric Paulson, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Medical Center, “MRI Guided Linear Accelerator”

4:00 p.m.    Benjamin Fahimian, Stanford University Medical School:  “Stereotactic Arrhythmia Radioablation (STAR):  The First In-Human Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia”

 

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2015 Fall Meeting Program 

Date: 
Tuesday October 6, 2015 

Cost:
$25 per person (students / residence exempt)

Venue: 
UCLA Faculty Center 

480 Charles E Young Drive West
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Tel - (310) 825-0877  

Directions: 
http://facultycenter.ucla.edu/About-Us/Directions.aspx

  
Program: 
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Board Meeting

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Social Hour
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Presentations
“RHB Update”. Presented by Lisa Russell, RHB X-Ray Inspection, Compliance, and Enforcement Section Chief

 

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AAPM-SCC Spring Meeting - May 19th, 2015

Address: 801 East Peltason Drive, Irvine CA 92697
www: http://www.uclub.uci.edu/
Directions: http://www.uclub.uci.edu/Directions.php

 Program:
   4:00 – 5:00 p.m.  Board Meeting
   5:00 – 6:00 p.m.  Social Hour
   6:00 – 7:00 p.m.  Dinner
   7:00 – 8:00 p.m.  Presentations

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AAPM Southern California Chapter

Midwinter Workshop Friday, January 23, 2015

Sheraton Universal Hotel, Los Angeles

2015 Norm Baily Awards Program 
Tuesday May 19, 2015

UC Irvine Faculty Club

 

7:00 a.m.  REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:00 a.m.  Almon Shiu, University of Southern California Medical Center, Quality Improvement, “Processes and Safety in Radiation Oncology at Norris Cancer Hospital of USC”

9:00 a.m.  Ke Sheng, UCLA Medical Center, “Four Pi Radiotherapy”

10:00  COFFEE BREAK

10:20 a.m.  Kevin Moore, UC San Diego Medical Center, “Knowledge Based Treatment Planning”

11:10 a.m.  Bruce Thomadsen, U of Wisconsin “Risk-Based Design of Quality Management:  Putting AAPM Task Group 100 into Practice:  Part 1”

12 noon  LUNCH - PLATINUM TALKS

1:30 p.m.  Incoming AAPM President Elect Bruce Curran, Virginia Commonwealth University, “Issues Facing Radiation Oncology and Medical Physics in 2015:  What can AAPM and Medical Physicists do about them?”

2:30 p.m.  Benedick Fraass, Cedars Sinai Hospital, “Risk-Based Design of Quality Management:  Putting AAPM Task Group 100 into Practice:  Part 2”

 

3:00 p.m.  Scott P. Robertson, Johns Hopkins, “Oncospace” 

4:00 p.m.  Stan Benedict, UC Davis, “New Technologies Designed to Improve SRT Delivery”

 

5:00 p.m. ADJOURN

 

 

 

2014 Fall Meeting Program

Date: Tuesday Oct. 21, 2014

Cost: $20 for Food and Drink (students / residence exempt)

 

Venue:

UCSD Moore Cancer Center

3855 Health Sciences Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093

(858) 822-6100

 

Directions:

http://health.ucsd.edu/locations/Pages/thornton-driving.aspx

 

Program:

4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Board Meeting

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Social Hour

6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner

7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Presentations

 

 

 

 

2014 Norm Baily Awards Program
Thursday, May 15, 2014

UCLA Faculty Center - http://facultycenter.ucla.edu/

Directions - http://facultycenter.ucla.edu/About-Us/Directions.aspx

UCLA Faculty Center Sequoia Room
480 Charles E. Young Dr. East
Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Tel - (310) 825-0877

Program:
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Board Meeting
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Social Hour
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner
7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Presentations

 

 

AAPM Southern California Chapter
Midwinter Workshop
Friday, January 24, 2014
Sheraton Universal Hotel, Los Angeles

Registration Form

7:00 a.m. REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:00 a.m. Jan Seuntjens, Chief of Medical Physics, McGill University, Montreal General Hospital, “Monte Carlo Calculations in the Radiation Therapy Clinic”

9:00 a.m. Stephen Kry, M.D. Anderson Radiological Physics Center, “Peripheral Dose and Pitfalls of Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Systems”

10:00 COFFEE BREAK

10:15 a.m. Shouleh Nikzad, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory “Space Technology for Medical Applications”

11:10 a.m. Debbie Gilley, AAPM, “Patient Safety in Radiation Oncology”

12 noon LUNCH - PLATINUM TALKS

1:30 p.m. Incoming AAPM President Elect John Boone, University of California Davis: “CT Imaging for Breast”

2:30 p.m. Stan Benedict, Chief of Medical Physics, University of California Davis, “Disruptive Game-Changing Technologies in Radiation Therapy”

3:30 p.m. Michael Wright, Varian Medical “Microbeam Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Radiation Therapy”

4:20 p.m. Christopher Wennerstrom, Kettering Medical Center, Kettering, OH TOPIC TO BE ANNOUNCED

5:10 p.m. ADJOURN

Up to 8.0 hours of CAMPEP MPCEC, MDCB and ASRT credits will be applied for

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2013 Fall Chapter Meeting

Date: Tuesday October 15, 2013
Venue: UC Irvine Faculty Club
Address: 801 East Peltason Drive, Irvine CA 92697
www: http://www.uclub.uci.edu/
Directions: http://www.uclub.uci.edu/Directions.php

Program:
   3:30 – 4:30 p.m.   Board Meeting
   4:30 – 5:30 p.m.  Social Hour
   5:30 – 6:30 p.m.  Dinner
   6:30 – 7:30 p.m.  Presentations

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2013 Norm Baily Awards Program
Date: Tuesday May 07, 2013 
UCSD Moores Cancer Center, 2nd Floor
3855 Health Sciences Drive
San Diego CA 92093
(858) 822-6040

Directions:
http://radonc.ucsd.edu/patient-info/Pages/maps-direction.aspx 

Program:
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Board Meeting
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Social Hour
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner
7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Presentations at Goldberg Auditorium

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AAPM Southern California Chapter Midwinter Workshop
Sheraton Universal Hotel, Starview Room
Friday, January 25, 2013

Registration Form

7:00 a.m. REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:00 a.m. Tim Solberg, Chief of Physics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas: “Opportunities in Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy”

9:00 a.m. John Adler, Stanford University Medical Center and Varian Corporation: “Emerging Clinical Applications for Stereotactic Radiosurgery”

10:00 a.m. COFFEE BREAK

10:15 a.m. T. Rock Mackie, Director of Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin: “Future of Medical Physics and Radiation Oncology”

11:10 a.m. J. Leslie Redpath, Department of Radiation Oncology, UC Irvine: “Lack of Validity of the LNT Model for Risk Assessment at Low Doses of Low LET Radiation”

12 noon LUNCH PLATINUM TALKS

1:30 p.m. Incoming AAPM President Elect John Bayouth, University of Iowa: “The National Cancer Institute Quantitative Imaging Network”

2:30 p.m. John Wong, Johns Hopkins University: “New Technology for Image Guided Radiation Therapy of Soft Tissue Targets”

3:30 p.m. Michael McNitt-Gray, UCLA Medical Center “University of California CT Dose Initiative”

4:00 p.m. Dan Low, UCLA Medical Center: new California BRH regulations

4:30 p.m. Lei Dong, Scripps Proton Therapy Center: "Review of Modern Proton Therapy"

5:20 p.m. ADJOURN

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2012 AAPM-SCC Fall Meeting

When: October 2, 2012
Where: UCLA Faculty Center http://facultycenter.ucla.edu/directions.htm
Agenda:
   4:00 - 4:30 Board Meeting
   4:30 - 5:30 Happy Hour
   5:30 - 6:30 Dinner
   6:35 – 7:30 Gonzalo Perez – Chief, California Radiologic Health
   7:30 - 8:00 General Discussions

When: October 2, 2012
Where: UCLA Faculty Center
Directions: http://facultycenter.ucla.edu/directions.htm
Agenda:
   4:00 - 4:30 Board Meeting
   4:30 - 5:30 Happy Hour
   5:30 - 6:30 Dinner
   6:35 - 7:30 Phillip L. Scott – California Radiologic Health Branch (RHB)
   7:30 - 8:00 General discussions

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2012 Norm Baily Awards Meeting

Date: Tuesday May 08, 2012

Venue: UC Irvine Faculty Club

Address: 801 East Peltason Drive, Irvine CA 92697 http://www.uclub.uci.edu/

Directions: http://www.uclub.uci.edu/Directions.php

Program:
   3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Board Meeting
   5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Social Hour
   6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner
   7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Presentations

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American Association of Physicists in Medicine Southern California Chapter The Southern California Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine wishes to announce the Norm Baily Award competition for 2012. There will be two divisions again this year: any graduate student in a medical physics program in Southern California is eligible for the Graduate Student Award. And any medical physics post-doctoral fellows and medical physics residents are eligible for the Postdoctoral and Resident Award. Winners will be notified by April 23 and will be expected to attend the May 8th chapter meeting at the UC Irvine University Club, where the prizes will be awarded (details will follow). A cash prize of $500.00 and award certificate will be awarded to each of the three winners in each category. One 15 minute presentation will be made by the highest vote getter in each category after dinner that evening. We will follow the AAPM format: students should send a 250 word abstract with optional 2 pages of supporting documents (up to 750kBytes) no later than midnight on April 9 th. All submissions should be e-mailed to Steve Goetsch at: stevegoetsch@sdgkc.com We encourage all students, postdocs and residents in Southern California to participate in this program.

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AAPM Southern California Chapter Midwinter Workshop
Sheraton Universal Hotel, Starview Room
Friday, January 27, 2012

Registration From (pdf)

 

7:00 a.m. REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:00 a.m. Eric Klein, Washington University School of Medicine, “TG-40 + TG-100 = TG-142”

8:45 a.m. Jean Pouliot, UC San Francisco School of Medicine, “Rigid and Deformed Realities of IGRT”

9:30 a.m. Wolfram Laub, Oregon Health Sciences, “EPID Portal Dosimetry”

10:15 a.m. COFFEE BREAK

10:30 a.m. Dan Low, UCLA Medical Center, "ViewRay: Simultaneous MRI and IMRT”

11:00 a.m. Shirish Jani, Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, “Adverse Effects of Lung SBRT and Important Implementation of Quality Assurance Techniques”

11:45 am AAPM President Elect John Hazle, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, "Future Directions in Cancer Research: New Opportunities for Medical Physicists"

12:30 p.m. LUNCH AND VENDOR PRESENTATIONS:

PLATINUM SPONSORS TALKS: (10 minutes each) Accuray, Elekta, IBA, NELCO, Philips, PTW, Siemens, Standard Imaging, Sun Nuclear, Varian

2:00 p.m. Michael McNitt-Gray, UCLA Medical Center, “Resources to Assist in Reporting and Auditing CT Dose” and Anthony Seibert, UC Davis


2:30 p.m. Bette Blankenship, Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, “Implementation of California SB 1237 CT Dose Regulations in a Community Hospital”
Q and A: A. Seibert, M. McNitt-Gray, B. Blankenship, Jerry Hensley (California Bureau of Radiologic Health)

3:15 p.m. COFFEE BREAK


3:30 p.m. Mary Fox, Minneapolis Radiation Oncology, “Is there a female in Medical Physics: Lessons Learned”
4:15 p.m. Dick Fraass, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, “What Have We Learned About Errors and Safety in Radiation Oncology”

5:00 p.m. ADJOURN

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Fall Chapter Meeting

When: Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Where: UCSD Moores Cancer Center
http://radonc.ucsd.edu/patient-info/Pages/maps-direction.aspx

Agenda:

3:00 - 4:30 - Board Meeting

4:30 - 5:30 - Happy Hour

5:30 - 6:30 - Dinner

6:35 - 6:50 - Dan Scanderbeg - UC San Diego: New Tools for Brachytherapy Quality Management

6:50 - 7:05 - Dante Roa - UC Irvine: Targeted Hippocampal Irradiation in a Small Rodent using IMRS and RapidArc VMAT SRS

7:05 - 7:20 - Trent Ning - UC San Diego: SBRT and Related Linac QA - TG-101 & TG-142

7:20 - 7:35 - Nabil Adnani, Director of the CURE Institute of Medical Physics: Tomotherapy-type Machine Using 60-Co

7:35 - 8:00 - General discussions

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Norm Baily Award 2011
Tuesday May 10, 2011
UC Irvine Faculty Club
801 East Peltason Drive, Irvine CA 92697
Board Meeting 3:30 p.m., Awards: 7:00 p.m.

 

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Midwinter Symposium

Patient Safety and New Methodologies in Radiation Therapy along with an Overview of New State and Federal Regulations

Sheraton Universal Hotel, Starview Room

January 28, 2011

7:00 a.m. REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:00 a.m. Steven McCullough, Presbyterian Cancer Center, Dallas, TX, “Life with Arc Therapy: An early adaptor of VMAT and SmartARC”

8:45 a.m. Nancy Leveson, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, "Why radiation accidents occur: It’s not what you have been told"

9:15 a.m. George Sherouse, Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Kingston, NY, “When a treatment error is not a mistake”

9:45 a.m. COFFEE BREAK

10:00 a.m. Dave Mellenberg, Varian Corporation, “New Trajectories in Radiation Treatment”

10:45 a.m. Nzhde Agazaryan “Quality Management in Radiation Therapy with Emphasis on SBRT”

11:30 a.m. AAPM President Elect Gary Ezzell, “Major AAPM Initiatives and Their Relevance to the Practicing Medical Physicist”

12:15 p.m. LUNCH AND VENDOR PRESENTATIONS
PLATINUM SPONSORS TALKS: Accuray, Elekta, PTW, Siemens, Varian (10 minutes each)

1:30 p.m. William Song, UC San Diego, "Dynamic Modulated Brachytherapy DBMT"

2:15 p.m. Dan Low, UCLA Medical Center, "Improving the Human/Computer Interaction for 3D Images in Radiation Therapy"

3:00 p.m. COFFEE BREAK

3:15 p.m. Brent Murphy, Radiological Technologies University "A New Approach to Educating Medical Physicists, Residents and Medical Dosimetrists"

4:00 p.m. Chris Cagnon, UCLA Medical Center “California SB 1237”

4:30 p.m. Bette Blankenship, Sharp Memorial Hospital “ Implementing NRC Part 35”

5:00 p.m. ADJOURN

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Annual Norm Baily Award Meeting
Tuesday May 18, 2010

Agenda:
3:30 – 5:00 pm Board Meeting
5:00 – 6:00 pm Social hour / Wine & Cheese Reception
7:00 – 8:30 pm Norm Baily Award Lectures (Students and Postdocs/Residents)8:30 pm Adjourn

Location
UCLA Faculty Center - Directions
480 Charles Young Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Midwinter Symposium

Innovations in Radiological Physics
and
Implications of the new CAMPEP/ABR Requirements

CAMPEP MPCEC, MDCB and ASRT Credits

Sheraton Universal Hotel, Starview Room

January 29, 2010


Registration Form in PDF

Program in PDF

7:00 am
REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:00 am
Baldev Patyal, Loma Linda University Medical Center, “The Developing Role of Proton Therapy in Modern Medicine”

8:45 am
Grace Kim, UC San Diego "Implementation and QA of RapidARC Treatments"

9:30 am
COFFEE BREAK

10:00 am
Kei Iwamoto, UCLA Radiation Biology Division, “Of Physics and Biology (DO NOT gang aft agley) (Translation: often go awry)”. Lecture in honor of Professor Amos Norman.

10:45 am
Joerg Lehmann, ROC/RAS Sacramento, "Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy: Treatment Planning, Quality Assurance and Treatment Delivery Using CBCT and ExacTrac"

11:30 am
AAPM President Elect Tony Seibert, UC Davis, "Considerations for Clinical CT Dose Estimations for Patients". Tony's talk will include an update on recently reported overdoses from CT perfusion studies and update on national AAPM budget problems.

12:15 pm
LUNCH AND VENDOR PRESENTATIONS
PLATINUM SPONSORS TALKS: Elekta, PTW, RIT, Siemens, Sun Nuclear, Varian (10 minutes each)

1:30 pm
Scott Kaylor, Stanford "Innovations on eLearning in Radiation Oncology"

2:15 pm
Bruce Gerbi, University of Minnesota, “Role of CAMPEP in Medical Physics Residency Programs”

3:00 pm
COFFEE BREAK

3:15 pm
Jim Zagzebski, University of Wisconsin “Role of CAMPEP in Graduate Medical Education”

4:00pm
Panel Discussion: Bruce Gerbi, Jim Zagzebski, Michael McNitt-Gray (UCLA Biomedical Physics), Usha Sinha (San Diego State University Physics) and Amir Huda (California State University Fresno)
5:00 p.m. DISMISS

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Southern California Chapter – AAPM Fall Meeting
held at UCSD on Thursday, October 29, 2009

View The Program in PDF

Directions: http://radonc.ucsd.edu/PatientInformation/mapDirections.asp

3:30 – 5:00 Board Meeting

5:00 - 6:40 Happy hour / Dinner

6:45 – 7:15First talk : Why we need adaptive radiotherapy?- A physician's prospective, Presenter - Arno J. Mundt, M.D., UCSD

7:15 – 7:30 Vendor Presentation

7:30 - 8:00 Second talk: How adaptive radiotherapy works?- A physicist's prospective, Presenter - Steve Jiang, Ph.D., UCSD

8:00 – 8:30 Questions and Answers / Discussion

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AAPM Southern California Chapter

Midwinter Workshop Friday, January 23, 2009

Innovative Techniques in Radiation Therapy
and
The Role of CAMPEP in Medical Physics

The Southern California Chapter of the AAPM will once again sponsor a Midwinter Symposium on Friday, January 23, 2009. The meeting will be held in the 21st floor Roof Garden of the Sheraton Universal Hotel. Medical physicists, medical physics graduate students, physicians, dosimetrists and radiation therapists are encouraged to attend.

The program will last all day and will include a complimentary continental breakfast, lunch and two coffee breaks. The format will be lectures, with questions afterward. At lunch time a number of Platinum sponsors will give 10 minute presentations on new products of interest. Approximately 20 vendors are expected to participate and each will have a table top exhibit in the same room as the lectures. Up to seven hours of Continuing Education Credit is being sought for CAMPEP MPCEC, AAMD and ASRT credits. Educational objectives include providing information on the latest techniques in IMRT and Image-Guided radiation therapy, review of current developments in radiation biology and interaction with academic and professional leaders in medical physics from across the United States.

AAPM SCC Members, Dosimetrists, Therapists:
$60 by Jan. 20, 2009, $75 after and onsite

Non-Members of above groups:
$75 by Jan. 20, 2009, $100 after and onsite

Full-time Medical Physics graduate students:
FREE

Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry students:
FREE

Registration Form

7:00 a.m. REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:00 a.m. T. Rockwell Mackie, Wisconsin, “Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy”

9:00 a.m. AAPM President Elect Michael Herman “Medical Physicists are Scientists, Clinicians and Educators; Professionals Leveraging Complex Technology to Improve the Human Condition”

10:00 a.m. COFFEE BREAK

10:15 a.m. Geoff Ibbott, Radiological Physics Center, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center “Advanced Technologies in Radiation Therapy: The Case for Credentialing”

11:15 a.m. Geoff Ibbott (for John Hazle) “An Update on CAMPEP Activities”

11:45 a.m. LUNCH AND VENDOR PRESENTATIONS

12:45 p.m. PLATINUM SPONSORS TALKS: Elekta, GE Healthcare Siemens, Sun, Varian, WFR-Aquaplast

1:45 p.m. Dave Shepard, Swedish Hospital “Clinical Implementation of VMAT Intensity Modulated Arc Therapy”

2:45 p.m. Kathleen Kaufman, Los Angeles Dept. of Health: “County agency plans for dealing with a radiological terrorist event”

3:15 p.m. BREAK

3:30 p.m. Mel Astrahan, USC Medical Center, “Some Implications of Linear-Quadratic-Linear Dose-Response with Regard to Hypofractionation”

4:30 p.m. Charles Mayo, University of Massachusetts “RapidARC- An overview from Commissioning to Treatment Planning to Delivery”

5:30 p.m. DISMISS

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October 30, 2008

3:30 – 5:15 pm board meeting - Conference Room 2250

5:15 - 6:00 pm happy hour - Served in Auditorium reception area 2107, with use of Commons and Adjacent Patio

6:00 – 7:00 pm dinner - Served in Auditorium reception area 2107, with use of Commons and Adjacent Patio

The following presentations will be held in the Goldberg Auditorium:

7:00 – 7:30 pm “In-vivo Dosimetry: Drivers, Trends, and Advances.” Clifford C. Yahnke, Ph.D., Director of Technology, Landauer, Inc.

7:30 – 8:00 pm Dalian Cao, Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, WA , “VMAT, the Swedish Experience”

Followed by Jeff Powell, Elekta: VMAT

8:00 – 8:30 pm Corey Zankowski, Ph.D. Varian Corporation, “RapidArc: the Clinical Implementation of ARC IMRT”

The meeting is at no cost including free happy hour beverages, appetizers and dinner. CAMPEP credits for 1.5 hours for attending is available.

This meeting sponsored by unrestricted educational grants from Landauer, Inc., Varian Medical and Elekta, Inc.

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May 29^thchapter meeting at the UCLA Faculty Center

The Southern California Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine wishes to announce the Norm Baily Award competition for 2008. Any graduate student in a medical physics program in Southern California is eligible. Winners will be notified by April 30 and will be expected to attend the May 29^thchapter meeting at the UCLA Faculty Center, where the prizes will be awarded. A cash prize of $500.00 and award certificate will be awarded to each of the three winners. A 15 minute presentation will be made by each student after dinner that evening.

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AAPM Southern California Chapter

Midwinter Workshop Friday, January 11, 2008

CAMPEP MPCEC and MDCB Credits
Sheraton Universal Hotel
Universal City
January 11, 2008

ALL SPEAKERS TIMES SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Download the registration form: Microsoft Word Adobe PDF

7:00 a.m. REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:00 a.m. Maryellen Giger, University of Chicago, AAPM President Elect “CAD for detection of Breast Cancer”

9:00 a.m. Nzhde Agazaryan, UCLA Medical Center “Image-Guided Radiosurgery for spinal tumors: Methods, Accuracy and Patient Intrafraction Motion”

10:00 a.m. COFFEE BREAK

10:15 a.m. Shirish Jani, Sharp Memorial Hospital, “Image-Guided Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer”

11:15 a.m. Ben Harris, Kaiser Permanente, Portland, OR, “IMRT Quality Assurance with EPID Dosimetry”

12:00 p.m. LUNCH AND VENDOR PRESENTATIONS

1:00 p.m. PLATINUM SPONSORS TALKS: to be announced

2:00 p.m. Robin Stern, UC Davis Medical Center, “Image Guided RT at UC Davis”

2:30 p.m. Paula Petti, Washington Hospital, Fremont, CA “Early Experience with Elekta PERFEXION Gamma Knife”

3:00 p.m. BREAK

3:15 p.m. Olivier Gayou, Allegheny General Hospital, “Megavoltage Cone Beam CT”

4:00 p.m. Steve Jiang, UCSD Medical Center, “Image-Guided Radiotherapy for Lung Cancer”

5:00 p.m. Dismiss

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Southern California Chapter
Fall 2007 Meeting
The Future of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Thursday Oct 18, 2007
UC San Diego , Moores Cancer Center
3855 Health Sciences Dr. #0843
La Jolla, CA 92903-0843

Schedule: Chapter Board Meeting: 4:30-6PM

Cocktail Reception: 6PM-7PM

Dinner/Announcements/Speaker: 7PM

Speaker: Graeme Bydder

RSVP: Marianne E. Plunkett

marianne.plunkett@hoaghospital.org

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AAPM Southern California Chapter
2007Spring Meeting
Thursday May 10, 2007

UCLA Faculty Center - http://facultycenter.ucla.edu/

Please congratulate Ali Douraghy, Michael Speiser and Nam Vu on their selection as AAPM Southern California Chapter Norm Baily Award Winners for 2007!

3:00 PM Board Meeting (fruit, cheese, refreshments)
5:00 PM Refreshments (self service bar)
6:00 PM Dinner and Talks (25 meals – 17 steak, 8 chicken)

Registration: $25 (includes dinner)
Student registration is free

 

Please RSVP to either John DeMarco or Chris Cagnon.

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SCC AAPM Midwinter Symposium:

Medical Physics at the Dawn of the 21^st Century:
New Devices and Strategies

CAMPEP MPCEC and MDCB Credits
Sheraton Universal Hotel
Universal City
January 19, 2007

MidWinterRegistration2007.doc

Corporate Sponsors:
The Southern California Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine wishes to acknowledge the generous contributions of our Commercial Affiliates who have underwritten this meeting:

PLATINUM LEVEL:

• Accuray Incorporated

• Elekta Inc.

• Fluke Biomedical

• General Electric Healthcare

• Radiological Imaging Technology, Inc.

• Siemens Medical Solutions, USA

• Sun Nuclear Corporation

• Tomotherapy, Inc.

• Varian Medical Systems

GOLD LEVEL:

• BrainLAB, Inc.

• CIVCO Medical Solutions

• IBA/Scanditronix Wellhofer

• IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc.

• International Specialty Products

• PTW-New York Corporation

• RAD Technology, LLC

• Radcal Corporation

• Resonant Medical

• Standard Imaging, Inc.

• Unfors Instruments, Inc.

7:00 a.m. REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:00 a.m. Karyn Goodman, M.D., Stanford Cancer Center, “Robotic Radiosurgery for Pancreatic Cancer”

9:00 a.m. Rock Mackie, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, “Adaptive Radiation Therapy”

10:00 a.m. COFFEE BREAK

10:15 a.m. Olivier Morin, Ph.D., UCSF Medical Center, “Recent Progress in Cone Beam Megavoltage CT”

11:15 a.m. Jatinder Palta, Ph.D., University of Florida, “Considerations in Opening a New Proton Therapy Center”

12:00 p.m. LUNCH AND VENDOR PRESENTATIONS

1:00 p.m. PLATINUM SPONSORS TALKS: Fluke Biomedical, GE Healthcare, RIT, Sun Nuclear, Varian

2:00 p.m. Art Olch, Ph.D., Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, “QA for Radiation Oncology Clinical Trials”

3:00 p.m. BREAK

3:15 p.m. Tim Paul, M.Sc., Ironwood Cancer and Research Centers, “IGRT in the Community Clinical Setting”

4:00 p.m. Gerald White, M.S., National AAPM President Elect, “Healthcare Financing in the United States: A National Disgrace”

5:00 p.m. Dismiss

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AAPM-Southern California Chapter, Fall Meeting

Date:

Thursday Sept 21, 2006

Title:

Radiation Oncology goes Paperless, Filmless, and/or Chartless at theMachine; with Presentations from Clinical Users and the Electronic Medical Record Vendors

Speakers:

• Emily Robinson, -Queens Medical Center Impac Clinical EMR User

• Roger Rice, -UCSD Moores Cancer Center Varis Clinical EMR User

• Greg Telesco, -Impac Product Manager Specialist "Mosaiq/MultiAccess"

• Jeremy Cohen, -Varian Medical Systems "Aria/Varis"

Schedule:

• Chapter Board Meeting: 3-5PM

• Reception: 5-6PM

• Dinner and Symposium: 6-8:30 PM

Location:

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center,
3855 Health Sciences Dr #0843
La Jolla , CA 92037-0843

Please RSVP to:

• Marianne Plunkett mplunkett@hoaghospital.org (949) 764-6231 or

• Roger Rice rrice@ucsd.edu (858)-822-6057 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (858)-822-6057end_of_the_skype_highlighting

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2006 AAPMSCC MidWinter Registration (pdf)

2006 AAPMSCC MidWinter Program (pdf)

 

AAPM Southern California Chapter
2005 Fall Meeting
Thursday Sept 22, 2005

UCSD Moores Cancer Center
3855 Health Sciences Dr
La Jolla, CA 92037

“Clinical Implementation of IGRT”
Todd Pawlicki, Stanford Medical Center

3:00 PMBoard Meeting: Moores UCSD Cancer Center
4:30 PMReception: Auditorium lobby, Moores Cancer Center
5:00 PM Talk: Todd Pawlicki, Stanford Medical Center
Clinical Implementation of IGRT
6:00 PMFood/Refreshments
7-8PMUCSD Radiation Oncology Department Tour/Demo

RSVP:
Roger K Rice, PhD; rrice@ucsd.edu
Moores UCSD Cancer Center
Radiation Oncology
3855 Health Sciences Drive #0843
La Jolla, CA 92093-0843
Work: 858-822-6057 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 858-822-6057end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Fax: 858-822-6077