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Brenda Tieden

Updated – 2019 Summer Schedule of Courses

An updated Summer 2019 Class Schedule for Medical Physics has been released: April 2 – June 20 RT 240: Physics I, Dr Arreola: 8:00AM – 9:00AM Tue/Thu (Jacksonville, Via Zoom) July 9 – September 26 RT 250: Physics II, Dr Arreola: 8:00AM – 9:00AM Tue/Thu…

SHMPS – Hope Lodge

The UF Society of Health and Medical Physics (SHMPS), comprised of Medical Physics students, recently spent the evening at the American Cancer Society Winn-Dixie Hope Lodge, where they prepared and served a delicious dinner to patients and caregivers. They made both meat and vegetarian options, which included jambalaya, cornbread, salad,…

Spring Clinical AAPM Meeting

The UF Medical Physics Graduate Program was well represented at last week’s Spring Clinical AAPM Meeting in Orlando Florida. Catherine Carranza presented an abstract at the Young Investigator Clinical Symposium titled “Material Differentiation in Virtual Non-Contrast Images and Iodine Maps of a Dual Energy CT (DECT) System”. Karl Mund presented…

Opportunity to Instruct an Undergraduate STEM Seminar Course

  Teaching opportunity at UF in your own research area: Design & teach an undergraduate STEM seminar course – Tue & Thu evenings, June 13 – July 23, 2019. Co-instruct an evening seminar course on a topic of your choice during the Student Science Training Program (SSTP), a STEM…

2018-2019 Graduation Celebration

Please join us for the 2018-2019 Medical Physics Graduation Celebration from 1:00PM to 4:00PM on Tuesday, April 23 in the Medical Physics Graduate Student Office (AG-117). Pizza, drinks and cake will be provided. Fall 2018 Graduates Zahra Razi, MS Spring 2019 Graduates Mada Batayib, MS Michael Hermansen, PhD Nick…

PhD Candidates – Residency Positions

Please join me us in congratulating our PhD candidates who have secured residency positions: Michael Hermansen Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center – Arizona (Therapy) Colin Paulbeck Medical College of Wisconsin (Diagnostic) Nick Potter University of Florida (Therapy) Michael Shang Washington University – Missouri (Therapy)…

FLAAPM Update

At the February meeting of the Florida Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine in Daytona Beach, three of our students were recognized for their presentations: Karl Mund – given the Fitzgerald Award for best student presentation. Karl will also represent the chapter at the…

PhD Proposal – Ping-Fang Tsai

Please join us at 11:00AM on Wednesday, April 17 in Room 1215 of the Davis Cancer Center for Medical Physics PhD student Ping-Fang Tsai’s PhD Proposal titled “Strategies to Minimize Setup Error, Improve Treatment Accuracy and Toward Adaptive Motion Management for Radiation Therapy“.

Dissertation Defense – Michael Hermansen

Please join us at 1:00PM on Tuesday, April 9 in the Neurosurgery conference room (L2-100) for Medical Physics PhD Candidate Michael Hermansen’s Dissertation Defense titled “Optimizing Image Acquisition and Reconstruction for a Novel Robotic Cone-Beam Computed Tomography Imaging System”.

MS Presentation – Mada Batayib

Please join us at 3:30PM on Thursday, March 28 in the Department of Radiology’s large conference room (G-101) for Mada Batayib’s MS Presentation titled “Table and Pad Transmission Measurements for Fluoroscopic Skin Dose Tracking“.