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Brenda Tieden

2025 Spring Graduate Seminar

The Spring 2025 graduate seminar was extremely successful! Special thanks to our extraordinary group of speakers! Dr James Baciak (UF Nuclear Engineering) Dr Thomas Angelini (UF Mechanical Engineering) Dr Frank Bova (UF Neurosurgery) Dr Chansoo Choi (UF ALRADS/BME) Dr Bangho Shin (UF ALRADS/BME) Dr Walter O’Dell (UF MedPhys – Radiation…

PhD Proposal – Ben Heggie

Join us at 2:00PM on Thursday, May 29, 2025, for Ben Heggie’s PhD proposal titled “The Development of a Dual Energy Computed Tomography Quality Assurance Phantom and Tissue Equivalent Materials Using Fused Deposition Modeling”. The defense will take place in CG-056 Communicore.

SHMPS Alumni Spotlight

Join us at 7:30PM on Monday, April 28 for a UF Medical Physics/SHMPS virtual alumni spotlight featuring Dr Deanna Pafundi and Dr Kyle Jones. Our alumni will lead us through their journeys in the field of medical physics. At the end of the session, we will open the floor for…

Summer 2025 Class Schedule

GMS 6653, Diagnostic Radiological Physics III w/ Dr Arreola: 10:00AM – 11:40AM Wed/Thu; C2-33 Communicore GMS 6005, Medical Physics Career Prep w/ Dr Schwarz: 12:30PM-1:45PM Thu; C2-33 Communicore…

Research Highlight – Mark Artz, PhD

Congratulations to Dr Mark Artz, Assistant Professor at the UF Health Proton Therapy Institute in Jacksonville, and his colleagues, on the publication of their research titled “Method for determining a Prostate Cancer LET Sensitivity Index (PCLSI) using tumour-specific DDR mutations for proton RBE”, which was published in the Journal of…

PhD Defense – Michael Vieceli

Join us at 4:00PM on Tuesday, April 15 for Michael Vieceli’s PhD Defense titled “LETd Optimization and DNA Repair Mutations In Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Therapy of Prostate Cancer”. The defense will take place in the Executive Conference Room at the UF Health Proton Therapy Institute in Jacksonville.