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MATLAB Seminars

Medical Physics faculty and students who are interested in practical applications of Deep Learning in the medical field are encouraged to attend upcoming Matlab seminars offered by MathWorks: MathWorks MATLAB Seminars These workshops, which will be live streamed, will introduce participants to Deep Learning and demonstrate how MATLAB tools…

Good Health and Well-Being

We want to ensure that our faculty, residents, students, and staff are aware of the many UF resources available to them during these challenging times:  UF Health UF Employee Assistance Program UF Wellness UF Department of Psychiatry UF Field and Fork Pantry UF Aid-a-Gator…

AAW Scholarship for Emerging Leaders

Dr Izabella Barreto, current President of the UF Association for Academic Women (AAW), developed three new awards to sponsor UF female Faculty and Staff to attend the 2020 UF Inspiring Women Leaders (IWL) Conference. She attended the conference and awarded the AAW Scholarship for Emerging Leaders to:   Crystal…

2020 COM Superior Accomplishment Award Winner

Please join us in congratulating Brenda Tieden, who was chosen as a College of Medicine Superior Accomplishment Award winner! Brenda will receive a cash award of $200, a framed certificate, and a commemorative coffee mug. She will also be considered for university-level awards. On March 27, an awards banquet will…

MP Writing Workshop

The Division of Medical Physics is excited to sponsor a special writing workshop by Dr Mickey Schafer, Senior Lecturer at the University’s Center for Written and Oral Communications. The two-hour workshop is scheduled for 2:30PM on Thursday, February 27 in C1-4 (Communicore) and will focus on the basic structure of a research…

New Publication by Alumnus Haitham Alahmad

Please join us in congratulating Haitham Alahmad, UF Medical Physics Alumnus (PhD Fall 2019), on the publication of his article “A sliding-window approach for improved VMAT dose calculation accuracy” in Medical Dosimetry.

RSNA 2019

The 105th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, Illinois, December 1 – 6, was well attended by the Medical Physics Gator Nation! It was great to see many familiar faces brave the cold and windy weather! UF Medical Physics Faculty Drs…

UF COM Research Poster Session

Save the date … the 2020 UF College of Medicine Research Poster Session and Reception is scheduled from 5:30PM to 8:30PM on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 in the Stephen C O’Connell Center. The abstract submission deadline is Wednesday, January 8, 2020. For more information, please access the website…

Clinical Medical Physics Symposium

Dr Manuel Arreola, Vice Chair Of Medical Physics, will be a featured speaker at the 1st Clinical Medical Physics Symposium at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (one of his alma maters), December 4-6, in Mexico City, one of the top academic universities in Mexico. It is also the only university in…