Division Updates

We are so thankful for our faculty, residents, students, interns, and alumni! On behalf of UF Medical Physics, please accept our thanks! Have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving!…

UF Medical Physics is celebrating the International Day of Medical Physics on Thursday, November 7! An integral part of UF Health and the Department of Radiology, UF Medical Physics is comprised of a stellar group of over 20 members including faculty, residents, graduate assistants, MS & PhD students,…

UF Medical Physics was well represented at the 2019 Fall Meeting of the Florida Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (FLAAPM) in St Petersburg (September 26-27).  A poster session during the Night-In Social Event featured contributions from five UF students and faculty, two of whom received…

Please join us in congratulating Dr Izabella Barreto, Assistant Professor, on her appointment as the 2019-2020 President of the Association for Academic Women (AAW) at the University of Florida. The AAW is comprised of extraordinary women in faculty, administrative, and professional roles across campus for the purposes of networking and…

Please join us at 3:00PM on Monday, September 30 in C1-17, Communicore, for a special lecture by Dr Wesley Bolch, Professor, J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Florida. Dr Bolch, who is also a faculty member of the Medical Physics Graduate…

A wonderful biography of our beloved colleague and friend, Dr Libby Brateman, has been posted on the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) website under “History and Heritage” and “AAPM Fellows”. You will need to login with your AAPM account in order to access it. The…

Special thanks to everyone who attended the UF Medical Physics Alumni Gator Gathering at the AAPM meeting in San Antonio, Texas! See you next year in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada!…

Dr Libby Brateman, Emeritus Professor of Radiology, was honored at the 2019 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas. A special session was given in honor of Dr Brateman, who passed away in May 2018, titled “In Memoriam of Libby Brateman: Education, Licensure,…

Drs Arreola, Leon, Grajo & Sistrom recently traveled to Burlington, Vermont (with graduate students Colin Schaeffer and Zahra Razi) to attend AAPM Summer School! The week-long session focused on practical medical image analysis, including segmentation, registration, and feature extraction. Both traditional and machine learning (including deep learning) methods were…

All UF Medical Physics Alumni are invited to attend the UF Medical Physics Alumni Meetup at this year’s AAPM meeting in San Antonio, Texas. We’ll enjoy great food, strong drinks, and most importantly, fun times reminiscing about the UF Medical Physics Graduate and Residency programs! Last year’s meetup in…