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Graduate Program Updates

PhD Defense – Naipy Perez

Join us at 1:00PM on Tuesday, March 11 for Naipy Perez’s PhD Defense titled “Lattice Radiotherapy: A Novel Approach for the Treatment of Advanced Cervical Cancer: Clinical Implementation and Biological Equivalent Dose”. The defense will take place over Zoom.

2025 Spring Seminar Series

Please join us at 3:00PM in C1-007 Communicore throughout the Spring 2025 semester for research seminars presented by faculty, residents, and students.

PhD Proposal – Bobby Dawson

Please join us at noon on Monday, December 16, for Bobby Dawson’s PhD proposal titled “Advancements in Mesh-Based Computational Phantom Modeling and Dosimetry”. The proposal will take place in BMES J280.

Spring 2025 Class Schedule

GMS 6052, Medical Radiation Shielding & Protection w/ Dr Leon: 9:35AM – 10:25AM Mon/Wed/Fri; C2-33 Communicore GMS 6602, Radiological Anatomy w/ Dr B Schwarz: 9:35AM-10:50AM Tue/Thu; C2-33 Communicore GMS 6085; Nuclear Medicine Physics w/ Dr Marshall: 11:45AM-1:00PM Tue/Thu; C2-33 Communicore GMS 6654, Therapy Physics I w/ Drs A Schwarz &…

Graduate Student Presentation at RSNA 2024

Mark your calendars for this year’s Radiological Society of North America’s annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, from December 1 – 5, 2024. Graham Stoddard, PhD student in our Medical Physics Graduate Program, will be giving a presentation: Poster Presentation: 12:15PM (CST) Thursday, December 5 – Beam Characterization and Image Quality…

Research Highlight – Dr Zhang

Congratulations to Dr Yawei Zhang and his colleagues on the publication of their article “A review on 4D cone-beam CT (4D-CBCT) in radiation therapy: Technical advances and clinical applications“, which was published in the June 2024 issue of Medical Physics, The International Journal of Medical Physics Research and Practice (volume…

Accepting Applications for Fall 2025

The UF Medical Physics Graduate Program is now accepting applications (MS & PhD) for Fall 2025. As one of the oldest medical physics programs in the nation, originating in 1961, our program is accredited for graduate degrees by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education…

NIH Fellowship – Bobby Dawson

Congratulations to Bobby Dawson who was awarded the prestigious Ruth L Kirschenstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award by the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute. Bobby is a PhD student under Dr Wesley Bolch, Distinguished Professor, in the Advanced Laboratory for Radiation Dosimetry Studies (ALRADS) with the J Crayton…

Research Highlight – Wyatt Smither

Congratulations to Wyatt Smither, PhD student, on the publication of his research titled “Impact of contrast agents on organ dosimetry in pediatric diagnostic fluoroscopy: the voiding cystourethrogram” in Physics in Medicine & Biology (volume 69, Number 17). Wyatt works in the Advanced Laboratory for Radiation Dosimetry Studies (ALRADS) under the…

RRS Abstracts Accepted

Congratulations to multiple UF Medical Physics graduate students in the Advanced Laboratory for Radiation Dosimetry Studies (ALRADS), under the direction of Distinguished Professor, Dr Wesley Bolch, who had their abstracts accepted for the 70th Radiation Research Society annual meeting in Tucson, Arizona, September 15-18. Two ALRADS students (Natalia Carrasco-Rojas…