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Graduate Program Updates

UF MD/PhD Program

Congratulations to Jake Ricci, MS Graduate, who was recently accepted to the MD/PhD program at the University of Florida! Jake graduated from the UF Medical Physics Graduate Program in Summer 2020. Since that time, he has been working in a research position at Orlando Health focusing on the adaptive planning…

UF MP Seminar Course – Fall 2021

The UF Medical Physics Graduate Program is excited to add a Graduate Seminar in Medical Physics to our Spring and Fall course schedules. In addition to research presentations by PhD and MS students, our faculty and other colleagues will also be presenting on the work in their labs, research projects,…

CAMPEP Reaccreditation

Please note that the UF Medical Physics Graduate Program is currently in the process of reaccreditation (10-year). Our self-study has been submitted to CAMPEP (our accrediting body) and is under final review. While we await final confirmation, CAMPEP has administratively extended the program’s accreditation to June 30, 2022. This extension…

Spring 2022 Class Schedule

RT 110 / Radiation Protection w/ Dr Arreola: Tue/Thu 7:30AM-8:45AM; Via Zoom ENU 6652 / Diagnostic Physics II w/ Drs Arreola/Barreto/Rill: Tue/Thu 9:00AM-10:15AM; C2-33 Communicore ENU 6636 / Medical Radiation Shielding/Protection w/ Drs Leon/Johnson: Mon/Wed/Fri 9:30AM-10:20AM; C2-33 Communicore BME 4531 / Medical Imaging w/ Dr Bolch; Tue 10:40AM-11:30AM, Thu 10:40AM-12:35PM;…

Residency – Sean Domal

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Sean Domal, who has accepted a Therapy Residency in Medical Physics at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas! We are so proud of Sean!…

Residency – Camilo Correa

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Camilo Correa, who has accepted a Therapy Residency in Medical Physics at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas! We are so proud of Camilo!…

New Graduate Faculty – Dr Yawei Zhang

Join us in welcoming Dr Yawei Zhang to the UF Medical Physics Graduate Program! As a Medical Physicist at the UF Health Proton Therapy Institute with the Department of Radiation Oncology in Jacksonville, Dr Zhang’s current research focuses on developing and optimizing cone-beam CT imaging techniques for IGRT. This…

Research Highlight – Colin Schaeffer

Congratulations to UF Medical Physics PhD student Colin Schaeffer, whose abstract was selected for oral presentation at the Physics of Medical Imaging Conference at the SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium in San Diego, California in February 2022: Theoretical comparison and optimization of CdTe and GaAs photon-counting detectors for contrast-enhanced spectral mammography.

US Navy Residency – Lt Ronnie Bolden

Please join us in congratulating Lieutenant Ronnie Bolden, MS Student and active duty Naval Officer, who was selected for the US Navy’s Medical Imaging Physics Residency at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia! We are so proud of Lieutenant Bolden and look forward to his future contributions to the…

AAPM Virtual Career Expo

The AAPM Working Group for Non-Clinical Professionals (WGNC) and the Working Group to Promote Non-Clinical Career Paths for Medical Physicists (WGNCMP) are hosting a virtual career expo on October 19, 2021 from 4:30-6 PM PT/7:30-9 PM ET. At this event, participants will be able to talk to professionals in a…