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Graduate Program Updates

Finding Medical Physics – What Students Need to Know

In this video, Dr Izabella Barreto, Assistant Professor, answers questions commonly asked by students. The video was made in collaboration with the Public Education Committee of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). Additional videos will be released soon. 0:00 Introduction0:59 What was your major of study in…

ABR Oral Exam, Part 3 – Lesley Hines

Congratulations to Lesley Hines, Health Physicist in Environmental Health and Safety at the University of Florida in Gainesville, who recently passed Part 3 of the American Board of Radiology (ABR) Oral Exam. Lesley a graduate of the UF Medical Physics Graduate Program. We are so proud of him!…

ABR Oral Exam, Part 3 – Dr Emily Marshall

Congratulations to Dr Emily Marshall, Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in Illinois, who recently passed Part 3 of the American Board of Radiology (ABR) Oral Exam. Dr Marshall is a graduate of the UF Medical Physics Graduate Program. We are so proud of her!…

2021 HPS Fellowship – Sean Domal

Please join us in congratulating Sean Domal, PhD Student, on being selected as the recipient of the 2021-2022 Health Physics Society Fellowship for studies in health physics. Sean will be awarded $5,000 to support his academic work at the University of Florida. He will also be provided with a…

Research Seminar – Dr Yawei Zhang

Please join us for a special research seminar by Dr Yawei Zhang, Medical Physicist and Assistant Professor at the UF Health Proton Therapy Institute in Jacksonville. Dr Zhang is seeking graduate faculty status in the program. His research seminar, titled “kV-MV Imaging and Patient-Specific Quality Assurance in Proton Radiation Therapy”…

MS Presentation – Orlando Trejo

Please join us at 1PM on Monday, June 7 via Zoom for Orlando Trejo’s MS Presentation titled “Evaluating the PCA Lung Motion Model: A Feasibility Study on the MR Linac Technique.”…

MS Presentation – Steven Thompson

Please join us at 10AM on Friday, June 18 via Zoom for Steven Thompson’s MS Presentation titled “Proton Portal Imaging Using In-Vivo Generated Spallation Neutrons.”…

ACR Scholarship Winner – Zahra Razi

Congratulations to PhD Student Zahra Razi, who was awarded a 2021 Medical Physics Graduate Student Scholarship by the American College of Radiology (ACR). The ACR Medical Physics Graduate Student Scholarship provides graduate students in medical physics with funding to attend the ACR annual meeting.

Residency Match – Orlando Trejo

Congratulations to upcoming MS Graduate Orlando Trejo, who has successfully matched with the University of Kansas in Overland Park.

PhD Defense – Cameron Kofler

Please join us at 1:00PM on Wednesday, May 26 via Zoom for Cameron Kofler’s PhD Defense: “The Development of a Newborn, Infant, and Toddler Mesh-Based Computational Phantom Library and a Pre-Computed Monte Carlo Dose Library for Computed Tomography.”…