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Graduate Program Updates

Research Highlight – Graham Stoddard

Congratulations to Graham Stoddard, MS Student, whose abstract (A Primer on the Value of MTF and NPS Measurements for Optimizing Clinical Protocols) was accepted for presentation at the AAPM Clinical Meeting (Best Poster Competition) in Orlando, Florida in April!…

Research Highlight – Aroon Pressram

Congratulations to Aroon Pressram, MS Student, whose abstract [Agreement between Dual-Energy Computed Tomography (DECT) and MRI after Stroke Intervention] was accepted for oral presentation at the AAPM Clinical Meeting (Early-Career Investigator Symposium) in Orlando, Florida in April!…

Research Highlight – Colin Schaeffer

Congratulations to Colin Schaeffer, PhD Candidate, whose abstract (Use of Effective Atomic Number and Electron Density Measurements in Dual-Energy Computed Tomography for Differentiating Iodine and Blood in Stroke Patients) was accepted for oral presentation at the AAPM Clinical Meeting (Early-Career Investigator Symposium) in Orlando, Florida in April!…

New Graduate Faculty – Dr Reza Forghani

Join us in welcoming Dr Reza Forghani to the UF Medical Physics graduate program’s faculty. Dr Forghani is a Professor of Neuroradiology in the Department of Radiology, where he also serves as the Vice Chair of Artificial Intelligence and the Director of the Radiomics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (RAIL).

CAMPEP Reaccreditation!

We are honored to announce that the UF Medical Physics Graduate Program has been reaccredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs (CAMPEP)! This full 5-year reaccreditation (through June 30, 2027), resulted after a review of a comprehensive self-study that we submitted and a thorough site visit…

Spring 2023 Class Schedule

ENU 6636 / Medical Radiation Shielding/Protection w/ Drs Leon & Johnson: Mon/Wed/Fri 9:30AM-10:20AM; C2-33 Communicore ENU 6652 / Diagnostic Physics II w/ Drs Arreola, Barreto & Rill: Tue/Thu 9:30AM-10:45AM; C2-33 Communicore ENU 6659 / Nuclear Medicine w/ Dr Gilland: Tue/Thu 12:30AM-1:45PM; C2-33 Communicore BME 6591 / Therapy Physics I w/ Drs A Schwarz &…

New Graduate Faculty – Dr Mark Artz

Join us in welcoming Dr Mark Artz to the UF Medical Physics graduate program’s faculty! Dr Artz is an Assistant Professor at the UF Health Proton Therapy Institute in Jacksonville. He obtained his BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering and his MS in Nuclear Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts…

Veterans Day Recognition – Bryan Bates

In honor of Veterans Day, we salute Lieutenant Bryan C Bates, our current MS student, who is also a Veteran of the US Navy! After obtaining undergraduate degrees in Physics and Mechanical Engineering from Rice University in Houston, Lieutenant Bates enlisted in the US Navy and joined their nuclear power…

Now Accepting Graduate Student Apps for 2023!

The University of Florida Medical Physics Graduate Program is now accepting applications for MS and PhD students through the UF Application System. We look forward to receiving your application! 2022 UF Med Phys…

Research Highlight – Julia Withrow

Congratulations to Julia Withrow, MS Student, who is the presenting author on two poster submission that were accepted for presentation at the 68th Annual International Meeting of the Radiation Research Society in Waikoloa Village on the Big Island of beautiful Hawai’i! “A mesh-based model of lung vasculature to improve internal…