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Graduate Program Updates

Grad Student Alumni Spotlight – Dr McKetty

Dr Marlene H P McKetty graduated from the UF Medical Physics Graduate Program with a MS in 1975 and a PhD in 1978. Dr McKetty’s legacy is unparalleled. Her accomplishments raised the bar for all medical physicists and serve as a framework for all who follow in her footsteps. Dr…

Research Highlight – TJ Moretti

Congratulations to TJ Moretti, PhD Student, whose abstract (Comparison of a Mobile Gamma Camera to a SPECT/CT System for Calculation of Lung Shunt Fraction: A Phantom Study) was accepted for oral presentation at the AAPM Clinical Meeting (Early-Career Investigator Symposium) in Orlando, Florida in April!…

Research Highlight – Megan Glassell

Congratulations to Megan Glassell, PhD Candidate, whose abstract (Comparing a Peak Skin Dose Calculator to Directly Measured Entrance Skin Dose for Procedures in a Hybrid CT/Angiography Suite) was accepted for presentation at the AAPM Clinical Meeting (Best Poster Competition) in Orlando, Florida in April!…

Research Highlight – Mauricio Garrido

Congratulations to Mauricio Garrido, MS Student, whose abstract (Clinical Implementation of an End-to-End Solution for 2-Hydroxyglutarate Detection Using MR Spectroscopy) was accepted for presentation at the AAPM Clinical Meeting (Best Poster Competition) in Orlando, Florida in April!…

Research Highlight – Zahra Razi

Congratulations to Zahra Razi, PhD Candidate, whose abstract (T1|T2 Map: A Tool for Assessment of Spatial Resolution in MRI) was accepted for presentation at the AAPM Clinical Meeting (Best Poster Competition) in Orlando, Florida in April!…

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…