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Graduate Program Updates

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…

Research Highlight – Bobby Dawson

Congratulations to Bobby Dawson, PhD Student, whose abstract was accepted for a poster presentation at the 68th Annual International Meeting of the Radiation Research Society in Waikoloa Village on the Big Island of beautiful Hawai’i! Bobby’s poster is titled “The UF-MSK Computational Phantom Libraries for Medical Dosimetry: Preliminary CT Dosimetry”.

ANS Design Competition Finalist – Madison Bushloper

Please join us in congratulating Madison Bushloper, one of our incoming first year MS students, who was part of the UF Department of Materials Science and Engineering undergraduate senior design group that has been selected as one of two undergraduate finalists for the American Nuclear Society Design Competition to present…

Research Highlight – Wyatt Smither

Congratulations to Wyatt Smither, MS Student, whose abstract was accepted for a poster presentation at the 68th Annual International Meeting of the Radiation Research Society in Waikoloa Village on the Big Island of beautiful Hawai’i! Wyatt’s poster is titled “A military-specific adult mesh-type computational phantom library for radiological triage…

Research Accolades – Colin Schaeffer

Congratulations to Colin Schaeffer, PhD Candidate, whose scientific abstract, “Automated AI Pipeline for Brain Lesion Classification using Dual-Energy Computed Tomography”, was accepted as a poster presentation at the 108th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) – the world’s largest medical imaging conference. Colin…

US Navy Resident – Lt Ronnie Bolden

We are exceptionally proud of UF Medical Physics graduate Lieutenant Ronnie Bolden, who graduated in Summer 2022 as an active duty Naval Officer and was then selected for the United States Navy’s Medical Imaging Physics Residency at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia. Each year, only one individual is…

Sharon Clayton, 1959-2022

It is with great sadness that we recently learned of Sharon Clayton’s passing after a battle with cancer. Sharon was a double graduate of the University of Florida – she received her Bachelor of Science in Engineering in 1981 and a Master of Engineering (Medical Physics) in 1983. At that…