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Dr Wes Bolch Named Chair of NIH Study Section

Congratulations to Dr Wes Bolch, Distinguished Professor, on being selected to serve as Chair of the Radiation Therapeutics and Biology Study Section, in the Biology and Development and Aging Integrated Review Group, for the Center for Scientific Review, with the National Institutes of Health. The appointment will provide Dr…

Faculty Promotions – Drs Leon & Barreto

Congratulations to Dr Stephanie Leon and Dr Izabella Barreto on their promotions to Associate Professor! We are incredibly proud of the careers they have established as faculty in the Division of Clinical Radiological Physics and the Medical Physics Graduate Program! Drs Leon and Barreto have made significant and substantial…

Program Highlighted in UF’s Doctor Gator

The UF Medical Physics Graduate Program was recently highlighted in UF’s Doctor Gator, a newsletter by the UF College of Medicine: Department of radiology’s medical physics program sees exponential growth…

MS Research Presentation – Graham Stoddard

Join us at 11:00AM on Wednesday, July 12 in C1-007 Communicore for Graham Stoddard’s MS research presentation titled “Characterization and Image Quality Assessment of a Novel CT Filter for Low Dose Lung CT”.

MS Research Presentation – Wyatt Smither

Join us at 8:00AM on Tuesday, July 11 in J280 BME for Wyatt Smither’s MS research presentation titled “Development of Deployable Software for the Rapid Assessment of Lung Dose Following Radionuclide Intake”.

MS Research Presentation – Florian Buhlman

Join us at 9:00AM on Wednesday, July 5 in C1-003 Communicore for Florian Buhlman’s MS research presentation titled ““Lead Thickness Determination by Attenuation Measurements of Tc-99m and Comparative Evaluation of Detector Response”.

International Collaboration w/ University of Sao Paulo

The Division of Medical Physics’ collaboration with the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil is official! Last week, Dr Manuel Arreola, Vice Chair of Physics, and Dr Izabella Barreto, Assistant Professor, travelled to Brazil to formalize the agreement. Participants in attendance at the University of Sao Paulo included Dr Tabacknics,…

MS Research Presentation – Natalia Carrasco-Rojas

Join us at 10:00AM on Tuesday, July 11 in J280 BME for Natalia Carrasco-Rojas’ MS research presentation titled “Inter-organ radiation transport within the MOBY Mesh-Type Phantom for Application to Nuclear Medicine Dosimetry”.

PhD Proposal – Jingxi Weng

Join us at 10:30AM on Friday, July 7 in the small conference room at the Davis Cancer Center for Jingxi Weng’s PhD proposal titled “Abdominal organ motion prediction using deep learning with cine-MRI imaging”.