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SHMPS Mtg – 11AM Mon Feb 15

The next UF Society of Health and Medical Physics (SHMPS) General Body Meeting is scheduled at 11AM on Monday, February 15 via Zoom. Contact SHMPS President Bonnie President for more info.

IOMP-ALFIM Webinar

Dr Manuel Arreola, Vice Chair of Medical Physics, is scheduled to give a webinar for the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) and the Latin American Association of Medical Physics (ALFIM) at 10AM EST on Friday, February 26, 2021. The webinar, titled “Seguridad y Proteccion en salas de Resonamcia Magnetica:…

SHMPS Relay for Life

Please consider helping the UF Society of Health and Medical Physics (SHMPS) reach their fundraising goal of $1,000 for Relay for Life. Relay for life is a community-based fundraising event for the American Cancer Society and other cancer related societies, institutions, and associations. These organizations help improve cancer survival…

UF/UAM Medical Physics Course & Symposium

Symposium Update: Please note that Zoom access for the symposium (Saturday, February 20) has reached capacity. Additional attendees can view the live presentations via the Facebook link posted below. The University of Florida Division of Medical Physics is proud to announce…

Professional PhD Track

Under the leadership of Dr Manuel Arreola, the Division of Medical Physics is excited to announce the launch of its Professional PhD Track as part of our graduate program offerings. This new track, which is in addition to our standard full-time PhD offering, is for board-certified practicing physicists holding a…

Research Highlight – Justin Brown, PhD

Congratulations to Dr Justin Brown, DIMPR Resident, and his colleagues, whose article titled “DeepAMO: a multi-slice, multi-view anthropomorphic model observer for visual detection tasks performed on volume images” was published in the January 2021 edition of the Journal of Medical Imaging (Volume 8).

Research Highlight – Pingfang Tsai, PhD

UF Medical Physics Research Highlight – Dr Pingfang Tsai, UF Medical Physics Graduate Program Alumnus: Tumor phase recognition using cone-beam computed tomography projections and external surrogate information (under the guidance…

Research Highlight – Nick Potter, PhD

UF Medical Physics Research Highlight – Dr Nick Potter, UF Medical Physics Graduate Program Alumnus: Error detection and classification in patient-specific IMRT QA with dual neural networks (under the guidance of…

ABR Exam, Part 2

Congratulations to Dr Edmond Olguin, Senior Resident, Diagnostic Imaging Medical Physics Residency Program, on passing Part 2 of the American Board of Radiology exam!…

NSF Funding – Dr Bo Lu

Congratulations to UF Medical Physics Graduate Program Faculty Dr Bo Lu (Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology) and his colleague Dr Hongcheng Liu (Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering), who were awarded funding ($350,000) by the National Science Foundation to support their research in the area of health system engineering. Their proposal…