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Fall 2020 Incoming MP Students

Join us in welcoming our Fall 2020 incoming students: Jared Baggett – incoming MS studentJared completed his undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. He found his interest for medical applications of physics during his biomedical optics class as an undergraduate. After researching the topic…

UF MP Alumna Priscilla Butler – 2020 AAPM Award Recipient

Congratulations to UF Medical Physics Alumna Priscilla Butler (UF MS 1976), who was awarded the 2020 Marvin M D Williams Professional Achievement Award by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). The Marvin M D Williams Professional Achievement Award recognizes an AAPM member for an eminent career in…

Dr Wes Bolch Awarded 2.5M NIH/NCI Grant

Congratulations to Dr Wes Bolch, BME Distinguished Professor (and UF MP Graduate Program faculty member), who will serve as dual PI (along with Dr Harold Paganetti, Professor of Radiation Oncology at MGH) on a 2.5 million National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute grant to develop methods to quantify the interaction…

UF Invented Radiosurgery System Treats 5,000th Patient

Congratulations to Dr Frank Bova, Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery (and UF Medical Physics Graduate Program faculty member), and his colleague, Dr William Friedman, who treated their 5,000th patient in 2020 using the Radiosurgery System they developed in the 1980s.     Neurosurgery team treats 5,000th patient with UF-invented…

Residency – Andrew Spencer

Please join us in congratulating Andrew Spencer, Spring 2019 MP Graduate, who has accepted a Diagnostic Imaging Residency with Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles, California, beginning September 7, 2020! . We wish Andrew all the best on the West Coast!…

New Student Orientation

The Fall 2020 Orientation session for incoming Medical Physics students is scheduled for Monday, August 24 via Zoom. Agenda items include a college welcome by Dr Thomas Rowe, Associate Dean of Graduate Education; a program overview by Dr Manuel Arreola, Program Director; and program introductions by our faculty and students…

Summer 2020 MS Graduate – Jacob Ricci

Congratulations to our Summer 2020 MS Graduate: Jacob Ricci! Subsequent to graduation, Jake will begin as a Research Fellow at Orlando Health in Ocoee, Florida and will then apply to medical school.