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2024-2025 SHMPS Officers

Please join us in congratulating our newly elected 2024-2025 SHMPS Officers: President: Natalia Carrasco-Rojas Vice President: Julia Withrow Treasurer: Graham Stoddard Public Relations: Stefan Wehmeier Social Activities: Ben Huizenga Under the leadership of Dr Wes Bolch, Faculty Advisor, the Society of Health and Medical Physics provides students interested in radiation protection and the…

MS Research Presentation – Bryan Bates

join us for Bryan Bates’ MS Research presentation titled Optimizing Planning Parameters for Elekta Unity Prostate Cancer Patients at 10:00AM on Monday, June 24 in the Small Conference Room of the Davis Cancer Center.   …

PhD Defense – Ryan Stephenson

Join us for Ryan Stephenson’s Dissertation Defense, titled Dual Energy Comparison and DEXA Adipose Quantification in Large Animal Radiography, at 11:00AM on Friday, May 31 in C1-003 Communicore.  …

PhD Proposal – Naipy Perez

Join us at 1:00PM on Monday, April 29 via Zoom for Naipy Perez’s PhD Proposal titled: “Lattice Radiotherapy: A Novel Approach for the treatment of Advanced Cervical cancer: Physics, Biology and Clinical Implementation”.

Summer 2024 Class Schedule

GMS 6653, Diagnostic Radiological Physics III w/ Dr Arreola: 10:00AM-11:40AM Wed/Thu; C2-33 Communicore GMS 6005, Medical Physics Career Prep w/ Drs Marshall & Schwarz: 1:15PM-2:20PM Tue/Thu; C2-33 Communicore…

Morin Fellowship Recipients

UF Medical Physics is incredibly proud of the 2024 Richard L Morin, PhD, Fellowship in Medical Physics Awardees: Colin Schaeffer, PhD and Zahra Razi, PhD! Drs Schaeffer and Razi both graduated from the UF Medical Physics Graduate Program. Dr Schaeffer was awarded his MS in 2020, followed by his…

Assistantships Available

As part of our continued growth and expansion, the University of Florida’s Medical Physics Graduate Program (a concentration under Medical Sciences in the College of Medicine) is currently recruiting MS and PhD students for Fall 2024 admission. Five incoming students will be funded as graduate assistants – three in Diagnostic…

PhD Defense – James Perez-Sanchez

Please join us for James Perez-Sanchez’s Dissertation Defense, titled Deep Learning-Based Structure Segmentation for MRI-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy, at 11:00AM on Monday, May 6 in Radiation Oncology’s small conference room.  …

SHMPS Alumni Spotlight

Join us at 7:30PM on Tuesday, April 16, for a UF Medical Physics/SHMPS alumni spotlight featuring Dr Amanda Schwarz and Dr BC Schwarz. The Schwarz’s will lead us through their journeys in the field of medical physics. At the end of the session, we will open the floor for questions…

Graduate Student Appreciation Week

UF Medical Physics celebrated the kick-off of UF’s Graduate Student Appreciation Week on Monday, April 1, with a Breakfast of Champions! Homemade French toast, freshly baked biscuits … oh my! Special thanks to the UF Graduate School for the “swag”! Our graduate students donned their new t-shirts and buttons in…