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Research Highlight – Dr Stephanie Leon

UF Medical Physics Research Highlight – Dr Stephanie Leon, Assistant Professor: The helically-acquired CTDIvol as an alternative to traditional methodology. To learn more about Dr Leon’s research activities, access her…

Future Medical Physicist!

Please join us in congratulating Dan Ciarleglio (2020 MS Graduate) and his wife Jessica on the birth of their beautiful baby girl! Claudia Margaux Ciarleglio was born on Saturday, October 17, 2020. Welcome to the world, baby Claudia!…

Alumni Job Connection – RBOI/Ocala, FL

One of our graduates (Kevin Kalbaugh, UF MS 1982), has emailed us the below employment opportunity for a Board Certified Therapeutic Medical Physicist. Note that Kevin is one of three Gator Physicists, who work for a physician-owned practice of four UF trained Radiation Oncologists! It’s great to be a Florida…

GRE Requirement Waived for Fall 2021 Admissions

Please note that after careful review and consideration, the UF Medical Physics Graduate Program has decided to waive the GRE requirement for Fall 2021 applicants. For additional application information, please access our Admissions page.

UF MP Alumna – Deanna Pafundi, PhD

UF Medical Physics Alumna Dr Deanna Pafundi (UF PhD 2009), Radiation Oncology Medical Physicist at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, gave an excellent presentation titled “Imaging for Treatment Response Assessment in Radiation Oncology” at the Fall 2020 Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in…

Virtual Demo Labs!

One of the favorite elements of our Diagnostic Physics I course (ENU 6657) with Dr Lynn Rill, Assistant Professor, has always been the hands-on demonstration lab, which takes place in the x-ray room with phantoms, radiation meters, images and graduate student participation. This year, the course is being taught…

Transitioning a STEM Course Online – Dr Izabella Barreto

Dr Izabella Barreto, Assistant Professor, recently wrote an excellent article that she posted to her personal blog (Izabella Barreto, PhD) that is a fantastic resource for learning how to transition a STEM course online –…

AAW Leadership – Dr Izabella Barreto

Special thanks to Dr Izabella Barreto, Assistant Professor, for her exceptional leadership! Over the past year, Dr Barreto led the UF Association for Academic Women (AAW) as President. The AAW strives to advance the goals of UF’s female faculty and staff.

Publication – Dr Stephanie Leon

Congratulations to Dr Stephanie Leon, Assistant Professor, and her colleagues, on the publication of their article in Medical Dosimetry: “Dose simulations of an early 20th…

PhD Proposal – Cameron Kofler

Please join us at 1:00PM on Friday, September 25 via Zoom for Cameron Kofler’s PhD Proposal: “The Development of an Age-Dependent Newborn/Infant Mesh Phantom Library and a Pre-Computed Monte Carlo Dose Library for Computed Tomography.”…