2021 Spring Symposium
Fri, May 21
|Virtual
2021 Spring Symposium, held virtually
Time & Location
May 21, 2021, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Virtual
About the Event
Our DVC committee has put together another excellent program of timely talks with five invited speakers. The DVCAAPM Spring Symposium is an opportunity for professionals in medical physics to keep up to date on subjects relevant to the field and to interact with colleagues from around the Delaware Valley area. We will also have Med Phys SLAM competition. Please join us. This meeting has applied to CAMPEP for approval of 3.75 MPCEC hours.
9:00AM – 9:05AM Opening Remarks, Shannon O'Reilly, President
9:05AM – 9:10AM Financial Summary, Abhirup Sarkar, Treasurer
9:10AM – 9:15AM CAMPEP credit submission information, Teh Lin, Secretary
9:15AM – 10:00AM FLASH Radiotherapy - Challenges & Opportunities, Kristoffer Petersson, Oxford
10:00AM – 10:45AM Aspects of FLASH and the development of the FLASH RT program at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Emil Schueler, MD Anderson
10:45AM – 11:00AM Vendor Presentations, MIM, iRT, and Varian
11:00AM – 11:45AM Using Radiation to Overcome Immunotherapy Resistance, James Welsh, MD Anderson
11:45AM – 1:30PM Lunch Break
1:30PM – 1:45PM MedPhys Slam
1. Haertter, Allison (PENN): Prompt gamma ray timing as a real-time dose rate monitor of FLASH proton deliveries
2. Yang, Dae Myoung (FCCC) Radiodynamic Therapy
3. Kassaee, Anthpny (PENN): Spine, Lung, and Liver SBRT on a Ring-Gantry Halcyon Linear Accelerator: Evaluation of Planning Techniques and Rotational Setup Errors
1:45PM – 2:00PM Vendor Presentations, Landauer, PTW, and RaySearch
2:00PM – 2:45PM Evolving Role of Big Data Driven: Standardization, Ontology, Analytics and Ethics In the Practice of Medical Physics, Charles Mayo, Univ Michigan -Ann Arbor
2:45PM – 3:30PM Classification repeatability in computer-aided diagnosis using radiomic features from breast DCE- MRI, Heather Whitney, Wheaton College
3:30PM Closing Remarks, Leonard Kim, President-Elect
Thank you all for your participation and thanks to our sponsors for this event.
Gold sponsors: iRT, Landauer, MIM, PTW, RaySearch, and Varian
Silver sponsor: LAP, VisionRT