• Are you going to the AAPM ASM in Houston? Do you like meeting people? Are you as passionate about helping people in low to middle-income countries access high-quality healthcare as much as we are? Then join us! We are looking for volunteers to station our booth at the AAPM. Join us, spare a few hours, and meet other MPWB members. Please get in touch with psb92@cornell.edu if you can spare an hour or two during the meeting.
• We are pleased to host an information meeting at the AAPM ASM! Details are Tuesday, July 25, 12:15-1:45, Room 350D in the George Brown Conventional Center. Learn more about our projects and meet some of our volunteers and board members! If you cannot, drop by our booth in the exhibition area!

• MPWB once again received great interest from Medical Physicists in low to middle-income countries expressing an interest in attending the AAPM ASM virtually. We are currently reviewing applications and hope to alert applicants soon on their status.  
• Last year, we were able to secure funds for approximately 40 medical physicists to attend, and this year our numbers look relatively the same.

• MPWB is please to again offer medical physicist colleagues around the world an opportunity to attend the virtual component of the 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Association of Medical Physicists.
• We will sponsor free registration to access the AAPM meeting's virtual content. Registrants will be able to access all recordings for 1 year following the meeting.
• Candidates who comply with all the requirements shall be scored according to an evaluation criteria that includes membership with MPWB, minimum 2 years of work experience, working in a low to middle income country as per the World Bank 2022 data.
• The application is available here . The application deadline is May 26, 2023. Registrants will be notified by June 23, 2023. The meeting starts on July 23, 2023. Apply for this opportunity. Find details regarding this award here.

Please see our latest newsletter from MPWB. Thanks again to Dr Peter Sandwall for his editorship!

MPWB at the AAPM 2022

While it has been some time since the AAPM 2022 conference, we have a few updates to share.

• We are happy to share that MPWB approved applications from 49 medical physicists from developing countries to virtually attend the AAPM conference in Washington in July. We hope to share some of the supportive comments from these virtual attendees in our next newsletter.
• Thank you to everyone who visited our physical booth at the AAPM. We had a great many fruitful conversations and will consider adding a booth to future conferences 

MPWB & IOMP

The Vice-President of MPWB (Dr Tomas Kron) has been appointed as an official MPWB representative on the Professional Relations Committee of the International Organization for Medical Physics. We thank the IOMP for making this connection in hopes to further reduce barriers to knowledge, expertise, and training and educational resources to global medical physics communities.

MPWB & US Department of Energy & National Nuclear Safety Agency

MPWB is participating in a review of the global radiotherapy landscape focusing on the use of radioactive sources in RT, sponsored by the US Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Agency, conducted by a group at Sandia National Laboratory. We will participate in a series of discussions and provide feedback on important matters related to nuclear safety in the context of low and middle income countries.

AAPM Webinar - Global Rising Stars Webinar Series

The AAPM Global Research and Scientific Innovation Committee (GRSIC) is excited to launch the Scientific Excellence and Global Rising Stars (GRS) webinar series. We will be hosting our first webinar “Creating and Fostering Global Collaborations in Medical Physics” on Tuesday, October 11^th at 5-7pm EDT (US).

This free webinar is open to anyone globally to attend. This session will include presentations from an incredible line-up of invited speakers, followed by a panel discussion that is open for attendees to ask questions and engage with the speakers.

We have also included a direct email sign-up list for interested attendees to hear about the latest webinars: bit.ly/GRSIC. Register for the latest webinar here.

International Day of Medical Physics Contest 

Get ready for IDMP 2022 on November 7! To celebrate the theme of sustainability for this year, we are holding a contest for you to share your thoughts on what sustainability in medical physics means to you! Create an Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook post and use the hashtags #IDMP2022 and #MPWB in your post. Or, send us an email with an attachment of a comment, image, video, or any other multimedia which tells us what "Sustainability in Medical Physics" means to you! We will support five free MPWB memberships for the year of 2023 for winners of this contest!

By the way, if you don't already follow us, be sure to follow our Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and/or LinkedIn pages.

Next Webinar: May 25, 9:00 AM EST, (15:00 CET)

Please join us for the next webinar 

Modern Radiation Therapy with Co-60

Speaker: Prof. L. John Schreiner

Moderators: Sarah Ashmeg and Arjit Baghwala

Register here!

We are once again pleased to provide an opportunity for those in low to middle income countries to virtually attend the AAPM conference. Please see the following announcement for details. To apply for this award, please email this completed form (open link and save a local copy) with the subject line "AAPM-2022 award - (Last Name - Country)" to medphyswb@gmail.com. Deadline for submissions is 29th of May 2022. Late submissions will not be considered. Awardees will be notified by 8th of June 2022. The meeting starts on July 10, 2022.

We are pleased to announce the next MPWB webinar on 

2021 Wednesday, 17th November at 09:00 EDT (15:00 CET)

Selection of Megavoltage Treatment Technologies for External Beam Radiation Therapy: A Global Perspective

Speaker: Prof. Jake Van Dyk (Canada)

Moderators: Sarah Ashmeg and Arjit Baghwala

Please register here: 

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_g47J3CbXSTOzRU8wCXOr0w

Happy International Day of Medical Physics! Here is a message from our president! #IDMP2021#medphys

https://youtu.be/J651b4nTWK4

MWPB Webinar Series 

We are extremely pleased to announce our next webinar on Wednesday, 20th October at 09:00 EDT (15:00 CET)

Topic: Cost effective globally deployable radiation therapy: The same but smarter ... and radically different

Speaker: Paul Keall

Moderators: Sarah Ashmeg & Arjit Baghwala

Please register here.

For more information, please see here.