Thanks to our industry partners MPWB is pleased to announce an attendance award to AAPM 63rd annual meeting 2021. These awards are targeted to medical physicists in low to middle income countries (LMICs) who wish to attend the AAPM ASM. You can find more information about the award, application form and the details how to apply in the following link.

Please submit completed application form to medphyswb@gmail.com (subject line: MPWB-AAPM Attendance Award) no later than June 25, 2021, 24:00(midnight) EST.

MWPB Webinar Series 

We are extremely pleased to announce our first of many webinars on Wednesday, 12th May at 09:00 EDT (15:00 CET)

Topic: Automated Treatment Planning: A resource with potential benefits in both high- and low-income countries

Speaker: Laurence Court

Moderators: Sarah Ashmeg & Arjit Baghwala

Please register here.

For more information, please see here.

Started in 1979, the annual Winter Institute of Medical Physics (WIMP) provides a unique environment for participants from academics, industry, and clinics large and small to come together and share their ideas and work on a variety of topics in oncology, imaging, education, and technology.

A major outreach component of the 2021 Winter Institute of Medical Physics meeting will be the Worldwide Innovations in Medical Physics (WIMP @ WIMP 2021) competition. The goal is to showcase innovations in science, technology, and novel “global” approaches to teaching and training being investigated and developed by early career medical physicists around the world. The competition is open to individuals nearly finished or within 5 years of having finished their advanced degree, fellowship, or training program!  Cash prizes of $250 USD for up to 20 semi-finalists and $1000 USD for up to 8 finalists will be awarded. First submissions are due February 12th, 2021.

If you are interested in participating in the WIMP @ WIMP 2021 competition, please see the full details and instructions for submissions at www.GoWIMP.org!

The International Conference on Advances in Radiation Oncology (ICARO-3), hosted by the IAEA, will take place February 16-19. This conference is free of charge for anyone to attend. 

Please visit the main webpage for information. Registration forms are available here, and you can view the main programme here. If you wish to simply observe the conference, please see here for details. 

Follow the conference via Twitter with #ICARO3, and through @iaeaorg, or via LinkedIn and Facebook.

It is time to renew your membership (or join!) MPWB! With help from COMP and the AAPM you can now become a member easily when paying your annual dues! Thank you for your support!

We are extremely pleased to announce the following results from the election results for the upcoming vacant MPWB board positions. 

For President-Elect - Dr. Tomas Kron (2 year term). 

Starting on 2021, he will be replacing Dr. John Schreiner, who will assume his new position of President, and Dr. Yakov Pipman will assume his new position of Past-President in 2021. Dr. Jacob Van Dyk (current Past-President) will be transitioning off the MPWB Board.

For Director of Fundraising - Dr. Eduard Gershkevitsh, Ph.D. (3 year term)

Starting on 2021, he will be replacing Dr. Robert Jeraj (current Director of Fundraising) who will be also transitioning off the MPWB Board.

More news will follow on our transition strategy and the celebration of Drs Van Dyk and Jeraj immense contributions to our organization.

This year we have two open board positions for 2020 and will be holding an online election for full members in good standing (paid dues for 2020). Voting will open on September 2, 2020 and close on September 30, 2020. The nominations committee and board have approved the following two candidates to sit for election for these upcoming vacant positions. 

We are pleased to share information about these outstanding candidates. Members will receive notification for casting their votes.

For President-Elect:  

Tomas Kron, Ph.D.  

Professor and Director, Department of Physical Sciences, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Melbourne, Australia.  

Tomas has had much international involvement with multiple activities especially with the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) involving many expert missions, training events and several QUATRO audits. He has also been working in the International Medical Physics Certification Board (IMPCB) since 2013 and chairs the Science Committee for the Asia-Oceania Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (AFOMP). 

In 2013, he was awarded the Distinguished Services Award of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) and nominated as one of 50 medical physicists by the IOMP who had a significant impact on medical physics in the last 50 years.  

In 2014, he was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to medicine, research and education. 

His areas of interest include dosimetry of ionising radiation, image guided radiotherapy, clinical trials and education of medical physicists. He has published more than 280 papers in refereed journals and given more than 80 invited conference presentations. 

For Director of Fund Raising:  

Eduard Gershkevitsh, Ph.D.  

Chief Medical Physicist, North Estonia Regional Hospital, Tallinn, Estonia and visiting lecturer at Tallinn Technical University and Tartu HealthCare College.  

Eduard is a member of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). From 2011 to 2020 he served on the ESTRO Physics Committee. He has participated as faculty in ESTRO teaching courses and numerous expert missions for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in different continents related to treatment planning system and linac commissioning, QC/QA activities, and national and international audits. From 2015 to 2018, he served on the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) Awards and Honours Committee. 

In 2019, Eduard was a Medical Physics Consultant at the IAEA Standard Dosimetry Laboratory in Seibersdorf, Austria. He has 18 peer-reviewed publications. 

For those able to attend the meeting, thank you! For those who were unable, please see a video recording of one of the meetings to catch up on our activities and hear from our board.

In the last few years, we held our annual membership and information meetings at the Annual Meeting of the AAPM. The original intent was to do the same this year at the joint AAPM/COMP meeting in Vancouver; however, this meeting has become a virtual meeting. As a result, we are following suit with a virtual membership and information meeting planned for 26 August 2020. In view of time zone considerations, we are hosting two meetings, one at 10 am EDT (2:00 pm GMT) and another at 6:00 pm EDT (10:00 pm GMT). You can use the following link to see what time this corresponds to in your time zone: https://greenwichmeantime.com/time- gadgets/time-zone-converter/. Content presented in both meetings will be the same.

See here to register for Session 1 (10:00 am EDT / 2:00 pm GMT) 

See here to register for Session 2 (6:00 pm EDT / 10:00 pm GMT) 

MPWB has been notified by the Riga Technical University in Latvia that a temporary full time Medical Physics position has opened in Riga. Details can be found at  https://www.euraxess.lv/jobs/540205/