Afua Yorke, PhD

An Assistant Professor in Medical Physics at the University of Washington, Seattle. Passionate about Global Radiotherapy and her previous work on investigating Medical Physics quality assurance and management practices in Lower- and-Middle Income Countries led to her earning a first career grant 3UH3CA211310-04S1 (NCI Diversity supplement grant) and a recognition by the 2021 Winter Institute of Medical Physics Global Scholars Research Award. She is also an associate of the AAPM Science Council Associate Mentorship Program (SCAMP) and recently a cohort of the inaugural 2022 class of Emerging leaders in Academic Medical Physics organized by the University of Wisconsin.

Tomas Kron, PhD,  FCCPM, FCOMP, FACPSEM, FIOMP

Tomas is Director of Physical Sciences at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne and holds academic appointments at Wollongong, RMIT and Melbourne Universities. Fellow of IOP(UK), ACPSEM, COMP, IOMP and IUPESM and was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to medicine, research and education in 2014. He is on the editorial board of Radiother. Oncol., Clin. Oncol. and Radiat. Meas. and consultant for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).For the last seven years he also has served in various roles on the International Medical Physics Certification Board (IMPCB).

John Schreiner, PhD, FAAPM, FCOMP, FCCPM

Emeritus Professor of Oncology and Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy, Queen’s University; past president of the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine, founding scientific committee member for the International Conferences on Three Dimensional and advanced Dosimetry (IC3Ddose).

Monique Van Prooijen, PhD 

Holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Waterloo (1995) and joined the Princess
Margaret Cancer Centre as a resident in 1999, followed by a staff appointment in 2001.
Monique is passionate about international work and has previously participated in the
University Health Network’s outreach program with the Kuwait Cancer Control Center. She
has also worked with Moi Teaching & Referral Hospital in Kenya. Subsequently, she
initiated the Kenyan Physicists Forum, for Kenyan physicists to discuss whichever medical
physics topic is of interest to them. In other work, she has served as Treasurer of the Ontario
Association of Medical Physicists and served on the Educational Symposium Organizing
Committee in 2019.

Navid Khaledi, PhD, IMPC

Holds a Ph.D. in Medical Radiation Engineering and a CAMPEP-accredited Master's in Medical Physics from Toronto Metropolitan University.

He has been working as a medical physicist for around 10 years in various radiotherapy centers across Iran. He previously served as the Medical Radiation Advisor at the Iranian Comprehensive Cancer Center and held two research fellowships at Fudan University in Shanghai.

Navid is currently a Medical Physicist and Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) at CancerCare Manitoba. He joined the MPWB Communications Committee in 2022 and is also a member of the Communications Team at COMP.

Eduard Gershkevitch, PhD

Head of Medical Physics Service, North Estonia Medical Centre, Tallinn, Estonia. Past Physics Committee member of ESTRO, Consultant to the IAEA, active in area of RT equipment commissioning, verification and audits.