Meet your MPWB board members for 2023-2024
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President
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Tomas Kron, PhD, FCCPM, FCOMP, FACPSEM, FIOMPTomas 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). |
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President-Elect |
Afua Yorke, PhDAn 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. |
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Past-President  |
John Schreiner, PhD, FAAPM, FCOMP, FCCPMEmeritus 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). |
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Secretary/Treasurer |
