Past Events
2008
2007 Failla Memorial Lecture (Photos)
- Title: The Way It Was
- Speaker: John Cunningham, PhD
- Location: Griffis Faculty Club, New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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The RAMPS / Vacirca Young Investigators Symposium (Photos)
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Hoffman Auditorium
- 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
- Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2008
MARCH MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
- Title: Technique Evaluation for Partial Breast Irradiation: Does IMRT provide an advantage?
- Speaker: Jean M Moran, PhD, Univ. Michigan Ann Arbor
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Hoffman Auditorium
- 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
- Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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Joint Symposium honoring Dr. C. Clifton Ling / RAMPS Spring Symposium
- Date: Monday, April 7, 2008
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Rockefeller Research Laboratories
- 430 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10065
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An Evening Point-Counterpoint Program
- Title: Current Debate in Imaging Radiology: Assessing Patient Risks and Benefits
- Speakers:
- David Brenner, PhD, Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University Medical Center
- Pat Zanzonico, PhD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Rockefeller Research Laboratories, Room 116
- 430 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10065
- Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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RAMPS Presence At The AAPM Meeting
OCTOBER MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
- Title: PET radiopharmaceuticals and solid target chemistry
- Speaker: Jason S. Lewis, PhD, Chief, Radiochemistry Service, Dept of Radiology, MSKCC
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- William Hoffman Auditorium (C-186)
- 1275 York Ave, New York, NY 10065
- Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
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NOVEMBER MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
DECEMBER MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
- Title: Responding to a Radiological Emergency in NY City
- Speaker:
- Elaine Vernetti, MD, MPH
- Medical Director Bureau of Environmental Emergency Preparedness and
Response (BEEPR) of the Environmental Division of DOHMH
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- William Hoffman Auditorium (C-186)
- 1275 York Ave, New York, NY 10065
- Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008
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2009
- 2008 Failla Memorial Lecture (Photos)
- Title: A Short History of the Medical Physics of Imaging 1970-2008
- Speaker: Lawrence N. Rothenberg, Ph.D.
- Location: Griffis Faculty Club, New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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- Evaluation form for Failla Memorial Lecture
- Title: A Short History of the Medical Physics of Imaging 1970-2008
- Speaker: Lawrence N. Rothenberg, Ph.D.
- Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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- The RAMPS / Vacirca Young Investigators Symposium
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Hoffman Auditorium
- 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
- Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009
- RAMPS Board Meeting: 5:00 - 6:00 PM, MSKCC: S1132 (Schwartz Building)
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- The RAMPS / Vacirca Young Investigators Symposium Results
- First: Joseph P. Santoro, MSKCC
- Second: Xuan Zhao, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
- Third: Stewart J. Becker, NYU Medical Center
- Spinal Radiosurgery / Radiotherapy Physics Symposium
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Rockefeller Auditorium (RRL 120)
- 430 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10065
- Date: Thursday, March 5, 2009
- Time: 1 PM to 5 PM
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- MARCH MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
- Title: The Future of Flat Panel Imagers: From Active Matrix to Active Pixel Architectures and Many Possibilities in Between
- Speaker:
- Larry E. Antonuk, Ph.D.
- Professor
- Department of Radiation Oncology
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- William Hoffman Auditorium (C-186)
- 1275 York Ave, New York, NY 10065
- Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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- SPRING SYMPOSIUM / 60th Anniversary Celebration: Past, Present and Future of Medical Physics (Photos)
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Hoffman Auditorium
- 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
- Date: Saturday, April 25, 2009
- Time: 1 PM to 6 PM
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- MAY MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
- Title: NCRP Report on Radiation Protection in Interventional Suites
- Speaker:
- Stephen Balter, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Radiology and Medicine
- Columbia University
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- William Hoffman Auditorium (C-186)
- 1275 York Ave, New York, NY 10065
- Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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- SEPTEMBER BUSINESS MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
- Title: Medical Physicists are scientists, clinicians and educators: professionals leveraging complex technology to improve the human condition
- Speaker:
- Michael G Herman, PhD, FAAPM
- AAPM President-Elect
- Location:
- Columbia University
- Faculty House
- 64 Morningside Drive (at 116the Street), New York, NY 10027
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- Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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- OCTOBER BUSINESS MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
- Title: Quantitative PET Imaging
- Speaker:
- John L. Humm, PhD
- Attending Physicist, Department of Medical Physics,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Zuckerman Research Center
- Room: ZRC - 105
- 417 E. 68th Street, New York, NY 10065
- Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
- Time:
- 5:00 - 6:00 PM Board Meeting
- 6:00 PM Coffee and Cookies
- 6:30 Presentation Commences
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2010
- 2009 Failla Memorial Lecture
- Title: Radiation Physics since New York – Changes in the Last Decade and a Half
- Speaker: Radhe Mohan, Ph.D.
- Location:
- Griffis Faculty Club
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital
-
The University Hospitals of Columbia and Cornell
-
521 East 68th Street, Manhattan
- Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010
- Time:
- Cocktail Hour 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Dinner and Presentation to follow
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- The RAMPS / Vacirca Young Investigators Symposium
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Hoffman Auditorium
- 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
- Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
- Time:
- 6:00 PM Coffee and Cookies
- 6:30 Symposium Commences
- RAMPS Board Meeting: 5:00 - 6:00 PM, MSKCC: S1132 (Schwartz Building)
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- The RAMPS / Vacirca Young Investigators Symposium Results
- 2010 RAMPS Spring Symposium
- DECEMBER BUSINESS MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
- Title:
- Part I “What is New in Radiation Therapy”
- Part II “Rethinking Medicine”
- Speaker:
- Krishnan Suthanthiran
- President
- Best Medical International, Inc.
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Zuckerman Research Center
- Room: ZRC - 105
- 415 E. 68th Street, New York, NY 10065
- (Note Change in Meeting Room)
- Date: Monday, December 6, 2010
- Time:
- 5:00 - 5:45 PM Board Meeting in MSKCC: S (Schwartz Building), library
- 5:30 PM Coffee and Cookies
- 6:00 PM Seminar Commences
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- MEETING EVALUATION
- Title:
- Part I “What is New in Radiation Therapy”
- Part II “Rethinking Medicine”
- Speaker:
- Krishnan Suthanthiran
- President
- Best Medical International, Inc.
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Zuckerman Research Center
- Room: ZRC - 105
- 415 E. 68th Street, New York, NY 10065
- Date: Monday, December 6, 2010
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2011
- RAMPS 2011 CALENDAR
- 2010 FAILLA MEMORIAL LECTURE
- Title: Forty Years of Health Physics - Looking Back and Looking Ahead
- Speaker: Michael Ryan, Ph.D.
- Location:
- Griffis Faculty Club
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital
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The University Hospitals of Columbia and Cornell
-
521 East 68th Street, Manhattan
- Date: Monday, January 24, 2011
- Time:
- Cocktail Hour 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Dinner and Presentation to follow
- To register please contact Maureen McDonnell:
- Phone: 212-639-8300
- email: rampsnyc@gmail.com
- Registration before January 15th, 2011: $50
- Registration after January 15th, 2011: $80
- download announcement with directions as pdf file
- download a slideshow of Failla Memorial Lectures from 1962 to 2011 as pdf file
- 2011 URGENT APPEAL FROM THE PRESIDENT TO SUBMIT RAPHEX QUESTIONS
- MARCH BUSINESS MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
- Title:
- "NCRP Report 168 Radiation Dose Management for Fluoroscopically Guided Medical Interventional Procedures"
- Speaker:
- Steven Balter, Ph.D.
- Columbia University Medical Center
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Hoffman Auditorium
- Room: C-186
- 415 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
- Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2011
- Time:
- 5:00 - 6:00 PM Board Meeting in MSKCC: S-1134 (Schwartz Building)
- 6:00 PM Coffee and Cookies
- 6:30 PM Presentation Commences
- 8:30 PM Dinner at nearby restaurant ($20 for everyone)
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- The RAMPS / Vacirca Young Investigators Symposium
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Hoffman Auditorium (C-186)
- 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY
- Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011
- Time:
- 6:00 PM Coffee and Cookies
- 6:30 PM Symposium Commences
- RAMPS Board Meeting: 5:00 - 6:00 PM, MSKCC: S1132 (Schwartz Building)
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- Results of the The RAMPS / Vacirca Young Investigators Symposium
- SPECIAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
- Title: Let’s Talk About RAPHEX
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Hoffman Auditorium
- Room: C-186
- 1275 York Ave, New York, NY
- Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011
- Time:
- 5:00 - 6:00 PM Board Meeting in S1134 (MSKCC Main Campus, Schwartz Building)
- All members are welcome to attend
- 6:00 PM Coffee and Cookies
- 6:30 PM Meeting Commences
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- download the Raphex history as pdf file
- 2011 RAMPS Spring Symposium
- Title: Novel Radiation Detectors and their applications in dosimetry, imaging and health physics
- Location:
- Hoffmann Auditorium
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- 1275 York Ave, New York, NY
- Date: Saturday, April 30, 2011
- Time: 8:00 am - 1:30 pm
- Registration:
- Before April 23rd: RAMPS/GNYCHPS Members $50, Non-Members: $60
- After April 23rd: Members $60, Non-Members: $70
- No charge for students, fellows and residents (letter from advisor attesting status or student ID required)
- Register by phone: 212-639-8300 or by email: rampsnyc@gmail.com
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- 2011 RAMPS Events Slideshows
- MAY BUSINESS MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
- Title:
- "Recent development in dose-volume risk factors for predicting normal tissue toxicity"
- Speaker:
- Joseph Deasy, Ph.D.
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Hoffman Auditorium
- Room: C-186
- 415 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
- Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011
- Time:
- 5:00 - 6:00 PM Board Meeting in MSKCC: S-1134 (Schwartz Building)
- 6:00 PM Coffee and Cookies
- 6:30 PM Presentation Commences
- 8:30 PM Dinner at nearby restaurant ($20 for everyone)
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- Ballot for the 2011 election
- 2011 RAMPS Program Evaluation
- Title: Recent development in dose-volume risk factors for predicting normal tissue toxicity
- Speaker: Joseph Deasy, Ph.D.
- Location:
- Hoffmann Auditorium (C-186)
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- 1275 York Ave, New York, NY
- Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011
- Deadline for submission of evaluation: 6/10/2011
- download evaluation form as MS Word file
- Ramps is saddened by the passing of Rosalyn Yalow, an extraordinary researcher who received a Nobel Price for her groundbreaking discoveries in Medical Physics
- MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
- Title: Saving RAPHEX and RAMPS - how to write good questions
- Speaker:
- Howard Amols, Ph.D.
- Chief Editor of RAPHEX
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Hoffman Auditorium (C-186)
- 1275 York Ave, New York, NY
- Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2011
- Time:
- 5:00 - 6:00 PM Board Meeting in S1132 (MSKCC Main Campus, Schwartz Building)
- 6:00 PM Coffee and Cookies
- 6:30 PM Presentation Commences
- 8:30 PM Dinner at nearby restaurant ($20 for everyone, free for the speaker)
- Note: 1.5 MPCEC hours were applied to CAMPEP.
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- Invitation to celebrate the remarkable life of Dr. Rosalyn S. Yalow, 1977 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
- BUSINESS MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
- Title: AAPM Initiatives, 2011 and beyond
- Speaker:
- Gary Ezzell, Ph.D., AAPM President Elect
- Associate Professor, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Phoenix, USA
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Hoffman Auditorium (C-186)
- 1275 York Ave, New York, NY
- Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2011
- Time:
- 5:00 - 6:00 PM Board Meeting in S1132 (MSKCC Main Campus, Schwartz Building)
- 5:30 - 6:00 PM Coffee and Cookies
- 6:00 - 6:30 PM Business Meeting
- 6:30 - 7:30 PM Presentation
- 7:30 - 9:00 PM Dinner Banquet (menu attached) at Café Evergreen
- If you plan to attend the dinner banquet, please register before October 4, 2011 by contacting Maureen McDonnell, Email: rampsnyc@gmail.com (preferred) or TEL: (212) 639-8300. The cost for RAMPS members is $20 if you register by October 4
and $30 afterward. The cost for non members is $40. We cannot guarantee a seat if you register after October 4, 2011.
- Note:
- 1 MPCEC hour was applied to CAMPEP.
- We are setting up a PayPal account to accept the payment for the dinner banquet in advance. Since this is the first time, we would like everyone to register first and we will email you later the link to pay the cost through PayPal.
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- MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
- Title: Tumor and organ delineations and their applications in therapy response assessment and radiation treatment planning
- Speaker:
- Binsheng Zhao, D.Sc.
- Radiology, Columbia University Medical Center
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Hoffman Auditorium (C-186)
- 1275 York Ave, New York, NY
- Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
- Time:
- 5:00 - 6:00 PM Board Meeting in S1134 (MSKCC Main Campus, Schwartz Building)
- 6:00 PM Coffee and Cookies
- 6:30 PM Presentation Commences
- 8:30 PM Dinner at nearby restaurant ($20 for everyone, free for the speaker)
- Note: 1.5 MPCEC hours were applied to CAMPEP.
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- MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
- Title:
- The Evolution of Dose QA Metrics for Highly Conformal Plans
- Speaker:
- Benjamin E. Nelms, Ph.D.
- Canis Lupus LLC and Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Zuckerman Building Seminar Room (ZRC-105)
- 1275 York Ave, New York, NY
- Date: Thursday, December 8, 2011
- Time:
- 5:00 - 6:00 PM Board Meeting in S1134 (MSKCC Main Campus, Schwartz Building)
- 6:00 PM Coffee and Cookies
- 6:30 PM Presentation Commences
- 8:30 PM Dinner at nearby restaurant ($20 for everyone, free for the speaker)
- Note: 1.5 MPCEC hours were applied to CAMPEP.
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- CONTACT YOUR NEW YORK STATE REPRESENTATIVE TO SUPPORT NEW YORK STATE BILL 252
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2012
- 2011 Failla Memorial Lecture
- Title: Failla and Colleagues: Geniuses and Serendipity
- Speaker: C. Clifton Ling, Ph.D.
- Location:
- The Griffis Faculty Club
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College
- 521 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10065 (Directions attached)
- Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
- Time:
- 5:00 - 6:00 PM Board Meeting
- 6:00 - 7:00 PM Cocktail Hour
- 7:00 - 9:00 PM Dinner and Presentation
- On-line registration for this event will be open between December 13, 2011 and January 15, 2012.
- The cost for members and their guest (up to one) is $60 per person and for non-members is $120.
- 1 MPCEC hour was applied to CAMPEP.
- download announcement with directions as MS Word document
- MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
- Title:
- Radiochromic Film and the Multi-Channel Dosimetry Method
- Speakers:
- David F Lewis, Ph.D.
- Andre Micke, Ph.D.
- Ashland Incorporated (Previously International Specialty Products)
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Hoffman Auditorium (C-186)
- 1275 York Ave, New York, NY
- Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
- Time:
- 5:00 - 6:00 PM Board Meeting in S1134 (Schwartz Building)
- 6:00 PM Coffee and Cookies
- 6:30 PM Presentation commences
- Note:
- 1.5 MPCEC hour was applied to CAMPEP.
- download announcement as pdf file
- The RAMPS / Vacirca Young Investigators Symposium
- Location:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Hoffman Auditorium (C-186)
- 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
- Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012
- Time:
- 6:00 PM Coffee and Cookies
- 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Presentation
- 8:30 PM Dinner at a nearby restaurant. $20 for everyone, free for the speakers.
- RAMPS Board Meeting: 5:00 - 6:00 PM, MSKCC: S1132 (Schwartz Building)
- download announcement as pdf file
- Results of the The RAMPS / Vacirca Young Investigators Symposium
- 2012 RAMPS Spring Symposium
- Title: SBRT: The State of the Art
- Location:
- Hoffmann Auditorium
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- 1275 York Ave, New York, NY
- Date: Friday, April 27, 2012
- Time: 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
- Registration:
- Before April 20th: RAMPS/GNYCHPS Members $50, Non-Members: $60
- After April 20th: Members $60, Non-Members: $70
- No charge for students, fellows and residents (letter from advisor attesting status or student ID required)
- Register by phone: 212-639-8300 or by email: rampsnyc@gmail.com
- To pay with PayPal, please follow this link
- 5 MPCEC hours were applied to CAMPEP
- download announcement with directions as pdf file
