CONNECTICUT AREA MEDICAL PHYSICS SOCIETY

a chapter of the

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICISTS IN MEDICINE

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Our 2025 Summer Meeting will Feature Following Presentations:

Kenneth Roberts, MD, FASTRO

Professor of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine

"Indispensable Technological Advances in Radiation Oncology, Personal Observations and the History of Yale Therapeutic Radiology"

Educational Objectives: Understand the historical development of radiation oncology

1)    Medical physics has provided the foundation to advances in Radiation Oncology in parallel to molecular and cellular biology advances

a.    Brachytherapy –early milestone of Gyn Radium treatments

b.    External Beam:

c.    SRS/SBRT

2)    History of Radiotherapy at Yale

a.    YSM milestones

b.    YNHH and network RT technology milestones

3)    Brief tale of two cancers; rise and fall of RT for hematologic malignancies

a.    Hodgkins Lymphoma

b.    Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

and

Per Halvorsen, MS, FACR, FAAPM

Senior Director for Clinical Technology Adoption, Varian Medial Systems

"The evolving role of clinical radiotherapy physics and implications for the future"

Education Objectives: Understand the evolving role of medical physics in radiation oncology

1)   Review how the clinical physicist's role has changed in the past 30 years, from both a personal and professional perspective

2)   The role of technology in clinical care delivery

3)   Personal perspective on how clinical physicists can contribute to both quality and access to care in the coming decades.

and

Matthew Hoerner, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology,

Yale University School of Medicine and the Graduate School

"Mammography Through the Years: How the Past has Shaped the Present"

Education Objectives: Understand the evolving role of medical physics in mammography 

1)     Understand the historical significance of mammography from acquisition system to development of screen film through digital breast tomosynthesis

2)     Review the key components of breast imaging that remain the same

3)     Learn about the evolving role of the medical physicist

  Date and Time:

Thursday, June 19, 2025

5:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Location

Madison Beach Hotel

94 West Wharf Road

Madison, CT 06442

This is an in-person meeting. Attendance will be tracked via sign-in sheet at the meeting.

RSVP via this link

Target audience:

CAMPS members, Medical Physicists, Dosimetrists, Radiation Oncologists, Radiation Therapists, and Radiological Engineers

(MDCB Continuing Education Credits are approved. Certificates of Attendance will be issued at the meeting. We have applied to CAMPEP for 2.0 MPCEC hour's. Physicist applying for MPCEC's will need to fill out a CAMPEP Session Attendance Report)

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