2011 Spring Dinner Meeting

Presenting: AAPM President-Elect  Gary Ezzell from the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, AZ.  Gary has served as IMRT Task Group Chair, Scientific Program Chair, Strategic Planning, Member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors, ABR examiner and is active with Physics Residency training programs.

New meeting venue - Drake's Landing - right off the Ohio Turnpike even closer to the Penn-Ohio state line.   Delightful setting on a lake with seaplane and mallard watching.

Click on 2011 Spring Dinner Meeting for an announcement and on-line registration.

2010 Fall Symposium

"Seeing a Target, Hitting a Target – and Staying Safe"

Click on 2010 Fall Symposium for an announcement and lower cost on-line registration before Noon September 28. Call for Abstracts, Program, Exhibitor Invitation and Exhibitor Contract available as well.

Target Audience: Medical Physicists - This Symposium is an effort to educate Medical Physicists on current topics of interest in the field. CAMPEP MPCEC credits applied for. MDCB credits applied for.

2010 Spring Dinner Meeting

AAPM’s President-Elect, Dr. Anthony Seibert speaks on “CT Radiation Dose Estimates and Assessment of Patient Risk”
Dr. Dennis Nelson, MimVista speaks on the use of  PET/CT in radiation treatment planning.
Click on 2010 Spring Dinner Meeting for an announcement and on-line registration.

2009 Fall Symposium

Theme: Quality Assurance and other Challenges in State of the Art Radiation Therapy
Joint meeting of Penn-Ohio and Ohio River Valley chapters.
Click on 2009 Fall Symposium for an announcement and lower cost on-line registration before Sept 25. Symposium Program and Vendor Registration form available as well.

Target Audience: Medical Physicists - This Symposium is an effort to educate Medical Physicists on current topics of interest in the field.

Objectives: Provide a forum for local AAPM members to present their research and clinical work and review Quality Assurance and other Challenges in State of the Art Radiation Therapy

CAMPEP MPCEC credits applied for. MDCB credits applied for.

2009 Spring Dinner Meeting

AAPM’s President-Elect, Mike Herman, Ph.D. will speak on “Medical Physicists are Scientists, Clinicians and Educators; Professionals Leveraging Complex Technology to Improve the Human Condition”

Costs will be published shortly.

2008 Fall Symposium

Registration begins Friday 12:00 noon and continues and during program breaks. Talks from 1:00 to ~5:00 on various topics in Medical Physics presented by local physicists. Saturday morning's invited-speaker session is entitled "Systems Not Yet in (North American) Clinics" followed by a lunch/panel discussion. Click on 2008 Fall Symposium for an announcement and abbreviated schedule. Click on Registration or Vendor Registration for the appropriate registration form.

Target Audience: Medical Physicists - This Symposium is an effort to educate Medical Physicists on current topics of interest in the field.

Objectives: Provide a forum for local AAPM members to present their research and clinical work and provide an opportunity for looking over the horizon to learn about systems not yet in North American clinics.

CAMPEP MPCEC credits applied for.

Please let us know that you are coming by 12:00 PM EDT Monday Oct 20 so we can reserve meal services.

Crowne Plaza Cleveland City Centre 777 St. Clair Ave. Cleveland, Ohio 44114 Phone: (216) 771-7600

Fall Symposium registration Friday 12:00-1:00 and during program breaks. Talks from 1:00 to 5:00 on various topics in Medical Physics presented by local physicists. Click on "2007 Fall Symposium" to see the schedule of events and find a registration form for symposium and Friday evening wine and beer tasting/dinner at a local winery/brewery. On Saturday continental breakfast at 7:30, sponsored presentations from 8-2:30 with lunch provided. Saturday talks include the mini-focus topic "QA in a filmless environment". CAMPEP and MDCB credits applied for. Let us know that you are coming by Oct 1 so we can reserve meal services.

Four Points Sheraton
910 Sheraton Drive
Mars, PA 16046
Phone: (724) 776-6900

Description: Fall Symposium registration starts at 12:00 on Friday with talks on a variety of interesting topics from 1:00 until 6:00. Friday evening dinner is at Hereford and Hops. Saturday talks will be given from 8-4 with continental breakfast and lunch provided. CAMPEP and MDCB credits have been applied for. Registration fee for local chapter members is $50 (includes continental breakfast and lunch on Saturday); dinner extra. For registration and selection of entrée for Friday dinner, email or call Raj Selvaraj, 412-367-6454, selvarajrn@upmc.edu. Be sure to reserve your room with the hotel in advance!

Crowne Plaza Cleveland City Centre
777 St. Clair Ave.
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Phone: (216) 771-7600

Fall Symposium starts at 1:00 on Friday with talks on a variety of interesting topics until 5:00. Click on "2005 Fall Symposium" to see the schedule of events and find a registration form for symposium and Friday evening winery tour, wine tasting, and dinner. Saturday talks will be given from 8-4:00 with continental breakfast and lunch provided. CAMPEP and MDCB credits have been applied for. Let us know that you are coming by Sept 20 so we can reserve meal services.

Sat. Sept. 28, 2002

Four Points Sheraton
910 Sheraton Drive
Mars, PA 16046
Phone: (724) 776-6900
Fax: (724) 776-1115

Members $50
Non-members $60

0745-1330
Sat. Sept. 16, 2000

The David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh

Before 1 Sep. 2000
members $50
non-members $60

After 1 Sep.
members $60
non-members $70

$30 Friday dinner

0730-1300
Sat. Sept. 18, 1999

7:30-3:00
Sat. Sept. 12, 1998

$50 registration
$20 dinner

Fri.

 

10:30

Registration

11:00

Vendor Demonstrations and Displays

12:00

Lunch

1:00

Commissioning of Dynamic Multileaf Collimator to be used for IMRT of Prostate, Twyla Willoughby, Cleveland Clinic

1:30

Image Directed Therapy, Qinsheng Chen, Cleveland Clinic

2:00

Fast Imaging Techniques in MRI, Wlad Sobol, University of Alabama-Birmingham Hospital

2:30

Break

2:45

Basic Principles of MR Angiography, Wlad Sobol, University of Alabama-Birmingham Hospital

3:15

PACS, Paul Chang, University of Pittsburgh

3:45

Commissioning and Quality Assurance of 3-D Treatment Planning Systems, Jake Van Dyk, London Regional Cancer Centre, Canada

4:30

Break

4:45

Gamma Knife Model B vs. U, What's the difference? Ann Maitz, University of Pittsburgh

5:00

Accuray: Image-guided, Linear-accelerator-based Robotic Stereotactic Radiotherapy, John Bayouth, UPMC Shadyside

5:30

Cocktails and Appetizers (Cash Bar), Browse vendor displays

7:00

Walk or drive to the Strip District

7:30

Dinner at Strip Brewing Company, 2106 Penn Ave

Sat.

 

7:30

Continental Breakfast

8:30

Elekta IMRT, Rajinder Singh Dhada, Marketing Manager

9:15

NOMOS IMRT, Bruce Curran, Director of Medical Physics

10:00

Break

10:30

Siemens IMRT, R. Alfredo C. Siochi, Medical Physicist

11:15

Varian IMRT, Geoffrey Dalbow, Product Manager, Delivery Systems

12:00

Lunch

1:00

IMRT Panel Group, NOMOS, Siemens, Varian, Elekta

2:00

Vendor Demonstrations and Displays

8:45

Billing Issues, A. Bukovitz

9:15

Health Effects from Wireless Communications, H. G. Claycamp

10:30

Dynamic Wedge/MLC, E. Klein

11:15

Intensity Modulation and Inverse Planning, R. Lalonde

1:00

Indirect Detection Active Matrix Flat-Panel Imagers for Diagnostic and megavoltage Imaging, L. Antonuk

1:45

Digital Imaging in Radiation Therapy, J. Percy

2:30

Convolution Algorithm for Dose Calculation in 3D, S. Monthofer

3:45

Pet Imaging, D. Townsend

4:30

Implementation of TG-43, Dosimetry of Interstitial Brachytherapy Sources, A. Wilkinson