2009 SEAAPM Annual Meeting

Sha Chang , Program Director

March 13-14, 2009

UNC-Chapel Hill Friday Center
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Sponsored by the

Southeast Chapter of the

American Association of Physicists in Medicine

(SEAAPM)

Speaker List

Sha Chang, Ph.D. Chief of Physics & Computing Division University of North Carolina School of Medicine	Stephen Mahan, Ph.D. Medical Physicist Carolina Regional Cancer Center Myrtle Beach, SC
George Ding, Ph.D. Associate Professor Vanderbilt Unversity Medical Center	Mahta McKee, M.S. Medical Physicist Wake Forest University Medical Center
Tobin Hyman, M.S. Medical Physicist McLoed Regional Medical Center Florence, SC	Herbert W. Mower, Sc.D, Director of Radiation Therapy Physics Lahey Clinic
Maryellen Giger, Ph.D. Professor U niversity of Chicago	Daniel C. Pavord, M.S.. Chief of Medical Physics Vassar Brothers Hospital Poughkeepsie, NY
Bill Kearns, M.S. Medical Physicist Wake Forest University Medical Center	Richard Popple, Ph.D. Assostant Professor University of Alabama Birmingham
Mark Oldham, Ph.D. Duke University

Meeting Agenda

Friday, March 13, 2009

1:00 PM – 1:20 PM	Registration, Coffee, & Snacks
1:20 PM - 1:25 PM	Opening Remarks and Announcements	Sha Chang, President-Elect
	Session I: Professional
1:25 PM - 2:55 PM	The Future of the AAPM Organization and the Medical Physics Profession	Maryellen Giger, Ph.D.
2:55 PM - 3:15 PM	Medical Physics Training and the Impact of 2012/2014	Herbert Mower, Sc.D.
3:15 PM - 3:35PM	AAPM Regional Chapters and Why We Should Support Them	Dan Pavord, Ph.D.
3:35 PM-4:00 PM	Afternoon Break in Vendor Exhibit Area
	Session II: Imaging
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM	The Benefits and Risks of IGRT	George Ding, Ph.D.
4:30 PM – 4:50 PM	The Challenges of Biological Imaging and its Radiotherapy Application	Mark Oldham, Ph.D.
4:50 PM - 5:10 PM	High temporal resolution imaging	Bill Kearns, M.S.
5:10 PM - 5:30 PM	Development of Nanotechnology-Based X-ray Imaging Systems	Sha Chang, Ph.D.
6:00 PM-9:30 PM	Night Out at the DuBose House

Saturday, March 14, 2009

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM	Coffee, Breakfast (No Vendor Exhibits)
	Session III: Therapy
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM	Arc IMRT Clinical Application	Richard Popple, Ph.D.
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Tomotherapy Applications	Stephen Mahan, Ph.D.
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM	Current Status of Compensator-IMRT in the SEAAPM Chapter	Tobin Hyman, M.S.
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Image-guided HDR Applicatoin	Mahta McKee, M.S.
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Morning Break (No Vendor Exhibits)
	Session IV: Student Presentations
10:30AM – 10:40 AM	PENELOPE Monte Carlo calculation of TG-43 dosimetry parameters for HDR and LDR Brachytherapy Sources	Sidi Benhabib (Ph.D. student at East Carolina University)
10:40AM – 10:50 PM	3D Development and Clinical Evaluation of a Novel Digital Tomosynthesis (DTS) Reconstruction Method	Lei Ren (Ph.D. student at Duke University
10:50AM – 11:00 AM	Georgia Institute of Technology Student Presentation	TBA
10:50AM – 11:00 PM	Wake Forest University School of Medicine Student Presentation	TBA
11:00AM – 11:10 PM	Implementing Dynamic Arc Therapy in the Treatment of Prostate Cancer	Horace Lee Lambert III (undergraduate student at South Carolina State University)
	Session V: Award Ceremony
11:10AM – 11:25 PM	Jimmy Fenn Award
11:25AM – 11:55 PM	SEAAPM Best Paper Awards & Presentations
11:55 PM – 1:40 PM	Luncheon, Business Meeting & Election Results
1:40 PM - 2:30 PM	SEAAPM EXCOM Meeting