Newsletter
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICISTS IN MEDICINE VOLUME 27 NO. 4
JULY/AUGUST 2002
AAPM President’s Column Summer Robert G. Gould San Francisco, CA The Annual Meeting will be over by the time this arrives but with registration at record levels, I am assured that this meeting will be a great one. Our Annual Meetings go so smoothly it is easy to overlook how much effort our members and Headquarters staff put into them. I am grateful to all who participated in making this year’s meeting a success, including Ervin Podgorsak, chair of the Local Arrangements Committee (LAC), all the other nine members of the LAC who have such a great city in which to live, Andrew Maidmont, Scientific Program director; Michael Herman, Scientific Program codirector; Eric Klein, Education Program director; Joel Gray, Education Program co-director; and Track Chair Organizers James Balter and Gary Ezzell. Bruce Curran, chair of the Meeting Coordination Committee (MCC), and subcommittee Chairs David Pickens and Jerry Allison also contributed greatly, as did all members of the MCC and its subcommittees. I also want to express my thanks to all the Headquarters staff,
without whose efforts the meeting simply would not occur. Sal Trofi, Angela Keyser, Lisa Rose Sullivan, Nancy Vazquez, Michael Woodward and his staff, and all the other members of Headquarters are to be commended for their efforts. As our Association has grown, the logistics of the Annual Meeting have become greater, the importance of the Annual Meeting to the finances of the Association have become larger, and the needs of the members for scientific, professional and educational activities have become more diverse. We should be proud that our volunteer members and our Headquarters staff continue to meet the challenge of making our Annual Meeting such a beneficial and enjoyable experience. Last year at this time, the AAPM National Institute of Bio-
medical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Task Group was restructured to a subcommittee under the Research Committee with Phil Judy and Paul Carson as co-chairs. This subcommittee was active in nominating and supporting candidates for director of the institute and helping the institute identify areas of research. Since then, a new director, Elias Zerhouni, M.D., has been confirmed as head of the National Institutes of Health, and Roderic Pettigrew, M.D., Ph.D. has been appointed to head NIBIB. Both men are radiologists and should be supportive of imaging research. The AAPM, (See Gould - p. 2)
TABLE OF CONTENTS AAPM/IPEM Rep. p. 3 Undergrad. Fellows p. 5 MedPhys. Travel Rep. p. 8 Exec. Dir’s. Column p. 9 Gov’t. Affairs Column p. 10 Call for Applications p. 12 Call for Nominations p. 13 Mammography FAQs p. 14 Announcements pp. 15-16