Newsletter
American Association of Physicists in Medicine VOLUME 27 NO. 6
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2002
AAPM President’s Column Health of the AAPM Robert G. Gould San Francisco, CA As I write this, the joint meeting of the RSNA and the AAPM is fast approaching and with it my final conference as president of the AAPM. It has been a good year. The AAPM is financially strong, our Headquarters staff is a cohesive and productive team, our committees are industrious and well led, and our membership numbers continue to grow. What lies ahead? The Montreal meeting was a great success in many ways. Financially, the meeting exceeded profit projections, but it was also a strong scientific meeting. After several years of decline, the number of diagnostic abstract submissions nearly doubled and the number of therapy abstracts was at a record level. Some of the increase in abstract submissions is attributable to the greater participation of Canadian medical physicists, but growth occurred even if these were not considered in the count. The AAPM should find ways to maintain this momentum, particularly the diagnostic component. Members specializing in diagnostic imaging
2002 ASTRO and RSNA Residency Grants Announced Steven Goetsch Chair, Development Committee
should continue to view the Annual Meeting as an important and significant forum for diagnostic papers. In September, Chairman of the Board Charlie Coffey, President-Elect Marty Weinhous, Deputy Director Angela Keyser and I were invited to attend a board of directors meeting of the RSNA. At this meeting, Dr. Nick Bryan, president of the RSNA who has attended the last two AAPM Annual Meetings, stated that he was most impressed by the science at the AAPM meeting and hoped that we could find ways to increase RSNA participation at our meeting. For many years at the RSNA Annual Meeting, the RSNA/ AAPM Symposium, a plenary session, has been held on Thursday afternoon. Perhaps a joint AAPM/RSNA session could be (See Gould - p. 2)
The AAPM has announced the recipients of the two Clinical Residencies in Radiation Oncology sponsored by the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) and two Clinical Residencies in Diagnostic Medical Physics sponsored by the Radiological Soci(See Grants - p. 3)
Exec. Director’s Col. p 4 Gov’t. Affairs Column p 5 Education Counc. Rep. p 6 New ACR CT Accred. p 7 Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Program p 10 ISIORT p 13 Medical Events Revisited ... New Part 35 p 14 Int’l Conference - Cuba p 15 Partners in Physics p 16 A Plea to Physicists p 18 JACMP Ed.-in-Chief p 19 PUBCOM News p 20 Memorial p 21 New Members p 22 Letters to the Editor p 23