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AAPM Annual Meeting and President's Symposium Theme: Celebrating Medical Physics: Transforming Human Health.

Cynthia McCollough, President

The theme of this meeting and Presidential Symposium, is Building Bridges. Why build bridges? Because doing so Cultivates Safety and Grows our Value to our organizations and to the patients who benefit from our expertise.

The idiom “build bridges” is understood to mean: improve relationships between people who are very different. This year’s Presidential Symposium will provide an engaging look at the ways in which we can listen differently and understand better, building stronger and more rewarding relationships in our work environments. In particular, we will look at how negative stereotypes about people different from ourselves, particularly of a different generation, present a significant barrier to positive working relationships. We spend a lot of time with our work colleagues; let’s find a way to enjoy our time together!

The importance of crossing boundaries and building bridges is emphasized throughout our program this year. We have over 30 sessions of programming in Interdisciplinary Science, our four Councils are working collaboratively to present an integrated session on Quality in Medical Physics, and our Student Meeting is focusing on building bridging to our patients through improved communication. We will have a Professional Symposium on International Actions to discuss building better bridges to the global medical physics community. There will be many sessions that focus on the intersection of imaging and radiation therapy, and we will offer a 6-hour course on MR Safety in collaboration with colleagues from the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. In addition to our Partners in Solutions program in the technical exhibits, which provides unique opportunities to interact with and learn from our vendors, we offer our Partners for the Future program, which opens a dialogue between our corporate partners and individuals training to become medical physicists.

Our Annual Meeting Program Committee has done an exceptional job of building a program that truly offers something for everyone, emphasizing building connections across specialties; amongst individuals in academia, clinical practice, regulatory and industry; across different demographics; and across the globe. Please join us in San Antonio, and when you do, I hope that you will learn about new technologies and new areas of medical physics, and make new connections and new friends. We are strongest as a profession when we cross boundaries, build bridges, and take down silos.

Sessions of Note from the President

  • AAPM Medical Physics Student Meeting: Patient Communication - A Future Role for Clinical Physicists?
  • Education Council Symposium: Defining and Measuring Quality in Medical Physics Education
  • Joint Council Symposium: Quality in Medical Physics
  • Professional Council Symposium: Finding the Most Valuable Use of Limited Time and Resources
  • Radiomics
  • Multimodality and Nuclear Medicine
  • Imaging for Motion Management
  • Novel Dosimetry and Calibration Methods
  • Society of Physics Students (SPS) Undergraduate Research
  • Imaging for Response Assessment
  • 4DCT and 4DCBCT
  • New and Preclinical Devices: Hardware and Methods
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • New and Preclinical Imaging
  • Error Detection/Incident Learning
  • MRI in RT
  • Imaging for Treatment Planning
  • CT: Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics
  • Motion Management: Tracking
  • Functional Imaging and Response Assessment
  • Automated Patient Safety and QA Methods
  • Joint AAPM-SNMMI Symposium: Nuclear Medicine Theranostics and Functional Image-Guided Radiation Therapy for Precision Oncology
  • ISMRM - AAPM Joint Symposia: MR Safety Foundations
  • Are you Prepared for Cybersecurity? What Industry is Planning and How You Can Manage It.
  • International Symposium: Certification of Medical Physicists Worldwide
  • Dual Energy Imaging
  • MR-guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy
  • President's Symposium: Building Bridges
  • John R. Cameron Young Investigator Symposium
  • Innovation in Medical Physics Education
  • Computed Tomography-guided Interventional Procedures
  • Current Challenges and Prospects in Particle Therapy
  • Imaging of Tumor Response to Radiotherapy: New Results and Radiobiological Principles
  • Novel Approaches to Dose Optimization in Nuclear Medicine
  • From Burnout to Engagement: The Outlook for Medical Physicist Wellness and Patient Safety
  • Communicating Benefit to Risk Ratio from Radiology Exams to the Patient and Provider
  • ISMRM-AAPM Joint Symposia: MR Safety Operations
  • 5D imaging and Treatment Planning for Radiation Therapy
  • The Understanding and Courage to Lead - Part 2
  • In Memoriam of Jean St. Germain: The Intersection of Radiobiology, Radioepidemiology, and Safety
  • Data Science Reproducibility/Robustness
  • CBCT in Radiotherapy
  • MR-only Treatment Planning
  • Data Science Applications
  • CBCT: Registration and Motion
  • Assessment of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Challenges and Strengths in the Medical Physics Field
  • Medical Physics Life Hacks
  • In Memoriam of Peter Dunscombe: Celebrating the Life and Accomplishments of Peter Dunscombe, PhD, FAAPM - A Tireless Champion of Quality of Care and Patient Safety
  • Carson-Zagzebski Distinguished Lectureship on Medical Ultrasound
  • Imaging and Biomarkers of Response
  • Data Science in Medical Physics
  • Biomedical Modeling Using Imaging Data
  • WMIS/AAPM Joint Symposium: Nanotechnology
  • MR guided RT: Treating with On-board MRI
  • The Understanding and Courage to Lead - Part 4
  • CT: Dual Energy and Spectral CT
  • Imaging for Response Assessment
  • MRI: Artifacts, Correction, and Reconstruction
  • Radiomics and Quantitative Imaging
  • New Member Symposium: Becoming Employed and Involved in Medical Physics
  • Integrating Radiomics and Genomics for Personalized Cancer Therapy in the Era of AI and Big Data
  • Session in Memory of Edward Nickoloff: Joint Commission Update: Satisfying the Joint Commission Fluoroscopy Requirements
  • Breaking Out of the Clinic: Non-Clinical Careers in Medical Physics
  • ISMRM-AAPM Joint Symposia: MR Safety for Experts
  • Diagnostic Ultrasound QA/QC Hands-on Workshop
  • Spectral and Photon Counting CT
  • How will IEC Standards Updates Affect the Practice of Medical Physics?
  • Managing Conflicts of Interest: Building Trust and Improving Outcomes
  • Advances in Ultrasound Imaging Technology
  • Medphys Slam
  • Contrast-enhanced and Functional Imaging of the Breast
  • How to Successfully Interface with Vendors
  • NIH Investigator Scientific Highlights
  • Advanced Ultrasound Imaging in Clinical Applications
  • In Memoriam of Libby Brateman: Education, Licensure, Guidance and Mammography- Enhancing the Recognition of the Medical Physics Profession
  • Imaging for Particle Therapy
  • Outstanding Science Published in 2018: Medical Physics and JACMP
  • Novel Applications in Cardiac Imaging and Therapeutics
  • Adaptive Radiotherapy
  • AAPM Grand Challenges Symposium
  • AAPM Annual Business Meeting | Town Hall Meeting - AAPM Board of Director Members
  • Reducing Sedation and Anesthesia in Pediatric Radiology
  • Computed Tomography
  • Brachytherapy
  • MRI in Radiation Therapy
  • Deep Learning for Image Reconstruction and Processing
  • The Anne and Donald Herbert Distinguished Lectureship in Modern Statistical Modeling
  • Robust and Reproducible Research in Medical Physics
  • Adaptive Radiation Therapy (Online, Offline, Real Time)
  • Vendor Related Mammography Updates