SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER REPORT Steven Goetsch, PhD, San Diego, CA

AAPM Southern California Chapter held its annual Norm Baily Awards dinner for graduate students, residents and postdoctoral fellows at the JD Morgan Athletic Center at UCLA on May 9, 2017. A total of seven awards were given out with 19 excellent abstracts submitted. The top three awardees each gave a 15 minute talk on their work.

Angelia Landers (a graduate student at UCLA Department of Radiation Oncology) gave a talk on "Bayesian Optimization for Automatic 4 PI Planning". Her advisor is Professor Ke Sheng. Du Dongsu (a resident at UCLA Medical Center) gave a talk titled "Initial investigation of four-dimensional (4D) dose calculation based on 4D-MRI". Du works with Professor Minsong Cao. Fei Han (UCLA Department of Radiology) gave a talk titled "Respiratory Motion-Resolved, Self-Gated 4D-MRI Using Rotating Cartesian K-Space (ROCK): Initial Clinical Experience on an MRI-Guided Radiotherapy System". Fei works with Professor Peng Hu.

Other winners were: Geraldine Chee and Kamal Singhrao (UCLA Medical Center), Tze Lim, Ana Medina and Niclas Pettersson (University of California San Diego Medical Center).

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