Improving Health Through Medical Physics
Improving Health Through Medical Physics
Elections for the 2018 Officers, Board Members-at-Large and Nominating Committee Members will open on June 20 and will run through July 11. Again this year, AAPM will use the Bulletin Board System (BBS) during the election process to allow members to discuss issues of concern with the candidates and the election in general. The election process will be online only so be alert for e-mail announcements.
A new AAPM Report is available online:
Report of AAPM Task Group 162: Software for Planar Image Quality Metrology
Are you a "Platinum, Gold, Silver, or Copper" level contributor to the AAPM Education and Research Fund? This information is displayed on the AAPM website to assist you in keeping track of how much you have put into the fund. If you are logged in, you will see a message along the right-hand side of the page that shows your cumulative contributions with an indication of the additional donations required to elevate your contribution to the next "level."
There will once again be an Education and Research Fund Donors' Lounge at the Annual Meeting. Individuals who have made a cumulative lifetime donation of $100 or more will have access to the Lounge. Comfortable seating, beverages, and electronic charging stations will be available.
Consider donating to the Education and Research Fund today.
Three $25,000 grants will be awarded to provide funds to develop exciting investigator-initiated concepts, which will hopefully lead to successful longer-term project funding from the NIH or equivalent funding sources.
Funding for grant recipients will begin on July 1 of the award year. Research results will be submitted for presentation at future AAPM meetings.
Applicants must be a member of AAPM at time of application (any membership category).
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Best Medical will provide five fellowships in the amount of $1,000 each, to be used for travel, food and lodging expenses to attend the 2018 AAPM 60th Annual Meeting & Exhibition. AAPM will provide complimentary Annual Meeting registration for each recipient, including social function tickets.
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On November 29, 2017, the AAPM Board of Directors approved $140,000 in funding for two new imaging physics residency positions, in diagnostic, diagnostic with a nuclear medicine option, or nuclear medicine. With this funding, the selected institution(s) will receive $35,000 per year for two years as matching support for one resident.
The purpose of the AAPM funding is to provide 50% support of a resident's salary for two imaging physics residents. The awardee institution(s) will provide the other 50% support. After the period of the award is over, the intent is that the awardee institution(s) will continue to fully support this new imaging physics residency position. Demonstration of this intent should be included in the application materials. CAMPEP accreditation is expected within the first year of the funding period, if a program is not currently accredited.
All imaging physics residency programs are eligible to apply. Programs that have not received prior AAPM Imaging Physics Residency Grant Funding are particularly encouraged to apply. New programs will receive priority consideration.
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This is a reminder to review your AAPM Membership Profile information and make any changes necessary. Please, upload your picture if you have not already done so.
Remember to review the "Conflict of Interest" area of the Member Profile to self-report conflicts per the AAPM Conflict of Interest Policy.
AAPM recognizes that not everyone is interested in every topic that we communicate to our membership, so we are now organizing our e-mail communications into "campaigns" that are typically time and event based. The first time you receive an e-mail about a particular event, you may opt out of receiving future e-mails on this topic at the bottom where it says, "To inhibit future messages of this kind, click here." For example, if you know you aren't able to go to the 2018 Annual Meeting and don't want communications about the meeting, you may opt-out from any e-mail in the campaign, or from the e-preferences screen in your member profile.
At the March 2017 meeting, the AAPM Board of Directors approved the purchase of a new Association Management System (AMS) with integrated Financial Management System (FMS), the main business software for the organization. The recommendation came from TG 285 - Task Group on AAPM Association Management System chaired by AAPM Treasurer Mahadevappa Mahesh. AAPM's current system, IMPAK/APAK, has been in place since 1996. The decision was prompted in part by the sale of the software company to another vendor that was not offering a package that met AAPM's requirements.
The new systems are Microsoft Dynamics 360 GP (formerly Great Plains) as our FMS, and Abila Netforum Enterprise as our AMS. The FMS system went live in mid-February. The AMS contracts were signed early in the year, and implementation has begun with a "Go Live" scheduled for the second week of May. This is a huge investment and undertaking, but I'm very pleased and proud of how the AAPM HQ team has managed this process. The next few months will be very busy, especially for the Information Services and Finance teams as we strive to build out functionality in the new system that meets or exceeds the tools provided by the old system.
Who does what on the AAPM HQ Team? See a list with contact information and brief descriptions of responsibilities online. An Organization Chart is also provided.
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