ABR President-elect Canon Named Professor Emerita at UAB
2024;17(4):11
ABR President-elect Cheri L. Canon, MD, was recently named professor emerita in the department of radiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine.
Dr. Canon also serves as president of the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation and chief physician executive of the UAB Health System.
Dr. Canon will begin her two-year term as ABR president at the conclusion of the fall board meeting in September. She started as an ABR volunteer in 2010, joined the Board of Trustees in 2016, and was named to the Board of Governors in 2018.
AAPM 2024 Fellows Include Nine ABR Volunteers
2024;17(4):12
Nine ABR medical physics volunteers have been named Fellows by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) for 2024: Tyler Blackwell, MS; Richard Castillo, PhD; Yusung Kim, PhD; Mi-Ae Park, PhD; Jennifer Pursley, PhD; Vikren Sarkar, PhD; Jiajian Shen, PhD; Matthew Studenski, PhD; and Christopher Tien, PhD.
AAPM is one of the world’s leading medical physics organizations with a mission to advance medicine through excellence in the science, education, and professional practice of medical physics.
The AAPM established the category of Fellow to honor members who have made significant contributions through one or more of the following:
- Service to AAPM.
- The advancement of medical physics knowledge based on independent original research or development.
- Medical physics educational activities, especially regarding the education and training of medical physicists, medical students, medical residents and allied health personnel.
- Leadership in the practice of medical physics.
Of approximately 10,000 AAPM members, only 767 (6.8%) have been awarded the prestigious Fellow distinction.
