In his former career, medical physicist and ABR volunteer Matt Vanderhoek, PhD, taught high-school physics in Brooklyn. Getting students interested in the subject took effort. To overcome the challenge, Dr. Vanderhoek would spend the opening day of class doing demonstrations that captured his pupils’ attention. Knowing they were going through a boring day of reviewing…
The ABR will welcome three new Trustees at the conclusion of its fall Board meeting. Phuong-Anh T. Duong, MD (diagnostic radiology quality and safety), AJ Gunn, MD (interventional radiology), and Katja Langen, PhD (therapeutic medical physics), will join the Board of Trustees (BOT) in October. Dr. Duong is an associate professor in the department of…
ABR Trustee Jennifer Stickel, PhD, is vice president of diagnostic/nuclear medicine physics at Colorado Associates in Medical Physics in Colorado Springs. In this video, she offers step-by-step guidance for medical physics trainees.
One of the ways that medical physicist Justin Zenn relaxes away from work is mixing it up in a local hockey league a couple of times a week in Fishers, Indiana, near Indianapolis. Every January, he takes it to the extreme and participates in the U.S. Pond Hockey Championships, an outdoor event. This year’s tournament…
The start of a new year is a good point to reflect on the recent past and look to the future. ABR Executive Director Brent Wagner, MD, MBA, recently took time to address questions about a few of the organization’s accomplishments and opportunities. The new Diagnostic Oral Certifying Exam is coming in a couple of…
As most medical physicists are aware, in 2002, the ABR announced its decision to require candidates for certification to have completed a CAMPEP-accredited graduate program. The date of implementation was set for 2012 to allow programs and candidates plenty of time to prepare for this change. Shortly afterward, the AAPM recommended that the ABR also…
Abdullah Alshreef, PhDMedical Physics, Loma Linda University HealthABMS Scholar “Through my medical physics residency, I have worked with multidisciplinary teams dedicated to advancing patient care. These experiences have strengthened my technical skills and collaborative approach, shaping my approach to patient care and leadership in the clinic. In the coming year, I look forward to completing…
Professional societies are invaluable to the success of practitioners in medical physics, radiology, and radiation oncology. The ABR focuses on exams and other assessments of knowledge and skills in those disciplines, but we recognize that our volunteers are often engaged in research and educational activities outside of their institutions. To avoid a potential conflict of…
By Kalpana Kanal, PhD; Jennifer Stickel, PhD; Matthew Podgorsak, PhD; and Geoffrey Ibbott, PhD The ABR has three medical physics trustees who specialize in diagnostic medical physics (DMP), nuclear medical physics (NMP), and therapeutic medical physics (TMP), respectively. This fall, the ABR welcomed Sameer Tipnis, PhD, who has replaced Kalpana Kanal, PhD, as the DMP…
By the time Kalpana Kanal, PhD, rotates off herABR Trustee duties in October, she will have started board appointments with the American Association for Physicists in Medicine and the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs. However, she says that the work will not fill the gap created by the end of her days…
By Raghavendiran Boopathy, PhD; Malcolm Heard, PhD; and James A Tanyi, PhD In our professional lives, we all have had moments where we wished we had done things or approached problems differently. In writing this article, our purpose is to give a perspective for the future generation looking to make an impact in medical physics….
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