AMERICAN ASSOCIATION of PHYSICISTS IN MEDICINE Awards Ceremony July 30, 2018 • 6:30 pm Broadway Ballroom • Level 2 • Omni Hotel The American Association of Physicists in Medicine is the premier organization in medical physics, a broadly-based scientific and professional discipline encompassing physics principles and applications in biology and medicine. The mission of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine is advancing medicine through excellence in the science, education and professional practice of medical physics. 2018 PROGRAM Bruce R. Thomadsen, PhD AAPM President Honoring Deceased AAPM Members AAPM Fellowships and Grants SPARE: Spare-view Reconstruction Challenge for 4D Cone-beam CT Jack Fowler Junior Investigator Award Jack Krohmer Junior Investigator Award John R. Cameron Young Investigator Awards AAPM Award for Innovation in Medical Physics Education Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics Paper Awards Moses and Sylvia Greenfield Paper Award Farrington Daniels Paper Award Honorary Membership Fellows Recognition of 50+ Years of AAPM Membership John S. Laughlin Young Scientist Award Marvin M.D. Williams Professional Achievement Award Edith H. Quimby Lifetime Achievement Award William D. Coolidge Gold Medal Closing Remarks Reception immediately following 1 AAPM FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS n AAPM Fellowship for the training of a doctoral candidate in the field of Medical n Summer Undergraduate Fellowships Physics Designed to provide opportunities for undergraduate university students to Awarded for the first two years of graduate study leading to a doctoral degree gain experience in medical physics by performing research in a medical in Medical Physics. The recipient is: physics laboratory or assisting with clinical service at a clinical facility. In this program, AAPM serves as a clearinghouse to match exceptional students with Kaelyn Seeley – University of Wisconsin-Madison exceptional medical physicists, many who are faculty at leading research n ASTRO-AAPM Physics Resident/Post-Doctoral Fellow Seed Grant centers. Students participating in the 10-week program are placed into summer The Physics Seed Grant is a joint effort to advance the field of radiation oncolo- positions that are consistent with their interests. Students are selected for the gy in novel ways through the support of talented early-career scientists perform- program on a competitive basis to be an AAPM Summer Fellow. Each Summer ing physics and radiation oncology-related research. The aim of the Physics Fellow receives a stipend from AAPM. The Summer Undergraduate Fellows for Seed grant is to support the next generation of researchers. The 2018 grant 2018 are: recipient is: Julian Bertini Thomas Rhines Khadija Sheikh, PhD – Johns Hopkins University Alexandra Gruszkiewicz Jacqueline Van Slycke Allison Haertter Benjamin Wollant n 2018 DREAM — Diversity Recruitment through Education and Mentoring Program Brianna Lepore Teresa Yuhas Designed to increase the number of underrepresented groups in medical Zachary Metzler Louise Naumann physics by creating new opportunities, outreach, and mentoring geared towards diversity recruitment of undergraduate students in the field of medical n Summer School Tuition Scholarships physics. Students participating in the program are placed into summer positions These scholarships are offered to applicants who are early in their careers in that are consistent with their interests. Students are selected for the program medical physics. The 2018 scholarship recipients are: on a competitive basis to be DREAM Fellows. Each DREAM Fellow receives a Daniel Christ, DMP Nrusingh Biswal, PhD stipend from AAPM for the DREAM Program. Additional support was provided Donna Murrell, PhD Samuel French, MS by the AAPM Northwest Chapter. The DREAM Fellows for 2018 are: Albert Pinder-Arabpour, PhD Sarah Geneser, PhD Marco Carmona Daniel Keane Vijay Chockalingam Claudia Miller n The AAPM Expanding Horizons Travel Grant Tracy Edwards This travel grant program is designed to provide an opportunity to broaden the scope of scientific meetings attended to introduce students and trainees to n AAPM Imaging Physics Residency Program Grant new topics which may be of relevance to medical physics research and which On November 29, 2017, the AAPM Board of Directors approved $140,000 may subsequently be incorporated into future research to progress the field in in funding for two new imaging physics residency positions, in diagnostic, new directions. The deadline for 2018 Round 2 is September 7, 2018. The 2017 diagnostic with a nuclear medicine option, or nuclear medicine. With this Travel Grant recipients are: funding, the selected institution(s) will receive $35,000 per year for two years as Fahed Alsanea, MS Evan Harvey, MS matching support for one resident. The 2018 winner is: Carlos Cardenas, MS Reza Taleei, PhD Boston Children’s Hospital - Medical & Radiation Physics, Inc. - William Donahue, BS Director: Frederic H. Fahey, DSc Director: David Lloyd Goff, PhD The 2018 Round 1 Travel Grant recipients are: Elham Abouei, MS Samuel Einstein, PhD Elizabeth Boehnke, MS Eric Morris, BS Justin Brown, MS 2 3 n The AAPM Science Council Associates Mentorship Program JACK FOWLER JUNIOR INVESTIGATOR AWARD This program has been established to recognize and cultivate outstanding researchers at an early stage in their careers, with the goal of promoting a Established in honor of Dr. Jack Fowler, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Human long-term commitment to science within AAPM. The program uses the process Oncology and Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin. Junior Investigators of “shadowing” to integrate the Associates into the scientific activities of the were encouraged to submit abstracts for the competition. The top scoring organization. The 2018 Associates are: Junior Investigator submission determined by abstract reviewers was selected and the award is presented to: Joshua Niedzielski Emil Schueler Sarah Quirk Chunhao Wang Grace Jianan Gang, PhD Matthew Scarpelli You Zhang n AAPM Best Awards JACK KROHMER JUNIOR INVESTIGATOR AWARD A new Travel Fellowship for Student, Resident, or Junior Members of AAPM to (formerly known as Science Council Junior Investigator Award) attend the AAPM Annual Meeting, to be exposed to, and have access to the Established in honor of Dr. Jack Krohmer, PhD, a pioneer in the medical physics scientific and technical information and presentations on current and emerging community. The award is based on abstracts submitted to the Scientific Program topics in medical physics and related areas. The 2018 Travel Fellowship of the AAPM Annual Meeting, judged according to criteria of significance, recipients are: innovation, and the potential for major scientific impact in an area of cutting Yu Gao James Renaud edge interest in medical physics. The 2018 award is presented to: Angelia Landers Irwin I. Tendler Jian Wu, PhD Christopher J. MacLellan n Research Seed Funding Grant JOHN R. CAMERON YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDS These grants are awarded to provide funds to develop exciting investigator The 10 Young Investigator submissions scored highest by abstract reviews were initiated concepts, which will hopefully lead to successful longer term project selected to be presented in a special symposium, held early today, in honor of funding from the NIH or equivalent funding sources. It is expected that University of Wisconsin Professor Emeritus John R. Cameron, PhD The top three subsequent research results will be submitted for presentation at future AAPM scoring abstracts will be announced during this ceremony. meetings. The recipients for 2018 are: Arash Darafsheh, PhD – Washington University School of Medicine Xianjin Dai, PhD – Stanford University AAPM AWARD FOR INNOVATION IN MEDICAL David A Hormuth II, PhD – The University of Texas at Austin PHYSICS EDUCATION The Award for Innovation in Medical Physics Education is generously supported by SPARE: SPARE-VIEW RECONSTRUCTION CHALLENGE a bequest from the estate of Dr. Harold Marcus. It is given for innovative programs in medical physics education of physicists, physicians, ancillary personnel, and FOR 4D CONE-BEAM CT the public. The 2018 winner was determined earlier today and will be announced The SPARE challenge, conducted by the ACRF Image X Institute, aims to during this ceremony. systematically investigate the efficacy of various image reconstruction algorithms for 4D CBCT reconstruction from a one-minute scan. Three top-performing teams will present their methods in a session at the 2018 AAPM Annual Meeting. Cyril Mory, PhD Matthew Riblett, BS & Geoffrey Hugo, PhD Simon Rit, PhD 4 5 JOURNAL OF APPLIED CLINICAL MEDICAL PHYSICS MOSES & SYLVIA GREENFIELD AWARD BEST PAPER AWARDS The Moses & Sylvia Greenfield Award for an outstanding paper on imaging published in Medical Physics in 2017 is presented to: n Award of Excellence for an Outstanding Radiation Oncology Physics Article The Award of Excellence for Outstanding Radiation Oncology Physics Article Alexander M. Grant, Brian J. Lee, Chen-Ming Chang, and Craig S. Levin for their paper entitled “Simultaneous PET/MR imaging with a radio frequency-penetrable published in JACMP in 2017 is presented to: PET insert,” Medical Physics 44 (1), 112–120 (2017). Ans C.C. Swinnen, Michel C. Ollers, Erik Roijen, Sebastiaan M. Nijsten, and Frank Verhaegen for the paper entitled “Influence of the jaw tracking technique on the dose calculation accuracy of small field VMAT plans,”Journal of Applied FARRINGTON DANIELS AWARD Clinical Medical Physics,18 (1), 186-195