Please plan to join us on November 9th at the US Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs for our fall annual meeting. We will have a great lineup of speakers and will make a remote option available for those who cannot join us in person.

Zoom link : https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89377358544?pwd=KEsvUe0uVmiIdgg4tNwz4JvFyEnv0d.1

Note: This meeting has been approved by CAMPEP for 6.0 MPCEC hours

Fall 2024 Speakers

The 2024 RMAAPM Fall Meeting is generously sponsored at the Standard/Premium level by the following vendor colleagues:

Please plan to join us on May 11th at the Huntsman Cancer Institute Research South Auditorium for our spring annual meeting. We will have a great lineup of speakers and will make a remote option available for those who cannot join us in person.

Zoom link : https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82994930213?pwd=cE9m9pYJa7J4CMgAbLz8hjeFFTDtsw.1

If you are driving, feel free to park in any non-reserved parking spot.

NOTE: This meeting has received CAMPEP approval of 6.0 MPCEC hours

On the evening of May 10, Varian is generously sponsoring an ice breaker session. It will be held at Lake Effect in downtown SLC. The address is 155 W 200 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84101. The event starts at 6 pm.

Spring 2024 Speakers

The 2024 RMAAPM Spring Meeting is generously sponsored at the Standard/Premium level by the following vendor colleagues:

• VisionRT

• Varian, a Siemens Healthineers Company

• PTW

• Sun Nuclear, a Mirion Medical Company

• IBA Dosimetry

• RADformation

• Orfit Industries

• Accuray

• Brainlab

• LAP

• RaySearch Laboratories

The Rocky Mountain AAPM Fall meeting will be held at The Crawford Hotel at Union Station in Denver, CO on November 4th 2023.  This meeting has applied to CAMPEP for approval of 6 MPCEC hours. A remote option will be available for those who are unable to attend in person.

2023 FALL Meeting SPeakers

The 2023 RMAAPM Fall Meeting is sponsored by our vendor collegues:

• PTW North America Corporation

• VisionRT

• Sun Nuclear - A Mirion Medical Company

• Phantom Laboratory/Image Owl

• BrainLab

• LAP Laser/Radcalc

• Varian, a Siemens Healthineers Company

• Landauer

• Standard Imaging

• Scandidos

• MedLever
  

If you have any additional questions please reach out to us on the Contact page.

The Rocky Mountain AAPM Spring meeting will be held at Spring Hill Suites in Moab UT, on June 17, 2023.  This meeting will feature the Medical Physics Investigator Slam with the winner receiving funds towards a trip to the national AAPM meeting to compete against other regional winners.

5.0 CAMPEP credits have been applied for

This Event is sponsored by:

• Varian

• Brainlab

• Raysearch

• PTW

• Sunnuclear

• Landauer

The Rocky Mountain AAPM Fall Meeting will be held in person and virtually! Please join us November 4, 2022 in Krugman Conference Hall at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus (12700 East 19th Ave, Aurora, CO 80045) or wherever you are.

The conference hall is located at 2nd floor of Research 2 building (P15), and you can park in Henderson Parking (V17) or Vail Lot. Campus map can be found here.

In this meeting, we will have 4 speakers covering variable hot topics in the medical physics field.

Thanks to our vendors, lunch will be provided for all attendees joining us in person! Please RSVP by October 26, 2022 so that we can order food for you!

Disclaimer: Meeting attendees understand that there are inherent dangers associated with COVID-19. Attendees will hold our chapter harmless if they attend the meeting and contract the illness.

NOTE: This meeting has applied to CAMPEP for approval of 3.0 MPCEC hours

Jonathan Lindquist, MD (University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus)

“Frontiers in Radioembolization”

Ehsan Samei, PhD, FACR (Duke University & President-Elect of AAPM)

“MP3.0, AAPM, and You.”

Lindsey Olsen, PhD (UCHealth, Memorial Hospital)

“Enhancing a Physicist’s Role in the Assessment of Treatment Plan Quality “

Henry Chen, PhD (University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus)

“Introduction to Graph Theory and Graph Measures for Analyzing Resting-State Functional MRI “

The Rocky Mountain AAPM Spring Meeting will be held in person and virtually! Please join us May 14, 2022 in Krugman Conference Hall at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus (12700 East 19th Ave, Aurora, CO 80045) or wherever you are.

The conference hall is located at 2nd floor of Research 2 building (P15), and you can park in Henderson Parking (V17) or Vail Lot. Campus map can be found here.

We are excited to welcome 5 speakers this year.

Thanks to our vendors, lunch will be provided for all attendees joining us in person! Please RSVP by May 6, 2022 so that we can order food!

For those interested, we will also have a happy hour nearby after the meeting!

MEDPHYS SLAM is here again for all trainees and students. Please see the MEDPHYS Slam website linked below for submission details. The winner will receive the chance to represent Rocky Mountain AAPM Chapter at the National AAPM Annual Summer meeting. The registration fee for the national meeting and travel expenses of the winner will be covered by our chapter. Don’t miss it!

Due to COVID, we are taking steps to ensure the health and safety of our attendees:

• COVID-19 vaccination is required and the use of face masks when indoors is recommended

• Where possible, space will be adjusted to allow for physical distancing

Disclaimer: Meeting attendees understand that there are inherent dangers associated with COVID-19. Attendees will hold our chapter harmless if they attend the meeting and contract the illness.

NOTE: This meeting has applied to CAMPEP for approval of 3.1 MPCEC hours

Richard Castillo, PhD, Emory University

“Embracing a Culture of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in AAPM: DISC, DREAM, and Affinity”

Ashley Cetnar, PhD, Ohio State University

“FLASH – Practical Aspects of Building a Program”

Oliver Blasi, MS, Colorado Associates in Medical Physics & Alexander Markovic, PhD, Banner Health

“The APEx Accreditation Process: A Physics Leadership Perspective “

Todd Atwood, PhD, UC San Diego

“Examining the Impact of Direct Patient Care for Medical Physicists “

The University of New Mexico will be hosting a wonderful learning opportunity. The UNM Nuclear Engineering Department will be-cohosting a presentation regarding nuclear reactor incidents in conjunction with the Boston University School of Medicine this Friday, November 22nd, from 4-7.

Join us for dinner at the University of Colorado Anschutz campus on Friday, November 15 at the Research Complex Building 2. We will be having some excellent presentations from experts in the field including: former ASTRO president, Dr. Kavanagh; Chair of the AAPM, Dr. Bruce Thomadsen; and Colorado assistant professor Wei Zhou. Additionally, former AAPM president Jerry White will be giving a presentation on behalf of the AAPM Ethics Committee.

For those who will be in Denver prior to the meeting at 5:30, Ursula Brewery is within walking distance of the campus where members can meet before the meeting space is available. A post meeting gathering will also be hosted at Punchbowl Social-Stapleton for those who are interested in joining.

Please RSVP to let us know your interest in participating so we can plan accordingly.

Below you will find the meeting agenda and an overview of meeting space details with instructions for parking.

Thanks to our presenters for their time and expertise!

Thanks to our corporate partners for sponsoring this event!

Join us for a few drinks at the Breckenridge beer garden! Let us know if you can make it by filling out the RSVP here.

The Rocky Mountain AAPM Spring meeting will be held on the University of New Mexico at the Domenici Health Sciences Center, May 18, 2019.  The meeting will feature our second Medical Physics Investigator Slam with the winner receiving funds towards a trip to the national AAPM meeting to compete against other regional winners. If you are interested in participating in the MedPhys Slam follow this link to instructions on the site. Admissions to the competition should be entered by Friday, May 10.

We are excited to welcome Dr. Lei Xing from Stanford University to present regarding Artificial Intelligence and its application in our field. Additionally, we will have several presentations from our hosts at the University of New Mexico Radiation Oncology and Medical Physics program, chapter members, and vendor sponsors.

Thanks to Varian for hosting dinner Friday night! See below for photos from the meeting and a relaxing tour and wine tasting at local vineyard Casa Rondena.

Thanks to our presenters for their time and expertise! Presentations from the meeting can be found by clicking on the presenter’s picture.

2019 Rocky Mountain MedPhys Slam

In our second MedPhys Slam, student, resident and junior members of the chapter attempted to summarize their own research in 3 minutes or less to a member outside our MedPhys community. Each was judged for the quality and clarity of their presentations as well as their ability to condense their complex material to a brief, simple explanation. We appreciate our participants taking the time from their studies for a chance to represent us at the National AAPM competition.

Congratulations to our regional winner Reza Alibazi-Behbahani from UC Denver! Reza will represent us at the national meeting, presenting against the other regional representatives.

Click on the presenters name to view their presentation (Reza’s will be withheld until the national meeting).

Adam Mahl, UC Denver

Farnoush Forghani-Arani, UC Denver

Reza Alibazi-Behbahani, UC Denver

Ryan Kalmoe, University of New Mexico

If you have any additional questions please reach out to us on the Contact page.

Thanks to our sponsors who helped support this event!

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Join us for dinner and drinks at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science while enjoying some compelling presentations from your colleagues in Medical Physics and Radiation Oncology.

Thanks to our presenters for their time and expertise!

A video of the presentation can be accessed by clicking on the picture of the presenter and the actual powerpoint can be accessed by clicking on the title of the presentation.

Note: videos are not professional grade! Most of the talks are included but the very beginning or end may not have been captured.

Thanks to our sponsors!

The RMAAPM Spring meeting will be held at Penrose Cancer Center June 9, 2018.  The meeting will feature the first Young Investigator Slam with the winner receiving funds towards a trip to the national AAPM meeting to compete against other region winners.

Many thanks to all who attended the meeting!  Below are some pictures from the meeting and a special outing provided by local guide service Hike For Life

Our presenters have been kind enough to post their powerpoints online for those who could not attend.  Thank you for your time and expertise!

Congratulations to Warren Campbell on winning the Young Investigator Slam!  We wish him luck at the national meeting!  Thanks to all of our participants who entered presentations, this was a great way to highlight the different work being done in our region.  We will refrain from posting Warren's presentation until after the meeting but the other presentations can be found below.

Also thanks to Brad Schuller for introducing the "National Speakers Bureau."  This is an opportunity to reach out to our community and introduce the concepts of Medical Physics to up and coming students who could help shape our field.  If you are interested in participating you can reach Brad at bradley.schuller@bannerhealth.com.

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Our presenters have been kind enough to post their powerpoints online for those who could not attend.  Thank you for your time and expertise!

Making Customized Flexible Bolus with a 3D Printer - Alex Markovic

The Linear No Threshold Model and Its Impact on Public Health - Mohan Doss

The Future of Medical Physics - Todd Pawlicki

Evaluation of a Surface Imaging System's Isocenter Calibration Methods - Adam Paxton

A Comparison of Two Commercial Phantoms for SRS QA - Vikren Sarkar

AAPM Governance Project - Todd Pawlicki

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Our presenters have been kind enough to post their powerpoints online for those who could not attend.  Thank you for your time and expertise!

Impact of Small MU/Segment and Dose Rate on Delivery Accuracy of VMAT,  Long Huang, University of Utah

Investigation of Nested Volume ­of­ Interest Cone­Beam CT Imaging With a Low Atomic Number Linear Accelerator Target, Del Leary, Colorado State University

Managing the care of radiotherapy patients implanted with cardiac devices,   Moyed Miften, University of Colorado

Clinical Implementation of a New Ultrasound Guidance System,   Vikren Sarkar, University of Utah 

Functional lung radiotherapy with 4DCT ventilation: from theory to clinical implementation Jenia Vinogradskiy, University of Colorado

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Presentations

Sean Luan, PhD -- Inverse Planning using Particle Swarm Optimization

Brad Schuller, PhD -- Process Evaluation: A Community Practice Perspective

Rebecca Marsh, PhD -- Understanding dose metrics in diagnostic imaging

Michael Silosky, MS -- QC for both diagnostic and non-diagnostic LCD workstations

• 8:30 - 9:00 - Registration and Reception
• 8:00 - 9:10 - Welcome and Introduction
• 9:10 - 10:10 - Cem Altunbas: "University of Colorado Hospital experience with commissioning and operation of Varian TrueBeam Linac"
• 10:10 - 10:20 - Vender
• 10:20-10:40 - Break
• 10:40- 11:40 - CDPHE: "Registration of MP''s and Therapy Clinic review by the State"
• 11:40-12:10 - Steve Jones:"AAPM Proposed Membership Dues Increase"
• 12:10 - 12:20 - Vender
• 12:20 - 1:20 - Lunch / Chapter Business Meeting/New officer Introductions
• 1:20 - 1:30 - Vender
• 1:30 - 2:30 - Jerry White: ''''ACR-Clinical Implementation and Review"
• 2:30 - 2:40 - Vender
• 2:40 - 3:00 - Ali Kakakhel:"Commissioning a Cylindircal Teflon Phantom for Delivery Quality Assurance of SBRT Cases"
• 3:00 - 3:30 - Roy Keys:"Open access and medical physics"

The educational objectives of this program are to understand the goals and expectations of American College of Radiology accrediting on the working clinic. Learn and understand how new Linear accelerator technology is implemented by medical physicist''s. Learn about how the State of Colorado X-ray program will determine if an individual is qualified to be and Authorized Medical Physicist and how the states inspectors will critique the radiation therapy centers.

This meeting's targeted audience includes diagnostic, therapeutic medical physicists and medical dosimetrists. This meeting anticipates approved for CAMPEP.