American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Praises Medical Physics at Stanford

Posted 12:13 PM, June 11, 2007, by jaruiz

During their visit to Stanford on January 19, 2007, members of the AAPM Science Council were extremely complimentary about medical physics at Stanford after touring the Departments of Radiology and Radiation Oncology. AAMP Science Council Chair, John Boone, PhD, described seeing "one impressive lab after another, from MRI to x-ray CT physics, radiation therapy to molecular imaging, image processing to small animal imaging." By the end of the tour, he concluded that "excellence in medical physics research was evident at a scale that is perhaps matched by only a handful of universities in North America."

More than 5,000 medical physicists belong to the AAPM, a scientific, educational, and professional organization that promotes the application of physics to medicine and biology. Composed of 19 members, the AAMP Science Council acts as a clearinghouse for scientific inquiries and makes scientific policy recommendations to the AAMP Board. The Science Council meets on a regular basis and, once a year this meeting is held at a member's institution so that the Council can learn about the science being done by AAPM members. For more information on the AAMP, please visit http://www.aapm.org/org/default.asp.

The chair of our Department, Gary M. Glazer, MD, would like to thank Norbert Pelc, ScD, who is also a member of the AAMP Science Council, and the rest of the Stanford faculty and staff who helped coordinate the Science Council's tour of Stanford facilities: Chris Contag, PhD; David Dick, PhD; Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD; Arun Ganguly, PhD; Gary Glover, PhD; Paul Keall, PhD; Craig Levin, PhD; Sandy Napel, PhD; and Lei Xing, PhD.