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Global Needs Assessment of Medical Physicists Working in Low-and-Middle-Income Countries

Authors: Stephen M. Avery, Izabella L. Barreto, Oi-Wai Chau, Cesar Della Biancia, Beata Gontova Bernat, Amanda M. Jackson, Rao Khan, Eugene P. Lief, Osama R. Mawlawi, Wilfred F. Ngwa, Christopher F. Njeh, Peter Allan Sandwall, William Swanson, Joseph Weygand, Afua A. Yorke

Affiliation: Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, VA Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University, Mayo Clinic, Champion Cancer Center, Howard University, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology and Applied Science, Dartmouth Health, University of Washington, University of Florida College of Medicine, Washington University in St Louis, Emory University, University of Pennsylvania, OhioHealth, Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology

Abstract Preview: Purpose: To assess needs of medical physicists working in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs)
Methods: A survey was developed by AAPM’s Global Needs Assessment Committee (GNAC) in partnership w...

Large Scale Deployment of a Tailored and Hybrid Educational Strategy for Wartime Capacity Building: Aapm/HUG/Uamp Initiative to Transition Ukraine from Co-60 to IMRT through a Comprehensive Medical Physics Training Program

Authors: Victoria Susan Ainsworth, Stephen M. Avery, Serhii Brovchuk, Thomas Brown, Sean A. Dresser, Matthew D. Goss, Viktor M. Iakovenko, Kelly Kisling, Nataliya Kovalchuk, Robert F. Krauss, Wilfred F. Ngwa, Jatinder R. Palta, Julie A. Raffi, Peter Allan Sandwall, Natalka Suchowerska, William Swanson, Shada J. Wadi-Ramahi, Ruslan Zelinskyi

Affiliation: Allegheny Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Stanford University, O.O. Shalimov National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology, Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, MaineHealth, University of California, San Diego, Duke University, Emory University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Medical Physics Department, Medical center of Yuriy Spizhenko, OhioHealth, University of Massachusetts Lowell, St. Francis Hospital

Abstract Preview: Purpose: The AAPM International Council, in collaboration with Help Ukraine Group (HUG) and Ukrainian Association of Medical Physicists (UAMP), developed a novel hybrid year-long training course to as...

Status of Medical Physics Education in LMIC and IOMP Initiatives - Way Forward

Authors: Arun Chougule

Affiliation: Swasthya Kalyan Group

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