AAPM Annual Meeting

AAPM Annual Meeting
Name	AAPM Annual Meeting
Status	Active
Genre	Scientific conference
Frequency	Annual
Venue	Varies
Location	United States
First	1958
Organizer	American Association of Physicists in Medicine

AAPM Annual Meeting The AAPM Annual Meeting is the principal yearly conference of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, bringing together professionals from across United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, China, Australia, India, Brazil, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, South Korea, Singapore, Israel, Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, Chile, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Romania, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Luxembourg, Iceland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Cyprus, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Peru, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Belarus, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan.

History

The meeting traces roots to the formative years of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and early postwar gatherings of medical physicists alongside meetings of the Radiological Society of North America, American Roentgen Ray Society, International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements, International Commission on Radiological Protection, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, American College of Radiology, European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, European Association of Nuclear Medicine, International Atomic Energy Agency, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Society for Radiation Oncology, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Association for Cancer Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, American Board of Radiology, American Board of Medical Physics, Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists, British Institute of Radiology, Royal College of Radiologists, International Organization for Medical Physics, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, European Society of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America Scientific Assembly, International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering, American Physical Society, Optical Society of America.

Early meetings incorporated presentations on technologies developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermilab, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, CERN, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Mayo Clinic, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic, UCLA Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, University of Michigan, Harvard Medical School, Yale School of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Northwestern Medicine.

Purpose and Scope

The meeting aims to advance practice and research in clinical radiation oncology, medical imaging, radiation dosimetry, radiation protection, quality assurance, treatment planning, brachytherapy, stereotactic radiosurgery, proton therapy, heavy ion therapy, molecular imaging, positron emission tomography, single photon emission computed tomography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, functional MRI, diffusion weighted imaging, spectroscopy, ultrasound, interventional radiology, nuclear medicine, theranostics, radiobiology, health physics, imaging informatics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, radiomics, image-guided radiotherapy, adaptive radiotherapy, image reconstruction, detector design, photon therapy, electron therapy, linear accelerators, cyclotrons, synchrotrons, dose calculation algorithms, Monte Carlo simulation.

Organization and Governance

The meeting is organized by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine governance structures including the AAPM Board of Directors, AAPM Council, AAPM Science Council, AAPM Professional Council, AAPM Administration Committee, AAPM Education Council, AAPM Technical Committee on Radiation Dosimetry, AAPM Task Group 101, Task Group 148, Task Group 100, Task Group 142, Task Group 204, Task Group 71, ACR–AAPM–RSNA Practice Parameters Committee, AAPM Foundation, AAPM Young Investigator Program, AAPM Women in Medical Physics Committee, AAPM Diversity and Inclusion Committee, AAPM Subcommittee on Nominations, AAPM Standards Committee, AAPM Honors and Awards Committee.

Program planning involves coordination with external institutions such as American College of Medical Physics, European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics, International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements, International Commission on Radiological Protection, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, American Association of Physicists in Medicine Foundation, American College of Radiology, Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Joint Commission, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Association of American Medical Colleges, Medical Physics Journal editors, and publishers like Oxford University Press, Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley-Blackwell.

Annual Meeting Program and Activities

Typical programs include plenary lectures, scientific sessions, poster sessions, continuing education courses, certification review courses, vendor exhibitions, and panel discussions featuring speakers affiliated with Harvard University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, Johns Hopkins University, University of Toronto, McGill University, Karolinska Institutet, ETH Zurich, University of Melbourne, University of Tokyo, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Seoul National University, University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, Monash University, University of Sydney, University of British Columbia, University of Chicago, Princeton University, Cornell University, Duke University, Yale University, Columbia University, Brown University, Northwestern University, University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, San Diego, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, University of Washington, University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt University.

Special sessions partner with industry exhibitors including Varian Medical Systems, Elekta, Siemens Healthineers, GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, ViewRay, Mevion Medical Systems, IBA Group, Accuray, Hitachi Medical Systems, Canon Medical Systems, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Shimadzu Corporation, Hologic, Nikon Corporation, Agilent Technologies, Thermo Fisher Scientific, PerkinElmer, Bruker Corporation, NVIDIA, Intel Corporation, Qualcomm, MathWorks, MIM Software, Mirada Medical, MDS Nordion, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Boston Scientific.

Scientific Contributions and Publications

Research presented is often later published in peer-reviewed journals such as Medical Physics (journal), Physics in Medicine & Biology, Radiotherapy and Oncology, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, The Lancet Oncology, Nature Medicine, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Science Translational Medicine, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, European Journal of Radiology, Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Radiology (journal), AJR American Journal of Roentgenology, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences, Frontiers in Oncology, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, PLOS ONE, Scientific Reports.

Proceedings, white papers, task group reports, and practice guidelines released at meetings influence policy and standards at organizations like the Food and Drug Administration, American College of Radiology, Joint Commission, American Board of Radiology, International Atomic Energy Agency, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.

Attendance and Membership

Attendees include clinical physicists, researchers, dosimetrists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, technologists, and industry representatives from organizations such as Mayo Clinic, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic, UCLA Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Stanford Health Care, Mount Sinai Health System, Georgetown University Medical Center, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Royal Marsden Hospital, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Vancouver General Hospital.

Membership categories of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine include full members, associate members, student members, international members, and emeritus members with ties to credentialing bodies such as the American Board of Radiology, Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine, European Board of Radiology, Royal College of Radiologists.

Notable Meetings and Milestones

Notable meetings have featured speakers and honorees associated with Marie Curie, Ernest O. Lawrence, Wilhelm Röntgen, Rosalind Franklin, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Richard Feynman, Hans Geiger, Hermann von Helmholtz, Lord Kelvin, Paul Dirac, Enrico Fermi, Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, André-Louis Debierne, Alexander Fleming, Joseph Lister, Harvey Cushing, Marie and Pierre Curie Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Memorial Hospital, Rockefeller Institute.

Milestones include the first inclusion of image-guided radiotherapy workshops, inaugural sessions on proton therapy sponsored by Loma Linda University Medical Center and Paul Scherrer Institute, dedicated forums on stereotactic body radiotherapy following advances at Karolinska University Hospital and Stanford Health Care, early demonstrations of Monte Carlo simulation work from CERN collaborations, and panels addressing artificial intelligence led by researchers from Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, NVIDIA Research.

Category:Medical conferences