IOMP SCHOOL WEBINARS

Prof. Hilde Bosmans is team leader of medical physics experts in radiology in the University Hospital KU Leuven and for more than 100 centres in the Belgian breast cancer screening. With a team of PhD students and post-doctoral researchers she works on dose and quality in radiology. She is also Project Leader of the EUTEMPE-RX courses for medical physics experts in radiology.

Prof. Paolo Russo was born in Naples in 1958 and graduated in Physics magna cum laude from the University of Napoli "Federico II", where he became full professor of Medical Physics. His scientific activity focuses on X-ray and gamma-ray medical imaging, particularly for breast imaging. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Physica Medica (2013–2020), as Chair of the EFOMP Publications Committee (2018–2019), and as Chair of the IOMP Publications Committee (2018–2021).

Prof. Iuliana Toma-Dasu studied Medical Physics at Umeå University, where she became a certified medical physicist and received her PhD. Her research focuses on biologically optimised adaptive radiation therapy including particle therapy, modelling the tumour microenvironment, and the risks from radiotherapy. She is Editor-in-Chief of Physica Medica — European Journal of Medical Physics.

Dr. Ola Holmberg is Head of the Radiation Protection of Patients Unit at the IAEA, Vienna, for over 12 years. He is a medical physicist who has previously worked in Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands and Denmark.

Giorgia Loreti is a Training Officer at the IAEA, focusing on access to quality education in medical physics, adherence to standards, and recognition of the profession. Previously she worked as a clinical medical physicist at the S. Orsola University Hospital in Bologna.

Dr. Ad J.J. Maas is Chair of EFOMP’s Professional Matters committee, a member of the EFOMP Board of Officers since 2018, and a member of EU Expert Panels on Medical Devices and In Vitro Diagnostic Devices.

Mohammad Hassan Kharita PhD in Radiation Dosimetry. MEFOMP Secretary General since 2018, Director of Radiation Safety at Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar. Medical physicist specialised in Diagnostic Radiology and Health Physics.

Sandra Guzman is Doctor in Medical Physics from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is President of ALFIM (2019–2022) and former President of the Peruvian Society of Medical Physics (2008–2016). Winner of the IOMP IDMP 2016 Award.

Dr. Taofeeq Ige is the pioneer Secretary-General and current President of FAMPO. He serves on the IOMP Awards and Honours Committee and the IUPESM Health Technology Task Group.

Dr. Arun Chougule is Senior Professor and Head of Radiological Physics at SMS Medical College, Jaipur, and President of AFOMP. With 36 years of experience and 110+ publications, his interests include radiation biology, dosimetry, and QA-QC.

Dr. Freddy Haryanto is President of SEAFOMP since 2019 and a lecturer at the Physics Department of Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. He specialises in Monte Carlo simulation for radiotherapy and small field dosimetry.

Prof. Slavik Tabakov is Vice-President of IUPESM and Past-President of IOMP (2015–2018). He is Founding Director of MSc Clinical Sciences (Medical Physics) and MSc Medical Engineering and Physics at King’s College London, and Co-Director of the International College on Medical Physics at ICTP, Trieste. He is Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of Medical Physics International. He received the EU Leonardo Da Vinci Award for Education, the King’s College London Teaching Excellence Award, and the IOMP Harold Johns Medal for Excellence in Teaching and International Education Leadership.

Dr. Colin Martin worked as a hospital-based Medical Physicist in Radiation Protection in Glasgow and Aberdeen, Scotland for over 30 years. He is Vice-Chairman of ICRP Committee 3 and a member of ICRP TG79 on the use of dose quantities in radiation protection. He is also a member of various IAEA committees, UK and EU working parties, and COMARE. He has written over 200 articles including 140 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Madan Rehani is Director, Global Outreach for Radiation Protection at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and President of IOMP (2018–2021). He is a member of ICRP, author of 8 ICRP Annals, and has more than 155 publications including papers in JAMA Internal Medicine, BMJ, European Heart Journal, and The Lancet.

Prof. Katja Maria Langen received a B.S. equivalent in health physics from the Berufsakademie Karlsruhe and both an MS and PhD in medical physics from the University of Wisconsin. She has overseen planning for proton facilities at MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, the University of Maryland Proton Treatment Center, and Emory University.

Dr. Nisy Elizabeth Ipe has a PhD from Purdue University and was previously Head of the Radiation Physics Department at SLAC National Laboratory, Stanford, California. She has 35 years of experience in shielding design and has shielded many proton therapy facilities. She was Task Group Chair for PTCOG Report 1: Shielding and Radiation Safety for Charged Particle Therapy Facilities, and a consultant on NCRP Report 151.

Prof. Iuliana Toma-Dasu is Professor in Medical Radiation Physics and Head of the Medical Radiation Physics division at Stockholm University, affiliated to the Karolinska Institutet. Her research focuses on biologically optimised adaptive radiation therapy, including particle therapy, modelling the tumour microenvironment, and the risks from radiotherapy.

Prof. Loredana G. Marcu is Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Oradea, Romania, and Adjunct Professor at the University of South Australia. A radiotherapy medical physicist educated and trained in Adelaide, her research covers in silico modelling of tumour growth and response to treatment, radiobiology, targeted therapies, and the risk of second cancer after radiotherapy. She has published 15 books/book chapters and over 100 scientific papers.

Prof. Colin G. Orton, PhD is Professor Emeritus at Wayne State University. He has served as President of AAPM, IOMP, IUPESM, ABS, and IMPCB, and has published over 290 papers, over 600 presentations, and co-authored or edited over 50 books.

Dr. Johan Verjans is a physician-scientist and Cardiologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. During his research career (PhD Maastricht University; post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School), he has focused on translational pre-clinical and clinical imaging biomarkers using advanced molecular imaging strategies. As Deputy Director of Medical Machine Learning at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning, his role is to connect world-class ML capabilities to the Biomedical Precinct in Adelaide.

Dr. Price Jackson is a medical physicist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne. He has worked as a post-doctoral researcher supporting the radionuclide therapy service where he developed image-based dosimetry software and protocols. He is currently a clinical radiology physicist and maintains research interests in image analysis including development of neural network tools.

A/Prof. Lois Holloway leads the medical physics research group at the Ingham Institute and Liverpool & Macarthur Cancer Therapy centres. She has an interest in learning from large imaging datasets to make the best decisions for patients. She leads the OzCAT distributed data learning research programme and is a member of the Australian MRI-linac research programme.

Prof. John Damilakis, PhD is professor and chairman at the Department of Medical Physics, University of Crete, and Vice President and President-elect of IOMP. Past President of EURAMED and EFOMP. He is a member of two ICRP Task Groups (TG108 and TG109) and the steering committee of EuroSafe Imaging (ESR). He has published 213 PubMed-indexed articles with an h-index of 45 and has received 10 awards for his work.

Prof. Arman Rahmim received his PhD in medical imaging physics at UBC and was recruited by Johns Hopkins University to lead the high-resolution brain PET imaging physics programme. He leads the provincial molecular imaging and therapy physics programme at BC Cancer. He has published over 130 journal articles, 280 conference proceedings, and delivered more than 90 invited lectures worldwide. He received the AAPM John S. Laughlin Young Scientist Award in 2016.

Dr. Mathieu Hatt received his PhD in 2008 and his habilitation to supervise research in 2012. His main skills and expertise lie in radiomics from automated image segmentation to feature extraction, as well as machine (deep) learning methods for PET/CT, MRI and CT modalities. He is an elected member of the EANM physics committee, the SNMMI physics, data science and instrumentation council board of directors, and the IEEE nuclear medical and imaging sciences council.

Prof. Steve Jiang, PhD received his PhD in Medical Physics from Medical College of Ohio in 1998 and completed post-doctoral training at Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and AAPM and is the founding director of both the Medical Artificial Intelligence and Automation Laboratory and the Programme of Excellence in Intelligent Medicine at UT Southwestern. He has supervised over 30 post-doctoral fellows and 10 PhD students.

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Prof. K.Y. Cheung is Senior Medical Physicist in the Medical Physics and Research Department at Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital. He is a pioneer in the clinical implementation and physics commissioning of the MR-Linac in the Asia-Pacific region, contributing to protocol development and QA methodology for this emerging technology platform.