American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Please take a moment to enjoy the October edition of the President’s Monthly Minute from your 2025 AAPM President, M. Mahesh.

LAST CHANCE!

Only one day remains to submit your proposal for a symposia at the 2026 Joint AAPM | COMP Annual Meeting & Exhibition

Proposals due: October 9, 2025
Submit your proposal here : ow.ly/NnNJ50X831x

Integrating Healthcare Enterprise - Radiation Oncology (IHE-RO) is soliciting proposals for development/maintenance of software test tools supporting their Integration Profiles. Tools will be used to validate conformance with standards at the Fall 2026 Connectathon. Details:
ow.ly/gksA50WXtE4

Please take a moment to enjoy the September 2025 edition of the President's Monthly Minute from President M Mahesh on major highlights of the Association.

A flyer promoting the MIDRC Monthly Seminar Series: From Curation to Prediction: Leveraging Interoperable Medical Data with MIDRC

A flyer promoting the MIDRC Monthly Seminar Series.

Join the next FREE virtual seminar 9/16 2pm CST featuring AAPM members Dr. Heather Whitney & MIDRC PI Dr. Maryellen Giger & UChicago's Rachel Baccile, MPP discussing leveraging interoperable medical data: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#MIDRC #MedicalPhysics

View updated program: www.aapm.org/org/history/...

🎉 Congrats to our 2025 awardees! 🏆
Program updated with onsite awards ✅
Event photos live 📸 www.flickr.com/photos/96369...

Symposia are an important part of the Joint AAPM | COMP Annual Meeting and Exhibition. All AAPM | COMP members are encouraged to submit proposals: Click to view topics or submit a proposal: aapm.confex.com/aapm/2026am/...
#AAPM2026

Don’t forget! Evaluations for the AAPM 2025 Annual Meeting close on September 10 at 11:59 PM (EST). #AAPM2025

Evaluations : ow.ly/an8h50WKlRU
Credits Information: ow.ly/iRIt50WKlRS

The clock is ticking! Only one day remains to submit your clinical abstract and/or proposal for the 2026 Spring Clinical Meeting!

Request for a proposal here : ow.ly/9tSl50WHFKu

Submit Abstract here: ow.ly/nHrv50WHFKA

Deadline: August 27, 2025, 11:59 PM. #AAPMSCM

We put our heads together and came up with some suggested titles:
"All my Photons"
"The Bold and the Beamish"
"One Life to Collimate"
Let us know what you think! 😁

📢 The 2026 Expanding Horizons Round 1 application opens Aug 5 and closes Sept 16, 2025.

📬 Award decisions announced in Nov 2025.

Get ready to apply!

#AAPM #ExpandingHorizons #Grants #MedPhys
Application information: ow.ly/Y9XF50WJCzv

Request for Proposals and Abstract Submissions are due soon!

Request for a proposal here : ow.ly/9tSl50WHFKu

Submit Abstract here: ow.ly/nHrv50WHFKA

Deadline: August 27, 2025, 11:59 PM. #AAPMSCM

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: RO-ILS Patient Safety Conversation Hour. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. In honor of World Patient Safety Day, join us for a one-hour interactive forum about patient safety on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET. This event is brought to you by RO-ILS: Rad...

On World Patient Safety Day (Sept. 17), RO-ILS invites all clinical staff to a free, 1-hour virtual conversation hour.
Discuss real patient safety cases in small groups, then hear expert perspectives.
📅 12–1 pm EST | Space is limited — register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Please take a moment to enjoy the August edition of the President’s Monthly Minute from your 2025 AAPM President, M. Mahesh.

Interested in learning more about AAPM and Accessibility? View the Subcommittee Page: www.aapm.org/org/structur...

#AAPM's Accessibility Subcommittee Chair Lindsay Jones shows how she navigated #AAPM2205

#AAPM2025 may be over but the work continues! In this video shot by #AAPM member Natalie West, students and trainees try to summarize their research in 7 words or less.

Proud to represent #AAPM on Capitol Hill! Advocacy in action with our delegation. Great conversations today in Washington, D.C.
#AAPMadvocacy #AAPM2025

DC Diaries:

Things change so fast that luckily

1 - “Sad News of stopping healthcare research funding” at 7:49 pm was followed by some good news

2 - “Administration removed the blocking of funding” came out at 11 pm

@aapmhq #AAPM2025

Advocacy is very key!

Thanks @acadrad

"In summary: Theranostics is precision medicine in action."
-Anthony Chang, BAMF Health, Grand Rapids #AAPM2025 #ClosingKeynote

Overwhelming scientific evidence has shown Theranostics can:
See the disease we currently can't see
Treat the diease we currently can't treat
-Anthony Chang, BAMF Health, Grand Rapids
#AAPM2025 #ClosingKeynote

"Theranostics will revolutionize the way we diagnose and treat cancer."
-Anthony Chang, BAMF Health, Grand Rapids
#AAPM2025 #ClosingKeynote

Overwhelming scientific evidence has shown Theranostics can:
See the disease we currently can't see
Treat the diease we currently can't treat
-Anthony Chang, BAMF Health, Grand Rapids

Today's #AAPM2025 #ClosingKeynote at 9:00 AM in Ballroom AB features Anthony Chang, BAMF Health, Grand Rapids!

With @aapmhq.bsky.social 2025 annual meeting underway, I am reminded of this reflection following the 2022 meeting coming off the heels of the pandemic. Let our shared humanity be the context moving forward....
@aapm-hlmpsc.bsky.social

"It's important to know the impact of science on your state (jobs, follow-on economic activity). We need to speak to the economic impact of what we do."
-Carolyn C. Meltzer, MD

"Early-career scientists are embracing advocacy."
-Carolyn C. Meltzer, MD

"Lose the jargon- tell stories."
-Carolyn C. Meltzer, MD

"To influence, you have to show up."
-Sudip Parikh, PhD #AAPM2025