2019 AzAAPM Chapter meeting

Event Sponsors: Varian, Sun Nuclear and Elekta

7:15-8:00 am Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:00-8:10 am Welcome – Ed Clouser, Jr., M.S., Mayo Clinic Arizona, President AzAAPM

8:10-8:20 am Estimation of Notched COMS Eye Plaques' Heterogeneity Correction Coefficients via MCNP6 Simulations - Joshua Salazar, University of Arizona

8:20-8:30 am Evaluation of OARtrac Real-Time In vivo Dosimetry for HDR Prostate Brachytherapy - Mary Ester Braswell, M.S., Banner Health

8:30-8:40 am Prone vs. Supine patient positioning for the treatment of Anal Cancer - Jarrod Lentz, M.S., Mayo Clinic Arizona

8:40-8:50 am Evaluation of Independent RapidPlan Models Based on Laterality of Secondary Nodal Disease for H&N cancer - Lisa Taylor, M.S., Mayo Clinic Arizona

8:50-9:00 am Commissioning for Radiosurgery of Multiple Metastasis with a Single Isocenter - Jonathan Thropay, University of Arizona

9:00-9:45 am Working towards an Expert System for Radiation Oncology, or where do DVH constraints come from anyway? – Mirek Fatyga, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic Arizona

9:45-10:30 am TG-327 project: Crowd-sourced solutions to the problem of wrong shift – Gary Ezzell, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic Arizona

10:30-11:00 am BREAK and Visit the Vendors

11:00 am-12:00 pm MRI Only Simulation – Neelam Tyagi, Ph.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

12:00-12:30 pm Integration and Automation of Patient and Machine QA - Matt West, Ph.D., Vincere Cancer Center

12:30-1:15 pm Lunch, Visit the Vendors, Chapter Business, Slam scoring

1:15-2:00 pm Proton Arc Therapy – Xuanfeng Ding, Ph.D., Beaumont Hospital

2:00 pm MedPhys Slam winner announced

2:00-2:10 pm Can IMRT QA Failures be predicted? How complexity metrics can guide the decision for replanning before IMRT QA has been measured. - Evan Silverstein, Ph.D. - Mayo Clinic Arizona

2:10-2:20 pm 3D printed HDR Cylinders - Aaron Steindler, University of Arizona

2:20-2:30 pm Improvements to IOERT at The Mayo Clinic - Daniel Craft, Ph.D. - Mayo Clinic

2:30-3:00 pm BREAK and Visit the Vendors

3:00-3:45 pm Zap Commissioning and Clinical Implementation – Stephen Sorensen, Ph.D., Dignity Health – St. Joseph’s

3:45-3:55 pm Evaluation of WL Test with Need for Repositioning at Different Table Angles During Radiosurgery Using the BrainLab ExacTrac - Alexis Webb, University of Arizona

3:55-4:55 pm Scripting Safely: Practical Guidance on Clinical Scripting – Rex Cardan, Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham

4:55-5:00 pm Closing Remarks, End of Meeting, Collection of Evaluations

Pending CAMPEP approval for 7.0 CME credits