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

8:00-8:20 am Being a Local Chapter Officer – E. Clouser, Jr., M.S., Mayo Clinic Arizona

8:20-8:30 am Board Representative’s Report – C. Watchman, Ph.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering

8:30-8:40 am Secretary/Treasurer’s Report – J. Shen, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic Arizona

8:40-8:50 am Immersive Patient Education through Virtual Reality – M.E. Braswell, Banner Resident

8:50-9:00 am Implementation of Varian’s triggered imaging feature via auto beam hold for prostate irradiation- M. Hermansen, Banner Resident

9:00-9:30 am Revisions to the AAPM Code of Ethics – G. Sherouse, Ph.D., Sherouse Medical Physics

9:30-9:40 am 3D Scanning Technology in Electron Radiation Therapy – D. Craft, Mayo Resident

9:40-9:50 am Assessing the Performance of a Surface Guidance System for Continuous Patient Monitoring during SRS – J. Lentz, Mayo Resident

9:50-10:00 am Hybrid 3D Analytical Linear Energy Transfer Calculation Algorithm based on Pre-calculated Data from Monte Carlo Simulations – W. Deng, Mayo Resident

10:00-10:30 am The Radiation Oncology Alternative Payment Model (RO-APM) - G. Sherouse, Ph.D., Sherouse Medical Physics

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

11:00-11:45 am Intraoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Challenge and Opportunity - Y. Zhou, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic Arizona

11:45 am-12:30 pm Medical Physics 3.0 – T. Pawlicki, Ph.D., U.C.S.D.

12:30-1:15 pm Lunch, Visit the Vendors

1:15-2:00 pm What a Statistician wants Physicists to know about Statistics – T. DeWees, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic Arizona

2:00-2:10 pm A Comparison of Two Immobilization Systems for Prostate Radiotherapy – F. Mostafaei, U of Arizona Resident

2:10-2:20 pm kV CBCT Dose and Image Quality of Ipsilateral Breast, w/ & w/o Breast Shield on Contralateral Breast – Z. Gu, U of Arizona Resident

2:20-3:00 pm BREAK and Visit the Vendors

3:00-3:45 pm Accreditation of Imaging Modalities – T. Mian, Ph.D., Medical Radiation Physics

3:45-4:30 pm Implementing Sun Nuclear Patient QA: a Paradigm Change – S. Sapareto, Ph.D., Banner University & S. Sutlief, Ph.D.; Banner MD Anderson

4:30-4:45 pm Closing Remarks, End of Meeting, Collection of Evaluations

4:45 - ? Chapter Business (as needed)

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