AAPM MedPhys3.0 - Physics Out Front

This is an inspiring conversation with Adam Uselmann and Christie Lin from OnLume Surgical. OnLume is a medical device company that has developed fluorescence-guided surgery to improve precision and outcomes of surgery. They share their journey on creating OnLume, some of the challenges along the way, and where they see fluorescence-guided surgery (and medical physicists) impacting patient care in the future.

In this episode, we speak with Dave Jordan.  Dave is an imaging physicist leading a team in the University setting.  If you’ve wondered how to be a leader within the AAPM while keeping your day job, your family, and having a passion for music then you’ll be really interested in this one.

This podcast is with Christiane Burton. Christiane shares her views on combining clinical work in imaging with research and some background about her YouTube channel. Another fun and interesting interview that you don’t want to miss. Interviewed on April 21, 2021.

In this episode, we speak with Erika Chin. Erika shares here experience of working within a large radiation oncology department where her day-to-day work is something very different than what she learned in residency. How is communication like martial arts? You’ll have to listen to find out! Interviewed on April 16, 2021.

We meet Marianne Engel in this podcast. Marianne is not a conventional imaging or therapy physicist but has been applying physics in medicine her entire career. You’ll also hear about the application of upstream data fusion to breast cancer detection that some of her colleagues developed. You don’t want to miss this episode.

In this episode, we speak with Melissa Martin; past AAPM president, business owner, and clinical medical physicist. Melissa shares her experience in successfully taking on a major career change and how to make the most of opportunities that come your way. This is one you don’t want to miss! Interviewed on March 29, 2021.

In this episode, we speak with Dan Bourland; the 2021 AAPM President-Elect. Among other topics, Dan shares his experience with starting a department of radiation oncology from scratch. As you might imagine, that is a uniquely challenging endeavor! Interviewed on April 7, 2021.

In this episode, we speak with Ahmad Al-Basheer. Ahmad is a radiotherapy physicist with great insights into working within a multidisciplinary team and advocating for medical physicists (perhaps not how you might expect). Technical note: there is some minor buzzing for very short periods during the podcast that wasn’t able to be removed in editing but you can still hear the conversation. Interviewed on March 30, 2021.

In this episode, we speak with Ehsan Samei, the founding Chair and driving force behind the MP3.0 initiative. We talk about the history of MP3.0, its charge, and challenges and his take on what it means to be a medical physicist.