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The PTCOG Robert R. Wilson Award for Significant Contributions to the field of Particle Therapy
07 July 2022
Harald Paganetti, PhD, Director of Physics Research at Mass General Radiation Oncology, was recently honored with The Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group (PTCOG), Robert R. Wilson Award for Significant Contributions to the field of Particle Therapy. This distinguished award, named after the first scientist to propose particle therapy for the treatment of cancer, is presented to an individual active in the field...
First Winner of the Karen Doppke Award for Women in Medical Physics
14 June 2022We are pleased to announce that Jessica Fagerstrom, PhD, MEd, DABR, has been selected as the first winner of The Karen Doppke Award for Women in Medical Physics. This award was established in honor of Karen P. Doppke, MS, DABR, FAAPM, FAC, and is intended to recognize a mid-career female medical physicist making contributions to any area of medical physics in clinical practice, clinical innovation, education, mentorship, leadership, and professional community service such as...
Susu Yan Receives Anne Kilbanski Visiting Scholars Award
14 June 2022
Congratulations to Susu Yan, PhD, who has received the Mass General Center for Faculty Development’s Anne Kilbanski Visiting Scholars Award. This award is presented to women faculty clinicians, educators, researchers, and postdoctoral fellows at Mass General who have shown exceptional promise as leaders in their field and whose careers would specifically benefit from speaking, mentoring, and networking opportunities at the national or international level. This award will...
Andres Soriano Distinguished Professor of Radiation Oncology
13 June 2022
We are thrilled to share the news that Thomas Bortfeld, PhD, has been named the Andres Soriano Distinguished Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School (HMS). With this promotion, Harvard recognizes not only his extraordinary contributions to radiation physics but also the incredible physics research team he has assembled and nurtured in our department.
Dr. Bortfeld was promoted to Professor of Radiation Oncology at HMS in 2008 and appointed as Chief of the...
2022 Roberts’ Prize for Best Paper in Physics in Medicine and Biology
31 March 2022The publishers of Physics in Medicine & Biology, IOP Publishing, in association with the journal owners, the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), jointly award an annual prize for the best paper published in the journal during the previous year. The prize is named in honor of the first editor of PMB, John Roberts, who served from 1956 to 1960. We are so proud of the Mass General Radiation Oncology team who authored the 2022 winning paper, “...
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