AAPM Honors Medical Physics Achievements

At the annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine held last month in San Diego, California, the following individuals were commended for their contributions to the field.

Kenneth Hogstrom was presented with AAPM’s highest honor, the William D. Coolidge Award, in recognition of his distinguished career in medical physics. Hogstrom is a professor of radiation physics and holds the P. H. and Fay Etta Robinson Distinguished Professorship in Cancer Research at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

The Award for Achievement in Medical Physics, given to recognize a notable career based on outstanding acheivements, went to Stewart Bushong and Radhe Mohan. Bushong is a professor of radiologic science at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Mohan chairs the department of radiation physics at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

AAPM bestowed a Special Award for Outstanding Service on Salva-tore Trofi Jr, executive director of the society. He was honored for a decade of distinguished service from 1993 to 2003.

The Farrington Daniels Award, given for the best paper on dosimetry that appeared the previous year in Medical Physics, went to coauthors Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri and David W. O. Rogers for their paper entitled “Sensitivity of Megavoltage Photon Beam Monte Carlo Simulations to Electron Beam and Other Parameters.” Sheikh-Bagheri is a medical physicist and senior software engineer at NOMOS Corp in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania. Rogers is the group leader of the ionizing radiation standards department at the Institute for National Measurement Standards in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

The Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award, given for the best overall non-dosimetry paper published the previous year in Medical Physics, was shared by Mia Skarpathiotakis, Martin Yaffe, Aili Bloomquist, Dan Rico, Serge Muller, Andreas Rick, and Fanny Jeunehomme for their paper “Development of Contrast Digital Mammography.” Skarpathiotakis, Yaffe, Bloomquist, and Rico are affiliated with the Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada. Muller, Rick, and Jeunehomme are affiliated with G. E. Medical Systems in Buc, France.