Gould Is AAPM President-Elect

Robert G. Gould, a professor of radiology and bioengineering at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), took office as president-elect of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine on 1 January. He will become president in 2002 and then chairman of the board in 2003, succeeding Charles W. Coffrey II, chief clinical physician at Vanderbilt University.

“We should recognize that changes in health-care funding will continue and the AAPM must advocate vigilantly for the professional interests of its members,” says Gould.

After earning a BA in chemistry from the College of Wooster and an MS in biomedical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Gould received an ScD in medical physics from Harvard University in 1977. In 1978, he joined UCSF’s radiology department, where he currently works on digital imaging, advances in three-dimensional imaging, and a picture-archiving and communications system that allows medical images to be stored and accessed via the Internet.

Others who took office on 1 January for three-year terms on AAPM’s board of directors were Gary Ezzell, a senior physicist at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona; John D. Hazle, a physicist at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas in Houston; Eric E. Klein, an assistant professor of physics at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology in St. Louis, Missouri; and Robert J. Pizzutiello Jr, president of Upstate Medical Physics in Victor, New York.