INVITATION TO THE OCTOBER EDITION OF THE NAMP MONTHLY WEBINAR/2023 PRE-CONFERENCE WEBINAR Register Topic: Shallow Kinetics induced by Metronome (SKIM) – a simple, cost-effective and contact free breathing motion management technique Speaker: Siyong Kim, Ph.D., FAAPM Professor and Director of Clinical Physics Department of Radiation Oncology Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Professor Siyong Kim has been in the field of Medical Physics for more than 25 years including 4 years of Ph.D. study and 2 years of Radiation Oncology Clinical Physics Residency training both at the University of Florida (UF), USA. After graduating residency in 1999, he started working as faculty in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UF where his major clinical specialties were stereotactic radiation therapy, patient immobilization, and image guidance. From 2006 to 2013, he worked in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Mayo Clinic Florida as faculty. In Mayo Clinic, his major specialties were high dose rate brachytherapy, respiratory motion management, and image guided stereotactic body radiation therapy. Currently, he is a professor and serves the Director of Clinical Physics in the Department of Radiation Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. His society activities include AAPM Task Group 104, AAPM Asian Oceanic Affairs Subcommittee, AAPM Online Learning Services Subcommittee, AAPM Treatment Delivery Subcommittee, AAPM Work Group on IMRT, AAPM Therapy Physics Committee, AAPM Exchange Scientist Program Subcommittee, AAPM Subcommittee on Practice Guidelines, KAMPiNA president, IMPCB By-Laws Committee, IMPCB board at large, IMPCB Accreditation Subcommittee III, IMPCB Examination Setting Subcommittee, and IOMP Publication Committee. He has served as editorial board for 4 different journals and reviewer for about 35 different scientific journals. His publication includes about 80 and 180 peer reviewed articles and abstracts, respectively. He also published 1 AAPM report, 14 book chapters, and 1 edited book. Register for the pre-conference webinar Register for the 2023 NAMP conference
Invitation to the August edition of NAMP webinars: Radionuclide Therapy and Dosimetry in Nuclear Medicine.
Speaker: Dr John E. Ejeh (Department of Nuclear Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan) Register here Dr John E. Ejeh, Assistant Director Medical Physics, can easily be described as the first Nuclear Medicine Physicist in the country as he was the pioneer Physicist when the first department of Nuclear Medicine in the country was established in 2006 at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. He obtained his BSc Physics at the Benue State University, MSc Physics at the University of Ibadan and PhD in Medical Physics (specialising in Nuclear Medicine Physics) at the University of Free state, Bloemfontein, South Africa specialising in radionuclide dosimetry in targeted radionuclide therapy. He is well published and is passionate about the development of Nuclear Medicine in Nigeria. He is open to clinical and research collaborations. Dr Ejeh is an IAEA fellow and a Radiation Safety Officer.
Nigerian Medical Physicist receives the prestigious FIOMP award
Dr Taofeeq A. Ige, the immediate past president of the Federation of African Medical Physics Organisations (FAMPO) and the immediate past Secretary-General of the Nigerian Association of Medical Physicists (NAMP), becomes the second African to be awarded with the prestigious Fellowship of the International Organisation of Medical Physics (FIOMP). The award ceremony took place at the World Congress on Medical Physics and Bio-Medical Engineering, which held at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore on the 15th of June 2022. The triennial conference is organised by the International Union of Physical and Engineering Scientists in Medicine (IUPESM) and brings together one of the largest gathering of Medical Physicists and Biomedical Engineers in the world. This year’s congress was held from the 12th – 17th, June. Dr Ige was also recognised with another award for his distinguished service to FAMPO. Presenting the awards to him at the ceremony were the newly installed President of the IOMP, Professor John Damilakis (Greece) and the new Professional Relations Committee (PRC) Chair and outgone Chair of the Awards and Honours Committee of the IOMP, Dr Simone Kodulovich Renha from Brazil.
