Speakers / Panelists
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Keynote: Having our cake and eating it too: Precise and efficient radiation therapy - Ballroom 4
June 5, 2025 from 9:00am EDT to 9:45am EDT -
Reirradiation Pre-Conference Workshop - Ballroom 4
June 4, 2025 from 8:00am EDT to 10:15am EDT -
Reirradiation Pre-Conference Workshop - Ballroom 4
June 4, 2025 from 8:00am EDT to 10:15am EDT -
CE Session 1a: Reirradiation Workshop - Knowledge Translation Session - Ballroom 4
June 5, 2025 from 4:00pm EDT to 4:30pm EDT -
Reirradiation Pre-Conference Workshop - Ballroom 4
June 4, 2025 from 10:30am EDT to 12:00pm EDT -
Reirradiation Pre-Conference Workshop - Ballroom 4
June 4, 2025 from 3:00pm EDT to 4:30pm EDT -
Young Professionals Workshop - Salon DD1EF
June 4, 2025 from 9:30am EDT to 10:30am EDT -
Young Professionals Workshop - Salon DD1EF
June 4, 2025 from 11:00am EDT to 12:00pm EDT -
Young Professionals Workshop - Salon DD1EF
June 4, 2025 from 9:30am EDT to 10:30am EDT -
Young Professionals Workshop - Salon DD1EF
June 4, 2025 from 11:00am EDT to 12:00pm EDT -
Young Professionals Workshop - Salon DD1EF
June 4, 2025 from 9:30am EDT to 10:30am EDT -
Young Professionals Workshop - Salon DD1EF
June 4, 2025 from 11:00am EDT to 12:00pm EDT -
CWC-IDEA presents: Indigenous Patient Experiences - Salon BB1
June 6, 2025 from 12:15pm EDT to 1:00pm EDT -
ASM Welcome Reception - Museum London
June 4, 2025 from 6:00pm EDT to 7:45pm EDT
Karl Otto
Chief Science Officer
Karl Otto
Karl Otto
Chief Science Officer
Dr. Karl Otto has explored several pathways in his career as a medical physicist, including clinical practice, academic research and industry. Karl is currently the Chief Science Officer at Radformation, a company that develops and deploys radiation therapy software. Prior to its acquisition by Radformation in 2024, Karl was co-founder and CEO of Limbus AI. Limbus’ focus was AI for radiation therapy, particularly for automatic segmentation of medical images. Prior to Limbus, Karl spent 2 years educating himself about AI, which he has been passionate about since attending his first AI conference in 2006. Over his career Karl developed and licensed several technologies to radiation therapy companies. Karl is also an adjunct professor at UBC and has roughly ten years of clinical experience. Karl’s career focus has been on developing radiation therapy technology that has a high clinical impact. He’s sometimes referred to as “Mister VMAT” due to his development of Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy, which was the basis for Varian’s RapidArc treatment planning and delivery system. VMAT is now the most common form of radiation treatment globally.
Joanna Laba
Radiation Oncologist
Joanna Laba
Joanna Laba
Radiation Oncologist
Dr. Joanna Laba is a Radiation Oncologist at the Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre and Assistant Professor in the Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University.
Dr. Laba completed undergraduate studies at the University of Windsor with a BaSc in engineering. She graduated from medical school at the University of Toronto in 2010 and completed a residency in Radiation Oncology at McMaster University. Dr. Laba completed a fellowship in lung cancer and stereotactic radiotherapy at Western University. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and a member of the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncologists. Dr. Laba’s primary areas of clinical practice are in lung, palliative radiotherapy and advanced techniques for the treatment of brain and spine metastases.
Ane Appelt
Professor
Ane Appelt
Ane Appelt
Professor
Ane Appelt is Professor of Clinical Medical Physics Rigshospitalet and Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen. Her research focuses on reirradiation, adaptive treatments, clinical trial design, and outcome modelling.
Ane strongly believes that reirradiation is our next major challenge in radiotherapy; requiring close collaboration between all radiotherapy professionals – from physicists, oncologists and radiographers to radiobiologists and computer scientists. She has co-led a multidisciplinary reirradiation research programme, where she has been responsible for technical innovations in reirradiation dose accumulation and treatment planning. She is the coauthor of 14 papers on reirradiation, many of them focusing on image registration and treatment planning. Over the last three years, she has established the ESTRO Physics Working Group on Reirradiation and helped found the transatlantic Reirradiation Collaborative Group (ReROG).
Charles Mayo, PhD FAAPM, FASTRO
Clinical Professor, Director of Radiation Oncology Informatics and Analytics
Charles Mayo, PhD FAAPM, FASTRO
Charles Mayo, PhD FAAPM, FASTRO
Clinical Professor, Director of Radiation Oncology Informatics and Analytics
Dr. Charles (Chuck) Mayo, PhD, is a distinguished medical physicist at the University of Michigan, who is internationally known for his groundbreaking work in several areas. He pioneered development of one of the first automated learning health system infrastructures for all treated patients and development of automated statistical and AI modeling tools. He has led in multiple international efforts in developing standardizations and APIs to reduce barriers to centralized and federated learning approaches. These include the AAPM TG-263 nomenclature, the Operational Ontology for Oncology (O3) and the CodeX HL7 FHIR radiation therapy data. Dr. Mayo has made significant contributions to the development of advanced treatment planning techniques that optimize patient outcomes. He was lead author in the QUANTEC guideline papers for brainstem and optic nerve/chiasm. He has developed and released open-source automated treatment planning software to improve efficiency, safety and quality. Dr. Mayo’s work in reirradiation and in organizing the Reirradiation Collaborative Group (ReCOG) has been instrumental in advancing therapeutic options for patients with recurrent cancers, offering new hope for challenging cases. His interdisciplinary approach has solidified his reputation as a leader in medical physics, combining cutting-edge technology with patient-centered care.
Geetha Menon
Dr.
Geetha Menon
Geetha Menon
Dr.
Geetha Menon is a Senior Medical Physicist at the Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton and a Clinical Professor at the University of Alberta. She completed her PhD from the University of Alberta in 2004, following which she completed a CAMPEP accredited residency in radiation oncology physics. Her specific expertise is in brachytherapy, with research focus on women’s cancers. She is a Fellow of the CCPM and a Director-at-large of the CCPM Board. She enjoys mentoring young physicists and is a proud member of the COMP Women’s Committee.
Tania Wood
Dr.
Tania Wood
Tania Wood
Dr.
Tania Wood is a Medical Physicist at the Cross Cancer Institute and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Alberta (UofA). She specializes in stereotactic radio-surgery (SRS) and MR Linacs. Tania earned her Ph.D. in particle physics from the University of Alberta, focusing on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory located at the South Pole. She completed her postdoctoral certification at the University of Calgary. A cold-weather enthusiast, Tania returned to Edmonton for her residency in Radiation Oncology Physics and her current position.
Amanda Cherpak
Dr.
Amanda Cherpak
Amanda Cherpak
Dr.
Dr. Amanda Cherpak is the Director of Clinical Medical Physics at Nova Scotia Health and an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University. She holds a PhD from Carleton University and has been working in clinical radiation oncology physics for over ten years. Her research interests include novel imaging techniques, adaptive radiation therapy and 3D printing applications in brachytherapy. She is a member of Varian’s Intelligent Imaging Consortium and is a co-investigator on Nova Scotia Health’s HyperSight Breath Hold and Head & Neck clinical trials. She is also the outgoing Secretary for COMP and the current ASM Scientific Chair.
Tracey Whiteye
MSW, RSW
Tracey Whiteye
Tracey Whiteye
MSW, RSW
Wabusk Skweow Kahetapit Neegn Nipeek Ohscheh, which translates to "Polar Bear Woman/White Bear Woman Who is Looking Ahead from the Water," is a Lenaapeew/Anishinaabe woman from the Bear Clan. She is a member of the Elunaapeewii Lahkeewiit First Nations, Delaware Nation of the Thames, or Moraviantown. She is a proud mother of two sons and a grandmother to five grandchildren.
With over 24 years of collective experience, she works to uplift traditional cultural teachings, ceremonies, and practices as a Wholistic Indigenous practitioner, educator, wisdom-seeker, advocator and helper. She utilizes decolonizing Indigenous practices to support the resurgence of Indigenous ways of seeing, feeling, knowing, and being. Her approach is rooted in ancestral wisdom, emphasizing intergenerational knowledge, storytelling, personal experiences, and land-based education.
Greg Kopp
Dr.
Greg Kopp
Greg Kopp
Dr.
Dr. Greg Kopp is a professor in Western University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the executive director of the Canadian Severe Storms Laboratory. Dr. Kopp works to better understand and characterize how a changing climate is driving tornados and severe thunderstorms, and their impact on personal and structural safety. Dr. Kopp will be providing a keynote lecture on his work and how it relates to medical physicists’ work of championing safety and mitigating risk in a constantly changing world.