Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of November 25, 2024 –COMP Lunch Bites Series/Memorium for Mark Henkelman/63rd Annual PTCOG Conference (PTCOG 63)
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of November 25, 2024 –COMP Lunch Bites Series/Memorium for Mark Henkelman/ 63 rd Annual PTCOG Conference (PTCOG 63) COMP Lunch...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of November 18 - Register Now for COMP Winter School 2025!/Message from the CCPM President/Provincial Government Recognizes Medical Radiation Technologists as a Regulated Profession
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of November 18 - Register Now for COMP Winter School 2025!/Message from the CCPM President/Provincial Government Recognizes Medical...
Pieces of interest from COMP for the week of November 11, 2024 – Last Week to Submit COMP Winter School Abstracts/Message from the COMP President/Ontario Expanding Ability to Process Cancer Fighting Medical Isotopes
Pieces of interest from COMP for the week of November 11, 2024 – Last Week to Submit COMP Winter School Abstracts/Message from the COMP President/Ontario Expanding Ability to...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of November 4
Last Week to Enter the COMP IDMP Photo Contest!/Submit Your Abstracts for COMP Winter School 2024/Celebrating Medical Radiation Technology Week Celebrate International Day of...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of October 28
IDMP2024/2025 COMP Winter School Keynote/Montreal General strengthens nuclear medicine/McMaster joins Canadians for CANDU campaign in support of made-in-Canada nuclear...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the Week of October 21
Winter School 2025/COMP Imaging Lecture Series/IUPESM Survey Registration is now open for the upcoming IN-PERSON COMP Winter School in Calgary, Alberta! Register here . The...
Pieces of Interest for the week of October 14
Canada's Top Breast Cancer Experts Unite to Elevate National Standards in Care/Hands-On Brachytherapy Workshop/St. Michael’s Hospital opens first-in-Canada hybrid biplane OR...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of October 7 - IDEAs @ Home/Career Catalyst Networking Event/IDMP2024
IDEAs @ Home: October 8th, 2024, 3 PM EST Join CWC-IDEA for an insightful session on "Truth and Reconciliation Day, Jordan’s Principle, and You." We’ll explore our...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of September 30 – Imaging Lecture Series/How Australia Aims to Close the Health Gap/Vanier Scholar Develops Innovations for Use of AI In Cancer Treatment Planning
The COMP Imaging Lecture Series starts in October! Read about the sessions being offered this year. Registration is now open. Spartan First and TeleMed Health Services have...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of September 23 – Registration Open - COMP Imaging Lecture Series/New Workflow Enhances Proton Therapy by Adapting to Daily Changes in Cancer Patients/Hope for B.C.'s Cancer Care System
Registration is now open for the 2024-2025 COMP Imaging Lecture Series! Check out this years’ speakers and topics here . Irradiation can be adjusted daily based on the...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of September 9 COMP Virtual Library/Quantum Entanglement Puzzle Solved: 25-Year-Old Question Finally Answered/IDEAs @ Home
Did you know that as a COMP member you have access to a virtual library full of past COMP event recordings? Check it out here ! A groundbreaking study by Julio I de Vicente...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of September 2 – Canadian Radiologists Call for Better Medical Imaging Access/Chief Examiner Report/Enhancing Cancer Treatment to Prevent Heart Risks
Radiology groups are urging the federal government to address issues of growing wait lists, staff shortages, and outdated equipment by improving staffing, equipment, and...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of August 26 - 2024 CNSC Innovation Grant by COMP/NRC-Not Just a Calibration Laboratory/ NRC and Ionizing Radiation Standards Group/Medical Breakthrough Provides Hope for Early Risk Stratification of a Deadly Bloo
COMP, in collaboration with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), is excited to announce the 2024 CNSC Innovation Grant Competition . The Grant supports the creation...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of August 19, 2024 – Wearable PET Scanner Allows Brain Scans of Moving Patients/MPWB in Kenya/Sunnybrook Applies AI To Breast-Cancer Radiation Therapy
Traditional brain imaging methods are limited by the need for subjects to lie still. To address this, neuroscientists at West Virginia University developed a wearable,...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the Week of August 12 – Medical Physicists Play Crucial Role in Cancer Care at Niagara Health/2024 COMP Award Winners/IOMP School on IMRT
At the Walker Family Cancer Centre (WFCC), located at the Marotta Family Hospital in St. Catharines, medical physicists apply their knowledge of physics to a variety of...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of August 5 – 2024-2027 COMP Strategic Plan/ The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) Survey/2025 Winter School in Calgary!
Check out the 2024-2027 COMP Strategic Plan in the July issue of InterACTIONS. The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) is extending its survey on human...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of July 29 – Canadian Undergraduate Medical Physics Conference/Executive Director Report/CANM’24 in Montreal
Do you have any summer or honours project students with projects in medical physics (radiotherapy, imaging, dosimetry, metrology, etc.)? encourage them to submit an abstract...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of July 22 – LHSC Medical Physicist Champions Equity and Access as COMP President/Message from the CCPM President/Lung Images Reveal How Breathing Distribution Differs Between the Sexes
Recently appointed as president of COMP Dr. Kathleen Surry is dedicated to advancing cancer care across Canada. Her focus is on equitable access to treatment, supporting...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of July 15 – Message from the COMP President/Blood Cancer Drug Could Help Improve The Efficiency Of Radiotherapy In Meningiomas/COMP ASM Photo Memories
Read the Message from the new COMP President in the July issue of InterACTIONS! Drugs developed to fight blood and other cancers could also help improve the efficiency of...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of July 8 – July 2024 InterACTIONS!/Canadian Undergraduate Medical Physics Conference/ASTRO Guideline on Radiation Therapy for Patients with HPV-related Throat Cancer
The July 2024 issue of InterACTIONS is now available! Do you have any summer or honours project students with projects in medical physics (radiotherapy, imaging, dosimetry,...