Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of December 22 – COMP Winter School LAST WEEK for Early-bird Pricing/Retreatment in Radiation Therapy/Nuclear medicine groups launch effort to standardize PET imaging
LAST WEEK to register for COMP Winter School with the early-bird pricing! Read Retreatment in Radiation Therapy managing complexity with the right tools in the latest issue...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of December 15 – Lunch Bytes -December 18/Tami Freeman Book Review/Winter School Program
On December 18, 2025 join Dr. Eugene Wong and Dr. Michael Roumeliotis of the COMP Science Committee for the latest Lunch Bytes session, Clinically driven Medical Physics...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of November 24 – Global Medical Physics: A Guide for International Collaboration/AAPM|COMP Joint Scientific Meeting 2026/COMP Winter School 2026
The book "Global Medical Physics: A Guide for International Collaboration" is now available through CRC Press. The eBook will be made available as open access in the near...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of November 17 – Lunch Bytes – November 20, 2025/Retreatment in Radiation Therapy/Call for Volunteers
Join Dr. Lone Hoffman for Building a National Framework for Reirradiation in Denmark: National Collaboration, Consensus Guidelines, and Clinical Trials. Learn how Denmark is...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of November 10 – Winter School Project Gallery/Message from the CCPM President/Lunch Byte – Nov 20
Showcase your innovation at the Winter School Project Gallery, a lively, informal space where attendees can explore, connect, and be inspired by quality and safety projects...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of November 3 – LAST WEEK – COMP IDMP Contest/Deadline Extended – CNSC Innovation Grant/Executive Director Report
It’s the last week to submit your entry for the IDMP 2025 Art Contest! This year’s theme “ Medical Physics and Emerging Technologies: Shaping the Next Decade ” invites you to...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of October 27 – COMP IDMP 2025/Winter School Project Gallery/Message from the COMP President
How do you see medical physics? Enter the 2025 IDMP Art Contest and turn your passion into art – from sketches and graphics to photos and creative visuals that highlight the...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of October 20 – Showcasing 74 Years of Canadian Cobalt-60 Leadership/October Issue of InterACTIONS!/Register Today for the COMP Imaging Lecture Series!
Celebrate 74 years of Canadian innovation! Join the Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council on October 27 for “Showcasing Canada’s Cobalt-60 Supply Chain” a look at how Canada...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of September 29 – Reminder! IDMP 2025/InterACTIONS Article/COMP Winter School 2026
COMP is celebrating the International Day of Medical Physics with an art contest ! Don’t forget to share your creative submissions by posting to LinkedIn, Bluesky or...
International Day of Medical Physics 2025
The International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP) is approaching on November 7th, and we want to celebrate with the COMP community! In the past, we have held a photo contest,...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of September 8, 2025 – IDMP 2025/80 years ago Canada became the second nation to harness the atom/COMP ASM
The International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP) is approaching on November 7th, and we want to celebrate with the COMP community! In the past, we have held a photo contest,...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of August 25 – COMP Winter School 2026/Message from the CCPM President/New Tool to Rapidly Measure Radiation-Induced DNA Damage
Join COMP in Ottawa, January 28–31, 2026, for COMP Winter School ! With the theme Quality and Safety in the Practice of Radiation Medicine and Medical Imaging: 2010–2025, the...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of August 18 – New IAEA Video Tutorials on Computed Tomography for Medical Physicists/Executive Director Report/COMP Winter School 2026
IAEA’s has a new series of video tutorials on quality and dosimetry in computed tomography, designed to help hospitals and specialists worldwide meet safety standards. This...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of August 4th - COMP Imaging Lecture Series 2025-26/Women Emerging in Medical Physics and Radiology Seminar Series (WEMPRSS)/ Message from the COMP President
The 2025-2026 COMP Imaging Lecture Series will begin October 27th! Stayed tuned for updates on the Imaging Lecture Series page . Join the Department of Oncology, University...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of July 28 – Carleton University Developing Personalized Radiation Dose Predictors/ Medical Physics Residency Program Preps Future Generation of Experts?/Breakthrough: How radiation helps the immune system kill ca
A team at Carleton University is advancing portable radiation sensitivity testing, allowing clinicians to tailor radiation doses to individual patients. Using Raman...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of July 21 – Jaryd Christie Receives Collip Medal for Top PhD Graduate/Luc Beaulieu, Ambassador of the Year and Leader in Radiation Oncology/Carleton University researchers developing personalized radiation therap
Congratulations to COMP Member Jaryd Christie, PhD, on receiving the Collip Medal Award – presented annually to the top graduating PhD student from the Schulich School of...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of July 14 – July InterACTIONS/COMP Student Programming Survey/Groundbreaking Biological “Artificial Intelligence” System Could Make Impossible Medicines Real
The July Issue of InterACTIONS is out, read it here now! Have Your Say: Help Shape Student Programming at COMP ASM! The COMP Student Council wants to hear from you! Whether...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of July 7 – Call for Applications: 2025–2026 COMP Student Council/Dr. Tim Whelan Named to the Order of Canada/Targeted Radiation Before Surgery May Improve Pancreatic Cancer Outcomes
Interested in shaping the student experience in medical physics across Canada? Applications are now open for the 2025–2026 COMP Student Council! From organizing events to...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the Week of June 30 – Call for Abstracts: 3rd Canadian Undergraduate Medical Physics Conference (CUMPC)/EGSnrc/Strengthening Canadian physics and medical physics through service and innovative leadership
The 2025 CUMPC will be held virtually from August 21–22! This free conference offers undergraduate students the chance to present their medical physics research, connect with...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of June 23 – Communities of Practice/Generative AI speeds medical image analysis without impacting accuracy/COMP ASM Awards
Learn about COMP Communities of Practice in the January issue of InterACTIONS. Artificial intelligence is increasingly being applied to data-intensive healthcare tasks like...