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...
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Radiology groups are urging the federal government to address issues of growing wait lists, staff shortages, and outdated equipment by improving staffing, equipment, and...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...
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...
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,...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of July 1 – Olympic Imaging Squad Gets Set for Summer Games/First MRI Exam – July 3, 1977/Radiation Protection for Patients: ChatGPT Compared to Radiology Institutional Websites
A team of 32 radiologists and 36 radiographers are limbering up to work at the summer Olympics, which begins on 25 July. They are likely to perform more than 1800 scans on...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of June 24 – COMP Winter School 2025/SNMMI: New Study Suggests Merits of FAPI PET/CT for Breast Cancer Staging/CUMPC Conference
Get ready! The next COMP Winter School will be in person in Calgary, Alberta January 29 – February 1, 2025. Can fibroblast activation protein inhibitor (FAPI) PET/CT have...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of June 17 – 2024-2027 COMP Strategic Plan/Words Matter – InterACTIONS Feature/COMP Virtual Library
Read the brand-new COMP Strategic Plan for 2024 – 2027 now here ! Words matter – taking a look at “legacy” language and how to incorporate more precise and inclusive...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of June 10 – Shattering Glass Ceilings: Celebrating Remarkable Physicists/IDMP 2023 Article/Welcome to the 2024-2025 COMP Board of Directors!
The Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP) Women’s Committee IDEA (Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility) group's series “Shattering Glass Ceilings:...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the Week of June 3 – Congratulations to the COMP Gold Medal Winner/IAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme/Updates from Cancer Centres
Congratulations to Dr. Frank Prato, the 2024 COMP Gold Medal Award Winner. Read more about Frank here . Spread the word! The IAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme...