The COMP Residency Committee is excited to present the 13th session of the Medical Physics Resident Seminar Series, which will be a talk by Dr. Dave Rogers.
This session will occur on Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 1:00 PM EST and will be open to all Medical Physics residents across Canada, as well as all COMP resident and graduate student members.
Here is a brief bio of Dr. Rogers:
David Rogers, FRSC, is a Distinguished Research Professor in the physics department at Carleton University where he had been a Canada Research Chair in Medical Physics since 2003. Prior to that he had been head, for 20 years, of NRC's Canadian primary standards lab for ionizing radiation where he had worked since 1973. He is currently a Commissioner of the International Commission on Units and Measurements (ICRU). His areas of research involve the development, along with many others, of the EGSnrc Monte Carlo system for simulating the transport of electrons and photons in matter. It has been referred to as the gold standard for such calculations in medical physics. He applies these Monte Carlo techniques to radiation dosimetry problems related to cancer radiotherapy and he played a central role in the development of the widely used BEAMnrc code for modelling clinical accelerators and the egs_brachy code for calculating dose distributions in brachytherapy treatments. He was the driving force behind the TG-51 protocol for calibrating beams used for external beam radiotherapy. He has lectured and organized summer schools related to clinical dosimetry and 44 courses around the world on the use of the EGSnrc/BEAMnrc code systems. Rogers has won the Gold Medals for lifetime achievement of both the AAPM (2010) and COMP (2012).
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As always, we are recruiting presenters for future seminars, so if you and your center are interested, please sign up via the google sheet:
Any questions or comments can be directed to the COMP resident representatives:
