Huge congratulations to our PhD candidates, Nathaniel, Jake, and Brani for receiving the School teaching award for “Programs that Enhance Learning”. These legends have been running the Medical Physics Machine Learning Cluster. Hats off to all of them especially Nathaniel who coordinates the cluster. We are so proud of you guys! ========================= For more informationRead more…
On Saturday 17/10/2022, our postgraduate students Gavin Pikes and Broderick Mccallum-Hee were awarded the best presentation prizes at the annual ACPSEM-WA branch scientific meeting. Gavin’s presentation title was: “Monte Carlo Simulations in the Modelling and Optimisation of Linac Bunker Shielding” And Broderick’s presentation title was: “Dosimetric Impact of Mechanical Movements of the Linac Gantry DuringRead more…
Well done to Broderick McCallum-Hee, Keaton Wright, Riley Croxford on all your hard work and for delivering a fantastic healthcare solution! UWA Medical Physics won the Hackathon for the second year in a row. They took home $10,000 in Amazon Web Services (AWS) credits and $5000 cash, thanks to idoba. Hackules tackled ‘Early Detection ofRead more…
Congratulations to our PhD candidate, Jake Kendrick, on winning the best student presentation award at the UWA Data Institute Data-Driven Decisions Conference today. Well done Jake as always! ========================= For more information visit our Website: https://www.uwamedicalphysics.org Weblog: http://www.uwamedicalphysics.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UWA.Medical.Physics/groups/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uwa_medical_physics/ Twitter: @MedicalUwa YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCgDxbPagQ3JzzO-UXny7fIA
Congratulations to our Master student, Marsha Chin, who has been awarded the WA Cancer Council Honours/Masters Scholarship.Marsha’s project title is “An investigation of a portable, low-energy X-ray machine for cancer treatment using both physical measurements and a computer simulation”.Well done and well deserved Marsha!
We would like to congratulate our PhD candidate Brani Rusanov for receiving the WA Cancer Council PhD Top Up Scholarship.Brani’s PhD project title is: “Using artificial intelligence to improve the accuracy of radiotherapy treatments”. Great achievement Brani!
Here is a summary of UWA Medical Physics achievements in 2021: ========================= For more information visit our Website: https://www.uwamedicalphysics.org Weblog: http://www.uwamedicalphysics.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UWA.Medical.Physics/groups/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uwa_medical_physics/ Twitter: @MedicalUwa YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCgDxbPagQ3JzzO-UXny7fIA =========================
Congratulations to our graduate Yiheng Lyu for receiving a UWA international fee scholarship and UWA postgraduate award to start his PhD at UWA in the field of AI and cardiology. International scholarships are very competitive and Yiheng’s hard work during his Masters has paid off. Well done Yiheng! ========================= For more information visit our Website:Read more…
Congratulations to our PhD candidate, Rebecca D’Alonzo, for being awarded the “Runner-up Best Flash Talk” in the AIP Student Conference on Friday 26th of Nov. This was the second award Rebecca got for her presentations in two weeks. Very well done Rebecca! ========================= For more information visit our Website: https://www.uwamedicalphysics.orgWeblog: http://www.uwamedicalphysics.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/UWA.Medical.Physics/groups/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uwa_medical_physics/Twitter: @MedicalUwaYouTube Channel:Read more…
On Saturday 20/11/2021, our postgraduate students Rebecca D’Alonzo and Brandon Preap were awarded the prestigious “Robert Stanford Award” and “John Black Student Prize” for their presentations in the annual ACPSEM-WA branch scientific meeting. Rebecca’s presentation title was: “Fractionated radiotherapy and its effect on the tumour microenvironment: a small animal study”. And Brandon presented: “The OptimizationRead more…
Congratulations to our PhD graduate Dr Marco Marcello on winning the PhD Award, an Australia-New Zealand annual award for “the best PhD thesis in Physical and Engineering Sciences with relevance for medicine”.Marco is now a Radiation Oncology Medical Physics Registrar at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.Well done Marco! ========================= For more information visit our Website: https://www.uwamedicalphysics.orgRead more…
Congratulations to UWA Medical Physics PhD candidates: Brani Rusanov, Jake Kendrick and Nathaniel Barry for winning the 2021 WA Health Hackathon among 16 participating teams. Very well done young men! We are proud of you. Here is a short description of the event: The 2021 WA Health Hackathon held on 22nd August consisted of 16Read more…
Dr Pejman Rowshan Farzad teaches Radiotherapy Physics, Radiation Biology and Protection, Radiation Physics and Dosimetry, Medical Imaging Physics and coordinates the Medical Physics postgraduate program at UWA. He’s particularly passionate about modern techniques in radiotherapy, medical imaging, nuclear medicine and the application of AI in medicine. Thanks to this passion for his work, Pejman recentlyRead more…
We are very pleased to announce that Jake Kendrick – our PhD candidate – has been awarded the Turab Chakera Radiology Research Fellowship by the Royal Perth Hospital Imaging Research Fund for 3 years. It is a PhD research grant for original radiology related research. For more information visit: https://rph.health.wa.gov.au/Research/RPH-Imaging-Research-Fund/Grant-Programs The title of Jakes PhDRead more…
Congratulations to our own Dr. Calyn Moulton, the first UWA Medical Physics graduate who has become an ACPSEM Certified Radiation Oncology Medical Physics Specialist (ROMP). Well done Calyn! TEAP is a challenging program and this is a great achievement. We are very proud of you. ========================= For more information visit our website: https://www.uwamedicalphysics.org Weblog: http://www.uwamedicalphysics.comRead more…
We are pleased to announce that the Board of the Graduate Research School has received Emily’s examiners’ reports and has resolved to classify her Doctor of Philosophy thesis as “Pass with minor revisions”.Emily’s research project title was: “Biological optimisation of prostate radiotherapy using tumour biology distributions derived from multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging“. Congratulations Dr. Her!Read more…
On Saturday 17/10/2020, our Master students Jake Kendrick and Kai Metzner were awarded the prestigious “Robert Stanford Award” and “John Black Student Prize” for their presentations in the annual ACPSEM-WA branch scientific meeting. Jake’s presentation title was: “Utilising Convolutional Neural Networks to perform automated segmentation of metastatic prostate lesions in 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT Images”. And KaiRead more…
Congratulations to Thomas Klein on being awarded the ‘Master of Physics Medical Physics Prize’ and ‘Muriel and Colin Ramm Prize and Medal’ to recognise his outstanding academic achievements in 2019. More information on this prize can be found here. We wish Thomas a successful PhD journey. Find out more about the program in our website (Courses, Projects,Read more…
We are pleased to announce that James Hunt, one of our postgraduate students, has been awarded CERN Summer School Scholarship.James’s application to CERN was successful among thousands of applicants across the globe. Unfortunately, he can not physically attend the course due to the Covid-19 crisis. However, CERN has made resources available online and James can gainRead more…
Congratulations to one of our successful graduate Mr. Mario Djukelic who has joined the ICRP Mentorship Programme as a member of ICRP Task Group 116. This task group will provide guidance on radiological protection aspects in the use of imaging (e.g., cone beam CT, fluoroscopy) in radiotherapy. We wish Mario all the best. Find outRead more…
We are so pleased to announce that Thomas Klein – one of our PhD candidates – was awarded the Hackett Postgraduate Research Scholarship this year. The Hackett Postgraduate Research Scholarships are funded by the Hackett Bequest, established by Sir John Winthrop Hackett, the first Chancellor and a generous benefactor to the University of Western Australia. They are annually awarded by the Scholarships Committee to the top-rankedRead more…
Congratulations to Adj/Prof. Martin Ebert, a UWA medical physicist who was awarded a Fulbright Future Scholarship will use medical imaging to gain insight into why cancer progresses and why it becomes resistant to treatment. For his Fulbright Future Scholarship, Martin will be looking at techniques associated with image processing and machine learning to advance molecularRead more…
Congratulation to our UWA medical physics team for the Kenneth Clarke Journal Award 2019 for the best paper in Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine. As voted by the Journal Editorial team based on originality, science, clarity, and impact. The title of the paper was: MLC positioning verification for small fields: a new investigation intoRead more…
Marco Marcello, our PhD student, has been awarded the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) travel award to attend EPSM 2018 – based on the scores provided by reviewers of abstracts submitted for the EPSM conference. We would like to congratulate him on his great achievement. Find out more about the program inRead more…
On Saturday 15/9/2018 our PhD student Emily Her and our Master student Thomas Klein were awarded the prestigious Robert Stanford Award and John Black Award for their presentations in the annual ACPSEM-WA branch scientific meeting. Emily’s presentation title was: “Hypofractionated intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for prostate cancer using patient-specific cancer biology“. And Thomas presented: “Dosimetric VerificationRead more…
We are going to introduce one of our brilliant Medical Physics graduates, Mr. Joshua Hiatt. Josh started his MPhys (Medical Physics) at UWA mid-2016. His research project was on “MultiLeaf Collimator Positioning for Small Fields: A New Investigation into Automatic EPID-based Verification” supervised by Dr. Pejman Rowshanfarzad from Medical Physics Group at UWA, Mr. GodfreyRead more…
Mario started his MPhys (Medical Physics) at our university in 2016. His research project was on “Evaluation of a mobile C-arm cone-beam CT in interstitial high-dose rate brachytherapy treatment planning” supervised by Adj/Prof Martin Ebert, Dr. David Waterhouse, and Dr. Pejman Rowshanfarzad. The project was carried out at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Here are commentsRead more…
The ACPSEM WA Branch Annual Scientific Meeting was held on Saturday 23rd September. Our students presented their latest research outcomes in this meeting. Left to right: Josh, Rebecca, Dane, Emily, and Mario The title of their presentations were as follows: – MultiLeaf Collimator Positioning for Small field Radiotherapy: A New Investigation (Joshua Hiatt) – OptimisingRead more…
Calyn completed his PhD last semester and moved to Sydney to start clinical training at Westmead Hospital. His thesis title was: “Spatial dose-response models of rectal toxicities for patients undergoing prostate radiotherapy“. Calyn was one of our most talented, resourceful and capable students who worked tirelessly on his PhD project. Here is what his principalRead more…
Marco Marcello our brilliant Medical Physics PhD candidate was sponsored by MathWorks to present his research outcomes in the National MATLAB conference this year. We congratulate him for his impressive achievement and wish him more success in the future. Here is Marco’s brief description of his trip and presentation: “I was recently privileged in attendingRead more…
A big congratulation to Ryan Begley our Medical Physics graduate for winning two awards from the WA branch of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) on the 3rd of September 2016. Ryan was awarded the John Black Student Prize, and also a Travel award which pays for his travel to theRead more…
Three of our postgraduate students attended the EPSM-2015 conference in Wellington, New Zealand from 8th to 12th of November. Calyn Moulton presented part of his PhD project. The titles of his presentations were: ● Parameters for the Lyman-Kutcher-Burman model of normal tissue complication probability based on late rectal bleeding events after prostate radiotherapy. ● LateRead more…
A big congratulation to Colm Morrison and Marco Marcello for winning awards from the WA branch of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) on the 12th of September 2015. Colm has been awarded the Robert Stanford award for the best submission in medical physics for his MSc thesis entitled “Development,Read more…
Ryan Begley, a first year student in the Master of Physics: Medical Physics program, was interviewed by the Post Newspapers for his research into using gold nanoparticles as a delivery method for radiation in order to better treat tumours. Thanks to James Crofts Hope Foundation for supporting Ryan Begley’s research. For further reading on the use of goldRead more…
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