2026 Spring Dinner
Our annual spring dinner will be held on 17 April 2026 (Friday)
Please join us to attend the spring dinner in Akron, Ohio
Date: 17 April (Friday) 2026
Location: Akronym Brewing, 58 E Market St, Akron, OH 44308
Agenda:
| Time | Highlights |
| 5:00 – 5:30 | Happy Hour |
| 5:30 – 6:15 | Dinner with talk by Elekta |
| 6:15 – 7:00 | Keynote Andrew Maidment, AAPM President-Elect “The Roles of AI in Medical Physics and Medical Physicists in AI” |
| 7:00 – 7:10 | MedPhys SLAM winner award and closing remarks |
After the meeting we will be going to an Akron Rubber Ducks baseball game. Game starts at 7:20.
Pricing:
- $25 for full members.
- $10 for residents, students, etc.
- $15 for extra game tickets.
- Donations in $5 increments to offset cost of students/SLAM costs.
Ticket includes: one drink ticket, dinner, and one ticket to the game.
MedPhys SLAM submission information can be found here (Deadline April 13, 2026).
Hotel information:
- Start Date: Friday, April 17, 2026
- End Date: Saturday, April 18, 2026
- Hotel block with group rate:
- BLU-Tique, Akron, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel ($ 189.00 USD per night)
- Address: 1 S Main St, Akron, OH 44308
- Link: Book your group rate for POWV AAPM Chapter Spring Dinner
- Reservations must be made by March 25, 2026
The Roles of AI in Medical Physics and Medical Physicists in AI
Dr. Andrew Maidment is a board-certified medical physicist and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, where he serves as chief of physics for radiology in the University Health System and as an associate professor of Radiology. He is also co-director of the HHMI-NIBIB Interfaces Graduate Program in Biomedical Imaging and Information Sciences at the university, and recipient of the 2010 Special Dean’s Award for School of Medicine Teaching. Dr. Maidment developed the world’s first practical digital mammography system in 1993, commercialized as the Fischer Senoscan. He has spent more than 30 years developing x-ray imaging systems, with a particular focus on tomosynthesis, including the development of several novel metrics of image quality and fostering the field of virtual clinical trials to design, test, and validate novel imaging systems.
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Thank you to our corporate sponsor!
