ESMPE Board

Brendan McClean is currently Director of Physics at St Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network in Dublin, Ireland. Prior to this appointment in 1995 he worked at the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton, Canada as a radiotherapy medical physicist. He has an Adjunct Professor position and co-supervises PhD students at University College Dublin School of Physics. He teaches at graduate and undergraduate physics courses and for the Specialist Registrar Fellowship training programme. He is also active in ESTRO and was part of the ESTRO Physics Committee for many years. He has an ongoing interest in dose calculation in radiotherapy and has been part of the faculty of the ESTRO Dose Modelling and Verification course since 2008. He is the programme director for the CAMPEP accredited Irish Radiotherapy Physics Residency programme. Since 2005 he has served as physics lead to the Irish National Cancer Control Programme.

Dr Alberto Torresin works as the Head of Medical Physics Dept. and Visiting Professor in the Physics Faculty, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda and University of Milano, Italy. His professional focus is on the patient dosimetry, optimisation and radiation protection in x-ray modalities, quality assurance, imaging for radiotherapy, MRI, advanced MRI (fMRI, DTI) for planning in Neurosurgery.

The research work is primarily related on radiological optimisation, currently emphasizing the use dose tracking and multicenter CT and angio exposure tracking. Dr Torresin is one of the coordinators of the EFOMP Working Group for QA protocol in Digital Mammography and CBCT and AIFM Working Group on "Dose exposure" ; he is a member of European Commission Initiative on Breast Cancer, Guidelines Development Group; Principal Investigator of the project: PREP Procedure Radiodiagnostiche in Età Pediatrica.

Prof Seco graduated with a PhD from the University of London, at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and Royal Marsden Hospital in London, UK. He then went on to become an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, working at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He then returned to Europe to work at the German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ in Heidelberg, heading up a new group dedicated to ion beam research and with the focus on 1) novel imaging technologies to reduce Bragg peak positioning errors in patients and 2) on investigating the mechanism of radiation triggered DNA damage via reactive oxygen species. He is also presently the Chair of Medical Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg University and is a member of the EFOMP Scientific Committee, representing the DGMP, German Society for Medical Physics. 

Efi Koutsouveli received her MSc degree in Medical Physics from the University of Surrey, UK following a BS degree in Physics at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is a Medical Physicist in the Medical Physics department of Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece since 1993. Her professional focus is on quality assurance, dosimetry, radiation protection of radiotherapy units (external radiotherapy & brachytherapy), pediatric, stereotactic radiotherapy, radiosurgery treatments and patient safety. She is also active in the training of young Medical Physicists, Radiation Oncologists, Radiation Therapists, Nurses, Administrative staff. Her special interest is on Hospital Quality Management Systems, Oncology Information Systems, Radiotherapy Quality Audits and she is serving on multiple hospital quality committees since 1996.

Currently, she is theTreasurer of the Hellenic Association of Medical Physicists (HAMP), the HAMP-ESTRO liaison person and the HAMP delegate to EFOMP and IOMP since 2014. She is member of the European School of Medical Physics Expert (ESMPE) board, the EFOMP Examination Board (EEB) and one of the editors of the EFOMP European Medical Physics News. 

In 2019, she received the IOMP-IDMP award for promoting medical physics to a larger audience. 

Rafael Ayala is a senior medical physicist working at Gregorio Marañón hospital, Madrid. Rafael has more than ten years of experience in the field of radiotherapy. His areas of interest are external and intra-operative radiotherapy, although early in his career he was also involved in image quality assessment for X-ray devices. He is specially focused on designing tools for scientific computing that improve treatment safety, refine quality controls of the linacs and/or streamline treatment planning workflows.

At the moment, he is actively involved in the training of several courses for medical physics in training organised by the Spanish Society of Medical Physics (SEFM).

Prof. Dr. Christoph Bert studied physics at the Friedrich- Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and at the Imperial College in London. He received the PhD from Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt in 2006, for a dissertation on 4D treatment planning for scanned ion beam therapy.  This topic was also the focus of his Postdoc at GSI and briefly at the National Institute of Radiological Science (NIRS) in Chiba, Japan. In 2009, Dr. Bert obtained the postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) in medical physics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität of Heidelberg.

Since 2012, Dr. Bert is Professor of Medical Radiation Physics at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, and head of medical physics at the Department of Radiation Oncology of the University Clinic Erlangen. His research focus aims at improving therapy techniques and their quality assurance. Current focus topics are the management of organ motion by tracking, SGRT, MRT in RO, and error detection in interstitial brachytherapy.

Eeva Boman works as a department chief physicist in a busy radiotherapy clinic in Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland. Eeva has over ten years of experience as a qualified medical physicist in the field of radiotherapy. She has also oversees experience when working as visiting senior medical physicist in the Wellington Blood & Cancer Center, Wellington, New Zealand.

Eeva has a long history of confidential posts, latest last two years being the president of the Finnish Association of Medical Physicists and being the board member several years before that.

Eeva holds associate professorship from the field of radiation oncology physics in the Tampere University. Her main research interest has been in developing new radiotherapy practices mainly in the field of VMAT treatment planning, IRGT and HDR. She have written or participated the research of more than 20 pre-reviewed publications and several conference proceedings. She have also been a reviewer of scientific papers. Eeva’s PhD thesis focused on mathematical modelling of Boltzmann transport equation (2007).

Stephane Chauvie is an Italian physicist with a post-graduate degree in medical physics at university of Torino and in healthcare management at university of Roma “La Sapienza”.
Since 2012 he’s director of health physics division in Santa Croce and Carle hospital, where he has been working since 2004. He’s a medical physics, nuclear magnetic resonance safety, and III-degree radiation protection expert.
He serves also as a consultant for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and for several organs of the Italian Ministry of Economy (CONSIP) and Health (ISS and AGENAS).
He has teaching and training duties for bachelors, university degree (for nurses, technologists, lab-technicians, physicians and physicists) and post-degree (medical physicists), besides his long-standing activities in professional teaching of medical physicists and other healthcare professionals.
Stephane is a former scientific associate of European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and European Space Agency (ESA) where he was involved in Monte Carlo simulation of low-energy particle interaction with tissue at cellular level.
From 2012 he is the head of Cuneo Imaging Corelab performing clinical trials qualification on behalf of several international onco-haematological association (IELSG, FIL, SAKK, PLRG, GELTAMO) where he performs most of his research activity studying dosimetry and imaging biomarker for patient stratification, prognosis and therapy assessment (in over 30 clinical trials) and dosimetry.

Jaroslav Ptáček works as the head of the Department of Medical Physics and Radiation Protection in the University Hospital in Olomouc, Czech Republic. He is a medical physicist in nuclear medicine and focuses himself mainly on image processing, quality control and radiation protection. He is involved in teaching of medical physics and instrumentation in nuclear medicine and x-ray diagnostics in technologists education program. He is also involved in education and training of medical physicists in nuclear medicine in Czech Republic who are working on becoming qualified medical physicist. As a board member of Czech Association of Medical Physicists he is involved in professional matters of medical physicists in Czech Republic. Since 2013 he is a part of local organizing committee of ESMPE in Prague and since 2018 he is a secretary general of EFOMP.

Veronica Rossetti's main fields of interest are diagnostic and interventional radiology for adults and children, mammography, radiation protection, education and training.
Her curriculum vitae can be briefly summarised as follows:

Degree in Physics - University of Turin, 1992
Postgraduate degree in Medical Physics (Medical Physics Expert) - University of Genoa, 1997
Expert in Radiation Protection Level III (maximum), 2003
Medical Physicist in the National Health Service, University Hospital "Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino", since 1998
Adjunct Professor at the School of Medicine of the University of Turin since 2001
Adjunct Professor at the Postgraduate School of Medical Physics of the University of Turin since 2001
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Association of Medical Physics (AIFM) since 2016
Responsible for e-learning for AIFM since 2014
Member of the Communication and Publication Committee of EFOMP.
Scientific Responsible, Tutor, Lecturer in several CPD accredited Italian courses for Medical Physicists and other professionals on Medical Physics topics (mammography, patient dose in radiology, CT...) organized by AIFM and other medical societies.

Dr. Ioannis Tsougos holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics, a Master’s and Doctorate in Medical Radiation Physics and a Master’s Degree in Clinical Education. He has studied and trained in London Metropolitan University and King’s College London (UK), Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), Emory University (USA), University of Edinburgh (UK), University of Patras (Greece). Currently, he is a Professor of Medical Radiation Physics in the Medical School of the University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece and visiting Faculty at King’s College London, Department of Neuroimaging. He has authored more than 100 research papers, 11 book chapters and an international book in Advanced MRI techniques. He is a member of the EFOMP, ESR, and ESMRMB. His main research interests are Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging techniques and AI applications, Radiation Biology and Nuclear Medicine. He is the Head of the Master’s program “Biomedical Imaging and Radiation Protection” (www.birp.med.uth.gr) and the Head of the Medical Informatics and Biomedical Imaging Lab.

Federica Zanca is a senior clinical medical physicist who has been conducting research in medical imaging in both academic (she has been professor at the KU Leuven) and industrial settings (she has been Chief Scientist and director in GE Healthcare), for the past 22 years. Her research topics span several areas, including mammography, computed tomography, interventional and general radiology, medical imaging perception and artificial intelligence in medical imaging. Trough investigation of equipment performance, organization of quality control in imaging systems, control of radiation and contrast hazard, her research aims at delivering high-quality care of patients undergoing imaging procedures. She is currently consulting industry and hospitals through her company, Palindromo Consulting.

She was the chair of the EFOMP WG on Artificial Intelligence and Board Member of the EuSoMII society. She serves also subcommittees of ECR and RSNA conferences.