EFOMP Structure

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.

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Jaroslav Ptáček, Ph.D. 
Head of the Department of Medical Physics and Radiation Protection
University Hospital Olomouc
I. P. Pavlova 185/6 
779 00, OLOMOUC 
CZECH REPUBLIC
E-mail: jaroslav.ptacek@fnol.cz
 

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 Physics and Radiation Protection Expert 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. In 2020, she became the Laser Safety Officer of the Hospital.

She has been the Vice President, Tresurer and Communications chair of the Hellenic Association of Medical Physicists (HAMP), the HAMP-ESTRO liaison person and the HAMP delegate to EFOMP and IOMP. She was a 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.

Dr. Oleksandra (Sasha) Ivashchenko, is a medical physicist at the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging at the University Medical Center Groningen. She is registered with the medical physics expert in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, as defined by the Dutch Association for Medical Physics.
After completing her MSc education in Ukraine in 2012 in Kyiv, Ukraine, she moved to the Netherlands to carry out a PhD project in molecular imaging at TU Delft. Over the past 12 years, Sasha has gained a broad range of research and clinical experience within the medical imaging and medical device industries. Her particular focus is on automated image analysis and segmentation, quantitative imaging and personalized dosimetry. In addition to day-to-day work, she is heavily involved in several non-profit science communication roles, including an editorial positions at Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, Marie Curie Alumni Association, EFOMP and others.

Contact details:
O.V. Ivashchenko
Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Medical Imaging Center, UMCG Groningen
Hanzeplein 1, 9700 RB Groningen
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0) 50 361 9261
Email: o.v.ivashchenko@umcg.nl
LinkedIn | Twitter: @OleksandraIvas3 | Google scholar

Dr. Antonio López Medina, is a Medical Physics Expert in the Department of Medical Physics and Radiological Protection of the University Hospital Complex of Vigo since 2000 and Associate Professor at the University of Vigo in Biomedical Engineering since 2021.
He trained at the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital in Granada (1996-1999) and since then he has worked in two other hospitals as an Medical Physics Expert.
He has worked mainly in radiotherapy, although he has also worked in the fields of radiodiagnostics and nuclear medicine, in the latter mainly in the area of radiological protection.
He has participated in six research projects with national or European funding, in three of them as principal investigator, focusing mainly on the use of functional imaging (PET/CT+MRI) to develop predictive models in radiotherapy and radiation protection in Nuclear Medicine.
He has collaborated in the elaboration of the European guidelines "on the Implementation of Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom Requirements for Medical Equipment with Respect to Monitoring and Control of Patient's Radiation Exposures".
He is a member of the EFOMP European and International Matters Committee since 2019 and has been its secretary for this committee in the period 2020 - 2023.

Contact details:
Antonio López Medina
Department of Medical Physics and Radiological Protection
Meixoeiro Hospital
36214 (Vigo) - SPAIN
Tel: +34 683118397
E-mail: antonio.lopez.medina@sergas.es
LinkedIn | linkedin.com/in/antonio-lopez-medina-96a4b729

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.

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Veronica Rossetti, Ph.D.
Department of Medical Physics
AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Italy

vrossetti@cittadellasalute.to.it

Brenda Byrne is a Principal Physicist working in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland since November 2000. The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital is a large teaching hospital. The hospital is part of the Ireland East Hospital Group (IEHG) and provides a range of frontline and specialist services on a regional and national level. 
Brenda completed her undergraduate degree BA (Mod) in Experimental Physics in Trinity College Dublin in June 2000. Following on from her degree, she graduated with her Master’s degree in Physical Sciences in Medicine also in Trinity College Dublin in September 2002. Her primary areas of interest are diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine and radiation protection. She has been a registered radiation protection adviser (RPA) since April 2000 in Ireland and is the RPA for three hospitals within the IEHG hospital group. She has been on the voluntary register of medical physics experts (MPEs) since 2005 and was a governor of the Irish College of Physicists in Medicine (ICPM) from 2010 to 2016. The ICPM is the voluntary registration body for Medical Physicists in Ireland.  She is a past treasurer of the national association for medical physicists in Ireland (2002-2005).
Brenda undertook the EFOMP EUTEMPE Course MPE01 Leadership in Medical Physics, Development of the profession and the challenges for the MPE  and passed the course with a distinction in February 2019. She is now a module co-leader for this course.  She is an occasional lecturer with the University College Dublin, School of Diagnostic Imaging and the Royal College of Surgeons, Faculty of Radiology, Dublin.  She is a current member of Irish Association of Physicists in Medicine (IAPM), Irish College of Physicists in Medicine (ICPM) and Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) (overseas member).

Brenda Byrne BA MSc
Principal Physicist and Radiation Protection Adviser
Level 2 Whitty Wing
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital 
Eccles Street 
Dublin 7
Ireland
 

Dimitris VISVIKIS is a director of research with the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and Director of the Medical Image Processing Lab in Brest (LaTIM, UMR1101). He obtained his PhD from the University of London in 1996 working in PET detector development within the Joint Department of Physics in the Royal Marsden Hospital and the Institute of Cancer Research. After working as a Senior Research Fellow in the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre of the University of Cambridge he joined the Institute of Nuclear Medicine as Principal Medical Physicist in University College London where he introduced and worked for five years with one of the first clinical PET/CT systems in the world. He has spent the majority of his scientific activity in the field of PET imaging, including developments in both hardware and software domains. His current research interests focus on improvement in PET/CT image quantitation for specific oncology applications, such as response to therapy and radiotherapy treatment planning, through the development of methodologies for detection and correction of respiratory motion, 4D PET image reconstruction, tumor radiomics multiparametric and multimodality modeling, as well as the development of computer assisted interventional radiotherapy and Monte Carlo based radiotherapy treatment dosimetry applications. In the last few years he has been developing AI methodologies based on deep learning for image reconstruction and analysis in multimodality imaging. He is a member of numerous professional societies such as EFOMP (Projects committee Chair), IPEM (Fellow, Past Vice-President International), IEEE (Fellow class of 2022, Past NPSS NMISC chair, ADCOM member), AAPM, SNM (CaIC board of directors 2007-2012), EANM (Chair Physics committee, 2020-2026). He is the first Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions in Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences (2017-). He is currently the president of the INSERM national scientific commission for Healthcare Technologies (2022-2026). He has received different awards including the 2020 Edward J Hoffman Award of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, “for contributions to advances in PET imaging and to education and dissemination of findings within the scientific community”, and the 2020 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society and Nuclear Medical Imaging Steering Committee, Medical Imaging Technical Achievement Award, “for contributions to PET/CT imaging methodological developments dedicated to respiratory motion correction, image reconstruction, detector modeling and automated image analysis and processing for predictive modeling in oncology”.

Contact details:

Dimitris VISVIKIS, FIEEE, FIPEM  

Director, LaTIM, INSERM UMR 1101         
Responsable, team ACTION (Therapy action using multimodality imaging in oncology)

Director of Research INSERM    

President CSS7 INSERM

EiC IEEE Transactions in Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences
https://ieee-trpms.org

LaTIM, INSERM UMR 1101,                           Tel:+33 622 40 12 29
IBRBS, 1st floor,                                              Tel:+33 298 01 81 14
Faculte de Médecine UBO,                       email: dimitris@univ-brest.fr
22 avenue Camille Desmoulins,                   https://latim.univ-brest.fr/
Brest, 29200, France

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).

Contact details:

Eeva Boman, PhD, Associate Professor

Department Chief Physicist
Department of Oncology, Tampere University Hospital
Teiskontie 35 * P.O. Box 2000 * FI-33521 Tampere, FINLAND

Mobile +35844 4729356

eeva.boman@pirha.fi 

Paddy Gilligan is chief physicist in the Mater Misericordiae University  Hospital, Dublin Ireland. He has over 30 years’ experience working in radiology including interventional, radiation protection, nuclear medicine, CT, dental, MR Imaging and spectroscopy.   He was involved in setting up a radiotherapy centre in the Mater Private Hospital. He was a board member on the Irish radiation protection regulator, the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland and a member of the patient radiation protection regulatory body: the National Radiation Safety Committee. He has served on the ESR radiation safety committee, the Eurosafe Imaging steering committee and as co-chair of the Irish faculty of radiologists radiation safety committee. In 2019 he chaired the European congress of radiology physics subcommittee. He was past president of the Irish NMO, the APSM (now IAPM). He organised the annual medical physics workshop at the Robert Boyle summer school and is a trustee of the Robert Boyle foundation. He teaches on various post graduate courses including a recent participation in the advanced QA in digital radiography as part of the IAEA/ICTP workshop in Trieste Italy and on the  IAEA regional training course in Bangkok. He was physics director of the M.Sc.  in radiological sciences course in University College Dublin where he is associate Clinical Professor. He chaired the gonad and patient shielding (GAPs) group that produced the European consensus statement in 2021. He is the secretary  of the Euramed Board. He  was president of the fourth European congress of medical physics in Dublin August 2022. He is president of EFOMP for the term 2021-2023.  
Email: president@efomp.org