Communications & Publications Committee

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 Mohamed Metwaly, is a lead consultant clinical scientist for radiotherapy physics at United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust. He is a registered medical physics expert in the RPA2000 registry. 25 years of experience installing new machines, designing dosimetry and quality assurance protocols, and implementing modern radiation techniques and patient motion management systems.

From 2004 till 2008, he was the chief radiotherapy physicist at Maadi Armed Forces Medical Compound in Cairo, Egypt. Ain Shames University in Cairo awarded him an MSc in radiotherapy physics in 1999 and a Ph.D. in 2008. In 1998, he co-founded the Egyptian Association of Medical Physics (EAMP), and he served as its general secretary until 2010. For the EAMP, he was vice president of external relations in 2017. He still has that job.

In 2009, he moved to Scotland to work as a principal radiation dosimetry physicist at the Beaton West of Scotland Cancer Centre, with the main job being the acceptance and commissioning of newly installed machines and routine QA. He had received intensive training in the QA and dosimetry protocols as well as in the UK radiation legislation. As part of his job, he has also worked on scientific research projects. He has also taught Medical Physics MSC students and supervised MSc and Ph.D students, as well.

He has been a member of the Science Research and Innovation Committee (SRIC) since 2019. He is the editor-in-chief of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine [IPEM] Report Series. Since 2018, he has been a medical physics expert at the Health Research Authority (HRA) who reviews and approves ionisation radiation exposure for research or clinical trials. He joined the UK Accreditation Service (UKAS) technical evaluation team for BS70000 in 2018. Since 2022, he has been a Care Quality Commission (CQC) Specialist Advisor. He has been on the scientific committees of the IPEM Medical Physics and Engineering Conference (MPEC) twice (in 2019, and 2020).

He was recently chosen as the IPEM Rep in the EFOMP and shortly after that, he was elected as the chair of the communication and publication committee and took over in March 2022.

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