Aim
The Projects Committee is responsible to the Council of the Federation for participating in the implementation of projects and supporting the participation of Medical Physics institutions for improving research in Medical Physics and the professional status of Medical Physicists in Europe and Internationally.
EFOMP participates in projects that require knowledge from medical physicists and to show the importance of the medical physicist work in health care. EFOMP participates either as a consortium member or in steering committees or advisory boards of major European projects. This work is often, but not always, done by EFOMP officers, former officers and committee members. In projects that require extensive work, EFOMP needs support from individual medical physicists.
The committee identifies project calls, in particular tender requests from the EU and links with NMOs and relevant professional societies to put together a bid.
Members
Chairperson
Dimitris Visvikis
Past Chair
Constantinos Koutsojannis
Secretary
Luis Brualla
All committee members
Activities
EFOMP’s involvement in projects is overseen by the Projects Committee.
Although EFOMP’s aims and mission statement do not explicitly call for EFOMP to be involved in projects, one way of satisfying a number of these aims and help in EFOMP’s mission is to be involved in projects that lead to the publication of reports and scientific journal articles that support these objectives. Publications will be particularly relevant when they contain a strong European dimension. Previous publications, having such a perspective, in which EFOMP has been involved, include reports that are sponsored and published by the European Commission.
Projects
EFOMP Website:
Current projects
Endorsed projects
Past projects
Endorsement of Projects
EFOMP is very delighted to be invited to take part in and endorse different projects that have an impact on and connection to medical physics profession, research, or radiation protection. However, we need time to evaluate and discuss the project before endorsing or joining projects. This document describes what need to be included in a request and when to send it to EFOMP. Please pay attention to the following:
What kind of support do you request?
We have divided EFOMP’s support in different categories and the projects will be evaluated using these categories.
a) A general endorsement of a project – i.e. a single letter of endorsement from EFOMP
b) An endorsement with an involvement – i.e. EFOMP is asked to take part in an advisory board or a project steering committee etc.
c) An endorsement with participation – i.e. EFOMP contribution is needed in the project in form of an expertise or a financial support, but EFOMP is not a part of the project.
d) A full endorsement – EFOMP is requested to join as a full member of the project financed by e.g. EU or other institution.
When should you approach EFOMP?
We need the information about the project well in advance, which means 1 month project type a) and b), 2 months for project type c) and 3 months for project type d). You must also let us know the application deadline (if applicable). The times needed to process the request are maximum times.
What should you include?
- A specification document of project aims and the outcome
- A timeline of the project
- The method for communicating the project and project outcome
- Names and affiliation of the coordinator and project members/partners
- An approximate budget for the project and a possible financial support to EFOMP
- Other important conditions regarding the project work
How should you send it to?
Preferably in a single document (please use the "Form for project endorsement" below) attached to an email to:
the Projects Committee projectscommittee@efomp.org and cc Secretary General of EFOMP at: secretary@efomp.org
Projects committee introductory course
https://www.efomp.org/index.php?r=fc&id=committees-info
Related Attachments
Information for participating in a project
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Information for supporting a project
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Form for project endorsement
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Contact
projectscommittee@efomp.org
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
Dr. Constantinos Koutsojannis is Professor of Medical Physics at Physiotherapy Department and also works on research and teaching at Medical Department and the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department of University of Patras, Greece. He has also long experience in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses. He is also, head of Health-Physics and Computational Intelligence Lab, with rich activities on Health Professional Training projects on Informatics, Digital Skills, and new Medical Technologies. He has published more than 70 papers in international journals, edited volumes, international conferences, and workshop proceedings part of related with health professional safety approaches. His published work has collected more than 1000 citations. Additionally an adequate number of them are related to He has also participated as scientific coordinator or team member in several National and international or European research, educational or vocational training projects as Erasmus+ KA2, RIS, Archimedes III, Pythagoras II, Erasmus Mundus Lot 2 and Grundvig II. He is currently consultant in Artificial Intelligence Working Group and member of Project Committee of EFOMP.