Weinhous Is AAPM’s President-Elect

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The American Association of Physicists in Medicine has a new president-elect: Martin S. Weinhous, chief of the medical physics section in the department of radiation oncology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. Weinhous will begin his term as president-elect on 1 January 2002, succeeding Robert G. Gould. He will become president in 2003 and chairman of the board in 2004.A goal for AAPM, says Weinhous, is “to work toward assuring that the AAPM remains one of the world’s premier scientific associations for medical physicists while working in partnership with related societies to further the interests of all.”Weinhous also plans “to increase efforts to educate the lay community regarding physicist participation in their health care and to continue efforts to make our association and profession known to our national political leaders.”Weinhous received a BS in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1966, then earned MS and PhD degrees in physics from the University of New Hampshire in 1970 and 1974. After postdoctoral training in radiation oncology physics at Yale University, he worked at several institutions before joining the Cleveland Clinic in 1994. His research interests include radiation therapy physics. Four new at-large members of AAPM’s board of directors will also take office on 1 January 2002 for three-year terms. They are J. Daniel Bourland, an associate professor and head of the physics section in the department of radiation oncology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Sherry Connors, a senior medical physicist at the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Douglas J. Simpkin, senior medical physicist at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Andrew Wu, director of the medical physics division at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Center in Pennsylvania. Weinhous PPT|High resolution© 2001 American Institute of Physics.