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Robert G. Gould

Chair AAPM History Committee

•  Location of the 2nd summer Annual Meeting in July 1971 of the AAPM

•  AAPM’s 12th Annual Meeting

•  My first scientific presentation at a national meeting

•  AAPM milestones

•  Discussions began in early 1958 – Gale Adams, Warren Sinclair, John

Laughlin

•  G. D. Adams, “Formation and early years of the AAPM”, Med Phys 5(4), 290-296 (1978)

Gale Adams Warren Sinclair

Meeting in Los Angeles June 20, 1958

•  R. M. Adams •  G. L. Brownell •  R. C. Granke •  M.A. Greenfield •  E. W. Hackney •  H. R. Haymond

•  J. A. Hidalgo •  R. Loevinger •  W. S. Moos •  E. Siegel •  R. S. Yalow •  A. A. Yalow

Persons participating in discussions with Warren Sinclair at a meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine

•  R. M. Adams •  G. L. Brownell

•  M.A. Greenfield •  E. W. Hackney •  H. R. Haymond

•  R. Loevinger •  W. S. Moos •  E. Siegel •  R. S. Yalow •  A. A. Yalow

Steering Committee to Form AAPM (Formed June 1958)

•  G. D. Adams

•  R. M. Adams

•  N. A. Baily

•  C. B. Braestrup

•  R. O. Gorson

•  M. A. Greenfield

•  J. Hale

•  R. Loevinger

•  R. S. Krohmer

•  J. F. Marvin

•  W. S. Moos

•  J. Ovadia

•  L. E. Preuss

•  C. S. Simons

•  W. K. Sinclair

•  R. S. Yalow

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•  Held prior to the RSNA

•  Adopted temporary constitution

•  Adopted the recommendation of the steering committee to call the society the American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Date President Event

11/17/1958 Adams General organization meeting (temporary constitution)

12/07/1960 Sinclair First edition of The Medical Physicist

11/27/1961 Hale First scientific sessions

11/29/1962 Williams First Scientific Committee

11/21/1963 Webster Competition for AAPM logo

11/10/1965 Laughlin AAPM incorporated

6/03/1966 Shalek First mid-year (summer) topical meeting

12/03/1967 Lanzl AAPM becomes an AIP Affiliated Society

7/13/1970 Keraikes First summer annual meeting: Washington DC

•  Total # of charter members = 133

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tt TABLEL Charter membership of the AAPM as recorded on 4 December 1959.

;- G.D. Adams W.C. Dewey J.M. Heslin R.T. Mooney W.K. SinclairLe R.M. Adams J.E. Durlacher F.G. Hickey V.C. Moore W.E. Siri

:0 J.H. Anson L.A. Du Sault G.J. Hine J.M. Morgan L. StantonS. Aronow E.A. Edelsack M. Hodara W.S. Moos R.E. Steele

i-N.A. Baily W.H. Ellett A. Jacobson C.J. Mott, Jr. E.E. Stickley

r- L.M. Bates E.W. Engelman L.E. Jacobson I.T. Myers L.A. Strait

,n H.A. Bevis R.D. Evans M.F. Jahns C.E. Newton, Jr. R.W. SwainJ. N. Bierly S. Feitelberg R.A. Jalbert D.G. Oldfield O. Tamuzs

1- H. Blatz A. Feldman C.D. Janney A.L. Orvis M.S. Tausig

_- J. Blizard T. Fields W.R. Konneker J. Ovadia E.R. Testa

C. B. Braestrup E.F. Focht J.S. Krohmer L. Pape J.W. ThomasG. L. Brownell T.R. Folsom D.B. Kusner W.T. Powers E. Tochilin

,e G.W. Callendine, Jr. A.L. Forsaith H.C. Lanz L.E. Preuss J.C. Trump

_n G.H. Cameron M. Fried L.H. Lanzl R.S. Quick K-C. Tsien _:

J. R. Cameron R. Garrett H.V. Larson E.H. Quimby S.J. Vacirca)-_

J. C. Carlson R. Golden J.S. Laughlin J. Rivera J.L. Weatherwax

Pn V.G. Castro P.N. Goodwin R. Loevinger C.V. Robinson E.W. Webster

S- L. Chandler R.O. Gorson M.K. Loken W.C. Roesch K.D. WilliamsR. K. Clark M.A. Greenfield W.J. Maclntyre H.H. Rossi M.M.D. Williams

_- A. Cole E.N. Grisewood S.J. Malsky R.J. Schulz E.D. Witherell

J- C.J. Collica A.W. Hackney F.X. Masse N.E. Scofield P. Wootton

K. R. Corey J. Hale W. Mauderli R.J. Shalek K.A. Wright "

K. E. Corrigan A.A. Halko J.K. Mayer G. Shapiro A.A. Yalow

S- R.F. Cowing H.S. Hayden A.L. McCrea K. Shivanandan R.S. Yalow

M. Dauer H.R. Haymond M.L. Melton E. Siegel V.E. Yoder

F. B. deFriess R.H. Haynes M.L. Meurk W. Siler3- W.D. DeVore J.F. Herrick T.G. Mitchell C.S. Simons

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_g Constitution. A Constitution Commit- Third Annual Meeting. The third

_d tee was selected and instructed to provide annual meeting of the Board and Associa-that the Board of Directors be renamed the tion required three sessions (4-7 December

li- Executive Board and elected for one-year 1960). Actions included:cs terms, and the chairman be renamed as Election. The members had retained

president and limited to one term. The the same Board and the same officers were

s- Board also added J. S. Laughlin to assist in retained by the Board.in writing the Constitution and L. H. Lanzl for Professional. Warren Sinclair had

adequate representation of the Chicago prepared a "Questionnaire on Professional

area. Activities" and arial_zedland distributedc- ACR Teaching Committee. A com- the results.

)k mittee was formed to investigate collabora- Placement Service. Jack Krohmer

9. tion with the American College of Radiol- agreed to undertake the establishment of

_t- ogy (ACR) on educational activities the Placement Service.

ix relating to radiological physics. HPA Contact. Bob Loevinger estab-

Examination Of the New Constitution lished a communication link with the

was the primary concern at the Annual HPA.

',rs Meeting, and it was Subsequently mailed IAEA Panel. Ted Webster and Gail

c- out to members for approval. The mail bal- Adams participated in a panel convened by

lot returns were 72 "aye" and 2 "no." the IAEA on Isodose measurement and

Medical Physics, Vol. 25, No. 7, July 1998, Part 2

Charter Members Who Became President: 13

•  Gail Adams, 1958-1960 •  Warren Sinclair, 1961 •  John Hale, 1962 •  Marvin Williams, 1963 •  Edward Webster, 1964 •  John Laughlin, 1965 •  Robert Shalek, 1966

•  Lawrence Lanzl, 1967 •  John Cameron, 1968 •  Robert Gorson, 1969 •  Jack Krohmer, 1975 •  Jacques Ovadia, 1976 •  Peter Wootton, 1978

1973

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Charter Member William D. Coolidge Award Winners

•  Robert Shalek, 1973 •  John Laughlin, 1974 •  Marvin Williams, 1975 •  Edith Quimby, 1977 •  Larry Lanzl, 1978 •  John Cameron, 1980 •  Gail Adams, 1982

•  Edward Webster, 1983 •  Robley Evans, 1984 •  Jack Krohmer, 1985 •  Warren Sinclair, 1986 •  Gordon Brownell, 1987 •  Moses Greenfield,1991 •  Robert Loevinger, 1995 •  Leonard Stanton, 1996

Rosalyn Yalow Peter Wootton

Rosalyn S. Yalow 1921-

•  Co-developer of radioimmunoassay (RIA), an extremely sensitive isotopic method of measuring hormones and other substances in blood –  1977 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.

•  Graduated from Hunter College in 1941 –  First woman to receive a degree from physics

department

•  Born in England, moved to Houston in 1951 to join M.D. Anderson

•  Moved to Seattle in 1953to become Radiation Physicist at Swedich Hospital, switching to University of Washington in 1964

•  20th President of AAPM (1978)

Bob Gorson

1998

John Hale

Robert O. Gorson

•  Professor of Radiology (Medical Physics) at Thomas Jefferson University

•  Numerous committees concerned with radiation uses, effects and dosimetry, of the ACR, RSNA, HPS, AAPM, and NCI

•  11th President of the AAPM (1969)

•  AAPM Award for Achievement in Medical Physics (1997)

•  AAPM Videographer –  Conducted more than 125 interviews with

prominent medical physicist and members of the AAPM

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•  University of Pennsylvania for 37 years

•  Helped write the AAPM constitution

•  3rd President of the AAPM (1962)

•  AAPM Award for Achievement in Medical Physics (1998)

•  Initiated scientific sessions at annual meeting (hence my trip to Houston in 1971) –  My master thesis advisor

1989

Larry Lanzl Jack Krohmer

•  Born, raised, educated and spent his entire medical physics career in Chicago

•  Worked on the Manhattan Project

•  University of Chicago –  Helped develop both 60Co and linear accelerator

–  Established the graduate program in Medical Physics

•  9th President of the AAPM

•  President of the IOMP

•  AAPM Coolidge Award (1978)

Jack S. Krohmer 1921-2001

•  17th President of the AAPM (1975)

•  Received gold medals from ACR and the RSNA

•  Coolidge Award in 1985

•  Beginning in 1961, examined in physics for the American Board of Radiology

•  ABR trustee in 1981: first nonphysician to be a trustee

Edward (Ted) Webster Edith Quimby

Edith H. Quimby 1891-1982

•  Joined Gioacchino Failla at NY Memorial Hospital in 1919

•  Seminal research in measuring the penetration of radiation enabled physicians to determine the exact dose needed with the fewest side effects

•  Awards –  AAPM Coolidge Award (1977) –  RSNA Gold Medal –  American Radium Society Janeway Medal

•  First woman recipient

•  League of Women Voters

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Edward W. Webster 1922–2005

•  Best known for his work in diagnostic radiology physics, basic radiation protection criteria, and radiation risk estimates –  Significant contributions to BEIR III

•  5th President of the AAPM (1965)

•  AAPM Coolidge Award winner in 1983

•  Awarded gold medal by the ACR •  My thesis advisor

Robert Loevinger

John Cameron

Robert Loevinger 1915-2004

•  Known as "Mr. Dosimetry" for his career efforts to make radiation treatments for millions of cancer patients reliable

•  20 years as chief of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's dosimetry section

•  Awards –  AAPM Coolidge Award (1995)

–  Department of Commerce Silver Medal (1980)

–  Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer (1985)

–  Health Physics Society Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award (1993)

John R. Cameron 1922-2005

•  University of Wisconsin

•  Pioneer in the development of TLD •  10th president of the AAPM (1968)

•  Awards –  AAPM Coolidge Award winner (1980)

–  Roentgen Centennial Medal from RSNA (1995) •  One of only 4 recipients

–  IOMP Madam Curie Award for activities in medical physics education in developing countries (2000)

•  AAPM John Cameron Young Investigator’s Award

Arnold Feldman John Laughlin

1998

John S. Laughlin, Ph.D. 1918-2004

•  Joined Memorial Sloan-Kettering in 1952 as Chair of Medical Physics

•  7th President of the AAPM (1965) •  Awards

–  AAPM Coolidge Award (1974) –  HPS Distinguished Scientific Achievement

Award (1982) –  SNM Aebersold Award (1984) –  ACR Gold Medal (1988) –  ASTRO Gold Medal (1993)

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Arnold Feldman

•  Received the first AAPM Award for Achievement in Medical Physics in 1996

•  Worked on the Manhattan Project •  Career at Mayo Clinic, Washington University in

St Louis, and Peoria

•  Still making the news!

Peoria man shares view from the dawn of the bomb (Rockford Register Star, July 14, 2008)

•  Not only great talents in Medical Physics – Developed the field

– Expanded the applications

–  Improved the success in diagnosis and treatment

•  Creative

•  Much effort devoted to teaching

•  Passionate – About medical physics

– Helping cure disease