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2009 Writing Competition Winners

AAMD Writing Competition:

First Place: Student Perceptions of an Online Medical Dosimetry Program
Author: Nishele Lenards, MS, CMD
Second Place:Stereotactic Radiosurgery Utilizing Cyberknife for Recurrent Brain Metasteses
Authors: Philip Scott Jackson, CMD; Sanjeev Sharma, MD; Randall Schultz, MS


CIVCO/AAMD Student Writing Competition:

First Place: Virtual Reality Simulation and Prone Breast Patients
Authors: Brandie Warfel, BS, RT (T); Jennifer Price, CMD; John C. Roeske, PhD;
Kevin Albuquerque, MD
Program: University of Wisconsin - La Crosse/ Loyola Medical Center, Chicago
Second Place:Comparing and Contrasting 8-Fields versus 9-Fields in IMRT Planning for Prostate Patients
Authors: Raymond Chiu, BS; Brooke Gates, BS, RT(T); Brian Twardowski, BS, RT (R)(T)(CT);
Pablo Guerrero; Erika Frija, MS, CMD; Cody Wages, BS
Program: University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Third Place: Exploring the Feasibility of Dose Escalation with IMRT and the Effects on Normal Tissue Structures for Thoracic Malignancies
Authors: Renee Barrett, Lehendrick Montreal Turner, BS, Joshua A. Howard, BS, RT(R)(T)(CT),
Pouya Dehghanpour, Neal Rebueno, CMD, Matthew Palmer, MBA, CMD,
Sastry Vedam, PhD, Ann Klopp, PhD, MD, Ritsuko, Komaki, MD, James W. Welsh, MD
Program: University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center


The AAMD Writing Competition Committee would like to thank all of the authors and judges for their participation.

The AAMD would like to thank CIVCO for their continued support of the Student Writing Competition.

2010 Writing Competition

Information on entering the AAMD Writing Competition and the CIVCO/AAMD Student Writing Competition

AAMD Writing Competition

Enter to win one of the three cash prizes* for papers pertaining to Medical Dosimetry:
$1000 - First Place
$500 - Second Place
$250 - Third Place
Abstract submission deadline: February 1
Final manuscript submission: March 1

* Prizes are courtesy of corporate donations to the AAMD Education Fund

CIVCO/AAMD Student Writing Competition Enter to win one of three cash prizes for papers pertaining to treatment, planning, localization, and positioning.
$500 - First Place
$250 - Second Place
$125 - Third Place
Abstract submission deadline: February 1
Final manuscript submission: March 1

Are you submitting an article? Then you need the AAMD Writing Competition Information to provide the details.

For more information or to submit an abstract please contact:
Theresa Kwiatkowski, BS, RTT, CMD
Lipson Cancer Center
Rochester General Hospital
1425 Portland Ave.
Rochester, NY 14621-3095
Phone: 585-922-9464
E-mail: tmkwiat@live.com

or:

Darrell Wolf, BS, CMD
Phone: 573-471-1765
Email: wolfdarrell@hotmail.com


 
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