TCD Hosts European Meeting on Medical Physics and Engineering

Sep 07, 2011

The 5th European Medical Physics and Engineering Conference (EMPEC) run in association with TCD's School of Medicine and the Irish Association of Physicists in Medicine, took place recently at Trinity College Dublin.  Featuring international keynote speakers, the conference presented cutting edge research to a wider medical physics and engineering audience over the course of three days.

Dr Fintan Bradley, President of The Irish Association of Physicists in Medicine, Professor Peter Jarritt, President of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (UK), Dr Stelios Christofides, President of the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics, Dr Neil Lewis, Co-Chair EMPEC Scientific Committee and Professor Barry McMahon, Chair  EMPEC organising committee.

Guest speakers included Professor Willi Kalender from Germany who delivered a talk on ‘Developments in Computed Tomography’.  Other plenary lectures were given by Professor Rock Mackie from Canada who presented the St Luke’s Hospital O’Connor Lecture on ‘How modern radiotherapy has revolutionised cancer care’ and Mr Justin McCarthy who presented a paper entitled ‘Clinical Engineering – Vital for the health of a nation’.

Highlights of the conference included sessions on hybrid imaging and a pre-conference workshop run in association with the American Association of Physicists in Medicine on justification and optimisation in radiology and radiotherapy with leading speakers from Europe and North America.  Special sessions covered the areas of rehabilitation engineering and innovation.