UKIO a great success

08/06/2023

THE UK Imaging and Oncology Congress returned to Liverpool this week with a packed delegate-focused programme.

A number of IPEM members and National Office staff gave talks across the three days of the Congress. They included:

• Paul James, IPEM’s Head of Membership Development on ‘My Careerpath: A tool for CPD’
• IPEM Fellow Professor Carl Rowbottom, Head of Physics at the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust on ‘Successes and pitfalls in using AI contouring in radiotherapy’
• Matt Dunn, IPEM Vice President Medical Physics, Dr Jemimah Eve, IPEM’s Head of Workforce Intelligence and Training, and Jennifer Cannon, IPEM’s Workforce Intelligence Officer, presenting the latest results from the Radiotherapy & Imaging workforce surveys
• IPEM member Nicola Laverick, Senior Practitioner Clinical Scientist at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, on ‘Knowledge based planning in modern radiotherapy’
• IPEM member Maryam Arktarini on ‘Implementing from first principles gender-dependent radiotherapy’.

A huge range of topics of interest to IPEM members were covered at the Congress, including lightning talks on using Artificial Intelligence for auto contouring, and estimating the carbon footprint and heat recovery potential of linear accelerator cooling systems.