Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of October 27 – COMP IDMP 2025/Winter School Project Gallery/Message from the COMP President
How do you see medical physics? Enter the 2025 IDMP Art Contest and turn your passion into art – from sketches and graphics to photos and creative visuals that highlight the...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of October 20 – Showcasing 74 Years of Canadian Cobalt-60 Leadership/October Issue of InterACTIONS!/Register Today for the COMP Imaging Lecture Series!
Celebrate 74 years of Canadian innovation! Join the Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council on October 27 for “Showcasing Canada’s Cobalt-60 Supply Chain” a look at how Canada...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of September 29 – Reminder! IDMP 2025/InterACTIONS Article/COMP Winter School 2026
COMP is celebrating the International Day of Medical Physics with an ! Don’t forget to share your creative submissions by posting to LinkedIn, Bluesky or Instragram with...
International Day of Medical Physics 2025
The International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP) is approaching on November 7th, and we want to celebrate with the COMP community! In the past, we have held a photo contest,...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of September 8, 2025 – IDMP 2025/80 years ago Canada became the second nation to harness the atom/COMP ASM
The International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP) is approaching on November 7th, and we want to celebrate with the COMP community! In the past, we have held a photo contest,...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of August 25 – COMP Winter School 2026/Message from the CCPM President/New Tool to Rapidly Measure Radiation-Induced DNA Damage
Join COMP in Ottawa, January 28–31, 2026, for ! With the theme Quality and Safety in the Practice of Radiation Medicine and Medical Imaging: 2010–2025, the event will reflect...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of August 18 – New IAEA Video Tutorials on Computed Tomography for Medical Physicists/Executive Director Report/COMP Winter School 2026
IAEA’s has on quality and dosimetry in computed tomography, designed to help hospitals and specialists worldwide meet safety standards. This e-learning resource will enhance...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of August 4th - COMP Imaging Lecture Series 2025-26/Women Emerging in Medical Physics and Radiology Seminar Series (WEMPRSS)/ Message from the COMP President
The 2025-2026 COMP Imaging Lecture Series will begin October 27th! Stayed tuned for updates on the . Join the Department of Oncology, University of Alberta – Cross Cancer...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of July 28 – Carleton University Developing Personalized Radiation Dose Predictors/ Medical Physics Residency Program Preps Future Generation of Experts?/Breakthrough: How radiation helps the immune system kill ca
is advancing portable radiation sensitivity testing, allowing clinicians to tailor radiation doses to individual patients. Using Raman spectroscopy and machine learning, this...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of July 21 – Jaryd Christie Receives Collip Medal for Top PhD Graduate/Luc Beaulieu, Ambassador of the Year and Leader in Radiation Oncology/Carleton University researchers developing personalized radiation therap
Congratulations to COMP Member Jaryd Christie, PhD, on receiving the – presented annually to the top graduating PhD student from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry....
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of July 14 – July InterACTIONS/COMP Student Programming Survey/Groundbreaking Biological “Artificial Intelligence” System Could Make Impossible Medicines Real
The is out, read it here now! Have Your Say: Help Shape Student Programming at COMP ASM! The COMP Student Council wants to hear from you! Whether or not you attended this...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of July 7 – Call for Applications: 2025–2026 COMP Student Council/Dr. Tim Whelan Named to the Order of Canada/Targeted Radiation Before Surgery May Improve Pancreatic Cancer Outcomes
Interested in shaping the student experience in medical physics across Canada? Applications are now open for the 2025–2026 COMP Student Council! From organizing events to...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the Week of June 30 – Call for Abstracts: 3rd Canadian Undergraduate Medical Physics Conference (CUMPC)/EGSnrc/Strengthening Canadian physics and medical physics through service and innovative leadership
The 2025 CUMPC will be held virtually from August 21–22! This free conference offers undergraduate students the chance to present their medical physics research, connect with...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of June 23 – Communities of Practice/Generative AI speeds medical image analysis without impacting accuracy/COMP ASM Awards
Learn about in the January issue of InterACTIONS. Artificial intelligence is increasingly being applied to data-intensive healthcare tasks like cancer detection and adaptive...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of June 16 – June 26 Lunch Byte/Executive Director Report/2025 COMP Award Winners
Lunch Byte: Implementing and treating VMAT TBI - Insights from Western Canada - On June 26, 2025, 12PM EDT join physicists from BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba in...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of May 26 – LAST WEEK to register for the COMP ASM/Lunch Byte Recording/Executive Director's Report
It’s the LAST WEEK to for the COMP Annual Scientific Meeting and Reirradiation Pre-Conference Workshop! In case you missed the last Lunch Byte or what to watch it again, you...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of May 19 – Exemplary leadership earns Ting-Yim Lee medical physics Gold Medal/Message from the CCPM President/ASM Welcome Reception
From humble beginnings to global impact, Dr. Ting-Yim Lee's pioneering work in medical imaging has revolutionized stroke care and shaped the next generation of physicists....
COMP 2025 Gold Medal
Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the prestigious COMP Gold Medal Award, Dr. Ting-Yim Lee ! Dr. Lee’s extraordinary contributions to the field of medical physics have...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the Week of May 12 – Lunch Byte: The Groundbreaking Varian Ethos Therapy System/Message from the COMP President/Student Activities at the COMP ASM
Lunch Byte: The Groundbreaking Varian Ethos Therapy System May 22, 2025 | 12:00 PM EDT | Zoom Join Dr. Amanda Cherpak from Nova Scotia Health for an exciting session...
The 2025 CAP-COMP Peter Kirkby Memorial Medal for Outstanding Service to Canadian Physics is awarded to Stephen Pistorius
"This award is a profound honour that reaffirms my belief in serving our community as physicists and champions of science, and like Peter Kirkby, I believe in a strong...