Should ACPSEM develop its own position papers or just adopt those of the AAPM?
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TOPICAL DEBATE
Should ACPSEM develop its own position papers or just adopt those of the AAPM? Tomas Kron1,2,3 · Peter Metcalfe2 · Clive Baldock4
© Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine 2020
Introduction and overview: Clive Baldock, moderator Position papers are regularly and generally published in academia, politics, law and many other areas including more specifically, the physical sciences and engineering in medicine. Position papers take many forms ranging from letters to editors where the writer is expressing a view regarding something that has been written in a publication through to academic position papers in which arguments and evidence are presented to support the writer’s views regarding a particular issue. Position papers developed by expert working groups of professional bodies, such as the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) and the American Association of Physics in Medicine (AAPM), aim to provide opinions and evidencebased, best-practice guidelines regarding topics and emerging issues relevant to the professional body and based on a critical analysis of current facts, data and research. In this inaugural Topical Debate, the topic for discussion is whether ACPSEM develop its own position papers or just adopt those of the AAPM?
Arguing for the Proposition is Professor Tomas Kron, Ph.D. Prof. Kron was born and educated in Germany. After completing his Ph.D., he migrated to Australia in 1989 where he commenced his career in radiotherapy physics. From 2001 to 2005, he lived in Canada where he worked at the London Regional Cancer Centre and commissioned one of the first tomotherapy units. In 2005, Prof. Kron became Principal Research Physicist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia where he now is Director of Physical Sciences. He serves on editorial boards of a number of journals including Radiotherapy & Oncology, Clinical Oncology and Radiation Measurements and holds academic appointments at Wollongong, RMIT and Melbourne Universities. Prof. Kron has an interest in education of medical physicists, dosimetry of ionizing radiation, image-guided radiotherapy, and clinical trials as a tool for introducing new technology. This is demonstrated by more than 80 invited conference presentations and 280 papers in refereed journals. In 2014, he was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to medicine, research, and education.
* Clive Baldock [email protected] Tomas Kron [email protected] Peter Metcalfe [email protected] 1
Department of Physical Sciences, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2500, Australia
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Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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School of Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, TAS 7005, Australia
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