THE MENTORS
Prof. Kwan-Hoong Ng
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Kwan-Hoong Ng received his M.Sc degree in Medical Physics from University of Aberdeen and Ph.D degree in Medical Physics in University of Malaya. He is certified by the American Board of Medical Physicist. Prof. Ng was honored as one of the world's top 50 medical physicist​ by the International Organization of Medical Physics (IOMP) in 2013. He has authored/co-authored over 210 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 25 book chapters, and co-edited 5 books. He has presented over 500 scientific papers.
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Prof. Ng has been serving as an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) consultant and a member of International Advisory Committee of the World Health Organization. He had also served as a consulting expert for the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). In terms of organizational activities, he is recognized as the founding president of the South East Asian Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (SEAFOMP) and is the immediate past President of the Asia-Oceania Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (AFOMP).
Prof. Kwan-Hoong Ng
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Kwan-Hoong Ng received his M.Sc degree in Medical Physics from University of Aberdeen and Ph.D degree in Medical Physics in University of Malaya. He is certified by the American Board of Medical Physicist. Prof. Ng was honored as one of the world's top 50 medical physicist​ by the International Organization of Medical Physics (IOMP) in 2013. He has authored/co-authored over 210 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 25 book chapters, and co-edited 5 books. He has presented over 500 scientific papers.
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Prof. Ng has been serving as an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) consultant and a member of International Advisory Committee of the World Health Organization. He had also served as a consulting expert for the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). In terms of organizational activities, he is recognized as the founding president of the South East Asian Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (SEAFOMP) and is the immediate past President of the Asia-Oceania Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (AFOMP).
Prof. Eva Bezak
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Eva Bezak is a Professor in Medical Radiations at the University of South Australia. Previously she was a Chief Physicalist at Department of Medical Physics, Royal Adelaide Hospital, providing services to radiation oncology in South Australia (SA). She is also an Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide and lectures on various topics in nuclear and radiation oncology medical physics. Her current research topics include: Monte Carlo modelling of radiation damage on subcellular level, investigation of second primary cancers risks due to radiotherapy, radiobiology, modelling of tumour growth, novel dosimetry and micro dosimetry techniques for verification of patient doses, proton therapy modelling, targeted therapies and others. She has authored and co-authored over 100 papers, presented at conferences and co-authored books on radiotherapy physics. She is actively involved in a number of development projects and organising committees, related to radiotherapy infrastructure, establishment of new radiotherapy centres, staff education and training, scientific meetings, policy development. She has been involved in development of national and state cancer plans for radiation oncology. She is currently appointed a member on the South Australian Radiation Protection Committee.
She is an active member of medical physics professional community in Australia. In 2010-2011, Prof Bezak was elected the President of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM), also serving as an Australian representative on the Asia-Pacific Federation of Medical Physics Committee. She was the project leader for the government funded ACPSEM proposal to develop new national training program for imaging medical physicists. Between 2012-2013 she served as the Head of Operations of ACPSEM, among others overlooking conference and summer school organizations for the ACPSEM. Recently, she was a member of the expert working group under the Australian Academy of Sciences to prepare a report on future accelerators in Australia. Currently she also sits on the scientific committee of AFOMP and on the administrative Council of IUPESM, where she is the chair of the Women in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering task group.
Prof. Robert Jeraj
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Dr. Robert Jeraj is a Professor of Medical Physics, Human Oncology, Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he leads the Imaging and Radiation Sciences Program at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center. He is Director of the Translational Imaging Research Program that oversees concept development, protocol design, and implementation of imaging in trials incorporating novel anti-cancer drugs, and Director of the Wisconsin Oncology Network of Imaging eXcellence (WONIX), a regional clinical trial network that focuses on extensive imaging and molecular biomarker endpoints.
Among other duties, Dr. Jeraj is the Chair of the Working Group on the Future of Medical Physics Research and Academic Training at AAPM, and serves on the Medical Imaging Drug Advisory Committee at FDA, on the Biomarker Committee and Experimental Imaging Committee at ECOG-ACRIN and on the Bioinformatics and Medical Physics Committee at NRG Oncology. Dr. Jeraj is an author of over 100 published papers, text books and book chapters, and is a frequent invited lecturer and presenter on the use of molecular imaging in therapeutic interventions and general applications of medical physics in radiation and medical oncology.
Prof. Tomas Kron
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Tomas Kron was born and educated in Germany. After his PhD he migrated to Australia in 1989 where he commenced his career in radiotherapy physics. From 2001 to 2005 he worked in Canada where he commissioned one of the first helical tomotherapy units at the London Regional Cancer Centre. In 2005, Tomas became principal research physicist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia where he accepted an appointment as Director of Physical Sciences in 2015. He is certified in Radiation Protection and Radiation Oncology Medical Physics and is board member and chief examiner for the International Medical Physics Certification Board (IMPCB). Tomas also holds academic honorary appointments on a professorial level at Monash, RMIT and Wollongong Universities. He has an interest in dosimetry of ionising radiation, image guided radiotherapy, clinical trials and education of medical physicists demonstrated by more than 230 papers in refereed journals.
Over the years Tomas Kron has maintained an interest in education reflected in 75 invited conference presentations, consultancies for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and involvement in workshops and training in Australasia. In this capacity he has organised a 5 day workshop on high dose rate brachytherapy in 2006 and two workshops on IGRT in 2008 and 2010. Tomas serves on the editorial board of several international journals including Radiother. Oncol., Clinical Oncol. and Radiat. Meas., has organised conferences and was convenor of the 17th International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy (ICCR) in 2013 in Melbourne. In the same year he was awarded the Distinguished Services Award of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) and nominated as one of 50 medical physicists featured at the International Conference of Medical Physics (ICMP) in Brighton, UK, September 1 to 4, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP). In 2014 he was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to medicine, research and education.