Supporting Documentation
Meeting Location & AccomModations
Emplify Health – Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center
Rasmus Center & Overholt Auditoriums
1900 South Ave
La Crosse, WI
Accommodations
Special room rates can be booked at Gundersen Hotel & Suites. 1520 Clinic Court, La Crosse, WI.
Room rate of $119
Call 608-793-0200 by 9/16/2025 and mention “NCC-AAPM Group” to reserve.
Parking
Join us for our Night Out
Thursday October 16, 2025
129 Vine St, La Crosse, WI 54601
6-9pm
Registration is free for meeting attendees, but required. Please register separately from the main meeting registration. Tickets are limited.
Corporate Sponsors
We thank the following sponsors for supporting the Night Out:
Meeting Agenda & Presentations
7:15 Registration and continental breakfast (45 min)
8:00 Welcome, Introductions, and Announcements
8:05 Morning Session I
Minglei Kang, PhD (UW): “Proton FLASH Therapy: Innovations and Emerging Applications” (45 min)
Jennie Crosby (UW): “Characterization of HyperSight on TrueBeam” (40 min)
9:30 Morning break and vendor interactions (30 min)
10:00 Morning Session II
Benjamin Ziemer, PhD (USC & CHLA) “Spatially fractionated radiation therapy: techniques, implementation and benefits” (45 min)
Courtney Buckey, PhD (Mayo Clinic Arizona) “Becoming involved in AAPM” (45 min)
11:30 NCC-AAPM Business Meetings (30 min)
12:00 Lunch break/Vendor interactions (60 min)
13:00 Early Career Investigator Competition (90 min)
Brooklynn Dobson (University of Minnesota – Twin Cities) “Medium Elliptical ACR Phantom For MRI” (11 min)
Ruiming Edmondson (Mayo Clinic Rochester) “External Beam Treatment Delivery Efficiency Assessment via Trajectory Log Analysis” (11 min)
Zhizhen Wei (University of Wisconsin – Madison) “Streamlined Integration of Proton Arc Therapy and IMPT to Achieve Superior Dosimetry” (11 min)
Elissa Khoudary (University of Wisconsin – Madison) “AudioVisual Assisted Therapeutic Ambience in Radiotherapy (AVATAR) for Radiotherapy” (11 min)
Asher Shertok (University of Minnesota ) “A Continuous Combination Metric for Ultrasound Uniformity” (11 min)
Jeremy Hallett (University of Wisconsin – Madison) “Deep Learning Methods for De-Identification and Denoising in External Beam Surface Cherenkov Imaging” (11 min)
Aubrey Parks (University of Wisconsin – Madison) “Cherenkov Radiation Dependence on Small-Field Beam Parameters” (11 min)
Darwin Garcia (Mayo Clinic Rochester) “Evaluation of film and 3D printed patient-specific phantom for minibeam radiation therapy dosimetry” (11 min)
14:30 Afternoon break and vendor interactions (30 min)
15:00 Afternoon Session
Jessica Schuster, MD (UW) “Everything old is new again – low dose radiation for osteoarthritis” (30 min)
Ashley Tao, PhD (Gundersen/Emplify Health) “Quality Assurance in Clinical Photon Counting Detector CT” (30 min)
Paul Stanton, MD (Gundersen/Emplify Health) “Clinical applications of PCD-CT” (30 min)
16:30 Closing remarks, Awards, and Adjourn
This meeting has applied to CAMPEP for approval of 6.25 MPCEC hours.