Supporting Documentation
Meeting Location & AccomModations
University of Wisconsin- Madison
Health Sciences Learning Center – HSLC Room 3110 A&B
750 Highland Ave
Madison, WI
Parking
Attendees can park in Lot 75 UW Hospital Ramp or Lot 76 University Bay Drive Ramp.
The arrow on the map indicates the door through which HSLC (Health Sciences Learning Center) should be entered and then take the elevators to the 3rd floor to find the meeting room 3110.
Parking garage rates and more information can be found at: https://transportation.wisc.edu/visitor-parking/
Accommodations
Special room rates can be booked at Best Western Plus Inn Towner Madison
2424 University Ave, Madison, WI.
Room rate of $139.99
Book by 3/12/2026 using this [NCC-AAPM member booking link]
Join us for a very special tour of the new UW Proton Therapy Clinic on Thursday, April 9th!
On Thursday, April 9th prior to the Night Out event, we will be offering a tour of UW’s new proton therapy clinic at Eastpark Medical Center. The tour will take place at 5:30 PM.
Transportation will be provided from the Best Western Plus InnTowner hotel sponsored by Leo Cancer Care. The coach bus will arrive at 4:45 PM and depart at 5 PM. After the tour, the bus will drop off at Coopers Tavern for the Night Out and also return to the hotel.
To attend, please select the “Proton Tour – April 9” ticket during registration. There are two tickets, please select the “(Shuttle Needed)” ticket if you wish to have transportation from the InnTowner hotel or “(No Shuttle Needed)” if you will be driving yourself. The address for Eastpark Medical Center is 4621 Eastpark Blvd, Madison.
Join us for our Night Out
Thursday April 9,2026
20 W Mifflin St, Madison, WI 53703
7-10pm
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 (15 min)
8:15 Morning Session
Ryan Hutten, MD ( UW-Madison) “Modern Approaches to Focal Intraprostatic Boost and Rectal Spacer Use in Prostate Radiotherapy – Balancing Tumor Control and Toxicity” (30 min)
Robin Miller, MS (President of AAPM) “An AAPM road trip: navigating the AAPM, a presidential perspective” (45 min)
Zac Labby, PhD (UW-Madison) “AAPM Governance at the Local and National Level” (30 min)
10:00 Morning break and vendor interactions (30 min)
10:30 Early Career Investigator Competition – Session I
Zahra Alyani Nezhad (UW-Madison) – “An Iterative Approach to Optimizing Scan Delay in CT Pulmonary Angiography” (8 min)
Ruo-Yu Liu (UW-Madison) – “In vivo longitudinal maternal perfusion measurements and pathologic correlation in placental cotyledons with ferumoxytol dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI” (8 min)
William Thomas (UW-Madison) – “Phase One Randomized Two-Arm Dose Escalation of FLASH RT in Veterinary Canine Osteosarcoma” (8 min)
Ruiming Edmondson (Mayo Clinic – Rochester) – “Alpha DaRT Nomogram: Development and Validation” (8 min)
Jiayi Tang (UW-Madison) – “High-Throughput Liver Fat Quantification Using a Novel MRI Suite Design and Motion-Insensitive Imaging” (8 min)
Chunming Gu (Mayo Clinic -Rochester) – “A Deep Learning–Based Approach to Motion Correction in Dynamic Joint Imaging” (8 min)
Maryam Sadeghian (Mayo Clinic – Rochester) – “Ultra-High-Resolution CT in Middle Ear Prosthesis Imaging” (8 min)
Shereen Aissi (UW-Madison) – “From 4 Days to 4 Minutes: Commissioning a Hybrid Multilayer Ionization Chamber and High-resolution Strip Ionization Chamber Array for Rapid, Comprehensive Proton PBS Quality Assurance” (8 min)
Katrine Kompanets (University of Minnesota – Twin Cities)– “Comparing B0 homogeneity testing methods from TG-325 on a fleet of MRI scanners” (8 min)
Joseph Schulz (UW-Madison) – “Robust optimization of catheter positions and dwell times for HDR prostate brachytherapy” (8 min)
11:50 NCC-AAPM Business Meetings (30 min)
12:20 Lunch break/Vendor interactions (60 min)
13:20 Early Career Investigator Competition – Session II
William Vaughan (UW-Madison) – “Evaluation of Bragg Peak FLASH Radiation Therapy for Pediatric Brain Tumors” (8 min)
Vijay Raj Sharma (UW- Madison) – “Imaging the Bragg Peak for Proton Dose Verification” (8 min)
Benjamin Awad (UW-Madison) – “Understanding the impact of reconstruction models on neurovascular hemodynamics measures from 4D Flow MRI” (8 min)
Nicole Strecker (UW- Madison) – “Design and fabrication of a novel pelvic-vertebral 3D-printed anthropomorphic phantom for RPT dosimetry” (8 min)
Nicholas Lynch (UW- Madison) – “Sparse Spot Optimization Enables Ultra Fast Single Energy Proton Delivery for Liver Irradiation” (8 min)
Yuhao Yan (UW-Madison) – “Bridging Adjunct RT Imaging to Stopping Power Ratio Maps: a Brownian‑Bridge Approach to Support Robust Adaptive Proton Therapy” (8 min)
Chase Ruff (UW- Madison) – “An Opportunistic Screening Framework for Coronary Artery Calcium Assessment on Radiotherapy Datasets” (8 min)
Kaden Vasquez (UW- Madison)– “Developing an experimental and computational dosimetry framework to aid in radiation-activated prodrug development” (8 min)
Jocelyn Jackson (UW- Madison) – “Biological Optimization of Single Energy Bragg Peak FLASH Therapy for Dose Escalation in Lung Cancer Re-Irradiation” (8 min)
Nicholas Summerfield (UW-Madison) – “Looking Past the Hardware: Deep-Learning Based Cardiac Substructure Dose Assessment for Ventricular Tachycardia Radioablation” (8 min)
14:40 Afternoon break and vendor interactions (30 min)
15:10 Afternoon Session
Autumn Walter-Denzin, PhD (UW-Madison) “Piloting a structured observership to prepare medical physics graduate students for clinical practice” (20 min)
Lindsay Zammit, PhD (UW-Madison) “Standardized Small-Field Electron Cutouts for a Multi-Site Institution” (20 min)
15:50 Closing remarks, Awards, and Adjourn
This meeting has applied to CAMPEP for approval of 5.58 MPCEC hours.