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Author: FMHS Marketing & Communications / FGGW Bemarking & Kommunikasie – Sue Segar
Published: 04/03/2021
Dr Chris Trauernicht, Head of the Division of Medical Physics at Stellenbosch University (SU), has scooped up the prestigious International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP) award for 2020 for his substantial contributions to medical physics globally.
This annual award, which is presented by the International Organisation for Medical Physics (IOMP), recognises excellence in Medical Physics “with a particular view of promoting medical physics to a larger audience and highlighting the contributions medical physicists make for patient care .
The citation particularly highlighted Trauernicht s pivotal roles in the Federation of African Medical Physics Organisations (FAMPO).
Omar Yusuf, IAEA Department of Technical Cooperation
During the Task Force meeting, new quality assurance protocols were elaborated to improve the quality of nuclear medicine services. Here, a head phantom is being aligned in the gantry of a Computed Tomography machine at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna, Austria. (Photo: D. Calma/IAEA)
Working with the IAEA, African experts have succeeded in establishing the continent’s first harmonized quality control (QC) guidance for nuclear medicine and diagnostic radiology. Following a series of virtual events held as part of an ongoing technical cooperation project[1], the project team has developed protocols with practical guidance on how to perform routine QC measurements to monitor the performance of X-ray and nuclear medicine systems.