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Kudos to Mirta Dumancic for Dual Conference Awards

Congratulations to Mirta Dumancic, Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Physics at McGill University, for earning two prestigious recognitions at the Curietherapies Conference (May 15–17, 2025, in Montreal). She received: This dual honor underscores Mirta’s impactful research and her rising prominence in the field of brachytherapy. Congratulations again on this well-deserved achievement!

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Welcome Björn Morén! Our newest postdoctoral fellow coming to us from Linköping University in Sweden.

Björn will work on robust optimization for intensity modulated brachytherapy. During his PhD thesis, Björn applied mathematical optimization algorithms to model and solve the treatment planning problem for brachytherapy.

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EngerLab presented research at the “New avenues in the non-operative management of patients with rectal cancer” conference!

Students from the Enger lab presented their research on the “New avenues in the non-operative management of patients with rectal cancer” conference, helped to organize and host the event. Thank you for all your good work. Alana Thibodeau-Antonacci (“Deep Learning based Auto Segmentations of Tumors on Endoscopy Images”) and Mirta Dumancic (“Alpha Dart for rectal

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McMedHacks – Mentorship in Action

McMedHacks COMP interactions

Our new McMedHacks workshop series and hackathon were recently featured in the renowned COMP InterACTIONS Journal. You can read the full article here: https://console.virtualpaper.com/canadian-organization-of-medical-physicists/interactions-october-2021/#28/ McMedHacks was an initiative started by our AI Group to bridge the domains of medical physics and deep learning in the field of medical image analysis. The program is free and

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