The COMP Virtual Winter School Program includes both plenary and small group interactive sessions. This format will give attendees the chance to learn from “best in field” career development, medical physicists who have seen success in their careers and to exercise their new skills through workshopping.
Interdisciplinary in nature, the program will provide tools for medical physicists, radiation therapists, radiation oncologists and other healthcare professionals to support their personal career development process.
A regular component of Winter School, the Project Gallery, will provide opportunity for peer-to-peer learning about professional and program development initiatives that have helped lead to career growth for individuals, and program growth for healthcare teams. You can find more information on the abstract process here.
This meeting has been approved for 15 MPCEC hours.
Patient Experience
February 1, 2021 from 2:00pm EDT to 2:30pm EDT
To learn first-hand from radiation therapy patients how diagnosis and treatment has impacted their lives before, during, and after treatment.
Speakers / Panelists
Jeff and Kristen Eaton
Jeff and Kristen Eaton
Jeff and Kristen Eaton
Jeff and Kristen Eaton have run an evidence based multidisciplinary clinic in Cambridge, ON for the past 20 years and enjoy volunteering in the community. Caleb, Ella and their parents have always been active with sports including downhill skiing, dancing, swimming and hockey. In November 2016, Jeff Eaton was diagnosed with a WHO Grade 2, Diffuse Astrocytoma from T5 - L1. He had a double laminectomy/biopsy followed by a course of radiation therapy. With this diagnosis, many of the activities that we enjoy as a family have changed. We are happy to share our story in the hope that it will help other patients who are living with a tumour or cancer diagnosis.
Heather Warkentin is a Medical Physicist at the Cross Cancer Institute and an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Alberta. Heather has a special interest in resident education and is the Program Director of the Medical Physics Residency Program in Radiation Oncology Physics and an active member of the Residency Program Committee and Competence Committee for the Radiation Oncology Residency Program at the University of Alberta. Heather is a former member of the AAPM Working Group on Periodic Review of Medical Physics Residency Training and a current member of the AAPM Radiation Oncology Medical Physics Education Subcommittee. Within a diverse clinical practice, Heather is always seeking ways to innovate and improve the quality and safety of radiotherapy.