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The South East Asian Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (SEAFOMP): Its history and role in the ASEAN countries
Informal discussion started in 1996 and the South East Asian Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (SEAFOMP) was officially accepted as a regional chapter of the IOMP at the Chicago World Congress in 2000 with five member countries, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Th...
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Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia
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description | Informal discussion started in 1996 and the South East Asian Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (SEAFOMP) was officially accepted as a regional chapter of the IOMP at the Chicago World Congress in 2000 with five member countries, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Professor Kwan-Hoong Ng served as the founding president until 2006. Brunei (2002) and Vietnam (2005) joined subsequently. We are very grateful to the founding members of SEAFOMP: Anchali Krisanachinda, Kwan-Hoong Ng, Agnette Peralta, Ratana Pirabul, Djarwani S Soejoko and Toh-Jui Wong. The objectives of SEAFOMP are to promote (i) co-operation and communication between medical physics organizations in the region; (ii) medical physics and related activities in the region; (iii) the advancement in status and standard of practice of the medical physics profession; (iv) to organize and/or sponsor international and regional conferences, meetings or courses; (v) to collaborate or affiliate with other scientific organizations. SEAFOMP has been organizing a series of congresses to promote scientific exchange and mutual support. The South East Asian Congress of Medical Physics (SEACOMP) series was held respectively in Kuala Lumpur (2001), Bangkok (2003), Kuala Lumpur (2004) and Jakarta (2006). The respective congress themes indicated the emphasis and status of development. The number of participants (countries in parentheses) was encouraging: 110 (17), 150 (16), 220 (23) and 126 (7). In honour of the late Professor John Cameron, an eponymous lecture was established. The inaugural John Cameron Lecture was delivered by Professor Willi Kalender in 2004. His lecture was titled “Recent Developments in Volume CT Scanning”. |
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spelling | pubmed-30977102011-05-24 The South East Asian Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (SEAFOMP): Its history and role in the ASEAN countries Ng, KH Wong, JHD Biomed Imaging Interv J Commentary Informal discussion started in 1996 and the South East Asian Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (SEAFOMP) was officially accepted as a regional chapter of the IOMP at the Chicago World Congress in 2000 with five member countries, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Professor Kwan-Hoong Ng served as the founding president until 2006. Brunei (2002) and Vietnam (2005) joined subsequently. We are very grateful to the founding members of SEAFOMP: Anchali Krisanachinda, Kwan-Hoong Ng, Agnette Peralta, Ratana Pirabul, Djarwani S Soejoko and Toh-Jui Wong. The objectives of SEAFOMP are to promote (i) co-operation and communication between medical physics organizations in the region; (ii) medical physics and related activities in the region; (iii) the advancement in status and standard of practice of the medical physics profession; (iv) to organize and/or sponsor international and regional conferences, meetings or courses; (v) to collaborate or affiliate with other scientific organizations. SEAFOMP has been organizing a series of congresses to promote scientific exchange and mutual support. The South East Asian Congress of Medical Physics (SEACOMP) series was held respectively in Kuala Lumpur (2001), Bangkok (2003), Kuala Lumpur (2004) and Jakarta (2006). The respective congress themes indicated the emphasis and status of development. The number of participants (countries in parentheses) was encouraging: 110 (17), 150 (16), 220 (23) and 126 (7). In honour of the late Professor John Cameron, an eponymous lecture was established. The inaugural John Cameron Lecture was delivered by Professor Willi Kalender in 2004. His lecture was titled “Recent Developments in Volume CT Scanning”. Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia 2008-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3097710/ /pubmed/21614324 http://dx.doi.org/10.2349/biij.4.2.21 Text en © 2008 Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Ng, KH Wong, JHD The South East Asian Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (SEAFOMP): Its history and role in the ASEAN countries |
title | The South East Asian Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (SEAFOMP): Its history and role in the ASEAN countries |
title_full | The South East Asian Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (SEAFOMP): Its history and role in the ASEAN countries |
title_fullStr | The South East Asian Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (SEAFOMP): Its history and role in the ASEAN countries |
title_full_unstemmed | The South East Asian Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (SEAFOMP): Its history and role in the ASEAN countries |
title_short | The South East Asian Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (SEAFOMP): Its history and role in the ASEAN countries |
title_sort | south east asian federation of organizations for medical physics (seafomp): its history and role in the asean countries |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097710/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21614324 http://dx.doi.org/10.2349/biij.4.2.21 |
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