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Subcommittee on Practice Guidelines (SPG)

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Charge
  • For TG reports deemed to benefit from an MPPG, generate and publish the MPPG through a collaborative effort with the originating TG. The MPPG should outline the minimum portions of the total TG report that should be implemented to ensure high quality within the scope of clinical services provided.
  • Identify new potential MPPGs.
  • For approved MPPGs, find a committee chair and facilitate member recruitment and committee startup. Establish MPPG timeline from creation to publication and monitor MPPG committee progress towards that timeline.
  • Review MPPG draft reports and provide comments to MPPG. 
  • Shepherd the MPPG through publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
  • Manage the five-year MPPG review cycle.
  • Track and promote uptake of MPPGs by regulatory and accrediting bodies, when appropriate.
  • Educate and update the AAPM membership on MPPGs.
By-Laws:Not Referenced.Rules: Not Referenced.
Approved Date(s):11/20/2007
Committee Keywords: guideline, MPPG, SPG
Chair

Daniel Pavord
Subcommittee Chair

2023 Roster

(dates shown below are start and end dates of position.)

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VOTING AppointmentsThere are 17 voting members.

up-to-dateMuthana S.A. L. Al-Ghazi, PhD

12/11/2020 - 12/31/2023 Chair,  Medical Physics Practice Guideline 14 - Y-90 microsphere radioembolization (ex officio)
up-to-dateJoseph W. Blickenstaff III, MS

2/1/2023 - 12/31/2025 Member

up-to-dateNathan C. Busse, MS

12/11/2020 - 12/31/2023 Chair,  Medical Physics Practice Guideline 14 - Y-90 microsphere radioembolization (ex officio)
up-to-dateCynthia Fu-Yu Chuang, PhD

2/1/2023 - 12/31/2025 Member

up-to-dateEileen Cirino, MS

10/6/2022 - 12/31/2025 Chair,  Working group on AAPM-RSS MPPG 9.b: SRS-SBRT (MPPG9) (ex officio)
up-to-dateAbigail E. Dare, MS

2/1/2023 - 12/31/2025 Member

up-to-dateEric L. Gingold, PhD

9/5/2017 - 12/31/2023 Member
up-to-datePer H. Halvorsen, MS

1/1/2021 - 12/31/2023 Chair,  Medical Physics Practice Guideline 15.a: Peer Review in Clinical Physics (TG358) (ex officio)

up-to-dateNima Hassan Rezaeian, PhD

2/1/2023 - 12/31/2025 Member
up-to-dateMary Ellen Jafari, MS

1/1/2023 - 12/31/2025 Subcommittee Vice Chair - Imaging

up-to-dateRobert F. Krauss, DMP

2/1/2023 - 12/31/2025 Member
5/25/2021 - 12/31/2023 Chair,  Medical Physics Practice Guideline 8.b: Linear accelerator performance tests (ex officio)
up-to-dateKenneth G. Lewis, PhD

8/18/2022 - 12/31/2025 Chair,  Medical Physics Practice Guideline 16.a: Medical Health Physics Scope of Practic (ex officio)

up-to-dateSeng B. Lim, PhD

2/13/2023 - 12/31/2025 Member - Chair of MPPG 10
up-to-dateArthur J. Olch, PhD

8/2/2017 - 12/31/2023 Subcommittee Vice Chair - Therapy

up-to-dateDaniel C. Pavord, MS

1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025 Subcommittee Chair
up-to-dateSusan L. Richardson, PhD

6/11/2020 - 12/31/2023 Chair,  Task Group No. 348: MPPG 13.a: HDR Brachytherapy (ex officio)

up-to-dateJohn M. Wait, MS

9/5/2017 - 12/31/2023 Member
NON-VOTING AppointmentsThere are 0 non-voting members and guests.
HQ Team Appointed to CommitteeThere are 1 staff.

up-to-dateNicholai Wingreen, BA

5/1/2017 - 12/31/2037 Programs Manager (ex officio, nonvoting)



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