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Meet your MPWB board members for 2023-2024

President


Tomas Kron, PhD,  FCCPM, FCOMP, FACPSEM, FIOMP


Tomas is Director of Physical Sciences at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne and holds academic appointments at Wollongong, RMIT and Melbourne Universities. Fellow of IOP(UK), ACPSEM, COMP, IOMP and IUPESM and was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to medicine, research and education in 2014. He is on the editorial board of Radiother. Oncol., Clin. Oncol. and Radiat. Meas. and consultant for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).For the last seven years he also has served in various roles on the International Medical Physics Certification Board (IMPCB).

President-Elect


Afua Yorke, PhD


An Assistant Professor in Medical Physics at the University of Washington, Seattle. Passionate about Global Radiotherapy and her previous work on investigating Medical Physics quality assurance and management practices in Lower- and-Middle Income Countries led to her earning a first career grant 3UH3CA211310-04S1 (NCI Diversity supplement grant) and a recognition by the 2021 Winter Institute of Medical Physics Global Scholars Research Award. She is also an associate of the AAPM Science Council Associate Mentorship Program (SCAMP) and recently a cohort of the inaugural 2022 class of Emerging leaders in Academic Medical Physics organized by the University of Wisconsin.

Past-President 



John Schreiner, PhD, FAAPM, FCOMP, FCCPM


Emeritus Professor of Oncology and Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy, Queen’s University; past president of the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine, founding scientific committee member for the International Conferences on Three Dimensional and advanced Dosimetry (IC3Ddose).

Secretary/Treasurer


Monique Van Prooijen, PhD 


Holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Waterloo (1995) and joined the Princess
Margaret Cancer Centre as a resident in 1999, followed by a staff appointment in 2001.
Monique is passionate about international work and has previously participated in the
University Health Network’s outreach program with the Kuwait Cancer Control Center. She
has also worked with Moi Teaching & Referral Hospital in Kenya. Subsequently, she
initiated the Kenyan Physicists Forum, for Kenyan physicists to discuss whichever medical
physics topic is of interest to them. In other work, she has served as Treasurer of the Ontario
Association of Medical Physicists and served on the Educational Symposium Organizing
Committee in 2019.


Director of Communications

Parminder S. Basran, PhD, FCCPM

Associate Research Professor, Cornell University; Served as Councillor for Communications for the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists; Past Editor COMP InterACTIONS Newsletter; Past President of BC Association of Medical Physicists (2015-17); Chair of AAPM Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Program, Member of a number of AAPM Committees.

Director of Fund Raising


Eduard Gershkevitch, PhD

Head of Medical Physics Service, North Estonia Medical Centre, Tallinn, Estonia. Past Physics Committee member of ESTRO, Consultant to the IAEA, active in area of RT equipment commissioning, verification and audits.

Previous Board Members

 2015

 Board Position

 Held By

   President  Jake Van Dyk 
   Past President  Gerald White
   President Elect  Yakov Pipman
   Secretary/Treasurer  David Wilkins
   Councillor of Fundraising  Robert Jeraj
   Councillor of Communications  Parminder Basran
   Executive Director  Nancy Barrett

2016

 Board Position

 Held by

   President  Jake Van Dyk
   Past President  Gerald White
   President Elect  Yakov Pipman
   Secretary/Treasurer  David Wilkins
   Councillor of Fundraising  Robert Jeraj
   Councillor of Communications  Parminder Basran
   Executive Director  Nancy Barrett

 2017

 Board Position

 Held By

   President  Jake Van Dyk
   Past President  Gerald White
   President Elect  Yakov Pipman
   Secretary/Treasurer  David Wilkins
   Councillor of Fundraising  Robert Jeraj
   Councillor of Communications  Parminder Basran
   Executive Director  Nancy Barrett

 2018

 Board Position

 Held By

   President  Jake Van Dyk
   Past President  Gerald White
   President Elect  Yakov Pipman
   Secretary/Treasurer  David Wilkins
   Councillor of Fundraising  Robert Jeraj
   Councillor of Communications  Parminder Basran
   Executive Director  Nancy Barrett

 2019

 Board Position

 Held By

   President  Yakov Pipman
   Past President  Jake Van Dyk
   President Elect  John Schriener
   Secretary/Treasurer  David Wilkins
   Councillor of Fundraising  Robert Jeraj
  Councillor of Communications  Parminder Basran
  Executive Director  Nancy Barrett

 2020

 Board Position

 Held By

   President  Yakov Pipman
   Past President  Jake Van Dyk
   President Elect  John Schreiner
   Secretary/Treasurer  David Wilkins
   Councillor of Fundraising  Robert Jeraj
   Councillor of Communications  Parminder Basran
   Executive Director  Nancy Barrett

2021

 Board Position

 Held By

   President  John Schreiner
   Past President  Yakov Pipman
   President Elect  Tomas Kron
   Secretary/Treasurer  David Wilkins
   Councillor of Fundraising  Eduard Gersjhkevitch
   Councillor of Communications  Parminder Basran
   Executive Director  Nancy Barrett


2022

 Board Position

 Held By

   President  John Schreiner
   Past President  Yakov Pipman
   President Elect  Tomas Kron
   Secretary/Treasurer  David Wilkins
   Councillor of Fundraising  Eduard Gershkevitch
   Councillor of Communications  Parminder Basran
   Executive Director  Nancy Barrett


2023

 Board Position

 Held By

   PresidentTomas Kron
   Past President John Schreiner
   President Elect  Afua Yorke
   Secretary/Treasurer  David Wilkins
   Councillor of Fundraising  Eduard Gershkevitch
   Councillor of Communications  Parminder Basran
   Executive Director  Nancy Barrett


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