AFOMP’s Outstanding Medical Physicist Awards announced !!!

On the occasion of 20th anniversary of Asia-Oceania Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (AFOMP), AFOMP decided to recognize contribution of medical physicist from AFOMP region. Medical physicists who worked in the AFOMP region for last 20 years and put tremendous efforts for medical physics professional development, medical physics education and research, those who made significant impact on science and organized scientific activities in AFOMP region to disseminate scientific knowledge for the welfare of the profession and society, they have served in national medical physicist organization and AFOMP, have served their country, AFOMP region and the community, for those AFOMP introduce outstanding Medical Physicist Award.

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AFOMP received 36 nominations from 14 NMOs. All the nominations received were critically evaluated under 4 categories with a 50 point scale to total of 200 points and judged by the AHC members independently. The AHC members belonging to a country of nomination were excluded for the evaluation of particular nomination to avoid conflict of interest. During this process, outstanding medical physicist awarded by IOMP in 2013 from AFOMP region were excluded because they have already received the highest award and they are already AFOMP outstanding medical physicist.

The 21 Outstanding Medical Physicists awardees from AFOMP region are as follows:

Sr.NoCountry/NMO/RegionRecipient Name
01Hong KongDr. KY Cheung
02JapanDr. Masahiro Endo
03New ZealandDr. Howell Round
04IndiaDr. Arun Chougule
05JapanDr. Nobuyuki Kanematsu
06SingaporeDr. James Lee
07JapanDr. Tatsuaki Kanai
08TaipeiDr. Chen-Shou Chui
09KoreaDr. Hee-Joung Kim
10MalaysiaDr. Noriah Binti Jamal
11KoreaDr. Sung Kyu Kim
12BangladeshDr. Hasin Anupama Azhari
13JapanDr. Koichi Ogawa
14KoreaDr. Kum Bae Kim
15IranDr. Hossein Mozdarani
16KoreaDr. Hyun-Tai Chung
17MalaysiaDr. Wan Ahmad Kamil Abdullah
18IndiaDr. B Paul Ravindran
19PhilippinesDr. Agnette de Perio Peralta
20ChinaDr. Jianrong Dai
21ThailandDr. Nisa Chawapun

AFOMP congratulates all the 21 outstanding medical physicist awardees.