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Dear members of AFOMP and readers of AFOMP newsletter,
I am very happy to serve as the chair the AFOMP Funding Committee from 2023 to
2025.
The objective of the Funding Committee is to raise funds from a range of sources and distributes them throughout the new era, enabling member nations and organizations, especially in developing countries, to build sustainable pathways for medical physicists of all abilities and to clearly communicate our core values of courage, determination, inspiration.
To achieve this goal, our committee will work on the following three roles;
- To recruit Corporate Members from industry for the purpose of providing funds to assist AFOMP activities
- To get grants from international organizations such as IOMP for AFOMP in its primary role of training and promotion of medical physics
- For the purpose of successful recruiting and getting grants mentioned above item 1 and 2 respectively, business plan of AFOMP activity should be presented to industries and international organization with close cooperation with other AFOMP Committees such as ETC, PDC and SC
The Funding Committee are organized with the following 5 members;
- Prof. Hajime Monzen, Japan (Male), Ex-Chair
- Prof. Ung Ngie Min, Malaysia (Male), Ex-member
- Dr. Huanli Luo, China (Female)
- Prof. So Hyun Park, Korea (Female)
- Prof. Dr. Rajesh Kinhikar, India (Male)
I will work together with these members to achieve the goal as much as possible.
On behalf of the FC, I also ask all NMOs for your interest and cooperation.
Sincerely yours,
Prof. Byungchul Cho
Chair, Funding Committee, AFOMP