During the formal launch of Better Healthcare Technology Foundation (previously ACPSEM Foundation Ltd) at the EPSM 2018 conference, the Board Chairman, Dr Sean Geoghegan, announced the winners of the 2018 ACPSEM Awards.
Better Healthcare Technology congratulates the 2018 ACPSEM Award recipients:
David Robinson Innovation Prize
(annual cash prize of $1,200)
- Georgio Katsifis
. to assist attending the EPSM conference and present a paper detailing innovative work related to diagnostic imaging or biomedical engineering.
Boyce Worthley Young Achiever Award
(EPSM 2019 registration, travel & accommodation)
- Nick Hardcastle
Received for a significant contribution by a younger member to the profession of physical and engineering sciences in medicine.
Richard Bates Travel Scholarship
(Travel scholarship $5,000)
- Andrew Fielding
Awarded to assist a physical scientist or engineer to undertake a period of study or carry out a research project overseas.
Tomas Kron PhD Award
(cash prize of $500)
- Brendan Whelan
Awarded for the best PhD thesis in Physical and Engineering Sciences with relevance for medicine.
The Kenneth Clarke Journal Award
(cash prize of $500)
The award, decided by the Editorial Board of the Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine Journal, for the best paper was:
Yu Sun, Hayley Reynolds, Darren Wraith, Scott Williams, Mary E. Finnegan, Catherine Mitchell, Declan Murphy, Martin A. Ebert, Annette Haworth (2017) – “Predicting prostate tumour location from multiparametric MRI using Gaussian kernel support vector machines: a preliminary study. Volume 40 (pgs. 39-49)”.
2018 Elekta Travel Award
- Syarifatul Ulya, (Indonesia)
Awarded to enable a Medical Physicist from the Asia-Pacific region to attend the annual Engineering and Physical Sciences in Medicine (EPSM) conference, and visit at least one radiotherapy department during that period in Australia or New Zealand, .
Better-Healthcare-Technology thanks the nominators for this year’s awards.
The Foundation also sincerely acknowledges and thanks each of this year’s Panels for their work in judging the submissions.
2018 Award recipients reported by:
Angela Wong
ACPSEM Members’ Services Officer, 6 November 2018
