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2022: Arranging the legal status of IUPESM: incorporation in the UK  
The IUPESM Work Group on the IUPESM Incorporation included S Tabakov (Chair), L Pecchia, S Keevil, supported by F McKeown and S Hawking from the IPEM, York, UK. Active part in these steps took the President J Goh and Past-President KY Cheung. The arrangement of the IUPESM Legal status status was achieved in May 2022.
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2022: Publishing the History of IOMP    
The Special Issue of the MPI Journal, collated by S Tabakov, includes the history of the IOMP (the International Organization for Medical Physics)
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2022: New ICTP College on Medical Physics, Trieste (Coordinating Director)

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The College participants attended all lectures together with the students of the MSc on Advanced Medical Physics, organized at ICTP with the University of Trieste. This way the overall 52 students were from 40 Low-and-Middle Income (LMI) countries: Angola, Bahamas, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Colombia, Croatia, Dominican Rep., Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lesoto, Lybia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Palestine, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Ukraine, Zimbabwe.

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2021: The IUPESM Rules Com and Council develop its first large update of Stautes&Bylaws





 
The IUPESM Rules Com and Registration WG  (S Tabakov, KY Chung, J Goh, S Keevil, L Pecchia, R Magjarevic, C Orton, S Hawking) develop and pass the General Assembly approval of the first large update of IUPESM Statutes and Bylaws plus formation of its legal identity through an IUPESM Company.
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2021:Final duty as External Examiner to the MSc in Univ. of Malta



 
Supporting the establishment of this MSc course in Malta in 2012 (with its father Carmel Caruana), and being with it from the very beginning, I wish to the colleagues and students in the University of Malta success and all the best !
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2020: Fellowship IUPESM (International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine)




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2020: The previous MSc office at KCL



 
Leaving and re-organising my office at KCL after 20 years, as we need now more space for work during the pandemic. How many projects and meetings were held here…
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2019: The IUPESM Awards Com develops its Fellowship criteria





 
The IUPESM Awards Com (S Tabakov, KY Cheung, J Goh, S Renha, R Magjarevic) develops the IUPESM Fellowship criteria, in connection with the 40th Anniversary of the Union
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2016-2019: Support for medical physics development in Africa



 

Support for IAEA project developing MSc course in Zimbabwe and for the establishment of the Journal of African Medical Physics
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2019: IUPESM joint medical physics and  engineering Workshops at Taipei and Rome (incl. audience with Pope Francesco)

 

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2018-2019 Work with EAMBEC and IUPESM with the European Parliament




 

Work with the EU parliament for the inclusion of Medical Engineering and Physics topics in the EU projects
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2019: MSc at ICTP Trieste 5th course graduation and Invited lecture




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2018: new course at MSc King's College London



 
Best wishes for further success to my colleagues Dr A Shortland, Dr L Livieratos and Dr E De Vita, who will now take over the Directorship of the three MSc programmes at KCL!
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2018: Arranging the legal status of IOMP: incorporation in the UK


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2018: New ICTP College on Medical Physics - 30th Anniversary
+Book with all College History, Trieste (Coordinating Director)




 
ICTP College 2018 (students from 32 countries): Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Iran, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe
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2018: Initiated new project: Medical Physics History




 
Editors of the MPI Journal Special Issues on History: S Tabakov, P Sprawls and G Ibbott
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2018: Vice-President of IUPESM, Prague



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2018: Co-Organising Seminar on MP Education, Prague, Czech Rep.



 
Co-Organising Seminar for Medical Physics Education and Professional Development in Low and Middle Income countries, Prague, Czech Rep.
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2018: IOMP President S Tabakov Report for period 2015-2018, Prague



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2017: History of MSc at King's College London - now the largest course in Europe


 
The long and winding road: A Tabakova and S Tabakov with the 301 MSc projects of our students at King's College London after taking it over in 2001... Congratulations to all students - their projects received 28 external awards!
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2017: new students at MSc King's College London (MSc Director)


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2017: WHO General Assembly, Geneva



 
With Prof. Mark Niessen (Belgium, IFMBE) at the WGO General Assembly
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2017: IAEA Project for Dental Radiography, Vienna



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2017: Honorary member of Indian Medical Physics Association, Jaipur, India

 
With most of the past-Presidents of the Indian Medical Physics Association (AMPI)
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2017: Jaipur IDMP first global transmission




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2016: Global growth of medical physics discussion



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2016: New ICTP College on Medical Physics, Trieste (Coordinating Director)



 
ICTP College 2016 (students from 47 countries): Algeria, Armenia, Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Cote D’ivoir, Croatia, Cuba, Egypt, El Salvador, Equador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Peru, Senegal, Serbia, Sudan, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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2016:  ICMP in Thailand and IOMP starts new international Award (John Mallard), Bangkok


 
At Bangkok IOMP launches its first IOMP School
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2016: Meeting of all global leads of Medical Physics - International Coordination Board, Bangkok

 
IOMP President and Officers with Regional Coordination Board with professional leads from all continents.
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2016: Introducing the new IOMP IDMP Awards, Bangkok




 
Bangkok with all IOMP Awardees
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2016: Co-Organising Seminar on MP Education, Bangkok, Thailand



 
Co-Organising Seminar for Medical Physics Education and Professional Development in Low and Middle Income countries, Bangkok, Thailand
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2016: new students at MSc King's College London (MSc Director)



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2016: IAEA project for medical physics in Africa and presenting the first medal for African colleague, Vienna


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2015:Elected President IOMP, Toronto


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2015: Co-Organising Seminar on MP Education Toronto, Canada




 
Co-Organising Seminar for Medical Physics Education and Professional Development in Low and Middle Income countries, Toronto, Canada
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2015: new students at MSc King's College London (MSc Director)



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2015: Awarded Dr Honoris Causa from Medical University Plovdiv



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2015:  For 6 months the book  “The Pioneering of e-Learning in Medical Physics” has over 40,000 downloads   Stats from 1&1 server more
       


2015:  IPEM  Presidential Prize at MPEC 2015 for to the presentation “The Pioneering of e-Learning in Medical Physics”



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2014: new students at MSc King's College London (MSc Director)
 




 
Starting with 8 students in 2000, now this is the largest course in Europe with over 120 students in 3 years.
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2014 Published book Medical Equipment Management



 
 

       
2014: New ICTP College on Medical Physics, Trieste (Coordinating Director)  
ICTP College 2014 (students from 38 countries): Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Cuba, Erithrea, Ghana, Indonesia, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Peru, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam, Venezuela, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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2013: Launching the IOMP Journal Medical Physics International





   
MPI Journal Editors in Chief: S Tabakov and P Sprawls; Technical Editor: M Stoeva
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2013:Celebrating 50 years IOMP - inaugural Fellows,
Brighton, UK


   
Inaugural IOMP Fellows for IOMP Leaders and IUPAP Medal for Dr M Stoeva
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2013:IOMP-IAEA-WHO first Workshop on Medical Physics development in Africa, Brighton, UK



 
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2013: new students at MSc King's College London (MSc Director)



 
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2012: IOMP ExCom approves IDMP 7 Nov and introduces FIOMP



   
First IDMP (International Day of Medical Physics) and the IOMP Awards and Honours Com Chairs who developed the first IOMP Fellowships (S Tabakov, D Frey, T Kron) to celebrate the IDMP.
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2012: With the Bulgarian Society: Symposium



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2012:IAEA Project for developing Guide for Medical Physics MSc programmes,  Vienna



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2012: Elected IOMP V-P (Presiden-Elect) WC2012, Beijing




 
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2012: new students at MSc King's College London (MSc Director)



 
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2012: New ICTP College on Medical Physics, Trieste (Coordinating Director)





 
ICTP College 2012 (students from 37 countries): Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Colombia, Cuba, Equador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Indonesia, Macedonia, Malaysia, Morocco, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Uganda, Venezuela, Zimbabwe
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2011: Developing 2 new MSc programmes : new students at MSc King's College London (MSc Director)


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2011: Final Encyclopaedia introduced at MSc



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2011:Published book Global Medical Physics Education



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2010: new students at MSc King's College London (MSc Director)



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2010: Elected member of the  Board of Taylor and Francis CRC /Routledge  book series on medical physics and engineering



 

For the period 2010 - 2020 the Editors commissioned and approved for publication over 50 textbooks.
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2010: New ICTP College on Medical Physics, Trieste (Coordinating Director)




 
ICTP College 2010 (students from 35 countries):  Argentina, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Brazil, Cameroon, China, Croatia, Cuba, Estonia, Ghana, Honduras, Indonesia, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Peru, Russia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Spain, Thailand, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Zambia
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2009: Elected IOMP Officer/ Treasurer, WC2009, Munich, Germany



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2009: King's College London Excellence in Teaching Award


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2009: new students at MSc King's College London (MSc Director)


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2008: New ICTP College on Medical Physics, Trieste (Co-Director)


 
ICTP College 2008 (students from 48 countries): Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, India, Iran, Kenya, Latvia, Lesoto, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Moldova, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Peru, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad And Tobago, Uruguay, Ukraine, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zimbabwe
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2008: new students at MSc King's College London (MSc Director)



 
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2007: new students at MSc King's College London (MSc Director)






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2006: Awarded with IOMP Harold Johns Medal for Education, WC2006, Seoul


   
IOMP 2006 Awards: P Andreo; J Cunningham, S Tabakov
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2006: New ICTP College on Medical Physics, Trieste (Co-Director)



 
ICTP College 2006 (students from 40 countries): Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Brunei, Brazil, Cameroon, Czech Republic, Cuba, Egypt, Equador, Ethiopia, Hungary, Indonesia, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Iran, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Malaysia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Peru, Romania, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela, West Bank
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2006:Elected Chair IOMP Awards and Honours Comm.WC2006, Seoul, S Korea


 

Initiating the development of IOMP Fellowship
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2006: IOMP elected Chair AHC, Co-organising Seminar on MP Education in Asia, Seoul


   

Co-Organising Seminar for Medical Physics Education and Professional Development in Low and Middle Income countries, Seoul, S Korea
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2006: new students at MSc King's College London (MSc Director)



 
Introducing new MSc module with external students "Medical Equipment Management"
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2005: new students at MSc King's College London (MSc Director)


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2004: EMIT and EMERALD Consortia receive the inaugural EU Award for Education – the Leonardo da Vinci Award, Maastricht
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2004: New ICTP College on Medical Physics, Trieste (Co-Director)



 
ICTP College 2004 (students from 34 countries): Argentina, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bulgaria, Brazil, Cameroon, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Ethiopia, Egypt, India, Iran, Italy, Kenya, Latvia, Malawi, Mexico, Morocco, Malaysia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam, Yugoslavia
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2003: Re-elected Chair IOMP Education and Training Comm., Sydney, Australia
 
During the period 2003-2006 the IOMP Education and Training Committee supported activities in: Trieste, Italy; Bangkok, Thailand; Abu Dhabi, UAE; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; New Delhi, India; Moscow Russia; Manila, Philippines; Yaounde, Cameroon; Seoul, South Korea; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Sichuan, PR China.

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2003: Radiation Protection and Quality Control of X-ray equip., Plovdiv, Bulgaria


 
The Workshop was part of large project twinning Bulgaria and Germany in development national Radiation Protection legislation in accords with the EU legislation. It included also participants from R.N.Macedonia
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2003-2004: IAEA Projects for medical physics development in Belarus and N.Macedonia

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2002-2004:IAEA Quality Control Workshop of X-ray equip., Bangkok, and MSc in Chiang Mai, Thailand



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2002: New ICTP College on Medical Physics, Trieste (Co-Director)



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2001-2002:IAEA Quality Control of X-ray equip. Workshop and Lab in Yerevan, Armenia


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2000: Seminar on Medical Physics Training for Eastern European countries, Prague


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2000: Elected Chair IOMP Education and Training Comm., WC2000 Chicago



 
During the period 2003-2006 the IOMP Education and Training Committee supported activities in: Lisbon, Portugal; Tehran, Iran; Sofia, Bulgaria; Mumbai, India; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Moscow, Russia; Belfast, UK; Bangkok, Thailand; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Uttar Pradesh, India; Khartoum, Sudan; Kairo, Egypt;
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1999-2001: EU project for developing MSc courses in Baltic States


 
Developed MSc projects in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania
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1998: IAEA Quality Control of CT equip. Workshop, Campinas, Brazil


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1998: IAEA Quality Control  of X-ray equip, Workshop, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia



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1998: MSc programme in Plovdiv becomes the first one outside UK with IPEM accreditation (MSc Director   S Tabakov)
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1995-1998: EU projects for developing medical physics MSc course in Bulgaria



 
The projects established in Plovdiv the first International Education Centre in Medical Physics and developed over 3000 pages with lecture notes used also in other countries. The MSc triggered similar programme in Sofia University.
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1995:Published book Medical Physics Education in Europe



 
The first book on the subject of international medical physics education (Editors: C Roberts, S Tabakov, C Lewis)
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1994:Organising the first EU conference on medical physics education, Budapest



 
The Euroconference includes senior representatives from 26 countries. It triggered various other projects.
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