SEMINARIO: Medical physics: from research to clinical application

Abstract:T he applications of physics in medicine are multiple, from the most fundamental research, through the development of new technologies, to the practical application of this discipline in a hospital. In this seminar, Diana will talk about some of the most relevant results of her thesis at I3M on the application of ultrasonic holograms for the treatment of diseases, by generating local hyperthermia
in a non-invasive and non-ionizing way, which can be used for the treatment of cancer. She wants to contribute his more academic vision of medical physics, linking it with his current profession, more applied to clinical practice, hospital radiophysics, where she has been practicing for a year. She will comment on her experience in this field, which is often unknown to society, and talk about her day-to-day work in a hospital, to try to resolve the doubts that people often have when they hear about this profession: What do you do as physicists in a hospital? How do you help patients?

About the speaker:
She is graduated in Physics (Universitat de València, 2018), MSc. in Big Data (Escuela de Organización Industrial / Data Science Talent Program of Banco Santander, 2019) and MSc in Medical Physics (Universitat de València, 2020), extraordinary award. She received a collaboration grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (2019), and the JAE-Intro grant from CSIC (2020). She obtained a FPU grant from the Ministry of Universities under which she received a PhD at the UPV (2024), working on the study, improvement and application of ultrasonic holograms for neuromodulation, blood-brain barrier opening and generation of controlled and precise hyperthermia, at the Institute of Instrumentation and Molecular Imaging (I3M). In 2024 she passed the selective tests to access the Specialized Health Training in the specialty of Hospital Radiophysics and since then she has been doing his residency at the Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia.