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NAME: Libby Brateman, Ph.D., FAAPM, FACR
EDUCATION/TRAINING
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
Birmingham-Southern College (B’ham, AL)
Auburn University, Auburn, AL
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
University of Texas—Southwestern Medical
School, Dallas, TX
Position: Associate Professor, Radiology
Program Director, Diagnostic Imaging Medical Physics
Residency
DEGREE
YEAR(s)
FIELD OF STUDY
BS
MS
PhD
Fellowship
1965-1969
1970-1972
1979-1983
1984-1985
Physics
Physics (Chemistry minor)
Medical Physics (Nuclear Eng. Sci.)
NMR/MRI
Role in Diagnostic Imaging Medical Physics Residency Program (DIMPR)
 Program Director and mentor to current DIMPR resident; lead for breast imaging physics
 Assess resident competencies in breast imaging, patient dose, personnel protection
 Expected FTE in Program: Whatever is required until accreditation is achieved—and currently > 0.3
2009 – present
1991 - present
1993 - 1994
1991 - 1993
1985 - 1991
1985 - 1987
1977 - 1979
1974 - 1977
1972 - 1974
Program Director, Diagnostic Imaging Medical Physics Residency
Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Radiology, College of Medicine; and Affiliate Associate
Professor, Department of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, College of Engineering; UF
Acting Director, Medical Physics Program, Department of Nuclear Engineering Sciences
Associate Director, Medical Physics Program, Department of Nuclear Engineering Sciences
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine; and Affiliate Assistant Professor,
Department of Nuclear Engineering Sciences, College of Engineering
Physicist in NMR Research, Research Service Div., Veterans Administration Medical Center—Gainesville
Physicist, Diagnostic Radiology Dept., Clinical Center, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Physicist, Division of Electronic Products, Bureau of Radiological Health, FDA, Rockville, Maryland
Hospital Physicist, Division of Radiology, Polyclinic Hospital, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Professional Certification
Certification: American Board of Radiology (Diagnostic Radiological Physics) 1977
Licensure: State of Florida (DRP 24, MHP 48); State of Florida Approved Mammography Physicist
Professional Honors
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Fellow in Physics, American College of Radiology, 2009
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Walter Mauderli Award, Florida Chapter AAPM, 2004
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Fellow, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2003
1989–2000
1993–1995
2008–2010
National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Scientific Committee 46-11.
National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Scientific Committee 46-12.
American Board of Radiology: Maintenance of Certification Cognitive Exam Committee for
Diagnostic Radiologic Physics
1985–1995
American Board of Radiology: various Physics Committee members and chairs
1990–2010
American College of Radiology: Mammography Phantom Reviewer
1997–2003
Commission on Standards and Accreditation, Subcttee. on Mammography Physics
1991–1994
Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, Committee SR-2 (ACR Liaison)
1986–1994
Commission on Physics and Radiation Protection, Cttee. on Education and Training
1993–1995
American Association of Physicists in Medicine Board of Directors (Member-at-Large)
2011-present
Current Committees: Medical Physics Education of Physicians; Ethics; Imaging Physics Curricula
1975-1978, 1988–2000
Various committees
1989–1991
Commission on Accreditation of Educational Programs for Medical Physicists
2008–present
Health Physics Society Working Group to Update ANSI Standard on Multiple Dosimetry (N13.41)
1996–1998
FDA Technical Electronic Products Radiation Safety Standards Committee
1997
Scientist Reviewer, Breast Cancer Research Program, U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command
1994
AHCPR Peer Reviewer, Guideline Report on Quality Determinants of Mammography
1992–1994
Landauer Advisory Council
1990
Merit Review Board, US Dept. of Veterans Affairs
1996–2002
Founding Member, Advisory Council on Medical Physicists, State of Florida
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I have no FTE assigned to research and have no current funded research.
Brateman L, Jacobs AM and Fitzgerald LT: Compton-Scatter Axial Tomography with X Rays: SCAT-CAT. Physics in Medicine
and Biology 29, 1984, 1353-1370.
Babcock EE, Brateman L, Weinreb JC, Horner SD and Nunnally RL: Edge Artifacts in MR Images: Chemical Shift Effect. Journal
of Computer Assisted Tomography 9, 1985, 252-257.
Brateman L: Chemical Shift Imaging: A Review. American Journal of Roentgenology 146, 1986, 971-980.
Brateman L, Bowman TT, Dønstrup S and Scott KN: Magnetic Field Shimming by Fourier Analysis. Magnetic Resonance in
Medicine 4, 1988, 459-473.
Brateman L: A Plea for Sensible Film Badge Placement in Diagnostic Radiology. Health Physics 56, 1989, 567-568.
Brateman L, Buckley K, Keim SG, Wargovich TJ and Williams CM: Left Ventricular Regional Wall Motion Assessment by
Radionuclide Ventriculography: A Comparison of Cine Display with Fourier Imaging. J Nuclear Medicine 32, 1991, 777-782.
Brateman L: First Use of Effective Dose Equivalent for Monitoring Occupational External Radiation in Special X-Ray Procedures.
HPS Newsletter, Health Physics Society, May 1994, 5-6.
Brateman L: Radiation Safety Considerations for Diagnostic Radiology Personnel. Radiographics 19, 1999, 1037-1055.
Scientific Reports
Shearer, DR (Chairman) and Brateman LF (one of 5 co-authors): Radiation Protection for Procedures Performed Outside the
Radiology Department, National Council on Radiation Protectionand Measurements, Report No. 133, Bethesda, MD, 2000.
Rosenstein M (Chairman) and Brateman LF (one of 5 co-authors): Use of Personal Monitors to Estimate Effective Dose Equivalent
and Effective Dose to Workers for External Exposure to Low-LET Radiation, National Council on Radiation Protection and
Measurements, Report No. 122, Bethesda, MD, 1995.
Brateman L and Das I (editors): Radiation Information for Hospital Personnel, American Association of Physicists in Medicine,
Report No. 53, College Park, MD, 1995.
Sprawls P (Chairman) and Brateman L (one of 10 co-authors): Radiation Effects and Protection for Medical Students, Syllabus,
American College of Radiology, 1989.
Siedband M (Chairman) and Brateman L (one of 18 co-authors): Basic Quality Control in Diagnostic Radiology, American
Association of Physicists in Medicine Report No. 4, American Institute of Physics, New York, 1978.
Current Medical Physics Graduate Program Research Committees
Student
Degree Dissertation or Thesis Topic
Stephanie Leon
PhD
Clinical Applications of Scatter Correction by Deconvolution in Mammography