{{Short description|Australian physicist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Eva Bezak | known_for = Medical Physics | education = University of Adelaide, ANU | employer = University of Adelaide | occupation = Chief Physicist | title = Professor | footnotes = | nationality = }}
'''Eva Bezak''' is a medical physicist and researcher, who was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2025. She is a researcher in cancer therapy and medical innovation,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Is proton therapy the silver bullet for children with brain cancer? |url=https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/901124 |access-date=2025-11-21 |website=EurekAlert! |language=en}}</ref> modelling software as well as new pharmaceuticals to enhance therapies for cancer.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-12-07 |title=Australia must seize nuclear science opportunities to meet challenges on the horizon |url=https://www.science.org.au/news-and-events/news-and-media-releases/australia-must-seize-nuclear-science-opportunities-to-meet-challenges-on-the-horizon |access-date=2025-11-21 |website=Australian Academy of Science |language=en}}</ref> She has served on various medical physics organisations and was president of the International Organisation for Medical Physics.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last= |title=Professor Eva Bezak |url=https://www.atse.org.au/who-we-are/our-fellows/all-fellows/eva-bezak/ |access-date=2025-11-21 |website=Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering |language=en}}</ref>
== Education and early life == Bezak wanted to be a scientist from an early age, including a paleontologist, digging for dinosaur bones. She started studying physics, and later enrolled in nuclear physics at university. She obtained a Bachelor and Masters of Philosophy, and had two children. When her youngest child was three months old, she then enrolled in further study, a Masters of Medical Physics, and then a PhD in nuclear physics, graduating from her PhD with two children under five years.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2022-03-06 |title=Prof Eva Bezak, PhD, FACPESM, FIUPESM |url=https://www.iomp.org/prof-eva-bezak-phd-facpesm-fiupesm/ |access-date=2025-11-21 |website=International Organization for Medical Physics |language=en-US}}</ref> Bezak was the first female president of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM).<ref name=":1" />
== Career == Bezak's research involves medical and radiation physics,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Holloway |first=Lois |last2=Bezak |first2=Eva |last3=Baldock |first3=Clive |date=2021-08-09 |title=Artificial intelligence (AI) will enable improved diagnosis and treatment outcomes |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s13246-021-01034-x |journal=Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine |language=en |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=603–606 |doi=10.1007/s13246-021-01034-x |issn=2662-4729 |via=SpringerNature}}</ref> working with providers of nuclear medicine and radiation oncology in the Asia-Pacific regions, partnering with both industry and medical stakeholders.<ref name=":0" />
Bezak was a member of the International Union of Physics in Emergency Medicine, from 2015–2022. She was also the founding member and Chair of IUPESM Women in Medical Physics, and the Secretary General from 2019–2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Organising Committee |url=https://wc2025.org/committee-organising/ |access-date=2025-11-21 |website=IUPESM World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2025 |language=en-US}}</ref> She was also the President of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=ACPSEM Distinguished Service Award |url=https://www.acpsem.org.au/Tenant/C0000020/2024%20Award%20Descriptions%20_%20DS%20Award.pdf |access-date=2025-12-02 |website=The Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine}}</ref> and Vice President of the Australian Foundation of Medical Physics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eva Bezak elected IOMP Vice President for 2022-2025 |url=https://www.acpsem.org.au/ccms.r?Pageid=6007&tenid=ACPSEM&DispMode=goto%7C10440 |access-date=2025-11-21 |website=www.acpsem.org.au}}</ref>
Bezak is also an advocate of women in STEM, and particularly supporting diversity and inclusion around medical research careers.<ref name=":0" />
== Publications == Bezak has over 5200 citations and an H index of 39, according to Google Scholar, as at November 2025. Select publications include the following:
* Cohen C, Pignata S, Bezak E'', et al.'' Workplace interventions to improve well-being and reduce burnout for nurses, physicians and allied healthcare professionals: a systematic review. ''BMJ Open'' 2023;'''13:'''e071203. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-071203.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Cohen |first1=Catherine |last2=Pignata |first2=Silvia |last3=Bezak |first3=Eva |last4=Tie |first4=Mark |last5=Childs |first5=Jessie |date=2023-06-01 |title=Workplace interventions to improve well-being and reduce burnout for nurses, physicians and allied healthcare professionals: a systematic review |url=https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/6/e071203 |journal=BMJ Open |language=en |volume=13 |issue=6 |article-number=e071203 |doi=10.1136/bmjopen-2022-071203 |doi-access=free|issn=2044-6055 |pmid=37385740 |pmc=10314589 }}</ref> * Forster, J. C., Harriss-Phillips, W. M., Douglass, M. J., & Bezak, E. (2017). A review of the development of tumor vasculature and its effects on the tumor microenvironment. ''Hypoxia'', ''5'', 21–32. https://doi.org/10.2147/HP.S133231.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Forster |first1=Jake C |last2=Harriss-Phillips |first2=Wendy M |last3=Douglass |first3=Michael JJ |last4=Bezak |first4=Eva |date=2017-04-04 |title=A review of the development of tumor vasculature and its effects on the tumor microenvironment |journal=Hypoxia |volume=5 |pages=21–32 |doi=10.2147/HP.S133231 |doi-access=free |pmid=28443291 |pmc=5395278 }}</ref> * James Murray, Hunter Bennett, Eva Bezak, Rebecca Perry, The role of exercise in the prevention of cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: systematic review, ''European Journal of Preventive Cardiology'', Volume 29, Issue 3, February 2022, Pages 463–472, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwab006.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Murray |first=James |last2=Bennett |first2=Hunter |last3=Bezak |first3=Eva |last4=Perry |first4=Rebecca |date=2022-03-25 |title=The role of exercise in the prevention of cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: systematic review |url=https://academic.oup.com/eurjpc/article/29/3/463/6163156 |journal=European Journal of Preventive Cardiology |language=en |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=463–472 |doi=10.1093/eurjpc/zwab006 |issn=2047-4873|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
== Awards and recognition == * 2025 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering.<ref name=":0" /> * 2025 - President of the International Organisation of Medical Physics (IOMP).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-09-21 |title=Message from Professor Eva Bezak, President on 25 Years of AFOMP |url=https://afomp.org/2025/09/21/message-from-president-on-25-years-of-afomp/ |access-date=2025-11-21 |website=Asia-Oceania Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics |language=en-US}}</ref> * 2024 - Distinguished Service Award, Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine.<ref name=":2" /> * 2020 - Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Krollig |first=Mason |date=2020-11-12 |title=CRF funds research into cutting-edge treatment to help children and young adults who are battling brain cancer |url=https://crf.org.au/7news-exclusive-crf-funds-research-into-cutting-edge-treatment-to-help-children-and-young-adults-who-are-battling-brain-cancer/ |access-date=2025-11-21 |website=Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation |language=en-AU}}</ref> * 2019 - South Australian Women's Honour Roll.<ref name=":1" /> * 2019 - Innovation Grant for Development of new radioimmunotherapy agent for pancreatic cancer cells.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2019 Innovation Grants – Professor Eva Bezak |url=https://pankind.org.au/research-projects/2019-innovation-grants-professor-eva-bezak/ |access-date=2025-11-21 |website=PanKind Australian Pancreatic Cancer Foundation |language=en-au}}</ref>
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== External links == * ORCID [https://pub.orcid.org/v3.0_rc1/0000-0002-1315-1735/external-identifiers/824734]
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