The impact of recent outbreak of novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, to the global healthcare systems is unprecedently enormous. Like many other clinical disciplines, medical physics has encountered unique challenges during this special period in wider aspects from clinical practice, research, administration to education. As hospitals implement various preventive and control measures to contain the virus, medical physicists are asked to perform nonessential activities by telecommuting or work-from-home (WFH) in many places. While some welcome the adoption of telecommuting as a viable working option, others raise concerns about various potential downsides. This is the premise debated in this month’s Point/Counterpoint. Arguing for the proposition is Holly Lincoln, MS Ms. Lincoln is a Regional Chief Physicist at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Lecturer for the Department of Therapeutic Radiology, School of Medicine at Yale University. She received her MS in Radiological Medical Physics from the University of Kentucky in 2007. Ms. Lincoln has contributed to AAPM including service to new professionals, leadership initiatives, and continuing professional develop. She chairs the AAPM Summer School Subcommittee, is a member of the AAPM Board of Directors, and actively contributes to ACR’s Radiation Oncology Practice Accreditation program. Ms. Lincoln has served locally as the AAPM Connecticut Chapter President and currently as Chapter

Representative. She is certified by the American Board of Radiology in Therapeutic Medical Physics. Arguing against the proposition is Rao Khan Ph. D. Dr. Khan is an Associate Professor of medical physics at Washington University in St Louis (WashU). Dr. Khan received Ph. D. in medical physics from McMaster University in 2003. Since then, he has worked in Canada and the United States. He is the founding director of the medical physics graduate and certificate programs at WashU. Dr. Khan has expertise in stereotactic radiosurgery, SBRT, brachytherapy, and proton therapy. He has published in diverse areas of mathematical optimization for modulated radiotherapy, in-vivo range verification for protons, education analytics, and experimental dosimetry and spectroscopy. Dr. Khan has certification from the ABR and fellowship from CCPM in medical physics.