Medical Physicist

• Jul 2023 - Present

Medical Physicist

• Jul 2022 - Jun 2023

Responsible for coverage of two clinics in a group of five physicists Machine QA on three Varian Truebeams On the radioactive materials license for IVB and HDR sources Provided planning and physics support for IVB and HDR treatments Providing physics support for Therasphere Y-90 treatments Weekly chart checking of patient treatment plans Eclipse/Aria clinics Experience with Standard Imaging QA Pilot Experience with Mobius 3D and Fx secondary plan check system Experience with ClearCheck Show less

Assistant Professor

• Jul 2017 - Jun 2022

On the radioactive materials license for Gamma Knife and HDRExperienced Gamma Knife planner with ~100 plansHDR planner with ~100 plans involving vaginal cylinder, tandem & ring and Syed interstitialMonthly and annual QA for Elekta Synergy linear acceleratorProvided physics support and commissioning for the total skin electron programCommissioned the Spine SBRT program at the facility and ran IROC accreditationExperience in Pinnacle planningExperience in Mosaiq record and verifyExperience in planning Accuray Tomotherapy and Radixact treatmentsTaught classes in radiation physics to graduate and radiation therapy studentsMentored medical physics residents including radiation detection and measurement, linac machine commissioning.Mentored radiation oncology residents in physics and treatment planning On the commissioning team for two Varian Truebeam linear accelerators Show less

Medical Physics Resident/Post-doctoral Associate

• Jul 2015 - Jun 2017

• Planning for IMRT, VMAT, and 3D treatments.• Proficient in using Pinnacle, Eclipse, and Tomotherapy treatment planning systems.• Experience with treatment planning system and linear accelerator commissioning.• Perform daily and monthly HDR machine QA for the Nucletron brachytherapy unit.• Experience with HDR planning for tandem-and-rings, gynecological interstitial HDR treatments, and multichannel and single-channel vaginal cylinders.• Extensive experience with COMS eye plaque procedures including seed calibration, planning, and OR physics consultation.• Perform monthly QA for the TrueBeam and Elekta Synergy linear accelerators, including mechanical, imaging and output testing and calibration.• Perform patient-specific QA for the Elekta, TrueBeam and Tomotherapy linear accelerators using ion chambers, film and/or Mapcheck/ArcCheck diode arrays.• Perform image fusions using Velocity and Pinnacle.• Proficient in Mosaiq record-and-verify system.• Assisted staff physicists in special dosimetry: electron treatments, composite DVH generation, in vivo dosimetry using OSLs.• Experience with Gamma Knife SRS planning and monthly QA procedures. Show less

Graduate Clinical Assistant

• May 2014 - Jun 2015

• Creating IMRT, VMAT, SRS/SBRT and 3D dosimetry plans for cancer patients using Pinnacle. • Proficient in Varian Aria. • Performing patient-specific QA using Sun Nuclear MapCheck and ArcCheck. • Assisting staff physicists with monthly and annual machine QA for the Varian Edge and TrueBeam linear accelerators. • Aided physicists in the monthly QA for the Philips Big Bore CT Simulator and Varian HDR systems. • Creating IMRT, VMAT, SRS/SBRT and 3D dosimetry plans for cancer patients using Pinnacle. • Proficient in Varian Aria. • Performing patient-specific QA using Sun Nuclear MapCheck and ArcCheck. • Assisting staff physicists with monthly and annual machine QA for the Varian Edge and TrueBeam linear accelerators. • Aided physicists in the monthly QA for the Philips Big Bore CT Simulator and Varian HDR systems.

Consultant

• Jan 2012 - Dec 2012

Designing cheminformatic software for the Chemical Abstract Service in the Applied Research division. Designing cheminformatic software for the Chemical Abstract Service in the Applied Research division.

Field Researcher

• Sep 2010 - Jan 2012

Analyzed trends in Medicare utilization based on location and hospital systems. Used time analysis and statistics to predict over- and underutilization of procedures and diagnosis codes. Analyzed trends in Medicare utilization based on location and hospital systems. Used time analysis and statistics to predict over- and underutilization of procedures and diagnosis codes.

Laboratory Manager, Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials

• Jun 2003 - Jul 2005

Responsible for maintenance of departmental instrumentation, including chromatography systems, mechanical and thermal characterization systems, and scanning probe microscopy stations. Industrial liaison and point-of-contact for industry sponsored research projects within the department. Responsible for maintenance of departmental instrumentation, including chromatography systems, mechanical and thermal characterization systems, and scanning probe microscopy stations. Industrial liaison and point-of-contact for industry sponsored research projects within the department.