Senior Medical Physicist, Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre
Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario
Major Clinical Duties
Treatment Planning QA, Linac responsibility, Tomotherapy unit responsibility, Dep. Radiation Safety Officer
Daily Clinical
Treatment Planning Checks, Linac and tomotherapy responsibilities, radiation safety, Low Dose Rate prostate brachytherapy, Total Body Irradiation
Medical Physics Career Path
Monte Carlo Methods at the Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre as research assoc; Medical Physics Residency in Kingston ON (1993-1996); Kingston (KRCC), Calgary (TBCC), Seattle (Swedish Medical Inst.) and the Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre as Medical Physicist
Certifications
F.CCPM, M. CCPM, D. ABR
Education
Ph.D. Applied Mathematics Western (1990), M.Sc. Appl. Math Western (1985), B. Sc. Hon Appl. Math Western (1983)
Academic Interests
- Educational: Medical Physics Certification Examiner and Question Composer
- Research: Monte Carlo Methods and Algorithms for Treatment Planning and particle transport, radiation safety
