Varian Medical Systems, Washington, DC
Radiation Oncology Medical Physicist October 2021- April 2023
William Kahlert Cancer Center, Westminster, MD
Radiation Oncology Physicist July 2019- October 2021
- Managed commissioning SRS Program.
- Assisted in commissioning SBRT Program.
- Acceptance and commissioning of SGRT (VisionRT) system.
- Monthly QA for Elekta Versa Linac and assisted in streamlining QA procedures.
- Patient-specific QAs: SNC MapCheck, ArcCheck, RadCalc and Mobius 3D.
- HDR treatment planning: GYN cylinder, Leipzig surface treatments (Oncentra TPS and MicroSelectron Afterloader)
- Routine TG-51 and annual QAs and calibration.
Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Radiation Oncology Physics Residency July 2017 – July 2019
- Commissioning TrueBeam linear accelerator and viewRay MR guided radiation therapy
- Shielding surveys for new Linacs acceptance (Photon and Neutrons)
- Treatment Planning Quality Assurance and Commissioning
- Monthly Machine QA
- Dosimetry
- Mechanical
- Imaging
- IsoCal calibration
- sample Varian result
- The Winston–Lutz test
- MLC defined FS
- Cone defined FS
- IsoCal calibration
- RadCalc Annual QA
- Eclipse TPS Annual QA
- AAPM TG-40 and AAPM TG-142
- Perform TG 142 machine QA on Varian TrueBeam, Edge, and Clinac EX
- Daily, Monthly and Annual QA
- The Winston–Lutz test
- WL Sample Report from RIT software
- Perform TG 142 machine QA on Varian TrueBeam, Edge, and Clinac EX
- AAPM TG-51 Calibration
- Clinac EX
- Varian TrueBeam
- Varian Edge
- TBI (Total Body Irradiation)
- Decommissioning the TBI from Clinac EX to Truebeam
- AAPM TG-29
- Designing/making Lung Blocks
- IORT using ZEISS INTRABEAM System for various sites:
- Breast
- Parotid gland
- Treatment Planning Training:
- Mandatory weekly plans for clinic patients
- ICRU 62
- AAPM TG-71 MU hand calculation
- NTCP models (QUANTEC)
- Emami’s Paper (Tolerance of normal tissue to therapeutic irradiation)
- AAPM TG-85 for tissue inhomogeneity corrections for MV beams
- AAPM TG-53 for QA of TPS
- Collapsed Cone Convolution dose calculation
- Verification of MU Calc for non-IMRT clinical radiotherapy
- Develop planning procedures for each treatment site
- 3D Conformal (Whole Brain, 2 field and 3 fields breast, 3 field rectum, CSI)
- IMRT/VMAT
- Grid Therapy
Eleanor N. Dana Cancer Center, Toledo, OH
Clinical Clerkship in Radiation Oncology Physics Aug 2016- May 2017
- Utilized various software including: MIM software package, RadCalc, RIT image analysis, ARIA, SNC Patient, OmniPro, Pinnacle, Eclipse and RayStation treatment planning software on a daily basis.
- Perform image Fusion and normal structure contouring using MIM software package
- Conduct IMRT/VMAT patient-specific QA using ArcCheck and MapCheck.
- Directly conduct and set up for monthly QA (TG-142) on the Varian TrueBeam and Edge linear accelerators.
- Assist in Annual QA (TG-142) and TG-51 on the Varian TrueBeam and Edge linear accelerators at University of Toledo Medical Center and Bowling Green State university hospitals.
- Conduct the routine monthly QA (TG-66) on the Philips PET-CT simulator.
- Design various types of patients treatment planning such as tangent fields, 3D conformal Arc, IMRT and VMAT.
- Facilitate weekly patients chart check including: verification of treatment plans, imaging and prescriptions.
- Participate in the bi-weekly chart QAs including physicians, physicists and therapists to address issues concerning patients undergoing various modalities of radiation oncology treatment.
- Assisted in commissioning the RayStation treatment planning system.
- Supported commissioning of the QUASAR Respiratory Motion QA Phantom.
- Perform HDR Brachytherapy monthly QA and upon Iridium source exchange.
- Perform in vivo dosimetry and OSLD measurements.