My Background

Education:

  • Board Certified in Comprehensive Health Physics (CHP) by the American Board of Health Physics
  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts
  • Master's Degree (MS), Applied Health and Medical Physics, University of Massachusetts
  • Bachelor's Degree, Curry College, Physics

Training and Professional Experience in Applied Health and Medical Physics:

  • Legal and Industry Consultant - Medical malpractice case analysis and legal support, radiation therapy physics, X-ray imaging,  nuclear medicine imaging
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Imaging - Research into vulnerable plaque utilizing radioisotope imaging
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Radiation Control Program - Regulation and inspection of facilities that utilize ionizing radiation
  • CHEM Center for Radiation Oncology - Radiation therapy external beam treatment planning
  • Tufts New England Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology - Radiation therapy external beam, stereotactic radiosurgery, total body irradiation, and high/low dose rate brachytherapy treatment planning, and physics quality assurance and quality control
  • Harvard University and Harvard University School of Medicine, Department of Environmental Health and Safety - Laboratory inspection and environmental assaying

Academic Awards and Certificates:

  • Howard Thomas Feeley Award in Mathematics
  • Curry College Science Award
  • Medical Physics Certificate, University of Massachusetts

Thesis Publications:

  • Requirements for Imaging Vulnerable Plaque Using a Coded Aperture Imaging System (Doctoral Thesis)
  • Radiotherapeutic Dose in Tissues with and without Air Cavities (Master's Thesis)

Professional Society Memberships:

  • American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) 
  • New England Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (NEAAPM)
  • Health Physics Society (HPS)
  • New England Chapter of the Health Physics Society (NECHPS)

Professional Committee Memberships:

Health Physics Society's Public Information Committee
Health Physics Society's Science Support Committee, Ex-Officio Member
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