Quality Assurance Safety Officer

CAREER OBJECTIVE

To add my clinical and technical experience to that of your team to enhance

a systematic process of quality improvement, expansion of services, good

stewardship, and superior patient outcomes with satisfied referrers.

Professional Summary

. Over thirty years of experience with linear

accelerators, brachytherapy, treatment planning, and

radiation safety.

. Certified by the American Board of Radiology in

Therapeutic Physics

. Assisted in the implementation and/or upgrades for

Varian Truebeam, Accuray Tomotherapy, Nucletron HDR,

ARIA and MOSAIQ Radiation Oncology Information

Systems.

EXPERIENCE

Sept 2008 -June 2013

Affinity Health System, Appleton and Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Radiation Oncology Physicist

. Staff physicist working with a senior and a part-time

physicist covering two campuses performing QA on

accelerators, HDR unit, patient treatments.

. Review of patient treatment plans created by

dosimetrists.

. Became competent at operation, calibration, IMRT QA

of Tomotherapy which included Image Guided Radiation

Therapy (IGRT), Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy

(SBRT) and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS).

. Implemented AAPM Task Group 148 recommendations for

Tomotherapy QA.

. Acquired proficiency of CT planning and treatment

delivery with the Nucletron Oncentra HDR system.

. Involved with all aspects of the LDR prostate seed

program from pre-planning with Variseed, seed

handling, calibrating, assisting physician with the

implantation, and post-implant analysis.

. Developed a systematic process to evaluate LDR and

HDR plan analysis.

. Developed proficiency with standard GYN applicators,

SAVI, ML-Mammosite, Contura and Capri systems.

. Developed proficiency with the ARIA Oncology

Management System.

. Expanded my IMRT QA software base with use of the

Omni-Pro (IBA Dosimetry) I'MRT application, using

both film and Matrixx Evolution.

. Experience on recently installed Varian Truebeam

linear accelerators.

. Successfully completed the vendor physics course on

the Truebeam model linear accelerator.

. Experience using Eclipse RTP with AAA and Acuros

calculation engines.

. Administered the personnel monitoring program for one

of hospitals.

Feb 2004-Aug 2008 Wheaton Franciscan Health Care System, Milwaukee,

Wisconsin

Radiation Oncology Physicist

. One of a team of four physicists providing services

for four hospitals and a free-standing center.

. Validated external beam treatment plans from

dosimetrists.

. Involved with the full range of radiation oncology

services offered including conventional external

beam, 3D conformal, IMRT, IGRT, stereotactic

radiosurgery (SRS).

. Self-initiated the implementation of IGRT methodology

to one of the centers (EMH).

. Self-initiated the improvement of treatment planning

by developing partnerships with allied services at

satellite facilities.

. Self-initiated the importation of CR digital port

images into MOSAIQ.

. Acceptance tested the electronic portal imaging

system (EPID) upgrade to one of the linear

accelerators.

. Became proficient in the planning and delivery of LDR

(I-125 seeds) and HDR brachytherapy (breast and Gyn).

. Increased my competence with Varian equipment, i.e.

linear accelerators, Portal Vision, Eclipse RTP, as

well as MOSAIQ Oncology Information System.

. Developed my competence with RIT image analysis

software, and Omni-Pro (Scanditronix-Wellhofer) beam

analysis software.

. Served as Radiation Safety Officer at one of the

member hospitals, Elmbrook Memorial Hospital,

Brookfield, WI.

1993-Jan 2004 Waukesha Memorial Hospital, Waukesha, Wisconsin

Radiation Therapy Physicist

. Sole physicist until 1997, maintaining Q.A. on two

linear accelerators, simulator, orthovoltage, and a

contact therapy device.

. Performed computer treatment planning, stereotactic

radiosurgery (SRS), intraoperative radiotherapy

(IORT), low dose-rate (LDR) brachytherapy, and

reviews of dosimetrists' calculations.

. Assisted in the implementation of an IMPAC (now

Elekta MOSAIQ) Radiation Oncology Management System.

. Initiated improvements and upgrades to computer

therapy planning, quality assurance, and patient

treatment equipment.

. Served on the hospital's radiation safety committee.

. Involved with implementing and maintaining the

prostate seed program.

. Helped implement IMRT at both our centers utilizing

ADAC Pinnacle inverse planning on our three Varian

21EX linear accelerators.

. 2002 we started cardiac intravascular treatment of in-

stent restonsis and introduced a high dose rate (HDR)

brachytherapy program.

. Team-taught a basic dosimetry course through MTMI for

those interested in a career in medical dosimetry.

1981-1993 Rockford Memorial Hospital, Rockford, Illinois

Radiological Physicist, Radiation Safety Officer

. Sole physicist until 1985.

. Supervised an associate master's level physicist.

. Together, based in Radiation Oncology we served the

hospital in multiple disciplines, radiation therapy,

diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine, and radiation

safety.

. Performed the acceptance testing and commissioning of

a Varian Clinac 1800 linear accelerator and Oldelft

simulator.

. Taught physics classes in the School of Radiologic

Technology.

. Served as the Radiation Safety Officer for 11 years.

1981. Washington University School of Medicine -Mallinckrodt

Institute of Radiology, St. Louis

Radiation Therapy Physicist

. Involved with various aspects of clinical duties,

computer treatment planning, therapy machine

calibration, quality assurance, brachytherapy,

hyperthermia, research projects, and provision of

physics services to offsite facilities.

. Served as a quality control physicist for RTOG/EGOG

protocols.

EDUCATION

University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri

Master of Science

Major: Radiological Physics

Master's Thesis: "Computed Tomography in Radiation Therapy

Treatment Planning".

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois

Bachelor of Arts

Major: Biological Science

Minor: Chemistry/Physics (near minor)

Professional Societies

American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Awards and Certifications

. American Board of Radiology, Therapeutic Physics

. Registered Therapeutic Radiation Physicist

Illinois Division of Nuclear Safety, 2003-2004

Publications

"The Importance of Coupling in Localized Microwave

Hyperthermia" by Nussbaum, Goodman, Medical Physics, Vol

10, No. 6, Nov-Dec., 1983

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