Quality Control Medical

Curriculum Vitae

Family name: Štrbac

First name: Bojan

Gender: Male

Date of birth: 1976-01-10

Place of birth (city, Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina

country):

Nationality: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Nationality at birth: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Marital status: Married

Education

1. Months/years attended: September 1997 to October 2004

Degrees, diplomas, certificates and BSc

academic distinctions:

Main course of study: Physics and Computer Science

Name, place and country: Faculty of science, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

2. Months/years attended: September 2006 to January 2010

Degrees, diplomas, certificates and MSc

academic distinctions:

Main course of study: Nuclear Physics

Name, place and country: University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Science, Department for

Physics, Serbia

Employment history:

1. Period of employment: May 2010 till now

Exact title of your post: Medical physicist

Name and address of employer: International Medical Centres

Phone number: +387-**-***-***

Name and title of supervisor: Marijan Bilic, General Manager

Type of business: Radiotherapy treatment planning, brachytherapy, dosimetry,

QA in the treatment of cancer manages, organizes and

coordinates work of the center in accordance with the work

plan.

• acceptance tests and commissioning of equipment

• relative and absolute dosimetry photon and electron beam

• test calibration of brachytherapy source (Ir-192),

• brachytherapy and external beam 3D and IMRT

conformal treatment planning

• other aspects of quality control program

• radiation protection

2. Period of employment: March 2005 to May 2010

Exact title of your post: Head of Radiation Protection Centre(2008-2010)

Name and address of employer: Public Health Institute of Republic of Srpska, Radiation

Protection Centre

Phone number: +387-**-***-***

Name and title of supervisor: Dr Slobodan Stanic, General Manager

Type of business: gamma spectrometry, quality control of x-ray machines,

dosimetry, radiation protection evaluation.

• responsible for the implementation of planned tasks, the

quality of work and terms of implementation,

• provide conditions for the usual work process and the

rational use of available capacity,

• gives orders, instructions and technical guidelines for the

work of centre,

• monitor and analyse the implementation plan

• responsible for the quality of professional work and work

discipline in the center,

• propose plans professional development, training,

procurement of materials and inventory for the center,

• follow professional and scientific achievements in the

field of control and detection of ionizing and non-ionizing

radiation in the environment,

• cooperate with customs, police and information services

for emergency planning

• is authorized only for correspondence with the director on

all matters related to the work of center,

• proposes a plan of development of human resources

within the center to the Director General,

• the need for proposed layout of the Director of employees

in the appropriate position,

• continuously improve in accordance with the needs,

• perform all tasks in the domain of their professional

qualifications,

• implement and apply management system procedures

• responsible to the Director General

Professional spheres of interest

1. Geometrical uncertainitiesa in radiotherapy (IGRT and adaptive RT)

2. Monte Carlo simulation in radiotherapy and dosimetry

3. Algorithms for dose calculation

4. QC in radiotherapy

5. Dosimetry

6. Brachytherapy

Publications

1. Analysis of three dimensional set-up uncertainties in head and neck 3DCRT. Radiotherapy and

Oncology, Volume 99 Sumplemant 1, s472 (2011) Authors: Bojan Štrbac (cooresponding author),

Aleksandar Kostovski, Milakovic Milomir, Zoran Kuzmanovic

2. The use of coincidence summing effect in gamma spectrometry for the determination of full

energy photopeak efficiency and activity of the Co-60 point source Chem. Listy 104, Chem. Listy 104,

s141-s262 (2010) Authors: Bojan Štrbac

3. Radioactivity concentration in soil samples taken from region of Banja Luka (Bosnia and

Herzegovina) Chem. Listy 104, s187-s262 (2010) Authors: Bojan Štrbac, Milakovic Milomir, Jelena

Marinkovic

4. Implementation of Quality Assurance Programme in Diagnostic Radiology in Bosnia and

Herzegovina (Republic of Srpska) Radiation Protection Dosimetry (2008), pp. 1-4

Authors:Jovica Bosnjak, Bojan Štrbac O. C. Bijelac

5. Charge Transfer in Hydrogen Negative Ion-Metal Surface Interaction: Classical Analysis

207-210 SPIG 2006, International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases (SPIG 2006).

Authors: Bojan Štrbac, Nenad Simonovic

6. Dosimetric verification of Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) Treatment Planning in

Center for Radiotherapy Banja Luka, Abstract for The First International Conference on Radiation and

Dosimetry in Various Fields of Research, April 2012, Faculty of Electronic Engineering | NiŠ Serbia

Authors: Bojan Štrbac, Oliver Arsovski

7. Lecturer with:”Evaluation of set-up errors using portal images” Radiotherapy section, Military

Medical Academy Belgrade, October 2012

8. Lecturer with:”Physics of magnetic resonance”;SYMPOSIUM "100 years since the discovery of the

atomic nucleus" Banja Luka 2011

Courses and additional educations

1. VARIAN-Eclipse Operations Course

2. VARIAN-Training Course on the GammaMed ixTM

3. HDR Afterloader System and BrachyVision Brachytherapy TPSB

4. MULTIDATA-Dosimetry Training Course

5. IAEA-Monte Carlo Radiation Transport and Associated Needs for Medical Applications, 17-28

October 2011

6. ESTRO-DOSE MODELLING & VERIFICATION FOR ExTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY. 11-

15 MARCH 2012, IZMIR, TURKEY

7. IAEA-Regional Training Course on Radioecology and Radiation Protection of the Environment

8. IAEA-Regional Training Course on Analitycal Methods and Quality Management in Marine

Environmental Radioactivity Studies

9. IAEA-Regional Training Course on Gamma Spectrometry for Monitoring Radionuclide in Air

IAEA, MFA B&H-National Workshop on the Organization and Implementation of a National Regulatory

Programme for the Control of Radiation

10. IAEA-National Training Course on QA in Diagnostic Radiology

11. Croatian Metrology Society-Measurement Uncertainties for Practitioners

12. IAEA-Regional Training Course on Advance Gamma Spectrometry and Total Alpha/Beta Activity

Measurement for Monitoring Radionuclides in Air Institute for Nuclear Science

13. Vinca- Basic Course for Work With Sealed Radiation Sources

14. SWEDAC-Training Course on laboratory accreditation according to ISO 17025

15. Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia-IAEA 2 month fellowship

16. Health Protection Agency, UK-IAEA 1 month fellowship

Project Involved like counterpart:

Ongoing:

• Strengthening Radiotherapy Physics Units to Meet the Requirements of International

Standards

Many regional and national TC projects were related to this project (ER/6/009, RER/6/012, RER/6/018, BOH/6/008 ) which were

indispensable in establishing the infrastructure in the field of radiotherapy physics. The project BOH/6012 : Establishing the

Medical Radiation Physics Centre; Department of Medical Physics and Radiation Safety, Clinical Centre Sarajevo was one of the

counterparts together with Clinical Centre Banja Luka established the needed infrastructure in the field of medical physics,

especially in radiotherapy physics, needed for the coordination of the proposed project .

Completed:

• Indoor and Outdoor Monitoring of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (closed 2007)

• Marine Environmental Assessment of the Mediterranean Sea(closed 2005)

Dear Sir

Currently, I am part of medical team of a brand new radiotherapy center which is operating for

more than two year in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Center has two Varian linacs for treatment of patient.

All the acceptance tests and commissioning of equipment was done last year and I was actively involved

in all those activities, from relative and absolute dosimetry measurements to mechanical checks. My

current duties consist of absolute and relative dosimetry of photon and electron beams as part of QA of

linear accelerators dosimetry, test calibration of brachytherapy source (Ir-192), brachytherapy and

external beam 3D conformal treatment planning and other aspects of quality control program and

radiation protection. Concerning Monte Carlo code I have some experience with EGSnrc code.

Before this job, I had been working for Public health Institute in radiation protection centre for fully four

years as a researcher, and one year as a head of department. My job in Radiation protection centre was

assessment of patient doses received during radiology examination, quality control of X-ray machines and

gamma spectrometry with HPGe detectors. I have preformed a lot of various measurements for radiation

protection purpose. I was member of team for ISO17025 accreditation of laboratory and my job was

mainly assessment of measurement uncertainties for several of laboratory methods.

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