Daryoush Bagheri, PhD, DABR

( Dahr-yoosh, Baah-gheri)

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Board certified medical physicist with postgraduate education in medical

physics and extensive background in radiation oncology physics and

research, as well as corporate and clinical experience. Member of AAPM

task group 105. Experience with Elekta, Varian and Siemens linacs,

prostate seed implants and markers, GammaKnife and linac-based

radiosurgery, EMR (IMPAC, Mosaiq, ARIA), detailed IMRT QA with MapCHECK(2)

and MatriXX, IGRT with CBCT and MR, serial and helical tomotherapy, at 6

cancer centers (Allegheny GH main campus, Intercommunity Cancer Center

(solo), The Regional Cancer Center and satellites, Long Island Radiation

Therapy and Vantage Oncology's NorthMain and Brockton H Cancer Centers).

Experience in using CMS XiO, VariSeed, Theraplan Plus, Helax TMS,

GammaPlan, Plato, VariSource, BrachyVision, Oncentra, and Pinnacle

treatment planning and Wellhofer and PTW water scanning systems.

Management and project management experience and education working with

cross-functional teams and on multiple projects at 4 different radiation

oncology companies (Theratronics, Helax, NOMOS, ViewRay). Other projects

include implementation of IGRT techniques such as AlignRT, linear

accelerator and 60Co machine design, radiation spills, brachytherapy source

specification according to TG-43 and development of novel variance

reduction techniques and distributed computing. Successful application of

a variety of Monte Carlo codes, including modification and adaptation of

the source codes to extraordinary situations and their utilization in new

product designs. Quality-oriented focus, with high integrity and excellent

technical and interpersonal communication skills and quality patient

service commitment.

Citizenship: Canadian. Permanent Resident of US.

Management and Leadership

As Chief Medical Physicist supervised 2 physicists and 3.5 dosimetrists at

two cancer centers

As engineering manager, interviewed, hired, trained, managed and

technically lead a team of physicists and computational/software engineers

(NOMOS/NAS Medical)

Proposed, justified and managed a focus group of clinical sites to

facilitate clinical acceptance

Managed several external collaborations (University Hospitals and Cancer

Centers) concurrently

As technical leader introduced new technologies to executive management and

engineers

Project Management and Product Management experience

Education

VisionRT course 2012

Varian BrachyVision course for Breast Treatment Planning with SAVI

2010

TomoTherapy Physics Course, Madison, Wisconsin 2009

UPMC Center for Image-Guided Neurosurgery Gamma Knife Radio-surgery Course

2007

American Board of Radiology, Board Certification in Therapeutic

Radiological Physics 2007

Mastering Project Management, Villanova University, certificate program

2005

Essentials of Project Management, Villanova University, certificate program

2004

Ph.D. (Medical Physics) 1993-1998

Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (tuition fee waiver

scholarship, A average)

Research conducted at the National Research Council Canada, Ottawa.

Thesis: "Monte Carlo Simulation of Photon Beams from Medical Linear

Accelerators: Optimization, Benchmark and Spectra", Advisor: Dr. D.W.O.

Rogers

M. Sc. (Medical Physics) 1991-1993

The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada (2 year

scholarship, A average)

Thesis: "Verification Imaging for Ir-192 High Dose Rate Brachytherapy",

Advisor: Dr. P.N. Munro

B. Sc. (Applied Physics) 1985-1989

University of Tehran with 91% GPA, ranked first in the department.

Employment History

Vantage Oncology, NorthMain Radiation Oncology and Brockton H. Aug

2010- Sep 2013

Senior Physicist and Chief Medical Physicist, RSO

Removal of a 6 MV Varian 600CD, adding shielding, remodeling part of the

center and purchasing a 6/10 MV Elekta Infinity with 160 leaf Agility MLC

Supervision of 2 physicists and 3.5 dosimetrists at 2 sites (5 linacs)

Lead the ACR inspection/accreditation of Brockton site in April 2011

Lead the ACR re-accrediation of NorthMain in June 2012

Implemented IGRT with VisionRT on 21EX Varian linac (including training,

acceptance testing, troubleshooting, protocols and evaluation against C-

RAD's Catalyst, led the center from training to routine clinical use in

about a month)

Evaluated and implemented InVivo Dosimetry using EPID-based DosimetryCheck

(and trained staff), developed policy & procedures for NorthMain

Full review and edit of IMRT Objectives and Evaluation forms for numerous

clinical sites

TomoTherapy Hi-ART (trained junior physicist)

Varian and Elekta (with HexaPOD robotic couch) Linacs, Philips big bore 16-

slice CT

Electronic Brachytherapy planning with BrachyVision

Prostate seed implants at 2 affiliated hospitals with I-125 and Cs-131

Calypso, SBRT lung, CBCT, HDR Nucletron/Oncentra APBI (MammoSite, Contura

and SAVI), vaginal cylinder, Portal Vision, TheraView, Mosaiq 2.3 and ARIA,

Pinnacle

Registered in RI and MA, taught radiation safety to therapists and staff

From August to October 2010 as consultant, October onward full-time, March

2011 onward acting chief medical physicist, September 2011 to September

2013 officially chief medical physicist

Long Island Radiation Therapy (a division of Nassau Radiologic Group)

Aug 2009-2010

Senior Medical Physicist

TomoTherapy Hi-ART physicist, Evaluation of TomoTherapy for SRS and SBRT

Exposure to migration from Mosaiq to ARIA, state inspection, decommission.

survey of HDR vault

Quick evaluation of VisionRT for patient monitoring and Aktina's PinPoint

for immobilization

Limited exposure to HDR planning with BrachyVision

Licensed by NY Department of Health

ViewRay Incorporated July 2008- June 2009

Director of Medical Physics, RSO

Provided medical physics input to software & hardware teams in the design

process (GUI, MLC etc)

As RSO submission of radioactive material license application to the Ohio

Dept. of Health

Performed detailed shielding calculations for the vault considering the

novel characteristics of the IGRT device

Detailed Monte Carlo modeling and beam characteristics study of a 60Co+MRI-

based IGRT device

Modeling of radiation transport in the presence of a strong magnetic field

Modeling radiation transport in heterogeneities

The Regional Cancer Center May 2007-July 2008

Staff Physicist

Gamma Knife Authorized Medical Physicist

Process improvements in IMRT QA analysis, prostate seed implants, beam

modeling for TP, EMR

Other special procedures: prostate seed implants, MammoSite

Physics QA for treatments on Varian (Erie) and Elekta linacs (Meadville and

Ashtabula Satellites)

Allegheny General Hospital (Radiation Oncology) Nov. 2005-May 2007

Senior Medical Physicist, Clinical and Research

Clinical experience (at AGH main campus and as solo physicist at the

Intercommunity Cancer Center):

Special procedures: over 25 prostate seed implants, stereotactic

radiosurgery and radiotherapy with Radionics, HDR brachytherapy planning

with VariSource, TSE

Weekly, Monthly and Annual linac and TPS QA, Siemens Primus linacs

Routine chart checks, treatment plan 2nd checks, IMRT QA measurements

Teaching: Taught medical physics to residents in radiation oncology and

dosimetrists

Appointment at Drexel University College of Medicine as Clinical Adjunct

Professor

Research activity: Development of a software dose calculation tool (MATLAB

based) for real-time Dose Guided Radiation Therapy (DGRT) utilizing online

Mega Voltage Cone Beam CT (MV-CBCT)

NOMOS Radiation Oncology (North American Scientific) Nov. 2001-Nov.

2005

Medical Physicist, Technical Leader, Engineering Manager, Technology

Innovation Group

Leadership in the physics, analysis, verification, validation and

commissioning aspects of the IMRT Monte Carlo radiation treatment planning

project (PEREGRINE)

Provided product management input to several projects, in lieu of product

manager

Active involvement in the management of external collaborations with

various hospitals

Lead and managed (hired, trained, tasked, guided) a team of software

engineers in design, development and testing of PEREGRINE project

Developed marketing requirements, user requirements, product requirements,

hazard analysis, design and development plan, validation plan, and other

documents required by the FDA

Evaluated new technologies and made recommendations to executive management

Developed several sophisticated Mathematica-based tools to automate and

substantially enhance the validation process of Monte Carlo calculated 1-D

and 2-D dose distributions including the development of automated

validation tools for film-based dosimetry (validation speed ups of 400%

with improved accuracy)

Conducted accurate dosimetric measurements (using water scan dosimetry

systems and film) at several cancer clinics, analyzing the data and

automating the analysis and the data visualization processes to maximize

process efficiency and minimize errors

Proposed, directed and applied the use of Monte Carlo technique in

assessing failure of electronic components used in the MIMiC IMRT serial

tomotherapy delivery device

Proposed, prototyped and developed a novel instantiation technique for the

PEREGRINE project

Proposed improvements to the MIMiC system (October 2002) IMRT commissioning

and customer support

Expanded the supported number of beams for PEREGRINE, from 4 to 10 in only

2 months

Edited and coordinated training courses, instructed oncologists, physicists

and dosimetrists

Gave invited lectures on the Monte Carlo method to the Penn-Ohio Chapter of

the AAPM and the SROA (the Society for Radiation Oncology Administrators)

Advanced Analytic Consulting, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada August 2001- Nov.

2001

Owner, Computational Physics Consultant

Characterized a new brachytherapy source with a novel design for MDS

Nordion using Monte Carlo simulations according to TG-43

Set up and administered a cluster of networked computers running Linux for

Monte Carlo simulations in a multi-user environment at Helax in Sweden

Calculated output factors for electron beams using Monte Carlo simulations

MDS Nordion, Kanata, Ontario, Canada 1998-2001

Senior Physicist, Research and Physics Support

Implementation of advanced Monte Carlo radiation transport simulations and

data analysis methods

System administration of a cluster of Linux boxes used in parallel

computing of Monte Carlo simulations

Close collaboration with software and hardware engineering teams on several

projects

Design and optimization study of a new 60Co source with improved

characteristics for teletherapy

Development of novel Variance Reduction Techniques to speed up the Monte

Carlo simulations used in the design process of radiation hardware by

factors between 6 and 9

Collaborations with internal and external research groups

Presentations at various Canadian, American and International Conferences

Editing of Technical Reference Manuals

Clinically relevant experience during graduate school

Ottawa General Hospital (OGH), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 1994-1996

Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre (ORCC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 1994-

1996

National Research Council (NRCC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 1993-1998

London Regional Cancer Centre (LRCC), London, Ontario, Canada 1991-

1993

Conducted pulse sequence experiments on the MRI unit at the OGH.

Conducted cell survival experiments at the OGH.

Performed 60Co calibration for NE2571 ion chamber at NRC.

Calibrated the 6 and 10 MV photon beams of the Siemens MD2 linac at the

ORCC.

Performed extensive measurements with MicroSelectron HDR at the LRCC.

Performed routine QA checks on the LDR brachytherapy remote afterloaders at

the Victoria Hospital (LRCC).

Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant 1990-1998

Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Honors and Awards

Invited lecturer at the 2006 Summer School of AAPM, "Integrating New

Technologies into the Clinic: Monte Carlo and Image Guided Radiation

Therapy", June 18-22, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada

NIH STTR grant application and research 2004-2005

Farrington Daniels Award 2003 for best paper published on radiation

dosimetry in Medical Physics in 2002 awarded by the American Association of

Physicists in Medicine

Recipient of several scholarships throughout Masters and PhD programs

BSc with highest distinction (ranked first in the class of 1989)

Professional Memberships

Member of the AAPM and ASTRO

Member of the AAPM Task Group 105 (Clinical implementation of the Monte

Carlo method in external beam radiation therapy treatment planning)

Member of the AAPM Investment Advisory Committee (2007-2013)

Member of the Project Management Institute (PMI)

Refereed Publications

"Report of the AAPM Task Group No. 105: Issues associated with clinical

implementation of Monte Carlo-based photon and electron external beam

treatment planning:" Medical Physics, 34 (12), 4818-4853, Dec. 2007.

"Dosimetric evaluation of a Monte Carlo IMRT treatment planning system

incorporating the MIMiC." P Rassiah-Szegedi, M Fuss, D Sheikh-Bagheri, M

Szegedi, S Stathakis, J Lancaster, N Papanikolaou, B Salter, Phys Med

Biol. 2007 Dec 7;52 (23):6931-41

"Dosimetric Evaluation Of The Clinical Implementation Of The First

Commercial IMRT Monte Carlo Treatment Planning System At 6 MV", Emily

Heath, Jan Seuntjens, Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri, Med. Phys. October 2004.

"Sensitivity of megavoltage photon beam Monte Carlo simulations to electron

beam and other parameters", Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri and D.W.O. Rogers, Med.

Phys. 29 (3), 379-390, March 2002. [winner of the AAPM Farrington Daniels

award 2003]

"Monte Carlo calculation of nine megavoltage photon beam spectra using the

BEAM code", Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri and D.W.O. Rogers, Med. Phys. 29 (3),

391-402, March 2002.

"Symmetry-based Variance Reduction applied to 60Co teletherapy unit Monte

Carlo simulations", Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri, Proceedings of the Monte Carlo

2000 conference in Lisbon, Portugal, Springer Verlag, 2001.

"Comparison of measured and Monte Carlo calculated dose distributions from

the NRC linac", Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri and D. W. O. Rogers, Carl. K. Ross

and Jan.P. Seuntjens, Med. Phys. 27 (10), 2256-2266, October 2000.

"A Monte Carlo study of verification imaging in high dose rate

Brachytherapy", Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri and P.N. Munro, Med. Phys. 25 (4),

404-414, April 1998.

Book Chapters, AAPM Summer School invited talks

"Monte Carlo Simulations: Efficiency Improvement Techniques and

Statistical Considerations", Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri, Iwan Kawrakow, Blake

Walters, and D. W. O. Rogers, AAPM Summer School 2006, published by Medical

Physics Publishing 2006.

"Monte Carlo Methods for Accelerator Simulation and Photon Beam Modeling",

C-M Charlie Ma and Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri, AAPM Summer School 2006,

published by Medical Physics Publishing 2006.

Selected Presentations, Proceedings and Abstracts

"SBRT at NorthMain Radiation Oncology", Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri, invited

talk by Elekta, presented in May 2012 in Providence, RI.

"Dosimetric evaluation of the PEREGRINE IMRT MC treatment planning system

at 6 MV for small fields in heterogeneous media", Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri,

C. Cocheci, E. Heath, J. Seuntjens, presented at the AAPM conference, July

2005 in Seattle.

"The Development and Implementation of a New Variance Reduction Technique

in Monte Carlo Code PEREGRINE", F. Ma*, R. Pino, S. Zasadil, D. Sheikh-

Bagheri, P. Nizin, Poster presentation at AAPM meeting in Seattle, July

2005.

"Verification of the PEREGRINE Monte Carlo Model of a 120 leaf MLC for

Highly Modulated IMRT Fields at 6 MV Using Mutual Information for Dose

Registration", Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri, Med. Phys. 31 (6), 1823, June 2004

[Abstract].

"The Monte Carlo method and IMRT", Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri, Invited

lecture, American Society of Radiologic Technologists annual meeting,

October 20th 2003, Salt Lake City, UT

"A Robust Instantiation Method for the Commissioning Process of the

PEREGRINE Code", Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri, Med. Phys. 30 (6), 1517, June

2003 [Abstract].

"Recent advancements in the verification of PEREGRINE for IMRT at NOMOS",

Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri, U.T.M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX,

April 23rd, 2003.

"Verification of the PEREGRINE 6 MV Model of an 80-Leaf MLC for IMRT",

Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri, Lecture at the Short Course on Introduction to

Monte Carlo Treatment Planning at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia,

PA, April 4th, 2003.

"Winning Odds", Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri, Invited Paper on Monte Carlo,

ADVANCE for Imaging and Oncology, 59-62, April 2003.

"An Introduction to Monte Carlo and the PEREGRINE Approach", Daryoush

Sheikh-Bagheri, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MA, November 22, 2002.

"Monte Carlo - what it is and how it can improve the IMRT odds", Daryoush

Sheikh-Bagheri, invited speaker, the Society for Radiation Oncology

Administrators at ASTRO, New Orleans, October 8, 2002.

"Monte Carlo linac simulations and dose calculations", Daryoush Sheikh-

Bagheri, invited speaker for the Fall Symposium of the Penn-Ohio Chapter of

AAPM, Mars, PA, September 28, 2002.

"Monte Carlo simulation of photon beams: from production to RTP", Daryoush

Sheikh-Bagheri, invited speaker for the Spring Symposium of the Penn-Ohio

Chapter of AAPM, Streetsboro, OH, April 5, 2002.

"Monte Carlo verification of a multi-source model used in a treatment

planning system", Wieslander E., Sheikh-Bagheri D., Weber L., Ahnesjo A.

and Knoos T., ESTRO meeting in Seville, Spain, September 18-23, 2001.

"Monte Carlo simulation of megavoltage photon beams: how accurate is it

possible?", Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri MC-RTP workshop, Stanford University

Medical School, Stanford CA, Nov. 9-11, 2000.

"Clinical electron beam characterization model for Monte Carlo treatment

planning", Erik Traneus, Anders Ahnesjo, Mats Asell and Daryoush Sheikh-

Bagheri, MC-RTP workshop, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford CA,

Nov. 9-11, 2000.

"Symmetry-based Variance Reduction applied to 60Co teletherapy unit Monte

Carlo simulations", Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri, Monte Carlo 2000 international

conference, October 23-26, Lisbon, Portugal.

"Full Head-Scatter Model + Accurate and Fast Monte Carlo Dose

Calculations", Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri, Intensity Modulated Radiation

Therapy Symposium, Fredericksburg, VA, September 18, 2000.

"Electron Beam Characterization for Monte Carlo treatment Planning", A.

Ahnesjo, D. Sheikh-Bagheri, E. Traneus, M. Asell, WC2000, Chicago, USA,

July 23-28, 2000.

"Monitor Unit calculations in MDS Nordion's Trident Project", Daryoush

Sheikh-Bagheri, Annual meeting of the North-Central Chapter of the American

Association of Physicists in Medicine, Minneapolis, MN, May 5, 2000.

"Derivation of incident electron parameters in photon beam Monte Carlo

simulations", Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri, and D.W.O. Rogers, AAPM annual

conference, Nashville, TN, July 25-29, 1999.

"Modelling primary fluence distribution of high energy photon beams in the

Theraplan Plus treatment planning system ", J. Sun, D. Sheikh-Bagheri and

G. Doswell, Proceedings of COMP Annual Conference, Sherbrooke, Quebec, 44-

46 (1999).

"Optimization and benchmarking of Monte Carlo calculated dose distributions

in megavoltage photon beams," Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri, D.W.O. Rogers, C.K.

Ross and J.P. Seuntjens, COMP Proceedings, 228-230, (1998).

"Monte Carlo study of dose distribution of the 20 MV photon beam of the

NRCC linac," Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri and D. W. O. Rogers and T. R. Mackie,

Med. Phys. 23, 1129 (1996).

"Effects of spatial resolution on convolution based photon dose

calculation," H. H. Liu, D. Sheikh-Bagheri, T. R. Mackie, E. C.

McCullough, Med. Phys. 23, 1156 (1996).

"Variance Reduction by Selective Bremsstrahlung Splitting," Daryoush Sheikh-

Bagheri and D.W.O. Rogers, COMP Proceedings, page 236-237 (1996).

"Monte Carlo model of the 6 MV photon beam from a SL25 accelerator," D.

Sheikh-Bagheri and D. W. O. Rogers and T. R. Mackie, Med. Phys. 21, 1368

(1994).

"Optimization and benchmarking of Monte Carlo calculated dose distributions

in megavoltage photon beams,'' D. Sheikh-Bagheri, D. W. O. Rogers, and C.

K. Ross, Med. Phys. 25, 1088 (1993).

"Fluoroscopic Verification of Source Position in HDR Brachytherapy,"

Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri and Peter Munro, COMP Proceedings, page 50-51

(1993).

Technical Skills

14+ years R&D experience in various medical physics projects, involving

leadership, programming, automation, data analysis and dosimetry, working

with teams of different sizes and dynamics

9 years involvement in various projects within four Radiation Treatment

Planning companies (Theratronics, Helax, Nomos later North American

Scientific, ViewRay Incorporated)

Programming languages: MATLAB, Mathematica, MORTRAN (Macro Fortran),

FORTRAN, some C++ and PAW (script-based N-tuple query and database analysis

language from CERN)

Team member in the development of the large scale (BEAM) radiation

transport Monte Carlo code at the National Research Council Canada (1993 -

1998)

Invited associate editor and referee for Medical Physics journal (1999 -

present )

Developed distributed computing and analysis techniques to speed-up CPU-

intensive simulations and data analysis on a network of SGI workstations

and Linux PCs (1995 - 1998)

Developed variance reduction techniques to speed up CPU-intensive Monte

Carlo calculations by factors between 4 and 9 (1994 - 2001) and optimized

the BEAM simulations used in the PEREGRINE project to improve their

efficiency by 300% (2002).

Automated 3D data visualization and developed data animation techniques to

enhance data analysis (1994 - 1998)

Strong problem solving and advanced interpersonal, communication and

presentation skills

Instructed at the OMEGA/BEAM international workshop on Monte Carlo

simulations of medical linear accelerators at NRC (1996, 1997, 1998 and

2001)

Fluent in English, German and Farsi, interested in learning Italian,

Spanish, French, Turkish and Arabic.

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