Medical Quality Assurance

Nicholas J. stanley

Education

Wayne State University Detroit,

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MI

Pursuing Ph.D. in medical physics

University of Arizona Tucson,

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AZ

Applied and Industrial Physics Masters, Medical

Physics.

Graduated May 2009.

Brigham Young University

2000 2007

Provo, UT

B.S., Physics Astronomy.

Mathematics minor.

Experience

2012 2013 McLaren Health Care Flint,

MI

Medical Physicist

Worked with Tomotherapy HiArt, Varian 21EX

and 21IX, and TrueBeam linear accelerators.

Experience with using ARIA and Eclsipse TPS,

Welhoffer & Blue tanks

Montly & annual QA, prostate seed implants,

deformable fusion and other work required of a

medical physicist

2011 Henry Ford Health System Detroit,

MI

Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow

Deformable image registration research –

software verification, developing code and

defining process for verification, analysis and

future dose reconstruction methods for DIR

2008 2009 University Medical CenterTucson,

AZ

Radiation Equipment Technician

Quality assurance testing on Tomotherapy Hi

Art, Elekta SLi and Varian 600N machines.

Daily equipment warm up, calibration and

troubleshooting on the same machines

2008 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ

Physics Lab Instructor

Undergraduate mechanics instruction in a lab

setting.

2008 University Medical CenterTucson, AZ

Medical Physicist Internship

Full time internship working as a radiation

oncology physicist. Direct training from several

professional medical physicists.

Treatment planning and verification.;

daily/weekly chart checking.

Run daily, monthly and annual quality

assurance programs and second check programs

2005 2007 Brigham Young University

Provo, UT

Tutorial Lab Assistant

Tutor undergraduate physics students.

Matlab and Maple programming instruction.

Skills

Computer Skills

Programming with Matlab, Maple, Java, and

C++

Impac Mosaic, ADAC Pinnacle, BrainLab,

BrachyVision, ARIA

2 years training with CISCO

routers/networking.

Troubleshooting

Radiation Oncology Experience

Treatment planning with Pinnacle 7.6, Brainlab

5.31, BrachyVision, Tomotherapy, Eclipse 10 &

11.

Tomotherapy Hi Art, Elekta SLi and Novalis

SRS (Varian 600N Linac) treatment machines,

Varian 21EX & IX, and Varian TrueBeam.

DQA and IMRT QA MapCheck for IMRT

plans on Tomotherapy, Novalis and Elekta SLi

machines and using PTW Octavius.

Velcoity deformal registration software.

Research

Ph.D. research in deformable image registration

with Dr. Hualiang Zhong.

Using Patient specific Phantoms to Evaluate

Deformable Image Registration Algorithms for

Adaptive Redation Therapy, Stanley et. al.,

JACMP, vol. 14, num. 6, 2013

Masters research involving the affect of air gaps in

bolus treatments.

Undergraduate research in optical astronomy

dealing with long term variable star study.

Memberships & certification

Passed ABR Part 1 exam

The American Association of Physicists in

Medicine

Interests

I enjoy astronomy/astrophysics. I am also take

pleasure in reading up on history and what has made

our world move. When I have time, I like to write

computer code for personal interests. I’m learning

Dutch in my free time, and I also love everything

about ice hockey.

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174 Orange Blossom Cir • Folsom, CA 95630

Phone 248-***-****

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