Medical Physicist

Brown Medicine•Los Angeles, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Medical Physicist reports directly to the Medical Physicist-in-Chief or Associate Chief Medical Physicist within the Department of Radiation Oncology, handling both clinical practice and administrative duties. In collaboration with other professional and support staff, the role involves establishing protocols for accurate patient dosimetry, measuring and characterizing radiation to determine delivered dose, consulting with physicians on treatment planning, and developing, maintaining, and directing radiotherapy and radiosurgery quality assurance programs. The position also includes conducting and participating in departmental research and development projects, as well as teaching activities for residents and students. The workload is approximately 75% clinical, 20% research and teaching, and 5% administrative. Brown University Health employees are expected to embody the organization's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence, and demonstrate core Success Factors such as Instill Trust and Value Differences, Patient and Community Focus, and Collaborate.

Requirements

MS or PhD degree in physics or medical physics.
Appropriate Board Certification.
Qualifications sufficient for a faculty appointment at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University at the faculty rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor.
Interpersonal skills to teach and supervise students and to interact with other members of the professional and support staffs.
Knowledge and skills to provide care to patients with consideration of the aging process, human development stages and cultural patterns at each step of the radiotherapy process.
Demonstrated experience working with medical physicists, radiation oncologists and other health care professionals in a Radiation Oncology Department.

Responsibilities

Develops equipment specifications for radiation therapy and radiosurgery equipment, brachytherapy, simulation and radiation detection.
Plans and specifies shielding designed to protect patients, workers and the general public from radiation incident to radiotherapy and radiosurgery treatment and evaluates the installed shielding.
Develops procedures and participates in the initial acceptance, evaluation and commissioning of equipment used for external-beam therapy, radiosurgery, brachytherapy, simulation, treatment planning and radiation detection, and their associated computer systems, algorithms, data and output.
Develops procedures and participates in the continuing evaluation of radiation therapy and radiosurgery treatment, brachytherapy, simulation and radiation detection equipment.
Provides evidence of compliance with regulatory and accreditation agency rules and recommendations for equipment used in radiation therapy and radiosurgery treatment, brachytherapy, simulation and radiation detection.
Develops and/or evaluates, in collaboration with physicians, policies and procedures related to the appropriate therapeutic use of radiation.
Develops and/or evaluates, in collaboration with physicians, imaging techniques that pertain to simulation, treatment planning and treatment delivery for radiotherapy and radiosurgery procedures.
Develops and/or evaluates, in collaboration with physicians and dosimetrists, dosimetric plans for the treatment of patients undergoing radiation therapy.
Reviews radiation oncology and radiosurgery dosimetry information noted in patient records.
Participates in the management of staff responsible for treatment planning, machine maintenance and repair and other physics support staff.
Develops other medical applications of physics as appropriate to safely carry out radiotherapy and radiosurgery procedures.
Performs research, prepares scientific publications and pursues funding to support the academic development of medical physics at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University Medical School.
Provides radiation oncology physics teaching for physicians, medical physicists, residents and other departmental support staff and students.
Participates in scientific meetings and professional societies to exchange information and enhance professional expertise.
Provides institutional consultation for program development in radiation oncology.
Performs other duties and responsibilities as required.