Senior Physicist

City of Hope•Corona, CA

About The Position

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. As a successful candidate, you will: Direct CT simulation, study transfer to treatment planning systems, structure contouring, dose calculation, determine and verify machine settings, ensure accurate data transfer to record and verify system. Research Duties: Maintain currency in radiation physics through continuing medical education and familiarity with the relevant literature. Participate in the experimental design, data collection, and data analysis in radiation physics research. Publish results of experiments in peer-reviewed journals. Administrative Duties: Assist Director with planning and implementing Radiation Physics Policies and Procedures and protocols. Assure smooth operation with the clinical physics and dosimetry group and maintain good communication among physicians, physicists, dosimetrists and therapists. Assume the administrative responsibilities of the Director in their absence.

Requirements

Doctorate (Ph.D.)
5 years clinical experience in Radiation Physics
ABR or ACMP in therapeutic radiological physics or eligibility plus certification within 2 years of hire

Responsibilities

Direct CT simulation
Study transfer to treatment planning systems
Structure contouring
Dose calculation
Determine and verify machine settings
Ensure accurate data transfer to record and verify system
Maintain currency in radiation physics through continuing medical education and familiarity with the relevant literature.
Participate in the experimental design, data collection, and data analysis in radiation physics research.
Publish results of experiments in peer-reviewed journals.
Assist Director with planning and implementing Radiation Physics Policies and Procedures and protocols.
Assure smooth operation with the clinical physics and dosimetry group and maintain good communication among physicians, physicists, dosimetrists and therapists.
Assume the administrative responsibilities of the Director in their absence.