Senior Physicist

City of Hope•Duarte, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

City of Hope Medical Center Radiation Oncology is seeking a full-time, Board-Certified Medical Physicist at our beautiful, sunny Southern California academic campus in Duarte. The successful applicant will be part of a growing team of 20 Medical Physicists at both our Duarte and Irvine campuses. City of Hope is a private, non-profit clinical research center, hospital, and graduate school in Southern California, providing high quality cancer care across four (4) states. Receiving its NCI designation in 1981, City of Hope is committed to providing comprehensive cancer care and its status as a leading cancer center. The Duarte and Irvine campuses are equipped with the state-of-the-art technologies including 1 Reflexion, 1 MRIdian, 2 Ethos, 1 Radixact, 1 Tomotherapy, 3 TrueBeam, 1 TrueBeam STX and 2 Flexitron HDR. City of Hope provides ample support and opportunity for our physicists to develop a clinical and research career.

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.