Medical Physicist Position Available In Providence, Rhode Island

Brown University Health – Rhode Island Hospital, the primary academic affiliate of the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, is recruiting for a qualified medical physicist at a faculty rank commensurate with the candidate’s experience. The Department of Radiation Oncology has a three-fold mission: providing the highest quality and safest care to patients, educating the next generation of physicians and medical physicists, and advancing medicine through research. The department chair and medical physics division chief seek to further enhance a tightly bound premier group of academically-minded medical physicists. Radiation Oncology sees over 1,500 consults per year and maintains a daily census of ~115 patients. Our practice provides all conventional EBRT modalities, special procedures (SRS, SBRT), as well as both high-dose rate and low-dose rate brachytherapy. Current equipment at our Providence location includes: Varian TrueBeam STx with ExacTrac, an advanced TrueBeam with on-board imaging, Varian iX accelerator with on-board imaging, Gamma Knife Perfexion, Elekta HDR Brachytherapy, ARIA Oncology Information System (OIS), and a 64-slice Siemens CT simulator. A satellite facility located at our East Greenwich Ambulatory Care Center has an advanced Varian TrueBeam as well as a 64-slice Siemens CT simulator.

Treatment planning platforms utilized include:

RayStation, GammaPlan, Oncentra, and VariSeed. Diagnostic Radiology imaging modalities within Brown University Health include state-of-the-art CT, MR, angiography, and PET imaging. With our CAMPEP-accredited medical physics residency program and CAMPEP-accredited medical physics graduate program, physics faculty are expected to participate in teaching and research. Candidates should be either ABR board-certified or board-eligible. The ideal candidate possesses the motivation to contribute to our clinical physics team as well as the desire to promote the academic mission of Brown University Health.

Summary:

Reports directly to Medical Physicist-in-Chief or Associate Chief Medical Physicist, Department of Radiation Oncology, for clinical practice and administrative duties and responsibilities. In collaboration with other professional and support staff: establishes adequate protocols to ensure accurate patient dosimetry; measures and characterizes radiation to determine delivered dose; consults with physicians regarding treatment planning; and develops, maintains and directs radiotherapy and radiosurgery quality assurance programs. Conducts and participates in departmental research and development projects and in teaching activities for residents and students. Division of workload will be approximately 75% clinical, 20% research and teaching and 5% administrative.

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.

Other information:

BASIC KNOWLEDGE

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. nterpersonal 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.

EXPERIENCE

Demonstrated experience working with medical physicists, radiation oncologists and other health care professionals in a Radiation Oncology Department.

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Exposed to low-level radiation. Wears badge to monitor exposure. Able to maneuver and setup dosimetric phantoms for radiation measurements. Travels to sites of meetings and conferences.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY

Provides supervision and shall be available for consultation to other physicists, dosimetrists, and radiation therapists as required. Brown University Health is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, ancestry, genetics, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran, or marital status. Brown University Health is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

Location:

Rhode Island Hospital, USA:

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Providence Work Type:

Full Time Shift:

Shift 1

Union:

Non-Union