Medical Physicist

SAH Brown University Health Fall River; United States; On-site; USD 189,000 - 311,000; Full time

Job summary

Brown University Health invites applications for an experienced Medical Physicist-in-Chief/Associate Chief Medical Physicist role in the Department of Radiation Oncology. The position emphasizes clinical practice (≈75%), research/teaching (≈20%), and administrative duties (≈5%), with a focus on dosimetry, treatment planning, QA, and research leadership.

The ideal candidate holds an MS or PhD in physics or medical physics, has board certification, and qualifies for a Brown University Medical

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in physics or medical physics.
• Board Certification required.
• Qualifications for a Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School faculty appointment (Assistant/Associate/Full Professor).
• Strong interpersonal and supervisory abilities.
• Ability to care for patients considering aging and development.
• Experience collaborating with medical physicists and radiation oncologists.
• Exposure to low-level radiation and badge monitoring.
• Willingness to travel for meetings and conferences.

Responsibilities

• Develops equipment specifications for radiation therapy and radiosurgery equipment.
• Plans shielding to protect patients, workers and the public from radiation.
• Participates in acceptance, evaluation and commissioning of therapy equipment and systems.
• Evaluates continued performance of treatment, simulation, and detection equipment.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory and accreditation rules for equipment.
• Develops/updates policies for appropriate therapeutic use of radiation.
• Advances imaging techniques for simulation, planning and delivery.
• Estimates dosimetric plans in collaboration with physicians/dosimetrists.
• Reviews dosimetry data in patient records and supports staff management.
• Contributes to research, publications and funding for medical physics.

Skills

Medical physics knowledge

Interpersonal skills

Teaching/supervision

Collaboration

Travel ability

Education

MS or PhD in physics/medical physics

Job description

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. Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization’s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers and one another. In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done. The core Success Factors include: Instill Trust and Value Differences Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate

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.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 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.
• 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.
• Provides supervision and shall be available for consultation to other physicists, dosimetrists, and radiation therapists as required.

Pay Range: $188,635.20-$311,272.00

EEO Statement: Brown University Health is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a work environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.

Location: Saint Annes Hospital - 795 Middle Street Fall River, Massachusetts 02721

Work Type: M-F

Work Shift: Day

Daily Hours: 8 hours

Driving Required: No

As Rhode Island's largest health system and private employer, Brown University Health is the state's premier provider of health services and includes the only Level I Trauma Center for southeastern New England. Today, more than 20,000 people work at Brown University Health and bring their unique skills, experiences, and compassion to their jobs every day. Formed in 1994, Brown University Health is a not-for-profit health system based in Providence, RI comprising three teaching hospitals of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University: Rhode Island Hospital and its Hasbro Children's; The Miriam Hospital; and Bradley Hospital, the nation’s first psychiatric hospital for children; Newport Hospital, Saint Anne's Hospital and Morton Hospital, community hospitals offering a broad range of health services; Gateway Healthcare, the state’s largest provider of community behavioral health care; and Brown Health Medical Group, the largest multi-specialty practice in Rhode Island.

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