Resident Roster

The current residents in the program are:

brivioDavide Brivio Ph.D. (2019-2022) received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Milan, Italy, in 2012. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at BWH/DFCI from 2013-2019, developing nanotechnology-enabled radiation detectors. His residency research explored customizable patient-specific phantoms with multiple detector arrays for dosimetrically challenging scenarios, under the supervision of Dr. Piotr Zygmanski at BWH.
LalondeArthur Lalonde Ph.D. (2019-2022) received his Ph.D. in Physics from Université de Montréal in June 2019. His doctoral thesis topic was on the Monte Carlo evaluation of proton therapy beam range uncertainties using multi-energy CT. He performed his research at MGH, under the supervision of Drs. Greg Sharp and Harald Paganetti, on adaptive proton therapy with CBCT imaging.
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Casey Lee Ph.D.(2020-2023) received her Ph.D. in Medical Biophysics from the University of Toronto in 2020. Her thesis examined lactate levels in intracranial metastases using Hyperpolarized 13C MRI. Her residency research project will explore MRI-only treatment planning in high-dose-rate brachytherapy under the supervision of Drs. Ivan Buzurovic and Robert Cormack at BWH.
XingShu "Stella" Xing Ph.D. (2020-2023) received her Ph.D. in Physics from McGill University in 2020. Her thesis work was on the investigation of tumor microstructures with advanced diffusion weighted MR imaging. Her residency research project is on the development of a dynamic blood flow model for the liver, with Dr. Harald Paganetti at MGH.
bennettStephanie Bennett Ph.D. (2021-2024) received her Ph.D. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, in 2019. Her academic focus was on the extraction of biosignals from ambient sensors. She then completed two postdoctoral fellowships and a Certificate in Medical Physics. Her residency research project looks to quantify the uptake of Gadolinium based nanoparticles in MR images, under the supervision of Dr. Ross Berbeco at BWH.
hachadorianRachael Hachadorian Ph.D. (2021-2024) received her Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College in 2021. Her doctoral research worked toward establishing quantitative dosimetry and verifying treatment consistency through Cherenkov imaging in patients receiving breast radiation therapy. Her residency research will explore the FLASH effect in proton irradiation under the supervision of Dr. Jan Schuemann at MGH.

Alumni

  1. Yi Wang Ph.D. (2009-2012) graduated in June 2012 from our CAMPEP-accredited program, and is employed as a faculty medical physicist at MGH, Boston, MA. He received his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
  2. Zhaohui Han Ph.D. (2009-2012) graduated in June 2012 from our CAMPEP-accredited program, and is employed as a faculty medical physicist at BWH, Boston, MA. He received his Ph.D. degree in nuclear physics from the University of Connecticut.
  3. Jennifer Pursley Ph.D. (2010-2013) graduated in June 2013 from our CAMPEP-accredited program and is employed as a faculty medical physicist at the MGH. She received her Ph.D. degree in particle physics from Johns Hopkins University.
  4. Yading Yuan Ph.D. (2010-2013) graduated in June 2013 from our CAMPEP-accredited program, and is employed as a faculty medical physicist at Mount Sinai Hospital, NY. He received his Ph.D. degree in medical imaging from the CAMPEP program at the University of Chicago.
  5. Sara St. James Ph.D. (2011-2014) graduated in July 2014 from our CAMPEP-accredited program, and then joined the medical physics faculty at the University of Washington, WA.  She has since moved to a faculty position at the University of California – San Francisco.  Sara received her Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California at Davis.
  6. Kent Riley Ph.D. (2011 -2014) did not complete the program for medical reasons. He received his Ph.D. degree in Nuclear Engineering from MIT.
  7. Mingyao Zhu Ph.D. (2012-2015) graduated in June 2015 from our CAMPEP-accredited program, and then joined the medical physicist faculty at the University of Maryland. She has since moved to a faculty position at Emory University in Atlanta.  She received her Ph.D. in Physics from the College of William and Mary.
  8. Christopher Williams Ph.D. (2012-2015)  graduated in June 2015 from our CAMPEP-accredited program and is employed as a faculty medical physicist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. He earned his Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  9. Martina Hurwitz Ph.D. (2013-2016) graduated in August 2016 from our CAMPEP-accredited program and is employed as a faculty medical physicist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. She earned her Ph.D. in High Energy physics from the University of Chicago in 2010.
  10. Yuting Lin Ph.D. (2013-2016) graduated in August 2016 from our CAMPEP-accredited program and then joined the medical physics faculty at Duke Medical Center in Durham, NC. She has since moved to the University of Kansas Proton Center.  She graduated with a Ph.D. in Medical Physics from the University of California at Irvine in 2009.
  11. Weixing Cai Ph.D. (2014-2017) graduated in June 2017 from our CAMPEP-accredited program and is employed as a faculty medical physicist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.  He received his Ph.D. in 2009 from the Department of Imaging Sciences at the University of Rochester, NY, in cone beam x-ray technology.
  12. Susu Yan Ph.D. (2014-2017) graduated in June 2017 from our CAMPEP-accredited program and is employed as a faculty medical physicist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.  She received her Ph.D. in 2014 from the medical physics program at Duke University.
  13. Elizabeth Huynh Ph.D. (2015-2018) graduated in June 2018 from our CAMPEP-accredited program and is employed as a faculty medical physicist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA.  She received her Ph.D. in 2015 from the University of Toronto Department of Medical Biophysics.
  14. Rongxiao Zhang Ph.D. (2015-2018) graduated in June 2018 from our CAMPEP-accredited program and joined the faculty at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.  He has since moved to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.  He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College in 2015.
  15. Tai Dou Ph.D. (2016-2019) graduated in June 2019 from our CAMPEP-accredited program.  He received his Ph.D. in 2016 from the University of California, Los Angeles in physics in medicine and biology.  He is currently employed as a medical physicist at the Texas Center for Proton Therapy.
  16. Joost Verburg Ph.D. (2016-2019) graduated in June 2019 from our CAMPEP-accredited program.  He received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 2015.  He is currently employed as a faculty medical physicist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.
  17. Hyeri Lee Ph.D.(2017-2020) graduated in June 2020 from our CAMPEP-accredited program.  She received her Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 2017.  She is currently employed as a radiation physicist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio.
  18. Yiwen Xu Ph.D. (2017-2020) graduated in June 2020 from our CAMPEP-accredited program.  She received her Ph.D. in 2017 from the University of Western Ontario in Medical Biophysics. She is currently employed as a faculty medical physicist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada.
  19. Christian Guthier Ph.D. (2018-2021) graduated in June 2021 from our CAMPEP-accredited program and is employed as a faculty medical physicist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA.  He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Heidelberg University in 2015.
  20. David “Bo” McClatchy Ph.D. (2018-2021) graduated in June 2021 from our CAMPEP-accredited program and is employed as a faculty medical physicist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.  He received his Ph.D. in in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College in 2018.