Chris, Ph.D., DABR
A Board-Certified medical physicist with 25 years-experience working in therapeutic medical physics in both academic and private settings. He trained in Physics at the University of Vermont, Cornell University, Duke University and University of North Carolina. He completed his medical physics residency at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN where he was hired as Assistant Professor in both the Radiology and Radiation Oncology Departments. Chris has worked with a comprehensive range of medical physics equipment and techniques over his career and is most familiar with Varian/Eclipse/ARIA software. He enjoys developing and maintaining all aspects of a Culture of Safety program in the radiation therapy setting, including designing and implementing in-house incident tracking programs, keeping current on all State and Federal guidelines, developing radiation safety policy and procedure and preparing cancer centers for national accreditation. He is passionate about making sure AAPM Task Group reports are being implemented to the appropriate extent for each clinic.