Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
Dr. David J. Carlson currently serves as Professor, Vice Chair, & Director of Medical Physics in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Health. Dr. Carlson received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Middlebury College and his PhD in Medical Physics from Purdue University. He completed his residency in Radiation Oncology Physics at Stanford University. After residency, he was a member of the Medical Physics faculty at Yale for over a decade before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania where he served as an Associate Professor and the Director of Physics Operations in the Department of Radiation Oncology. Dr. Carlson’s clinical and research interests include the clinical implementation of novel technology and translational multi-disciplinary collaborations with physicians and biologists. The goals of his research are to improve treatment outcomes for cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy by developing accurate models of treatment response and advancing our understanding of the underlying biophysical mechanisms that govern radiation response. Dr. Carlson currently serves as Executive Editor and Section Editor for Physics for the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics, is a Fellow and past Member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), and is Past Chair of the Science Education and Program Development committee of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). He was recently elected as a Fellow of ASTRO.
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SS 33 - Phys 6: Treatment Technology
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
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