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Lucas McCullum, BS

MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

Lucas McCullum is a full-time medical physics researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) where he contributes to the development of novel tools used to enhance outcome prediction in the field of radiation oncology. His current work at MGH focuses on developing whole-body blood flow simulations to assess radiation dose to circulating blood cells and correlate this with patient outcomes (i.e., lymphopenia) by modifying treatment dose, fractionation, and scheduling.


Lucas earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and B.A. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) before enrolling in a M.S. in Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) with a focus on Imaging Sciences at Stanford University which remains unfinished.


Before his time at MGH, Lucas was a software engineer in the Laboratory for Computational Physiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he focused on being the project manager and lead developer for an interactive web-based physiologic waveform annotator to reduce false alarms in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). He also contributed to the development of the open-access platform PhysioNet which hosts physiological data and images including the widely used machine learning databases for the ICU (i.e., MIMIC) and chest X-rays (i.e., MIMIC-CXR which includes >350,000 images).


Lucas will begin his Ph.D. this Fall at the University of Texas MD Anderson UT Health Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Medical Physics where he will work with Dr. Clifton Fuller with the support of a Graduate Research Assistantship, AAPM/RSNA Doctoral Fellowship, and pending NIH F31-DS.

Before my current role as a PhD-candidate at the MD Anderson UT Health Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Medical Physics, I was a full-time medical physics researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) / Harvard Medical School (HMS) where I contributed to the development of novel tools used to enhance outcome prediction in the field of radiation oncology. Prior to that, I was a software engineer in the Laboratory for Computational Physiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (IMES) where I contributed to the development of essential data-sharing platforms used in the fields of computational medicine, healthcare, and machine learning. I earned my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and B.A. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County before enrolling in a M.S. in Computational and Mathematical Engineering with a focus on Imaging Sciences at Stanford University which remains unfinished. My previous research includes a vast array of interdisciplinary fields including medical physics, biomedical engineering, computational fluid dynamics, sustainable engineering, bioinformatics, machine learning, and computational neuroscience.

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