Senior Medical Physicist, Lead of Clinical Operations - Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Reports to: Head of Medical Physics
Salary: $230,000- $250,000
Close Date: December 20, 2024
The Department of Medical Physics and the Radiation Medicine Program at Princess Margaret (PM) Cancer Centre are posting for a position of Senior Medical Physicist, Lead of Clinical Physics Operations for a permanent, full-time position. Reporting to and working closely with the Head of Medical Physics, this role involves providing operational leadership of the clinical physics activities within the Radiation Medicine Program. The successful candidate will join the leadership team of the Department of Medical Physics. The responsibilities focus on overseeing clinical project implementation, maintaining and improving clinical processes, facilitating interdisciplinary communication, representing the Department of Medical Physics in operational committees, guiding equipment selection and facility development, supervising new technology implementation, enhancing quality assurance protocols, and ensuring smooth operation of the support services.
The successful candidate holds a PhD degree in Medical Physics or related field, is CCPM or ABR certified and has clinical experience in advanced imaging, dosimetry, treatment planning and delivery technologies in external beam radiation therapy. The successful candidate also has demonstrated clinical leadership skills in different technological environments and is a leader and team player with outstanding communication and organizational problem-solving skills. The candidate remains calm in stressful situations, promotes a respectful and transparent atmosphere and is keen in promoting the advancement of team members in clinical development, education and research. Demonstration of academic activity as evidenced by publications, grants, education and training leadership and committee activity in professional and scientific societies (COMP, AAPM, ASTRO, ESTRO, etc) is considered an asset.
The Department of Medical Physics supports staff professional and academic growth by providing access to research and development opportunities related to topics in a set of focus areas. Topics include process automation, data science, MR-guided external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy, adaptive radiotherapy, radiation dosimetry, proton therapy technology development, functional imaging for treatment response assessment and optical techniques and biophotonics in conjunction with radiation.
The Department of Medical Physics is active in education and training of medical physicists through its CAMPEP-accredited residency program at the University of Toronto, Department of Radiation Oncology. The department also maintains a strong relation with University of Toronto’s Department of Medical Biophysics through which it recently established a CAMPEP-accredited Ph.D. program, providing robust access to top-notch graduate students. The successful candidate will be encouraged and supported to secure an academic appointment at the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto.
Vaccines (COVID-19 and others) are a requirement of the job unless one has an exemption on a medical ground pursuant to the Ontario Human Rights Code.
Facility and Equipment:
The PM is a world leading cancer centre with state-of-the-art imaging and radiation treatment equipment including four CT-simulators, two MR simulators, 15 linear accelerators (Elekta and Varian), two Gamma Knife units, hybrid MR-guided brachy and external beam radiation therapy units, and an Elekta Unity MR-Linac, and two HDR afterloaders (Elekta); RayStation is the core Treatment Planning System at PM for external beam, with Oncentra Brachy and Oncentra Prostate for HDR brachytherapy, and Variseed for LDR brachytherapy. There are advanced clinical and research programs in IGRT, SBRT, brachytherapy (both HDR and LDR), adaptive planning, MR-guided RT, AI in treatment planning, radiomics, radiation physics and dosimetry, photonics, particle therapy, device development and translational research, with personalized radiotherapy approaches as well as a robust clinical trials program.
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