Sr. Medical Dosimetrist St. Clair
Position: Staff/Sr. Medical Dosimetrist - (St. Clair) Purpose: UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is internationally recognized for its leadership in the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer and is the region's only comprehensive cancer center designated by the National Cancer Institute. As the preeminent institution in western Pennsylvania for the delivery of cancer care, the performance of basic, translational, and clinical research, and the education of the next generation of cancer researchers and physicians, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is exceptionally well-positioned to contribute to the global effort to reduce the burden of cancer. UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is currently hiring for a regular Full-Time Staff/Sr. Medical Dosimetrist to support the St. Clair Health Cancer Center, affiliated with UPMC Hillman Cancer Center located in Mt. Lebanon/Pittsburgh, PA. This role offers a hybrid work arrangement with on-site duties, work-from-home capability and will work a regular Full-Time schedule Monday through Friday. The candidate will join a local team of two physicists, one other dosimetrist, and two radiation oncologists treating patients on Varian True Beam and IX linear accelerators supported by an integrated ARIA/Eclipse infrastructure. Treatment techniques ir Health include 3 DCRT, IMRT, VMAT, SBRT, respiratory gating, and deep inspiration breath hold. This position is supported by a larger team of 30+ dosimetrists across the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Network and provides competitive salary and benefits. St. Clair Health is in a beautiful suburb south of Pittsburgh with access to nearby parks, restaurants, shopping, and some of the best school districts in Pennsylvania. The medical dosimetrist is responsible for generating clinically optimal treatment plans for radiation therapy patients in collaboration with radiation oncologists, radiation therapy technologists, and medical physicists. This includes participating in CT simulation, radiation treatment planning, quality management for radiation oncology patients, and communicating with the clinical team during treatment planning and treatment plan implementation. We offer a Dosimetry career ladder which allows our staff to grow within the field at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. The incumbent will be placed into the appropriate level of our Dosimetry Career ladder based on education and experience. + Staff/Sr. Dosimetrist salary range between $48.08/hr. to $76.52/hr. + Sr. level requires three (3) years of post-graduate clinical medical dosimetry experience. Responsibilities: + Participates in acquisition of patient data via computer generated data sets from medical imaging devices such as CT, PET, MR, etc., or manual methods such as physical measurements and wire contours, and incorporation of these data into radiation treatment plans, calculations, and treatment devices. + Assists the RTT in the treatment simulation process including the use or necessity of ancillary treatment devices, patient immobilization techniques, and other patient positioning techniques as needed for simulation and treatment. Assists in fabrication of these ancillary treatment devices. + Contours and delineates clearly discernable normal critical structures and expanded planning structures using different imaging modalities. + Performs rigid and deformable image registration for multi-modality image sets. + Applies the principles and concepts of radiation physics in radiation treatment planning, which includes, but is not limited to: 2D treatment planning, 3D conformal treatment planning, intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatment planning, 4D treatment planning, volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) planning, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) planning, and brachytherapy treatment planning. + Applies knowledge of radio biology with respect to dose tolerances, time dose fractionation calculations, hypofractionation, BED and EQD2 calculations and other applications of radio biology to the radiation therapy treatment process. + Accurately performs radiation dose calculations, both manual and computer generated, for treatment delivery including the effects of beam modifying devices, irregular fields, gaps for adjacent fields, and off-axis calculations. + Participates in special treatment procedures including, but not limited to, total body irradiation (TBI), total skin electron irradiation (TSEI), intra-operative radiation therapy (IORT). + Assists with quality assurance procedures as directed by a qualified medical physicist. + Performs or assists with patient-specific radiation measurement including, but not limited to diodes, optically stimulated luminescent dosimeters (OSLD), ion chambers, thermo-luminescent dosimeters (TLD), or film measurements as directed by the MP. + Assists with high dose rate (HDR) and low dose-rate (LDR) brachytherapy procedures including patient set up, simulation, and treatment planning. + Participates in quality management in accordance with… Apply tot his job Apply To this Job