Associate Consultant – Radiation Oncology Medical Physicist

Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota is currently recruiting a photon faculty medical physicist for the Division of Medical Physics within the Department of Radiation Oncology. This position will be a 1 year appointment within the Associate Consultant role.

We are seeking applicants with a track record that demonstrates academic and clinical excellence including clinical practice and project participation collaboration and leadership as well as research productivity. A proven track record of successfully leading groups or projects is highly desirable. Successful candidates will have responsibility for and participate in clinical coverage and QA for photon therapy procedures with 50% of their time dedicated to clinical coverage with a possibility of splitting between Rochester and the mid-west practice. The candidate will also be expected to lead and publish peer reviewed research in partnership with other medical physics faculty physicists with 50% of their time dedicated to research.

Facility and Equipment: The Radiation Oncology Medical Physics Division currently has 24 faculty medical physicists 45 staff clinical medical physicists 9 residents/fellows 6 medical physicist assistants along with several engineers and IT support. The Division is a seasoned and cohesive team responsible for all aspects of therapy medical physics in support of clinical practice education and research in radiation oncology in Rochester and at 5 satellite facilities. The Medical Physics Division is noted for research in image guided radiation therapy clinical application of advanced imaging modalities radiomics quality and safety treatment delivery dosimetry and verification development of novel treatment technologies advances in brachytherapy Monte Carlo techniques particle therapy treatment planning and beam delivery radiobiology and outcomes-informatics.

Equipment in our Department includes 15 Varian Truebeam/Ethos/Edge linacs including three with Hypersight a Gamma Knife ICON GE and Siemens CT simulators with wide bore and 4D capability a 3T MRI VariSource and Bravos HDR afterloaders Varian Brachyvision for HDR planning Variseed for LDR planning XStrahl Orthovoltage IntraOp Mobetron Eclipse ARIA and a full complement of dosimetry and detector systems for photon proton and brachytherapy. Photon treatment procedures include all conventional radiation therapy modalities plus special procedures that include IORT TBI TSET HDR SRS SBRT SFRT BH Ethos online adaptive Direct-to-unit Orthovoltage LDR and IVBT treating over 5000 patients per year with incremental photon vaults planned to accommodate practice growth. A proton center with a Hitachi synchrotron-based treatment system treats over 1200 patients per year in a facility adjacent to our photon radiation oncology clinic and a 2-gantry proton expansion project with a second accelerator is underway.

Mayo Clinic is an integrated multidisciplinary academic medical center and supports a vibrant and diverse research enterprise. Mayo Clinic strives to remain a world leader for advanced quantitative approaches including AI and machine learning and novel insights from the diverse landscape of health care technology and data. The Department of Radiation Oncology leads or contributes to national efforts in basic translational clinical and population sciences. Furthermore Radiation Oncology has a rich tradition of collaborating with other Mayo Clinic departments health and data scientists biomedical engineering programs and animal and cell laboratories. The unique resources available to faculty for research and innovation include a clinical data warehouse containing over twenty years of EHR data for over 14 million patients a vibrant radiology practice with state-of-the-art imaging modalities and reference labs including pathology genomic data and drug discovery pipelines. Advanced GPU and CPU based computational infrastructure exists for research development and clinical applications.

Minimum qualifications include a Ph.D. and board eligible Ph.D. graduates from a CAMPEP accredited residency program.