- Jeff Andrews
- Deidre Batchelar
- Thor Bjarnaso
- John Braun
- Marco Carlone
- Christina Haston
- Michelle Hilts
- Derek Hyde
- Andrew Jirasek
- Tony Teke
Jeff Andrews – Assistant Professor, Statistics
BSc Acadia University
PhD University of Guelph
RESEARCH: clustering and classification via mixture models, with applications to bioinformatics.
TEACHING: statistics
Deidre Batchelar – Adjunct Professor, Physics
Senior Medical Physicist, BC Cancer Agency, Centre for the Southern Interior
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Advanced Imaging in Brachytherapy, high precision radiotherapy
Thor Bjarnason – Adjunct Professor, Physics
Medical Physicist, Interior Health Authority
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Quality control, radiation safety, patient dose reduction, and image quality assessment in planar x-ray and CT
John Braun – Professor, Statistics
MSc University of Calgary
PhD University of Western Ontario
RESEARCH: computational statistics, with applications to fire science; statistical process control; statistical education.
TEACHING: statistics
Marco Carlone – Adjunct Professor, Physics
Department Head, Medical Physics, BC Cancer Agency, Centre for the Southern Interior Health
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Simulation of Linear accelerators, Use of magnetic fields in radiotherapy, Quality assurance in radiotherapy.
TEACHING: Linear accelerator physics.
Christina Haston – Associate Professor, Medical Physics
PhD University of Texas
RESEARCH: Radiation oncology; radiation biophysics.
TEACHING: Medical physics, biophysics.
Michelle Hilts – Adjunct Professor, Physics, UBCO and University of Victoria
Senior Medical Physicist, BC Cancer Agency, Centre for the Southern Interior
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Brachytherapy for breast cancer, 3D radiation dosimetry.
CURRENT PROJECTS: Development of partial seed breast implant brachytherapy
Derek Hyde – Adjunct Professor, Physics
Senior Medical Physicist, BC Cancer Agency, Centre for the Southern Interior
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Image-Guided Radiation Therapy for High-Precision Treatments
CURRENT PROJECTS: Data analytics in radiation oncology
Andrew Jirasek – Associate Professor, Physics
PhD University of British Columbia
RESEARCH: Medical physics, radiation oncology physics, Raman spectroscopy, 3D radiation dosimetry
TEACHING: Medical physics, electricity and magnetism, data and image processing
Tony Teke – Adjunct Professor, Physics
Medical Physicist, BC Cancer Agency, Centre for the Southern Interior
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Monte Carlo modeling, 4 Pi treatment planning optimization and verification, 4D dose calculation, SBRT/SRS, Quality assurance tests for trajectory treatments.
CURRENT PROJECTS: Development of partial seed breast implant brachytherapy