A "straight forward" path to becoming a clinical medical physicist
This talk will give an overview of the experience of standardized medical physics postgraduate education in Canada from 2016-2026. I will focus on how leveraging important critical thinking skills acquired through physics research and education can benefit the healthcare system, most specifically in the realm of radiotherapy cancer care. I will touch on elements of my research journey, which has primarily involved addressing unmet needs for clinical scenarios; from neuroimaging, to zebrafish, to de-risking cancer treatments. By the end of this talk, I hope to convince you of my collaborative nature and intent to pursue a student-focused research agenda with Carleton’s physics department.
Bio
Dr. John Lincoln is a medical physicist at the Cancer Centre at The Ottawa Hospital and an applicant for an Adjunct Research Professor position in the Department of Physics. He completed his MSc and PhD in Medical Physics at Dalhousie University, where he investigated image-guided liver stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) and the optimization of stereotactic radiation therapy (SBRT) using graph theory. Afterwards, Dr. Lincoln did his residency at The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre and then joined the team there as a clinical physicist.