Allegheny Health Network Careers

Date Posted: 7/19/2016
Position Number: 52225
Location: Allegheny General Hospital

Allegheny Health Network is an integrated delivery network focused on preserving health care choice and providing affordable, high-quality care to the people in our communities. With more than 14,000 employees including 7,400 health care professionals, nearly 200 primary care and specialty care practices, Allegheny Health Network includes seven hospitals in Pennsylvania with nearly 2,400 licensed beds.

The Division of Radiation Oncology of the Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute is looking for a Senior Research Medical Physicist. The Division of Radiation Oncology provides clinical services at Allegheny General Hospital and 10 affiliated clinics in the Western Pennsylvania region, operating 14 linear accelerators and 3 HDR units. The network is in the process of replacing aging Siemens equipment with state-of-the-art Elekta accelerators.

Department: Radiation Oncology
Status: Full-time

Job Summary: The primary responsibilities include establishing and implementing the medical physics research program, securing external funding and mentoring research associates. The successful candidate will also be encouraged to development his/her own research program. Experience in securing external funding with public agencies and industry partners is preferred.

Current research activities:

• Gammapod: the Allegheny Health Network is part of a consortium of 5 institutions in North America aimed at implementing and carrying out clinical trials for the Gammapod, a new ⁶⁰Co-based device designed to treat early stage breast cancer stereotactically. This project, expected to be implemented at Allegheny General Hospital in 2017, will constitute a major effort of the successful candidate.
• Data mining/analysis: the Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute partners with Johns Hopkins Sydney Kimmel Cancer Center, and ties have been formed to establish a collaboration with the Informatics group on the Oncospace project.
• Industry partnership: the successful candidate will be expected to create research collaboration opportunities with Elekta, who provides the majority of the equipment in use clinically for treatment planning and delivery.

Requirements:

• PhD in Medical Physics, Physics or associated field.
• Board certified is required.
• 5 years’ experience and a proven record of innovative peer-reviewed translational research, including manuscript writing for publications in scientific journals.