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Chief Therapeutic Medical Physicist
Place of Performance: Pittsburgh, PA

General Description:
Chief Therapeutic Medical Physicist shall oversee all physics and dosimetry operations.

Specific Tasks:
Provide quarterly Quality Assurance reports for the Quality Assurance Committee and Radiation Safety Committee, as well as attend quarterly Radiation Safety meetings.
Track, evaluate, and document all equipment-related quality assurance data including TLD and credentialing measurements for independent 3rd party analysis.
Provide shielding surveys, and reports as required by the National Health Physics Program of (NHPP).
Ensure licenses are current for radioactive sources at site. Ensure Radiation Oncology Service has appropriate licenses for users of all our software applications.
Responsible for ensuring continuity of medical physics operations including communication among key personnel.
Develop, implement, supervise, and periodically review all QMP policies and procedures that pertain to radiation therapy equipment. Responsible for the design, implementation, and periodic review of all aspects of the QMP that involve the use of radiotherapy equipment.
Oversee the technical activities of all other physicists, dosimetrists, and other staff members assigned to the unit; directs the technical aspects of treatment procedures; and, performs duties.
Undertake a systematic literature review, make appropriate site visits, observe procedures, develop standard operating procedures, implement the technique or procedure in clinic, and supervise the training of colleagues who are not familiar with the procedure. The QMP associated with any new procedure should be periodically reviewed and updated.
Develop policies and procedures for continuous quality improvement that involve the use of radiotherapy equipment.
Responsible for reporting all adverse events in the clinic to NHPP and for the implementation of their follow up recommendations.
Responsible for reporting and periodically updating facility profile data required by the NROP and NHPP offices.
Responsible for coordinating electronic submission of adverse events, near misses, and good catches reports into Radiotherapy Incident Reporting and Analysis System (RIRAS) maintained by NROP.

Certification:
Must be Board Certified in Medical Physics or Therapeutic Medical Physics by the ABR and maintain licensure with the Board of Licensure for Professional Medical Physicists.

Experience:
Board Certified Chief Therapeutic Medical Physicist Ph. D Level:
Must have at least five (5) years of documented post-board experience after board certification and at least three (3) years of continuous work experience within the last five (5) years to ensure the TMPs experience is current and relevant.
Must also have the following minimum years of experience, expertise, and knowledge on the following procedures, equipment, and software:
1. Five (5) years of experience Documentation detailing experience in performing QA procedures.
2. Three (3) years of experience Documentation detailing Therapeutic Medical Physics in a healthcare system that is ACR certified.
3. Three (3) years of experience - Varian Linear Accelerators: IX and Trilogy with Brain Lab Accessories following standards of TG-142
4. Three (3) years of experience -Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) including Cone Beam CT (following standards of TG-142).
5. Three (3) years of experience - Eclipse treatment planning system; and ARIA record & verify system, including the following treatment modalities: 2D/3D Conformal, SRS, SRT, SBRT, and IMRT/VMAT (following standards of TG-53)
6. Three (3) years of experience - IMRT QA: MapCheck I/II (or equivalent.
7. Three (3) years of experience - Toshiba CT Simulator (or equivalent) and following standards of TG-66
8. Three (3) years of experience - Using Superficial X-ray Machine.
9. Successfully perform one (1) acceptance testing on a linear accelerator.
10. Successfully perform one (1) commission of a linear accelerator for a treatment planning system.