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SWAPANPREET KAUR

Winnipeg,Canada

Summary

I am currently pursuing Medical Physics residency program at Cancer Manitoba. Before this I was a Medical Physicist with 7 years of experience in India & Dubai (UAE) into radiation oncology medical physics, radiation protection with teaching of post-graduate and undergraduate medical physics students. I am licensed as a Medical Physicist from Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre) in India and Dubai Health Authority in UAE.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Radiotherapy Physics Resident (CAMPEP-accredited)

CancerCare Manitoba
01.2023 - Current

Clinical Experience, Training and Competencies

Machine QA and Commissioning
• Varian TrueBeam, Elekta Agility linac systems
o Comprehensive QC of delivery and on board KV and MV imaging (biweekly, monthly and annual)
o Absolute calibration (TG-51)
o Participated in 6 MV FFF and 10 MV FFF beams on Elekta Agility commissioning
o Participated in Varian PerfectPitch (6 degree of freedom couch)
o Participated in ArcCheck measurements of VMAT delivery for beam model commissioning
• Elekta Unity MR-Linac
o Participated in dosimetric commissioning and absolute calibration (TRS 398)
o Collaborated on film measurements for Monaco TPS commissioning
o Daily linac and MR QA
• QA Equipment: IC profiler, IBA Blue Phantom, ArcCheck


Treatment Planning Systems and Radiation Oncology Software
• RayStation (v6.1.1.2) treatment planning software
o VMAT, IMRT, and conformal planning
o Experience scripting in RayStation
o MOSAIQ record and verify system

Brachytherapy
• Nucletron Flexitron HDR unit
o Comprehensive QC
o Commissioning of Elekta Venezia Advanced Gynecological applicator
• Oncentra treatment planning software
o Experience planning of MR guided interstitial prostate and intracavitary/interstitial cervical treatments, and intracavitary vaginal vault treatment
• VariSeed treatment planning for prostate permanent seed implants

CT Sim QA
• Monthly and Annual QA

Clinical projects/implementations
• Primary project: Automated QC of CBCT density assignment
o To be implemented with daily dose reconstruction
• Pulse sequence parameter selection for quantitative MRI of female pelvis for local EMBRACE II clinical trial data collection, and interpretation of phantom measurements
• Collaborated on implementation of monthly constancy test of ArcCheck VMAT measurement
• Film based measurements of surface dose effects on the Elekta-Unity MR-Linac System
• Co-led a review an update of quarterly and annual QC procedures/protocols for HDR unit
• Statistical process control of patient specific QC measurements

Medical Physicist

Neuro Spinal Hospital, UAE
01.2018 - 01.2020
  • Installing & commissioning of Accuray Cyberknife M6 and Radixact series 9 linear accelerators & Precision TPS using PTW dosimetry equipment such as Beam Scan radiation field analyzer (RFA) and Octavius 3D Phantom.
  • Implementations of routine QA protocols and procedures
  • Liaising with Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulations (FANR) for licensing of radiotherapy and radiology equipment

Product Specialist (Radiation Safety Officer)

Zahrawi Medical Supplies LLC, UAE
01.2017 - 01.2018
  • Directing all aspects of successful sales for radiation oncology and nuclear medicine equipment and consumables
  • Providing customer sales and client support services for radiotherapy and nuclear medicine equipment
  • Realizing revenues and achieving profit targets
  • Monitoring relevant federal, state and local laws regulations and industry standards

Medical Physicist (Radiation Safety Officer)

Sri Guru Ramdas Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, India
01.2013 - 01.2016
  • Installing & commissioning of IMRT, IGRT, VMAT capable Elekta Synergy LINAC with multiple photon and electron energies
  • Worked on Theratron 780 E CO-60 external beam and Nucletron micro Selectron HDR Brachytherapy.
  • Supervising treatment planning and performing treatment planning for cancer patients with 2D 3DCRT, IMRT, VMAT techniques with Plato & Monaco 5.0 TPS
  • HDR planning of CT based intra-cavitary, interstitial and surface moulds brachytherapy techniques with Oncentra Master Plan TPS.
  • Performing routine quality assurance (daily, weekly, monthly, and annual) on radiotherapy equipment (software and hardware systems) using IBA dosimetry probes and detectors- Blue Phantom RFA
  • Providing lectures, training and education of post-graduate students and radiation protection training for technologists and graduate student interns

Medical Physicist (Radiation Safety Officer)

Grecian Super Specialty and Multi-Specialty Hospital, India
01.2011 - 01.2013
  • Performing and supervising daily, monthly and annual QA for Varian Clinac DBX 6 MV linear accelerator with 80 dMLC with PTW dosimetry probes and detectors-MP3 RFA
  • Performing 2D, 3DCRT & IMRT treatment planning using Eclipse 8.6 treatment planning system
  • 3D CT - based brachytherapy treatment planning for intra-cavitary lesions.
  • Providing radiation safety support to staff and facilities through dosimetry monitoring services and radiation surveys

Education

Radiotherapy Physics Resident (CAMPEP- Accredited) -

CancerCare Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB
03.2025

Clinical MSc Medical Biophysics (CAMPEP) -

Western University
London, ON
06.2022

Master of Science - Medical Physics

Panjab University And PGIMER
Chandigarh, India
06.2011

Bachelor of Science -

Panjab University
Chandigarh, India
06.2009

Skills

  • Radiation Safety
  • Radiation Oncology
  • Windows
  • MS office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Python

Certification

  • Certified Radiological Safety Officer (R.S.O), Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, Mumbai, India, 2012
  • Licensed Medical Physicist & Radiological Safety Office, Dubai Health Authority (DHA), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2016

Affiliations

  • Member of Canadian Organization of Medical Physicist (COMP)
  • Member of American Association of Physicist in Medicine (AAPM)
  • Member of Organization of Medical Physics Associates of Canada (OMPAC)
  • Lifetime member of Association of Medical Physicist of India (AMPI)

Languages

English
Full Professional
Hindi
Native or Bilingual
Punjabi
Native or Bilingual

Serviceandleadership

Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP) Resident Representative 2024 – present

Awards

  • Vocational Award by Rotary Club, Amritsar (India) for excellent performance in Sri Guru Ramdas Institute of Medical Sciences and Research,2015
  • Gold Medalist MSc -Medical Physics, 2011

Publications

Richard Lee, Niranjan Venugopal, Swapanpreet Kaur, Jorge Apulche - Automated HDR QA tests using an organic plastic scintillator 2023

Hobbies and Interests

Radiobiological modeling, dosimetry, brachytherapy, study of various characteristics of radiation detectors.

Training

  • 70th Annual Scientific Meeting- COMP, Regina SK Canada (June 05-08, 2024)
  • Virtual Conference on Radiation Applications in Medicine, CMC, Ludhiana India (Nov 07-08, 2021)
  • Basic Radiation Safety Training Program conducted by Wens Technical and Occupational Skills Training L.LC, Dubai (July 20-21, 2019)
  • 1st Annual Symposium in Theranostics & amp; Radionuclide therapy, Dubai (Sept 2016).
  • Application Training of Monaco 5.0 Treatment Planning System held Elekta India Training Centre, Chennai (Sept 2014)
  • CME on Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques-Treatment Planning & Delivery (IMRT, IGRT, VMAT, SBRT) PGI Chandigarh (March2014)
  • Annual Conference of North Chapter of Association of Medical Physicist of India, held at L.L.R.M. Medical College, Meerut (Feb 2013)
  • XXX Annual Conference of Indian Association of Biomedical Scientist (IABMS) BY DRDO in Chandigarh (Nov 2009)
  • UPDATE ON PET-CT – Applications in current medical diagnosis held at the PGIMER, Chandigarh (Aug 2009)
  • XIII National Conference of Association of Radiation Therapy Technologists Of India in PGIMER Chandigarh (Dec 2008)
  • Seminar on Emerging Sciences “Road to global development” in Government College for Girls Sec-11 Chandigarh (Aug, 2008)

Timeline

Radiotherapy Physics Resident (CAMPEP-accredited)

CancerCare Manitoba
01.2023 - Current

Medical Physicist

Neuro Spinal Hospital, UAE
01.2018 - 01.2020

Product Specialist (Radiation Safety Officer)

Zahrawi Medical Supplies LLC, UAE
01.2017 - 01.2018

Medical Physicist (Radiation Safety Officer)

Sri Guru Ramdas Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, India
01.2013 - 01.2016

Medical Physicist (Radiation Safety Officer)

Grecian Super Specialty and Multi-Specialty Hospital, India
01.2011 - 01.2013

Radiotherapy Physics Resident (CAMPEP- Accredited) -

CancerCare Manitoba

Clinical MSc Medical Biophysics (CAMPEP) -

Western University

Master of Science - Medical Physics

Panjab University And PGIMER

Bachelor of Science -

Panjab University
SWAPANPREET KAUR