 Carl
Landis
Associate Medical
Physicist
Southside Medical
Center
Western Reserve
Healthcare Corp.
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 B.S. -- Physics;
Westminster College
M.S. -- Medical
Physics; University of Kentucky, Lexington |
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Associate Medical
Physicist, supporting therapeutic and diagnostic radiology by
insuring compliance with regulations and keeping patients safe
from radiation. |
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"Medical Physics
mostly applies and traditionally applies to the application of
radiation in the medical arts. This has expanded in recent years
with new technologies." |
 
"Medical Physics mostly applies and traditionally applies to the
application of radiation in the medical arts. Now this has expanded in
recent years with new technologies. As a matter of fact magnetic resonance
imaging is heavy in physics, CT scanning, of course that's a new
technology, but it's also electromagnetic radiation and ultra sound,
lasers and there are other things that you run into. I like the idea of it
being applied physics where I can use it, and this might sound corny, but
I can use it to help people. So I started looking around for something
that I could use my physics to apply it to something and medical physics
seemed to turn out to be a thing that looked good, and so far I've been
very happy in it."
"The people I
work with in the medical physics department consist of two medical
physicists. We both have our master's degrees. We have a dosimetrist and
we have a physics assistant. The two physicists are also certified by the
American Board of Radiology in radiation oncology physics, diagnostic
physics, and nuclear medicine physics. Our docemitrist is certified in
dosimetry and our physics assistant is working on his certification in
dosimetry. We work closely with the people here whose job it is to treat
cancer patients with radiation. Most of my job is overseeing and making
sure that we comply with regulations and then make sure that we keep our
patients safe from radiation and keep our staff and visitors safe from
radiation."
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