Sep 1, 2020
Welcome to our newest physics residents!
Eric completed his PhD in medical physics at Carleton University in Ottawa in 2020, studying respiratory motion adaptive radiotherapy. Before that, he earned an MSc in medical physics (2015) and a BSc in physics (2013), both at McGill University in Montreal. Eric is excited to now be working on his residency at UT DRO, gaining clinical experience with the physics team at Durham Regional Cancer Centre.
Charmainne was working as a Physics Associate when she felt a sense of adventure and decided to pursue a Master's degree in Biomedical Physics. She attended Ryerson University, and then Western University for a PhD in Medical Biophysics. During her graduate studies, she delved into the wonderful world of biomaterials to develop nanoparticle-based radiosensitizers and dual energy CT contrast agents. While Charmianne had a great time working in the lab, she is excited to be back in the clinic!
Maryam (Maral) Golshan
Maral Golshan completed her graduate studies at UBC / BC Cancer-Vancouver. During her PhD, she worked on intraoperative dosimetry of permanent implant prostate brachytherapy, by combining ultrasound images and fluoroscopic images or CBCT images from a C-arm machine. In order to automate the whole workflow, they also developed an algorithm to automatically detect the implanted seeds in ultrasound images using machine learning based methods. Outside of work she enjoys camping , hiking and biking.
Eyesha earned her Ph.D. in Medical Physics at McMaster University and a CAMPEP-accredited graduate certificate at Dalhousie University. She has several years of experience with MRI research. MR guided radiation therapy is an area of major interest for her in medical physics. Reading a book (fiction or social fiction) under a blue sky in a lush green garden is her favorite way to unwind.
Alex Semeniuk did his MSc and PhD at Lakehead University. His graduate research was focused on improvement of diagnostic capabilities and reduction of the radiation dose associated with X-ray imaging by employing a novel material, called lead oxide (PbO) as an X-ray-to-charge transducer. He subsequently did a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Nova Scotia Health Authority, focusing on the development and optimization of novel capacitive motion sensing system for intra-fraction motion detection during stereotactic radiosurgery.
Kaiming is currently a Medical Physics Resident in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto, and received his Ph.D and B.Sc in Physics from the University of Mantioba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. His doctoral research involves developing a hybrid method to estimate patient scattering from therapeutic X-ray beam as a part of 3D EPID-based in vivo dosimetry research, and his undergraduate Honours thesis project is on “Tracking of patient-based tumor motions using optical flow with drift correction methods”. His research interests are mechanical designs, machine learning, neural network, and X-ray transport with Monte Carlo simulation.