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| Meet the Staff
Chris Betzing Title:
Student
Department:
Radiation Medicine
High School/University:
Lake Oswego High School, 2006-07; Oregon State University, 2007-present
Interest and Accomplishments:
Christopher is from Lake Oswego, Oregon and is currently a pre-med student at Oregon State University, double majoring in Biochemistry/Biophysics and Radiation Health Physics with a minor in Spanish. He is a member of the Biophysics/Biochemistry and Premed Clubs; Dean’s List/Honor Roll, National Society of Collegiate Scholars Honor Society, Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society and was selected for Honors College. In addition, he was selected as Honorable Mention for the Waldo-Cummings Outstanding Student Award, and 2008 “Academic All Star” award for outstanding scholastic accomplishments.
Chris is the recipient of scholarships from:
- Legacy Meridian Park Medical Auxiliary
- OSU Diversity and Leadership
- Portland Skyliner Tall Club
- Bonneville Power Administration Associates
- Pacific NW Federal Credit Union
- Powis Lee & Winifred Heitmeyer Science Scholarship
- National Society of Collegiate Scholars
Summer 2006: Christopher was selected as a research intern at Oregon Health Science University (OHSU) Hearing Research Center with Dr. John Brigande where he helped design an immunohistochemistry procedure that found a less expensive and time consuming way to detect cells infected with a particular strain of virus.
Summer 2007: While serving as a volunteer at OHSU, Chris performed comprehensive work shadowing within the Department of Radiation Medicine and worked directly with the physicians, technicians, therapists, physicist, on all aspects of cancer treatment, surgery, and patient care.
Summer 2008: Selected as department Undergraduate College Research Associate within the Department of Radiation Medicine at OHSU. Chris recently completed a comprehensive research project with Dr. Jianzhou Wu that involved determining which of the techniques commonly used by physicians to define the tumor volume is the most accurate and gives the best tumor dose. Another project he worked on studied the effectiveness of gating on lung SBRT plans to see whether there was any major dose degradation and what factors would help predict the degradation so that they could be accounted for prior to treatment.
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