Monica Kishore, M.S., DABR
- Medical Physicist
- Assistant Professor, Radiation Medicine, School of Medicine
Biography
Monica is responsible for investigating new technology that is used to treat patients in the Department of Radiation Medicine and determining appropriate use and implementation of that technology. She has served as the Physics Residency Program Coordinator for four years and as the program Director for four years, where she designs and updates the education material for Medical Residents and Physics Residents. As an educator she has taught Radiation Physics classes in the Radiation Therapy program at OHSU and has mentored high school, college, and graduate students along with medical physics residents. Additionally, she has participated in the creation and development of several workshops and rotations for medical and physics residents and departmental groups which help to train new RTT members of the department. I am engaged with multi-institutional educational studies at Yale and Virginia Commonwealth University. Monica previously served with the Women’s Employee Resource Group in a leadership position, and is a past president of the NW chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
Education and training
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Degrees
- M.S., 2011, Duke University
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Residency
- OHSU, 2013
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Certifications
- DABR
Memberships and associations:
- AAPM
- Educator's Collaborative Advisory Board
Areas of interest
- Calibration of linear accelerator 3 and ancillary devices
- Eye plaque brachytherapy
- Prostate SBRT
- Breath hold gating programs (breast, liver, lung, etc)
- Workflow development for cranial SRS/SBRT
- Clinical implementation projects, motion management techniques for breast and stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SBRT) of the liver and prostate