Brian Loughery
Assistant Professor
Brian Loughery
Address
Karmanos Cancer InstituteOffice Phone
(313) 576-9610
Biography
I transferred into Wayne State in 2012 to get my PhD in medical physics so that I could become a professor. That dream came true in 2018. In the interim I became a TA, a researcher, and a resident. Now I try to make the students that join our department into elite medical physicists through a combination of asking questions, assigning tasks, testing knowledge, and providing clinically-relevant research opportunities.
Education Training
08/2018: PhD, Medical Physics, Wayne State University
2016-2018: Therapeutic Physics Resident, Karmanos Cancer Institute
05/2012: MS, Radiological Health Physics, San Diego State University
05/2010: BS, Physics, University of Notre Dame
Research Interests
Medical Physics Education & Training, Patient Comfort, Contrast Enhanced Radiotherapy, Automation of Radiation Oncology Clinical Procedures, End-to-End Tests, and whatever the vendors ask of us that leads to funding for our students.
Current student project:
Jeffrey Alberghini (MS): Circular dynamic MLC deliveries for on- and off-axis WL testing
Former student project:
Andrew Abou (BS): Use of Truebeam Developer Mode for automation of annual QA procedures
Other projects:
Implementing clinical internship
Standardizing quality assurance procedures across Karmanos network
Creating mock incident learning system for residents
Past projects:
Kilovoltage IMRT for CERT of GBM
End-to-end test for conventional linacs
Analysis of medical physics residency placement percentages