Dasuni Adikaram
Mansfield,TX
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Medical Physicist
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center
07.2022 - Current
- Treatment planning of 3D, IMRT, VMAT, SRS/SBRT in Eclipse version 13.6
- Patient Chart QA including initial, weekly, and final chart checks using ARIA R&V version 13.6
- IMRT plan log file QA using Mobius3D, SRS/SBRT plan QA using ArcCheck
- Monthly, and annual QA for Varian Clinac and TrueBeam devices
Medical Physics Resident
Baylor Scott & White Health
07.2020 - 06.2022
- CAMPEP Accredited two-year residency with objective of producing residents who can function as independent clinical physicists. Areas of focus include:
- Treatment planning of 3D, IMRT, VMAT, SRS/SBRT in Eclipse version 13.6 and BrainLab iPlan
- Patient Chart QA including initial, weekly, and final chart checks using ARIA R&V version 13.6
- HDR treatment planning for Elekta Flexitron using OncentraBrachy planning system
- LDR treatment planning in VariSeed for Pd-103 prostate implant
- IMRT plan log file QA using Mobius3D
- SRS/SBRT plan QA using Delta4 or ArcCheck and CIRS phantom with PTW pinpoint chamber
- In-vivo Dosimetry using Landauer NanoDot OSLDs and microSTAR reader
- Daily, monthly, and annual QA for Varian Clinac and TrueBeam devices
- Daily and annual QA for Electra Flexitron HDR brachytherapy device
- Daily, quarterly and Annual QA for GE CT simulation devices
Junior Physicist
Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute
09.2016 - 07.2019
- Daily, monthly and annual QA measurements and analysis for proton beam (IBA Proteus 235 proton therapy delivery system) using water phantoms, ion chambers, MatriXX array and Omnipro software, as well as operating proton beam, MOSAIQ Oncology Information System, OBI, and Verisuite patient positioning verification (PPV) software
- Patient specific QA, including field delivery, measurements, analysis and proton beam calibration
- QA for patient specific apertures and compensators
- Daily warm up, air calibration and QA for Philips 4D-PET/CT
- Carried on-call phone to assist therapists and engineers when issue arises during treatment, authorized current changes and small dose overrides due to cumulative machine rounding errors, documented machine issues
Postdoctoral Associate
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
08.2014 - 08.2016
- Led the preparation of FASTBUS Data Acquisition system of the electromagnetic calorimeter for the Hall A Super Bigbite Spectrometer (SBS) experiments
- Tested event switching techniques to improve the data acquisition of electromagnetic calorimeter
- Studied the background of the SBS experiments using GEANT4 simulations
- Developed a Monte Carlo event generator based on GEANT4 for the Tagged Deep Inelastic Scattering (TDIS) experiment
Graduate Research Assistant
Old Dominion University
08.2009 - 05.2014
- Participated in all phases of Two Photon Exchange (TPE) experiment (dissertation research)
- Performed GEANT4 simulations to improve beam line equipments and shielding
- Installed beam line shielding and helped execute experiment
- Monitored data quality and maintained weekly experiment progress logs
- Developed a C++ code to analyze TPE Data and developed tools for background subtraction
Education
Graduate Certificate (CAMPEP Accredited) - Medical Physics
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA05.2020
Ph.D. - Experimental Nuclear Physics
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA05.2014
Bachelor of Science - Physics
University of Colombo
Colombo, Sri Lanka09.2006
Skills
- Software: Varian ARIA and Eclipse, Mobius3D, Oncentra, Microsoft Office Suite, BrainLab iPlan, BrainLab ExacTrac, Velocity, and Varian BrachyVision, MOSAIQ
- Quality Assurance: DailyQA3, ArcCHECK, ScandiDos Delta4, Gafchromic films, ion chambers, SNC IC Profiler, SNC ID Scanner, IBA MatriXX
- Beam delivery system: Varian Clinac 2100iX, Novalis Tx, TrueBeam, IBA Proteus 235
- HDR remote afterloader: Elekta Flexitron, Varian VariSource
- Certification: The American Board of Radiology -Therapeutic Medical Physics
Timeline
Medical Physicist
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center
07.2022 - Current
Medical Physics Resident
Baylor Scott & White Health
07.2020 - 06.2022
Junior Physicist
Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute
09.2016 - 07.2019
Postdoctoral Associate
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
08.2014 - 08.2016
Graduate Research Assistant
Old Dominion University
08.2009 - 05.2014
Graduate Certificate (CAMPEP Accredited) - Medical Physics
Virginia Commonwealth University
Ph.D. - Experimental Nuclear Physics
Old Dominion University
Bachelor of Science - Physics
University of Colombo