Roles
Associate Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology
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Biography
Kyle R. Padgett, Ph.D. received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering with a specialty in Medical Physics from the University of Florida in 2005. Immediately following his Ph.D. he joined the faculty at the University of Miami in the department of Radiology to create and run the “High-Field MRI Bio-Medical Research Facility” which focused in the following areas of research; spinal cord injury, cancer, myocardial infarction, stroke and the structural and functional connectivity of the brain. In 2011 Dr. Padgett became a faculty member in the department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Miami to focus on integrating advanced MRI imaging applications into the radiation oncology with a focus on MRI guided radiotherapy. Dr. Padgett is board certified by the ABR in Therapeutic Radiological Physics and is licensed by the state of Florida as an authorized medical physicist with additional rights to perform high dose rate brachytherapy and MRIguided radiotherapy utilizing the MRIdian™ system. He has published many peer-reviewed journal articles and scientific abstracts with over 50 articles and 70 presentations. He has served as a reviewer for many medical journals including; The Red Journal, The Green Journal, Medical Physics, American Journal of Neuroradiology, Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Practical Radiation Oncology, Frontiers in Oncology, Advances in Radiation Oncology, Physics & Imaging in Radiation Oncology. -
Education & Training
Education
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Teaching Interests
Dr. Padgett is significantly involved in teaching and mentoring efforts of the Radiation Oncology department and focuses his education efforts in the following areas; X-ray/CT imaging physics, MRI imaging physics, image guided radiotherapy and MRI guided radiotherapy. He is the Director of the University of Miami Medical Physics Residency Training Program and he also teaches two 8-week rotations for the residency program; equipment commissioning & acceptance testing for Radiation Oncology as well as diagnostic imaging physics & image registration for Radiation Oncology. He is also a member of the University of Miami Medical Physics Graduate Program Steering Committee, Biomedical Engineering offers “Medical Physics” as a concentration to their graduate students. In addition to being a member of the Steering Committee he also has helped teach a couple of courses in the Medical Physics Graduate program; namely the MRI physics lectures for BME520 “Medical Imaging Systems” & BME620 “Advanced Imaging Systems”. He is also involved in thesis and dissertation advising for BME graduate students. Finally, Dr. Padgett also teaches the Radiation Oncology Medical Residents on the physics of diagnostic imaging for the modern Radiation Oncology Department. The topics include, X-ray imaging, Fluoroscopy, Computed Tomography, Positron Emission Tomography, Single Photon Emission Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Imaging Registration and On-Board Imaging for a linear accelerator treatment device. -
Research Interests
Dr. Padgett’s research interests center around utilizing advanced MRI techniques and novel imaging solutions to address issues facing the modern Radiation Oncology Clinic. Some of the specific areas that he as focused on include; MRI guided radiotherapy, multi-modality deformable image registration in the prostate, online adaptive radiotherapy of pancreatic cancer, characterization of gadolinium MRI enhancement following peripheral nerve injury, dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI for automatic detection of residual disease after prostatectomy, among others. In the future Dr. Padgett would like to investigate the potential benefits that MRgRT has to offer to other treatment sites including cervix cancer as well as head and neck cancer. These treatment sites have a demonstrated need to adapt the radiation treatment plan partway through the treatment course due to strong treatment response. Using conventional radiation treatment devices this is challenging due to a lack of quality on-board imaging. By treating these patients on a cutting edge MRgRT system one can use the superior daily imaging provided by the MRI to evaluate and quantify treatment response and adapt the radiation treatment plan accordingly. -
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