Roles
Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology
Vice Chair and Chief of Medical Physics Division
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Biography
Dr. Nesrin Dogan is a Professor, Vice Chair and Chief of Medical Physics Division in the Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Dogan is board certified by the ABR in Therapeutic Radiologic Physics. Dr. Dogan received her Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI in 1993. After completing her post-doctoral fellowship in the Radiation Oncology Department at the University Michigan in 1995, she joined Computerized Medical Systems, inc. in St. Louis, MO, as a Medical Physicist in product development. In August 1998, she joined the medical physics faculty as an Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago Medical School, where she was instrumental in the implementation of Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT). In 2003, Dr. Dogan joined the medical physics faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University as an Associate Professor and IMRT Group Leader, becoming a Professor in 2010, Medical Physics Residency Director in 2006, and Director of Clinical Physics in 2007.
In November 2012, Dr. Dogan joined the Radiation Oncology Department at the University of Miami, Radiation Oncology Department as Professor, Vice Chair and Chief of Medical Physics Division. She was instrumental in establishing CAMPEP accreditation of the Medical Physics Residency Program. She has been actively involved in the clinical implementation of MR guided radiotherapy (MRgRT), linac-based SRS (HyperArc) and proton therapy. Dr. Dogan’s primary research interests include Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy, Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy, Image-Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy, Deformable Image Registration Methods, MRgRT, and Radiomics in predicting treatment response. She has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 4 book chapters and has given over 100 presentations at numerous national and international meetings.
Dr. Dogan has served in many capacities within AAPM, ASTRO, CAMPEP and ABR. She served as the associate senior editor for the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics from 2012 – 2018 and currently she serves as the associate editor for Frontiers in Oncology. She has served on a variety of committees for the AAPM, as member of AAPM TG-119, member of AAPM Workgroup on IMRT since 2008, chair of TG-307 since 2017, president of MAC-AAPM, member of AAPM Board Directors as the MAC-AAPM Chapter Representative from 2009 – 2012, AAPM Budget and Finance Committees, and ASTRO Research Council. She also served as the chair of the CAMPEP REPRC from 2015 – 2021 and currently she is a member of the CAMPEP REPRC. She was a member of ABR Exam Writing Committee and Examiner for ABR Oral Exam from 2010 – 2019.
Dr. Dogan also serves as faculty and co-director of the CAMPEP-accredited Medical Physics Graduate Program at University of Miami. She has been actively engaged in teaching and mentoring graduate students, medical physics, and radiation oncology residents. She served as the Director of the Medical Physics Residency Program from 2013 – 2017. She was elected as a Fellow of the AAPM in 2013, an honor that underscores her contributions to the field of medical physics, education, service to the AAPM, and leadership in medical physics practice. -
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Research Interests
Dr. Dogan’s research interests have been focused on Image-Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy (IGART) which is a state-of-the-art approach that uses a feedback process to account for patient-specific anatomical and/or biological changes during treatments, thus, delivering highly individualized radiation therapy for cancer patients. Recently, other imaging techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), including MR spectroscopy, have been frequently used for registration to patient planning CT data, due to its superior distinction between cancerous and normal tissues due to its excellent soft tissue contrast and improved registration algorithms. The Radiation Oncology Department at University of Miami purchased the first commercial on-board MR-Guided IGRT system (View Ray Inc.) for patient treatments. This system is capable of continuous MR imaging during radiation delivery. Her recent research has focused on use of daily MR-Guidance for tumor sites that have large anatomical changes (e.g., pancreas, liver), specifically addressing the benefits of adaptive MR IGART in terms of target coverage and normal tissue avoidance and evaluating the potential and feasibility of radiomic features extracted from daily MRIs in predicting treatment response for patients with pancreatic and liver cancers undergoing SBRT. -
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