Juergen Meyer, Ph.D. « UW Radiation Oncology

Contact Information:

Juergen Meyer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medical Physics
Radiation Oncology Department
University of Washington
University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC)
1959 N.E. Pacific Street, Box 356043
Seattle, WA 98195-6043, USA
e-mail: juergen@uw.edu
telephone: (206) 598-4236
fax: (206) 598-6218

Background:

Juergen studied Medical Engineering in Germany and Medical Instrumentation in the UK. After a brief spell in industry he completed his PhD in Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy in the UK. This was followed by a postdoctoral position as Senior Fellow at the University of Washington Medical Center, where he was part of an industry sponsored international research consortium on intensity modulated radiation therapy and also worked in close collaboration with the Department of Radiology on the integration of PET imaging into treatment planning. He then moved to the University Hospital in Wuerzburg Germany where he completed a Medical Physics residency in the Department of Radiation Oncology and then worked as a Clinical Medical Physicist. Besides clinical work Juergen was strongly involved in research investigating the possibility of real-time correction of respiratory induced tumor movement using a robotic couch and he was also part of an international consortium on image-guided radiation therapy. In 2006 he accepted a position in his wife's home country, New Zealand, as Senior Lecturer in Medical Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. He became the Director of Medical Physics in 2009. During his time at Canterbury he taught several postgraduate courses in Medical Physics and supervised about 30 postgraduate students in all areas of Medical Physics. He was also the Chair of the NZ branch of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM). In 2012 Juergen returned to the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Washington Medical Center as Associate Professor of Medical Physics.

Current Research Opportunities:

Education:

Institution	Faculty/School	Year(s)	Degree
Coventry University, UK	School of Mathematical and Information Sciences	1998-2001	PhD in Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy
Coventry University, UK	School of Natural and Environmental Sciences	1995-6	BSc (Hons) in Medical Instrumentation
University of Applied Sciences Ulm, Germany	Precision Engineering/Mechatronics	1992-96	Dipl. Ing. (FH) in Medical Engineering

Professional experience:

Company/Institution	Title	Year(s)
University of Washington, Department of Radiation Oncology, Seattle, USA	Associate Professor	since 2012
University of Canterbury, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Christchurch, New Zealand	Senior Lecturer, Director Medical Physics (2009-12)	2006-12
University of Wuerzburg, Department of Radiation Oncology, Wuerzburg, Germany	Residency/ Clinical Medical Physicist	2003-6
University of Washington, Department of Radiation Oncology, Seattle, USA	Senior Fellow	2001-3
Schmitt GmbH, Erlangen, Germany	Design and Precision Engineer	1997
Siemens Medical Engineering, Forchheim, Germany	Student Medical Engineer	1996-97
Aalborg Sygehus Syd University Hospital, Department of Radiation Oncology, Aalborg, Denmark	International industrial student placement (6 months)	1994-5

Current and past clinical and research interests:

Spatially modulated mini/microbeam radiotherapy
Lung tumor motion modelling and compensation
Use of augmented reality (AR) and the Kinect camera for patient positioning, monitoring and safety
Digital holographic interferometry for microbeam radiotherapy (MRT) dosimetry
Spectral CT imaging with the Medipix detector
CVD diomond detectors for radiation dosimetry
Stereotactic radiation therapy (SBRT)
Deformable image registration and adaptive radiation therapy (ART)
Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT)
Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
Beam-angle optimization
Bayesian networks and decision making
Cone-beam computed tomography and 6D position correction with robotic couch
4D computed tomography

Certification/Licensure:

Medical Physics Expert, MPE, Germany (2004)

Certificate of radiation protection competence, Bavarian State Office for Environmental Protection (German State regulatory body), Category: Linear accelerator (2004) and brachytherapy (2005)

Radiation licensee, New Zealand (2007–2012)

Professional memberships:

Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), since 1999
German Society for Medical Physics (DGMP), since 2005
Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM), since 2007
(Vice chair NZ branch, 2009-10, chair 2011-2012)
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), since 2012
(Member of the AAPM European Affairs Subcommittee)

Teaching:

Undergraduate

Physics laboratory (PHYS281), 2007-9
Experimental Physics (PHYS285), 2010

Postgraduate

Radiation Therapy (MDPH405), 2007-11
Radiation Biology and Radiation Protection (MDPH404), 2007-11
Research Tools (PHYS/MDPH407), 2009-11

Invited teaching courses

New Zealand Medical Physicist Registrar Training: An Introduction to Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (Pre-conference workshop). In New Zealand Physics and Engineering in Medicine. 2007. Wellington, New Zealand, November 06.-07, 2007.
New Zealand Medical Physicist Registrar Training: An Introduction to Image-guided Radiation Therapy (Pre-conference workshop), Engineering and Physical Sciences in Medicine and the Australian Biomedical Engineering Conference (EPSM ABEC 2008), Christchurch, New Zealand, 2008
Rationale, benefits and limitations of inverse planning and IMRT. ACPSEM Inaugural Summer School on IMRT– EPSM 2009, The Canberra Hospital/Hotel Realm, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 6-7 November 2009
Issues in IMRT: radiation protection, leaf modelling, planning with intensity levels, smoothing, leaf segmentation. ACPSEM Inaugural Summer School on IMRT– EPSM 2009, The Canberra Hospital/Hotel Realm, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 6-7 November 2009
Research & supervisor involvement. Workshop for clinical supervisors and trainers, Nelson, NZ, 11th December 2009

Supervision

Postdoc

Stuart Lansley, Synthetic Diamond X-ray Detectors for Clinical Applications, 2009 – 2011
Gregory Betzel, Synthetic diamonds for radiation dosimetry, 2010

PhD

James Eagle, Feasibility of proton microbeam radiotherapy, 2015-18
Peifeng Jing, Optical calorimetry for radiation dosimetry, 2014-16
Alicia Cavan, Pseudo-calorimetric dosimetry for Microbeam Radiotherapy (MRT) based on optical interference, 2010-2015
Syen Nik, Evaluating the benefits of spectroscopic imaging in discriminating biological materials, 2009–2012
Raja Aamir, X-ray imaging: Biomedical nanoparticles in MARS-CT, 2010-2012
Gregory Betzel, Synthetic diamonds for radiation dosimetry, 2009–2010

MSc

James Eagle, P, 4D Internal tumor location determination using surface tracking with the Kinect, 2013-14
Neil Campbell, Effects of modulation constraints on Volumetric Arc Therapy plan quality and efficiency, 2011-13
Ihab Ramadaan, Design and Validation of an Adaptive Radiotherapy Approach in External Beam Radiotherapy Treatments of Head and Neck Cancer, 2011-13
Jethro Donaldson, Optically Stimulated Luminescence of Mn2+ and Eu2+ in NaMgF3 and RbMgF3: Characterization in Medical Radiations, 2011-13
Maggie Anderson, Development of a motion phantom for gated radiotherapy, 2011-13
Teyu Chyou, Patient setup guidance and position monitoring in radiotherapy using 3D vision, 2011-12
Naomi Flatman, An analysis into the role of positron emission tomography in the treatment of cervical cancer through use of Bayesian networks, 2011-12
Qing Yang, Development of low-cost quality control tests for SPECT gamma cameras, 2011-12
Kaidi Liang, A fibre optics approach to pseudo calorimetry for radiation dosimetry, 2011 - 2012
Marco Serpa, Investigation of the suitability of EPID tracking for real-time verification of gated radiotherapy, 2010–11
Katherine Fricker, Collateral exposure: the additional dose from radiotherapy treatment, 2010–12
Jonathan Downs, Monte Carlo Simulation of the skin-dose modification due to immobilization devices used during IMRT head and neck treatments, 2009–12
David Jolly, Volumetric intensity-modulated arc therapy (RapidArc) vs. standard three dimensional conformal Radiation therapy: A comparative planning and dosimetric study within the Wellington Blood and Cancer Centre, 2009–11†
Jidi Sun, Implementation of 2-Step Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) and Arc Therapy (IMAT), 2009–10
Mohammad Zeidan, Measuring the Mean Glandular Dose (MGD) by Using Thermoluminescence Dosimetry (TLD), 2008-9
James Talbot, A Patient Position Guidance System in Radiation Therapy Using Augmented Reality, 2008-9
Florentina Baluti, Monte Carlo Simulations of Chemical Vapour Deposition Diamond Detectors, 2007-9
Andrew Blair, Skin Dose Measurement for Interventional Cardiology, 2007-9
Phil Satory, An Investigation into EPID flood fields independent from the linear accelerator beam, 2006-8
Ruth Peszynski, The creation of a procedure to verify the accuracy of delivery of prescribed radiation doses to patients in radiotherapy, 2007-8
Latoya Flewellen, Combining mild hyperthermia and ionizing radiation; the cell-killing effect on rodent leukemia cells, 2007-8

BSc(Hons)

Rune Thing, Simulation of energy selective computed tomography (CT) projection data, 2010
Andreas Mueller, Visualization of radiation treatment parameters in an Augmented Reality environment, 2009
Alicia Cavan, Lung tumour modelling for radiotherapy, 2009
April Clark, Assessing the influence of age, sex and natural-variability in MRI-derived brain parameters from a large cohort of healthy volunteers, 2009
Kai Lenz, Modelling of the correlation between patient respiration and tumour movement, 2007

other

Rune Thing, Simulation of energy selective computed tomography (CT) projection data 2010-11
Adrien Carlu, Microbeam dosimetry by means of interferometry , 2010
Abdullah Alotaibi, Advanced radiation treatment planning with Prism, 2010
Abdullah Alotaibi, Introductory radiation treatment planning with Prism, 2010
Joel Rayan, Application of CVD Diamond as Thermoluminescent Dosimeter, 2009-10
Alicia Cavan, Lung Tumour Modelling, 2009-2010
Bernadette Hartmann, A self-guided tutorial for treatment planning in radiation therapy, 2008-9
Richard Heinz, Implementation of a cone-beam CT reconstruction algorithm, 2008

Publications:

For a list of peer reviewed journal publications click here.