Megan Blackburn, Ph.D.

Chief of Medical Physics, Clinical Physicist, Assistant Professor

Chief of Medical Physics, Clinical Physicist, Assistant Professor

 

Education/Training

Institution and LocationDegreeDateField of Study
University of Louisville, Brown Cancer Center6/2012Medical Physics Residency Program
Georgia Institute of TechnologyPh.D.8/2009Nuclear Engineering
Georgia Institute of TechnologyM.S.12/2006Medical Physics
Georgia Institute of TechnologyB.S.8/2004Biomedical Engineering

Positions and Honors

Positions and EmploymentDate

Chief of Physics
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Louisville, KY

5/2021 - Present

Assistant Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Louisville, KY

7/2017 - Present

Clinical Medical Physicist
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Louisville, KY     

8/2012 - 7/2017

Other Experience and Professional Memberships

Honors

  • 8/2005 –7/2008-National Science Foundation Fellow

Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order).

  1. Sowards, K., Swanson, C., Blackburn, M.,and Dragun, A., “A Dosimetric Analysis of the Fieldin Field Technique for the Treatment of Breast Cancer: Can Such a Low Dose as Those Used in the Field in Field Technique Actually be Delivered as Planned on the Planning System,” ASTRO Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, October 2 –6, 2011.
  2. Harkenrider, M., James, J., Blackburn, M., Bertke, M., and Spanos, W., “VMAT vs Tomotherapy: Which is Better for the Treatment of Locally Advanced Oropharyngeal Carcinoma?. Oncology, April 2012, 26(4) supplement1:73.
  3. Satterfield, M.,Rahnema, F., Zhang, D., and Fox, T.,“Evaluation of a Heterogeneous Coarse Mesh Photon Transport Method Using a Simplified Lung Model,” M&C + SNA 2007: Joint International Topical Meeting on Mathematics & Computations and Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications, Monterey, California, April 15 –19, 2007.
  4. Satterfield, M.,Zhang, D., Rahnema, F., and Fox, T., “Extension of the Coarse-Mesh Transport Method to Medical Physics,” The American Nuclear Society’s 14thBiennial Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection Shielding Division, Carlsbad,New Mexico, April 2-6, 2006.
  5. Satterfield, M., Forget, B., Rahnema, F., Fox, T., and Wang, C., “Application of a Heterogeneous Coarse-Mesh Transport Method to a Radiation Therapy Benchmark Problem,” AAPM Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, July 24 –28, 2005.