People

 

Faculty

Dr Jessica Scholey

Jess Scholey PhD DABR

PRIMR Program Director
Associate Professor of Medical Physics
Radiation Oncology | Radiology & Biomedical Imaging

Relevant interests include MR-only radiation therapy, image synthesis, 4D-MRI, clinical implementation of novel MRI sequences for RT planning, and MR-in-RT education. 

 

Dr Wensha Yang

Wensha Yang PhD DABR

Professor of Medical Physics
Radiation Oncology

Relevant interests include implementing advanced MR sequences to guide radiotherapy, AI assisted MR image processing and out outcome prediction, and MR-in-RT education for students and residents.

 

Dr Huiming Dong

Huiming Dong PhD

Assistant Professor of Medical Physics
Radiation Oncology 

Relevant interests include MR-guided RT/adaptive RT, novel MRI sequences, functional imaging/biomarkers, and MR education.

 

Dr Dante Capaldi

Dante Capaldi PhD DABR

Assistant Professor of Medical Physics
Associate Director, Medical Physics Residency Program
Radiation Oncology 

Relevant interests include developing functional MR imaging methods, imaging biomarkers, and quality assurance phantoms to guide, monitor, and predict treatment response in radiotherapy and radiosurgery.
 

Trainees

 

Daniel Herrera

Daniel Herrera

PhD Student (Medical Physics)
UC Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering

Relevant interests include deep learning, image synthesis, MR-informed conebeam CT, and proton radiotherapy.

 

Leah McCarthy

Leah McCarthy

PhD Student (Medical Physics)
UC Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering

Relevant interests include MRI for radiotherapy, reirradiation, and head-and-neck radiotherapy.

 

Alumni

Elena Vasquez

Elena Vasquez 

PhD Student at Harvard University 

Elena’s work focused on synthetic megavoltage CT (MVCT) from MRI for purposes of higher accuracy dose calculation. 

 

Jolie Wang

Jolie Wang

Undergraduate Student at Rice University 

Jolie’s work focused on developing workflows for artificial intelligence-based prostate lesion detection based on multi-parametric MRI.