MBP Medical Physicists Receive Prestigious, National Certification
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Angela Stam, MS and Kara Ferachi, MS, medical physicists at Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, have recently achieved certification in Therapeutic Radiologic Physics by the American Board of Radiology (ABR). They join Connel Chu, Scott Alleman, Dan Neck, and Drs. Hogstrom, Gibbons, Parker and Rosen as board certified medical physicists.
A certified medical physicist requires an MS or PhD in medical physics, or equivalent, and two years of clinical residency or on-the-job clinical training. Once the medical physicist has completed a third year of clinical training, he or she is eligible to sit for the second, written part of the three-part ABR exam. The third part is an oral exam by medical physicists certified in the specialty. “It’s an arduous process that takes discipline and study. By achieving this milestone, both Angela and Kara have demonstrated competency in the practice of therapeutic radiologic physics,” said Dr. Kenneth Hogstrom, chief of physics.
“It is our goal for all medical physicists at Mary Bird Perkins to be certified in Therapeutic Radiologic Physics,” said Dr. John Gibbons, chief of clinical physics. This brings the total number of board certified medical physicists at Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center to nine of a 10-member medical physics staff.
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Kara Ferachi, medical physicist
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Angela Stam, medical physicist