NAME: Herbert William Mower
OCCUPATION: Medical physicist specializing in radiation oncology
BORN: May 6, 1943 in Somerville, MA
EDUCATION:
BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT, June 1965
MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT, June 1967
EE in Electrical Engineering from MIT, February 1968
Sc.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT, February 1972
CERTIFICATIONS:
ABR certification in Therapeutic Radiological Physics, June 1983
ABMP certification in Radiation Oncology Physics, August 1990
ABMP recertification in Radiation Oncology Physics, 2000
CAREER:
I started my career as a graduate student in 1966 in the High Voltage Research Laboratory at MIT in a cooperative program with the Lahey Clinic of Boston utilizing Van de Graaff accelerators as a source of photons and electrons for the treatment of cancer patients. My training and early work experience was under the mentorship of Dr. John G. Trump and Kenneth A. Wright, two charter members of the AAPM. In 1975 I joined the staff of the Tufts – New England Medical Center where my therapy physics responsibilities expanded to include the physics related a 45 MV betatron, supervision of a medical physics residency program, and the coordination of the physics training program for the radiation oncology residents of Tufts and well as the dental residents at the Tufts Dental School.
In 1978 I joined the staff of Shoss Radiological Associates, later to become Ridings Radiation Oncology Associates where I designed the new radiation therapy department for Southeast Missouri Hospital. Following five years in Cape Girardeau I joined the staff of Danbury hospital where my responsibilities included all of the medical physics aspects of the diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine and radiation therapy departments. Special activities included the radiation safety and measurement activities of the Hospital’s Dental Clinic and participation on the faculty in the radiation technologist’s school. During that time I oversaw the development of the radiation oncology department in the new cancer center.
In 1990 I returned to the Lahey Clinic Medical Center with special emphasis on bringing their HDR program on line and developing their stereotactic radiosurgery program. Presently I am the Director of Radiation Therapy Physics for the Clinic overseeing all aspects of the physics program therein.
PUBLICATIONS:
- Ucmakli A, Mower HW and Emami B, “Critical Analysis of Supervoltage photon Modalities in the Treatment of pituitary Neoplasms and Craniopharyngiomas,” Int. J. Rad. Onc.
- Mower HW, “Radiation Physics,” in Radiation-Drug interactions, ed. GH Sokol and RP Marcel, J. Wiley, New York, 1980
- Paradelo JC, Ucmakli A, Shiller B, Sternick E and Mower HW, “Midsagittal Plane Dosimetry in Patients with Extensive Head and neck Malignancy,” Int. J. Rad. Onc. Biol. Phys., 7:115-120, 1982
AWARDS:
1993: Fellow of the American College of Medical Physics
2006: Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine
American Association of Physicists in Medicine Activities:
1975 – 1978: New England Chapter Executive committee
1987 – 1991: Connecticut Area Medical Physics Chapter Executive Committee
1988 – 1989: President of the Connecticut Area Medical Physics Chapter
1992 – 1994: continuing Education Committee
1994 – 2002: Summer School Sub-Committee
1994 – 1997: Summer School LAC Committee
1995: Summer School LAC Co-Chair
1997 – 2002: Finance Committee
1997 – 2004: Summer School Local Arrangements Task Group No. 1
2000 - International Education Funding Subcommittee
2001 – 2002: Education Council Vice Chair
2001 - Summer School Scholarships Subcommittee
2001 - Presidential ad hoc Committee on Government Relations Coordination
2003 - Education Council Chair
2005: Presidential ad hoc Committee on Alternative Pathways
2005 - Audit Committee
American College of Medical Physics
1988 – 1990: Chair, commission on Communications
1991 – 1993: Chancellor, Region I
1994 – 1995: Chair, Continuing Education Committee
1994 – 1997: Liaison to the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors
1995 – 2003: Chair, Commission on Credentials
1996: Director, ACMP Symposium: Safety Issues in medical Physics
1997 – 2003: Liaison to the American Board of Medical Physics
2001 - Liaison to the Alliance for Quality Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy
2002 – 2003: ABR Survey Technical Consulting Panel for radiation Oncology Physics Services
2005 - Liaison to the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors
2006: Vice Chair
Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors
2004: Advisor to SSR Part F: X-Rays in the healing Arts
2004: Advisor to SSR Part B: Registration of Radiation Machines, Facilities and
Services
Radiological Society of North America
2003 - Education Council
2003 - Long Range Planning Committee
2003 - Program Planning Committee
Civic Activities
Participation in local church committees and commissions including lay leader, certified lay speaker, handbell choir director, and supply organist.
Active volunteer in YMCA, Girls Scout and church camping programs for over 40 years.
Active volunteer in the Order of DeMolay, a program for young men in their teens sponsored by the Masonic Fraternity for over 40 years.
Active in many programs and activities of the Masonic Fraternity.
Corporate Board member of Sigma Chi Fraternity at MIT for 40 years.
Member of the American Theater Organ Society
Special Interests:
Pipe organ, vegetable gardening, swimming, power boating (commercial pilot’s license), and volunteer service.
Family:
Married to Frances Imogene McConnell in May, 1969.
Elizabeth Ann Mower Dodge (1972) – Daughter
Cynthia Ruth Mower (1976) – Daughter
Rachael Dodge (2005) – Granddaughter.