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Edward S. Sternick

EDWARD S. STERNICK

Profession: Medical Physicist specializing in radiation oncology

Birth: Cambridge, MA
           February 10, 1939

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Certifications:
American Board of Radiology - Radiological Physics, 1982

Fellowships:
USPHS Predoctoral Fellow - UCLA, 1963-1967

Career
After earning the PhD in Medical Physics from UCLA in 1968, Dr. Sternick joined the faculty at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center where he founded the Medical Physics Section and led its growth over the next decade. He was a key participant in the planning, design, equipping and staffing of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center (now a Designated NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center) and established close academic ties with Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, where he co-founded the Biomedical Engineering Program. Students in this program were offered the opportunity to participate in research projects at the Medical Center under his supervision and several, because of this introduction to radiation oncology and diagnostic imaging, elected to pursue further graduate and postgraduate medical physics education and training. During this time, he also established new radiological physics teaching programs in radiation oncology and diagnostic radiology for residents at the Medical Center and, in affiliation with the New Hampshire Vocational Institute, an undergraduate program in radiological technology.

In 1978, Dr. Sternick accepted an invitation from Tufts Medical Center to become Founder and Director of a new Medical Physics Division providing clinical physics services for the Departments of Radiation Oncology, Radiology and Cardiology and for all institutional research laboratories that used radioactive materials or radiation emitting equipment. Over the next 16 years, he developed and directed the Division’s teaching programs for graduate and undergraduate students, residents, nurses, medical students and allied health personnel, and conducted grant-supported research in medical physics, radiology and radiation oncology. He was Program Director for the NCI supported Radiation Oncology Research Training Program, whose graduates have gone on to distinguished careers in academic medical physics.

During the period 1995-1999, Dr. Sternick was the Vice-President of Clinical Affairs for Nomos Corporation, the company that developed the first FDA approved hardware/software clinical system for the planning and delivery of Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT), now standard-of-practice throughout the world. In this role, he advised the President and executive management on research and development issues and was responsible for international customer education and training, direction of core physics research and oversight of company funded extramural investigational grants awarded to academic medical center research affiliates. He designed and implemented the clinical validation studies required for FDA product approval and was appointed by that organization to a four-year term as the national Industry Representative on the Radiological Devices Review Panel of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health.

Dr. Sternick returned to Tufts Medical Center in 2002 as the Administrative Director of the Cancer Center. His responsibilities included strategic, financial and operational management of the Departments of Radiation Oncology and Hematology-Oncology, the Boston Gamma Knife Center, Breast Health Center, Clinical Trials, Nutritional and Social Services and the Tumor Registry.

In 2007, Dr. Sternick was named Medical Physicist-in-Chief, Professor and Vice Chair of Radiation Oncology at Rhode Island Hospital/ Brown University Medical School, while retaining his longstanding faculty appointment at Tufts University Medical School.

Education has always played an important role in Dr. Sternick’s work. He has been instrumental in the creation and teaching of numerous courses for physicians, medical physicists and allied health professionals.  He was a co-founder of the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Educational Programs (CAMPEP), the organization that accredits all medical physics graduate and residency training programs and continuing education courses in the U.S. and Canada. Because of his efforts to bring international standards medical physics practices to China, he was named Professor of Medical Physics (Hon.) at Guangzhou Medical School and has served as a Visiting Professor at Veterans General Hospital in Taipei, West China Medical University in Chengdu and Tsinghua University in Beijing.

For many years, Dr. Sternick has actively participated in professional activities of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the American College of Medical Physics (ACMP), the American College of Radiology (ACR), the American Board of Medical Physics (ABMP) and CAMPEP. He has been appointed to and/or chaired numerous committees and task groups in these organizations and served as President of AAPM, founding President of ABMP and a founding Director of CAMPEP.

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