Physicians and Faculty

Daniel Y Kim, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology 621 University Hospital Upstate Medical University 750 East Adams Street Syracuse, NY 13210 (315) 464-5217

Education and Clinical Training

MA: 1995, Harvard University, Physics
BA: 1995, Harvard College, Physics
Ph.D.: 2002, Harvard University, Experimental Particle Physics

Clinical Specialty

Radiation Oncology Physics, Certified: 2006

Clinical Interests

• Technical consultation with physician colleagues regarding patient-specific radiation dose calculation and delivery.
• Evaluation, implementation, integration, and quality assurance of commercial technology for radiation therapy.
• Radiation Oncology IT development & administration.

Research Program and Department Affiliations

Radiation Oncology

Research Abstract

­­Research Interests­

• Radiation therapy informatics & integrity/availability of control systems.
  • Kim DYJ. Efficient mass deployment of ROIS client computers. Med Phys 2008; 35(6): 2815.
  • Kim DYJ. Just-in-time quality assurance auditing of radiotherapy control informatics. IJROBP 2007; 69(3):S566.
    • Article on ASTRO 2007 poster in Health Imaging and IT.
    • Winner, 2006 AAPM Jack Fowler Junior Investigators' Competition.
    • ­Innovation selected for analyses by NYSTAR's Science and Technology Law Center (2006) & Syracuse Pre-seed Workshop (2007).
      
    • U.S. Patent Application filed through Research Foundation of SUNY (2007).
  • Kim DYJ. PC QA: maximizing radiotherapy PC uptime with a portable Linux-based backup fileserver. Med Phys 2004; 31(6): 1784.
  • Kim DYJ, Liu L, Bassano D. Orthogonal c-arm fluoroscopy for HDR brachytherapy. Proceedings of the XIV International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy (2004).

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Additional Information

• Pianist/Keyboardist, Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Former first violinist, 2001-2007.
• President 2005, Upstate New York chapter, American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
• Information Technology certifications: MCSE/MCSA: Security, Security+.

This profile was last updated on 02/13/2009

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