DEGREES AWARDED:
- Ph.D. Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, 1975
- M.S. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1972
- B.S. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1971
RESEARCH INTEREST:
- Radiation dose measurements and quality assurance in clinical radiotherapy physics including high energy photon and electron beams and interstitial and intravascular brachytherapy applications
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS:
- Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
- Associate Professor (Joint), Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
- Chief Clinical Physicist, Division of Radiation Oncology, Vanderbilt University
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:
- Associate Professor (Adjunct), Department of Radiation Medicine, University of Kentucky 1982-1993
- Chief Clinical Physicist, Department of Radiation Medicine, University of Kentucky 1978-1993
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
- American Association of Physicists in Medicine
- American College of Medical Physics
- American College of Radiology
- Health Physics Society
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:
- American Board of Radiology, Therapeutic Radiological Physics, 1977
- American Board of Medical Physics, Radiation Oncology Physics, 1989
NATIONAL COMMITTEE SERVICE:
- American Association of Physicists in Medicine
- AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group #60- Intravascular Brachytherapy Physics
- AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group #61- A Protocol for Kilovoltage X-Ray Beam
Dosimetry in Radiotherapy
- AAPM Secretary (1994-1996)
- American Board of Radiology
- (Physics Certification Restructuring Committee)
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
- C. Coffey and D. Duggan. Dosimetric Considerations and Dose Measurement Analysis of a P-32 Radioisotope Stent. In Vascular Brachytherapy, eds. Waksman, King, Crocker, and Mould,
pp. 207-216. Nucletron Publishing, Netherlands, 1996.
- C. Janicki, D.M. Duggan, C. Coffey, D. Fischell, and T. Fischell. Radiation Dose from a Phosphorous-32 Impregnated Wire Mesh Vascular Stent. Medical Physics 24: 437-445 (1997).
- D. Duggan and C. Coffey. Use of a Micro-Ionization Chamber and an Anthropomorphic Head Phantom in a Quality Assurance Program for Stereotactic Radiosurgery. Medical Physics 23: 513-516 (1996).
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