Entesar Zawam Dalah, PhD

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1 Entesar Zawam Dalah, PhD Research interests: Exploring the new methodology of biological defined image guided radiotherapy Tumor treatment response through standard methods RESICT, PERSICT Establishing a tumor treatment standard using DW-MRI. Correlating CT, DW-MRI, and PET to pathological tumor characteristics. Investigate tumor biomarkers for tumor hypoxia and aggressiveness. Tumor sites interested in pancreas, prostate, head and neck. Registered with the American Board of Radiology (ABR) Career summary Assistant Professor (Duties: teaching& supervising and consulting& research) (Sep 2015) Medical Diagnostic Imaging Department, College of Health and Science, University of Sharjah, UAE. Medical Physics Resident (Duties: Clinic & Research & Teaching) (July 2013-July 2015) CAMPEP accredited program, Radiation Oncology Department, Froedtert Hospital and Medical College of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, USA. Clinical experience Linear Accelerator Monthly QA: Siemens (Primer & Artiest & Tomotherapy) & Elekta (Infinity Agility). Imaging Machine Monthly QA: Siemens MRI Simulator & GE CT Simulator & CT on Rail (CTOR) & Cone Beam CT (CBCT). Patient QA: IMRT/ marc/ VMAT/ dqa for Tomotherapy In vivo dosimetry: TLDs/Diodes. Dosimetry: Chart checks/ On-line checks/ XiO planning system. Special procedures: Respiratory motion measurement i.e. 4D CT sorting (GE Advantageworkstation)/Nucletron High Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy/ Gamma knife/ Total Body Irradiation (TBI) Linear Accelerator Commissioning/ Annual QA Postdoctoral Fellow (Duties: Research & Clinic) ( ) Radiation Oncology Department, Froedtert Hospital and Medical College of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, USA. Clinical experience Linear Accelerator Monthly QA: Siemens (Artiest & CBCT& CTOR) Lab Instructor ( ), Radiation Detection and Measurement Lab, Physics Department, University of Surrey, UK Medical Physics/Medical Imaging. MSc Level Physicist ( ), Radiation therapy department, Tripoli Medical Centre, Tripoli, Libya Page 1 of 5

2 Lecturer ( ), General Physics, Libya. Undergraduate Level Physicist ( ), Nuclear medicine department, Tripoli Medical Centre, Tripoli, Libya IAEA trainee (Oct-Dec 2002), Brachytherapy, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK IAEA Fellow (Sep 2001-Sep 2002), Medical Physics department, University of Surrey, UK Radiation Protection Officer ( ), Tripoli Medical Centre, Tripoli, Libya Academic Qualification Ph.D. Medical Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK (2010) Thesis titled Quantitative modelling of tissue activity curves of 64 Cu-ATSM and delineation of tumor sub-volumes in treatment planning M.Sc. Medical Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK (2002) Dissertation title Obtaining a new calibration figure for the National Physics Lap secondary standard using standardised 32 P B.Sc. Physics, Tripoli University-Tripoli, Libya (1995). Workshops 01 March 2007 University of Surrey Guildford, UK Radiation protection induction course covered the topics of working safely with radioisotopes; radioactivity; radiobiology, radiation quantity; units and prefixes, regulations: IRR and RSA, risk statements December 2003 Tripoli Medical Center Tripoli, Libya Workshop organized by the IAEA includes properties and safety of radiation sources and equipment used for diagnostic and interventional radiology, radiation protection programme in diagnostic and interventional radiology, and radiation protection programme in radiotherapy. October-December 2002 Royal Marsden Hospital London, UK Workshop organized by the IAEA through the University of Surrey includes participation on operating and treatment planning of: Low dose rate (LDR) microselectron, Nucletron HDR and attendance of few cervical and prostate treatment sessions, quality assurance (QA) and radiation protection in Brachytherapy September 1999 National Cancer Institute Cairo, Egypt Workshop organized by the IAEA includes theoretical lectures on dosimetry for High dose rate (HDR) and low dose rate (LDR) Brachytherapy; theoretical lectures on the physical aspects of quality assurance (QA) and radiation protection in Brachytherapy; practical exercises in calibration of Brachytherapy sources in maintenance of dosimetry equipment. Teaching and Supervisory experience Page 2 of 5

3 Medical College of Wisconsin, USA (2015). Journal review moderator of medical imaging course-setting, level of Undergraduate medical student. Medical College of Wisconsin, USA (2014). Course: The physics of medical imaging, level of, Undergraduate medical students. Manuscript Reviewer, USA (2012-present) Elsevier journal including journals of: (a) Radiation Oncology and Biology, and (b) Physics and Biology in Medicine. University of Surrey, UK ( ). Course: Radiation and detection measurements Teaching and conducting experiments for coincident Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Alpha spectroscopy, X-ray fluoroscopy, Gamma spectroscopy, Beta spectroscopy and Ultrasound. MSc Level University of Surrey, UK (2009). Designed and supervised few M.Sc. projects. Journals and Book Publications (Journal) Dalah, E., Yang, C., Hart, V., Zhang Q., Hu Y., and Li, A. (2014) Mapping transient hypoxia from in-situ activation of 15 O by photon beams: A simulation study. Physics in Biology and Medicine (in process) (Journal) Dalah, E., Scuffham, J., Bradley, D., and Nisbet, A (2014). A study of the inherent limitations of PET in manual delineation of treatment planning volume in radiotherapy. Submitted to British Journal of Radiology. (in process) (Journal) Dalah, E., Moraru I., Paulson E., Erickson B., and Li, A. Variability of target and normal structure delineation using multi-modality imaging for radiation therapy of pancreatic cancer. International. Journal of Radiation Oncology and Biology in Physics 89: (2014). (Book) Dalah, E., Bradley, D., and Nisbet, A. (2012) Quantitative modelling of tissue activity curves of 64Cu-ATSM. LAP Lambert Academic Publication. ISBN , pp (Journal) Dalah, E., Bradley, D., and Nisbet, A. (2010). Simulation of tissue activity curves of 64 Cu-ATSM for sub-target volume delineation in radiotherapy. Physics in Medicine and Biology 55: , doi: / /55/3/009. (Journal) Dalah, E., Bradley, D., and Nisbet, A. (2010). A mathematical approach towards simulating a realistic tissue activity curve of 64 Cu-ATSM for the purpose of sub-target volume delineation in radiotherapy. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. doi: /j.nima Page 3 of 5

4 (Journal) Dalah, E., Nisbet, A., and Bradley, D. (2010). Effect of window level on target volume delineation in treatment planning. Applied Radiation and Isotopes. doi: /j.apradiso (Journal) Dalah, E., Nisbet A, Reise S, Bradley, D. (2008). Evaluating Commercial Image Registration Packages for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning. 66: (Online) Dalah, E., Lloyd, D., Bradley, D and Nisbet, A. Simulating the heterogeneous distribution of O 2 partial pressure in 2D vasculature using the reaction diffusion model. Available online at Conference Publications Entesar Dalah, Eric Paulson, Beth Erickson, X. Allen Li. Delineation of spatially-varied high-risk GTV in pancreatic adenocarcinoma using MRI-ADC maps. ASTRO 56th Annual meeting San Francisco, September 14 th -17 th Entesar Dalah, Eric Paulson, Beth Erickson,X. Allen Li. Multimodality-image-based target delineation for dose painting of pancreatic cancer. AAPM 56th Annual Meeting, Austin, July 20 th -24 th Entesar Dalah, Eric Paulson, C Lawton, X. Allen Li. Delineation of intraprostatic gross tumor volume based on MRI-ADC value for radiation therapy of prostate cancer. MR in Symposium, Missouri, May 22 nd -25 th 2014 Entesar Dalah, Cungen Yang, Ion Moraru, X. Allen Li. A correction of partial volume effect for using PET to define metabolically active tumor volume for pancreatic cancer. AAPM 55 th Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, August 4 th -8 th Entesar Dalah, Cungen Yang, Elizabeth Gore, Robert Hellman, X. Allen Li. Partial volume effect corrected metabolically active tumor volume from PET for early-stage lung cancer. ASTRO 55 th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, September 22 nd 25 th Entesar Dalah, Feng Liu, Eric Paulson, Kristofer Kainz, R. Hellman, Beth Erickson, X. Allen Li. PET-guided dose escalation for pancreatic cancer: a treatment planning study. ASTRO 54 th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, October 28 th 31 st Ion C. Moraru, Entesar Dalah, Jin Wang, Eric Paulson, Beth A Erickson, X. Allen Li. Multimodality-image-based target and normal structure delineation for dose painting of pancreatic cancer. ASTRO 54 th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, October 28 th 31 st Entesar Dalah, Cungen Yang, Ion Moraru, Eric Paulson, Quanshi Zhang, Yimin Hu, X. Allen Li. Feasibility of Mapping Transient Tumor Hypoxia Using in situ Activation PET Imaging: A Simulation Study. AAPM 54 th Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, July 29 th August 2 nd Dalah, E., Lloyd, D., Skeldon, A., Bradley, D., and Nisbet, A. Simulation of tissue activity curve of 64Cu-ATSM using the reaction diffusion model for the purpose of sub target volume delineation in radiotherapy. 11 th International Symposium on radiation physics, Melbourne, Australia, th August Page 4 of 5

5 Dalah, E., Lloyd, D., Skeldon, A., Bradley, D., and Nisbet, A. A Simulation of tissue activity curve of 64Cu-ATSM using reaction diffusion model for the purpose of sub-target volume delineation in radiotherapy. The Medical Physics and Engineering Conference that was held in Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool from September Dalah, E., Lloyd, D., Bradley, D., and Nisbet, A. Computational simulation of tumour hypoxia as applied to radiation therapy applications. The 11th International Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering World Congress that was held in Munich, Germany from7 12 September Dalah, E., Gundogu, O., Bradley, D. and Nisbet, A. A study of the inherent limitations of PET in radiotherapy treatment planning volume delineation. UK Radiation Oncology Conference, University of Cardiff, 6-8 April Dalah, E., Gundogu, O., Scuffham, J., Bradley, D. and Nisbet, A. The Inherent Limitations of PET in Target Volume Delineation. UK Radiotherapy Imaging User Group Meeting, University of Oxford, 16th December Dalah, E., Nisbet, A., Reise, S., and Bradely, D. Evaluating commercial image fusion using the ProSoma 3D simulation software. Universities Nuclear Technology Forum, University of Manchester, March Dalah, E., Nisbet, A., Reise, S., and Bradely, D. (2007). CT, MRI and PET image fusion using the ProSoma 3D simulation software. University of Surrey Festival of Science, Guildford, UK. 2nd November Memberships International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Fellowship ( ) Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) Former Membership ( ) American Association of Physics in Medicine (AAPM) Junior Membership (2011-present) Federation of African Medical Physicist Organization (FAMPO) Member (2013-present) American Association of Physics in Medicine (AAPM) Meddle East Subcommittee (2014-present) Awards The Young Investigator Award, North Central Chapter of the AAPM, USA 2013 The Didier Isabelle Memorial Prize for most outstanding student oral presentation, 11 th ISRP Australia Honour of excellence from the Libyan Culture Affair Office, London Scholarship for my M.Sc. study from the IAEA Page 5 of 5