Senior Dosimetrist

Title: Senior Dosimetrist

Location: Boston, MA  

Hybrid: 2-3 days onsite/wk

Job Description:

Reporting to the Chief of Dosimetry and the Director of Clinical Physics Operations the Senior Dosimetrist is responsible for performing and delegating patient-specific medical dosimetry tasks.

The Senior Dosimetrist helps prepare the team for integration of future innovations such as artificial intelligence, remote dosimetry, and other disruptive technologies. Working closely with departmental leadership, the Senior Dosimetrist is central in driving clinical excellence, safety, efficiency, and innovation across the system.

Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS, and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.
 

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Patient Care: Perform and supervise patient-specific dosimetry tasks, ensuring safe and accurate radiation treatments. Work alongside dosimetrists, radiation oncologists, radiation therapists and physicists to support treatment planning, simulation, image processing, and treatment delivery. Support and evaluate the implementation of advanced procedures such as IMRT, IGRT, SBRT. Participate in departmental chart reviews, clinical trials, and national protocols, providing necessary documentation.
• Treatment Planning: Responsible for specific disease sites. Collect and analyze patient data and design optimal approaches for treatments. Responsible for basic dose calculation and 2D, 3D, IMRT, SBRT, SRS/SRT using treatment planning software on several different platforms. Interact with radiation oncologists to define target volumes and critical structures. Participate in the implementation of new techniques and treatment modalities for radiation therapy. Participate in clinical research and data submission for clinical trials.
• Leadership and Management: Serve as a member of the dosimetry team, providing expertise in treatment planning. Help with integrating new technologies, including AI-assisted planning and remote dosimetry workflows. Participate in departmental quality improvement initiatives and committees. May be required to lead specific disease site treatment planning efforts, which include participating in disease site clinical meetings, leading and updating disease site in-services, training and cross training new hires and co-workers, serving as a liaison between physicians and the planning group for a specific disease site
• Teaching, Training, and Research: Provide or delegate training and educational support for dosimetry students, physician residents, physics residents, and radiotherapy students. Keep the dosimetry team informed of departmental policies, procedures, and innovations. When appropriate, participate in research and development projects in collaboration with faculty members.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Understanding of diverse treatment sites and techniques.
• Positive attitude, strong work ethic, and ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and desire to drive safety, efficiency, and quality improvements.
• Advanced knowledge of treatment planning principles, dose calculation algorithms, plan optimization, beam geometry, and machine/MLC characteristics across photon and electron energies.
• Expertise in SBRT/SRS planning, immobilization considerations, PTV/OAR trade-offs, heterogeneity corrections, and end-to-end plan QA in conjunction with Physics.
• Ability to design and standardize planning templates, checklists, and peer-review processes to improve safety, reduce variability, and increase throughput.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; able to collaborate effectively with physicians, physicists, therapists, nurses, and IT to achieve consensus and resolve issues.
• Commitment to patient safety, quality, and confidentiality; maintains professionalism and resilience under pressure.
• Proficiency in treatment planning systems, image fusions, contouring, and oncology information system workflows.
• Commitment to advancing the field of dosimetry through innovation and continuous improvement.
• Programming skills preferred, particularly for developing scripts and automation tools to improve treatment planning wokflows.

Minimum Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Completion of a Medical Dosimetry Program (post-BSc degree) required.
• Master’s degree in Physics, Computing or Math preferred.
• 3 years of clinical experience in medical dosimetry required.
• Demonstrated leadership/management experience for at least one disease site.
• Current board certification in Medical Dosimetry (CMD) required.

License/Certification/Registration Required:

• Current board certification in Medical Dosimetry (CMD) required.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Patient Contact:

• Yes, may have occasional contact with radiation therapy patients, as requested by therapists and physicians.

At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, we work every day to create an innovative, caring, and inclusive environment where every patient, family, and staff member feels they belong. As relentless as we are in our mission to reduce the burden of cancer for all, we are committed to having faculty and staff who offer multifaceted experiences. Cancer knows no boundaries and when it comes to hiring the most dedicated and compassionate professionals, neither do we. If working in this kind of organization inspires you, we encourage you to apply.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.  

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The hiring range is based on market pay structures, with individual salaries determined by factors such as business needs, market conditions, internal equity, and based on the candidate’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications.

For union positions, the pay range is determined by the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).

$161,500.00 - $179,500.00