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Dr. Syed Ahmad

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Assistant Professor, Medical Sciences Division

Lakehead University Campus
955 Oliver Road
Thunder Bay, Ontario
P7B 5E1
Phone: 647-546-7885
Email: syeahmad@nosm.ca

Education and Professional Roles

Current Position Medical Physicist Regional Cancer Care Northwest, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center Education/Training
  • 2017—2019
Radiation Oncology Physics Residency, OCC, Sunnybrook Hospital, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, ON, CA
  • 2015—2017
Post-Doctoral Fellowship: OCC, Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, ON, CA
  • 2008—2012
PhD, Medical Physics and Applied Radiation Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CA

Research Interest

  • 3D Printed Individually Customized High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy Applicator for Treatment of Chronic Digital Psoriasis
  • Adaptive Radiotherapy for Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer using an Integrated MR-Linac
  • The radiobiological impact of motion tracking of liver, pancreas, and kidney SBRT tumors in a MR-linac (Monaco based study)
  • The dosimetric impact of gadolinium based contrast media in GBM brain patient plans for the MRI-Linac (Monaco based study)
  • Feasibility study for the treatment of patients with bi-lateral hip prosthesis in MR-Linac using Monaco
  • Magnetic field dose effects on different radiation beam geometries for hypofractionated partial breast irradiation (Monaco based study)

Selected Publications

  • Kim A, Lim-Reinders S, Ahmad SB, Sahgal A, Keller BM. Surface and near-surface dose measurements at beam entry and exit in a 1.5 T MR-Linac using optically stimulated luminescence dosimeters. Phys Med Biol. 2020;65(4):045012. Published 2020 Feb 12. doi:10.1088/1361-6560/ab64b6
  • Nusrat H, Pang G, Ahmad SB, Keller B, & Sarfehnia A, Quantifying the impact of lead doping on plastic scintillator response to radiation. Medical physics, Vol 46, Issue 9, 4215-4223, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.13691
  • Al-Ward S, Wronski M, Ahmad SB, et al. The radiobiological impact of motion tracking of liver, pancreas and kidney SBRT tumors in a MR-linac. Phys Med Biol. 2018;63(21):215022. Published 2018 Oct 30. doi:10.1088/1361-6560/aae7fd
  • Nusrat H, Pang G, Ahmad SB, Sarfehnia A, Evaluating the biological impact of increased scattered radiation in single and composite field radiation beams, Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express 4 (3), 035016, 2018
  • Kim A, SLim-Reinders, McCann C, Ahmad SB, Sahgal A, Lee J, Keller BM, Magnetic field dose effects on different radiation beam geometries for hypofractionated partial breast irradiation, JACMP, 18 (6),62-70, 2017
  • Ahmad SB, Paudel MR, Sarfehnia A, Kim A, Pang G, Ruschin M, Sahgal A, The dosimetric impact of gadolinium based contrast media in GBM brain patient plans for the MRI-Linac, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 62 (16), N362, 2017
  • Le M, Mothersill CE, Seymour CB, Ahmad SB, Armstrong A, Rainbow AJ, et al. Factors affecting ultraviolet-A photon emission from β-irradiated human keratinocyte cells. Phys Med Biol 2015; 60(16): 6371-6389

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