Eric Klein

  • Adjunct Professor, Co-Director of the Medical Physics Program( RIH )
  • Phone: 401.606.4283
  • Email: eric.klein@lifespan.org
  • Office Location: Radiation Oncology, Rhode Island Hospital
    Brown University
    593 Eddy St., Providence, RI

Biography

Sept, 2017 – present : Chief of Medical Physics, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University

April, 2017 – Aug, 2017 : Radiotherapy Physics Consultant.  Full-time Consulting Physicist, Robert Wood Johnson: Proton and Physics Clinics.

Aug, 2015 –Mar, 2017 : Vice President and Director at Medical Physics, Northwell Health, Professor of Medical Physics, Hosftra University

March 1989 – 2015 : Professor, Washington University School of Medicine, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, St. Louis, Missouri:  

Nov. 1987 – March 1989 : Clinical Physicist, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

Nov. 1986 – Nov. 1987 : Research Physicist, Harvard Medical School, Joint Center for Radiation Therapy, Boston, Massachusetts

Aug. 1981 – Nov. 1986 : Junior Physicist, Boston University Medical Center, University Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

 

Education

 

2006: Ph.D. Medical Radiation Physics,Chicago Medical School/Rosalyn Franklin University

1987: Master of Science in Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, Massachusetts

1981: Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

Selected Publications

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Klein, EE, Shielding Design and Evaluation for a Single Room Proton Facility. Submitted to, Int Jour Particle Radiotherpy, Apr, 2017.
  • Kry S, Bednarz B, Howell R, Klein EE, et al. AAPM TG 158: Measurement and calculation of doses outside the treated volume from external-beam radiation therapy. Under revision, Journal of Medical Physics, Jan, 2017.
  • Qian, X. Vaidya, K, Diaz,V. Puckett,L; Cao, J Jamshidi, A, Lee, L; Klein, EE, A Post-Mastectomy Radiation Therapy Dose Distribution Study, Submitted to Pract Radiat Oncol, Dec, 2016
  • Zhang, Q, Driewer J, etc., Klein EE Evaluation of a Six-Degree-of-Freedom Couch Accuracy Using ConeBeam CT and a 3D Phantom, Accepted, Journal of Medical Physics, Mar, 2017.
  • Klein, EE, Fontenot J, Dogan N, The Ever-Evolving Role of the Academic Clinical Physicist. In Press, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, March, 2017.
  • Zhang, Q, Klein EE Evaluation of the accuracy of a six degree of freedom robotic couch using optical surface and ConeBeam CT images of an SRS QA phantom. Pract Radiat Oncol, Med Phys. 2017 Aug;44(8):3888-3898
  • Zhang, H, Antone, J; Riegel, A; Ghaly, Eric EE, Measurement of salivary gland dose when overlapping with the PTV in radiotherapy for head-and-neck cancer, Submitted, Practical Radiation Oncology, Apr, 2018
  • Tanderup, K, El Naqa, I, Carlson, D, Klein, EE, Advances in Image-Guided Brachytherapy, Accepted Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, Jan, 2017
  • Monroe JI, Boparai K, Xiao Y, Followill D, Galvin JM, Klein EE, et al., NRG Oncology medical physicists’ manpower survey quantifying support demands for multi-institutional clinical trials. Pract Radiat Oncol. 2018 Feb 4
  • El Naqa I, Brock K, Yu Y, Langen K, Klein EE., On the Fuzziness of Machine Learning, Neural Networks, and Artificial Intelligence in Radiation Oncology. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2018 Jan 1;100(1):1-4
  • Klein EE, Fontenot J, Dogan N., The Ever-Evolving Role of the Academic Clinical Physicist. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2017 May 1;98(1):18-20