- 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