Ziad Saleh

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor
  • Phone: 401. 444.2585
  • Email: zsaleh@lifespan.org
  • Office Location: Rhode Island Hospital
    Radiation Oncology
    593 Eddy Street
    Providence, RI 2903

Biography

2018-present: Associate Medical Physicist, Radiation Oncology, Rhode Island Hospital, RI

2014-2018:  Assistant Member (Level-I), Memorial Hospital and Allied Diseases, NY, NY

2014-2018: Assistant Attending, Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering West Harrison, West Harrison, NY                                                                 

2012-2014: Resident in Medical Physics, Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

2010-2012: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

2010-2010: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO      

2004-2005: Software Developer, Astronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL                      

Education

2011: Certificate in Medical Physics, Columbia   University, New York, NY

2010: Ph.D., Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL

2003: M.S., Elec and Comp Eng, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

2001: B.Sc., Computer Eng, Beirut Arab University, Beirut, Lebanon

Selected Publications

  • Book Chapters
    1. Zeng, Chuan, Richard A. Amos, Brian Winey, Chris Beltran, Ziad Saleh, Zelig Tochner, Hanne Kooy, and Stefan Both. “Proton Treatment Planning.” In Target Volume Delineation and Treatment Planning for Particle Therapy, pp. 45-105. Springer, Cham, 2018.
  • Peer-reviewed Articles
  • Dwyer JR, Rassoul HK, Saleh Z, Uman MA, Jerauld J, Plumer JA. X‐ray bursts produced by laboratory sparks in air. Geophysical Research Letters. 2005 Oct;32(20).
  • Dwyer JR, Coleman LM, Lopez R, Saleh Z, Concha D, Brown M, Rassoul HK. Runaway breakdown in the Jovian atmospheres. Geophysical research letters. 2006 Nov 1;33(22).
  • Dwyer, J. R. Saleh, HK Rassoul, D. Concha, M. Rahman, V. Corray, J. Jerauld, MA Uman, and VA Rakov A study of X-ray emission from laboratory sparks in air at atmospheric pressure. J. Geophys. Res, 2008; 113, D23207.
  • Howard J, Uman MA, Dwyer JR, Hill D, Biagi C, Saleh Z, Jerauld J, Rassoul HK. Co‐location of lightning leader X‐ray and electric field change sources. Geophysical Research Letters. 2008 Jul;35(13).
  • Howard J, Uman MA, Biagi C, Hill D, Jerauld J, Rakov VA, Dwyer J, Saleh Z, Rassoul H. RF and X‐ray source locations during the lightning attachment process. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2010 Mar 27;115(D6).
  • Ahmad NA, Fernando M, Baharudin ZA, Rahman M, Cooray V, Saleh Z, Dwyer JR, Rassoul HK. The first electric field pulse of cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning discharges. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. 2010 Feb 1;72(2-3):143-50.
  • Dwyer JR, Smith DM, Uman MA, Saleh Z, Grefenstette B, Hazelton B, Rassoul HK. Estimation of the fluence of high‐energy electron bursts produced by thunderclouds and the resulting radiation doses received in aircraft. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2010 May 16;115(D9).
  • Saleh Z, Dwyer J, Howard J, Uman M, Bakhtiari M, Concha D, Stapleton M, Hill D, Biagi C, Rassoul H. Properties of the X‐ray emission from rocket‐triggered lightning as measured by the Thunderstorm Energetic Radiation Array (TERA). Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2009 Sep 16;114(D17).
  • Howard J, Uman MA, Biagi C, Hill D, Jerauld J, Rakov VA, Dwyer J, Saleh Z, Rassoul H. RF and X‐ray source locations during the lightning attachment process. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2010 Mar 27;115(D6).
  • Liu, V. Moiseenko, A. Agranovich, A. Karvat, W. Kwan, H. Saleh, A. A. Apte, and J. O. Deasy, Normal Tissue Complication Probability (NTCP) Modeling Of Late Rectal Bleeding Following External Beam Radiotherapy For Prostate Cancer: A Test of the QUANTEC-Recommended NTCP Model, Biology-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy (BIGART), Acta Oncologica. 2010; 49:884-887.
  • Smith, D. M., Dwyer, J. R., Hazelton, B. J., Grefenstette, B. W., Martinez, McKinney, G. F. M., Zhang, Z. Y., … & Ulrich, W. (2011). A terrestrial gamma ray flash observed from an aircraft. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 116(D20).
  • Schaal, M.M., Dwyer, J.R., Saleh, Z.H., Rassoul, H.K., Hill, J.D., Jordan, D.M. and Uman, M.A., 2012. Spatial and energy distributions of X‐ray emissions from leaders in natural and rocket triggered lightning. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 117(D15).
  • Vitali Moiseenko, Ph.D., Jonn Wu, M.D., Allan Hovan, M.D.D., Ziad Saleh, Ph.D.Aditya Apte, PhD., Joseph O. Deasy, Ph.D., Stephen Harrow, M.D., Carman Rabuka, M.D.D., Adam Muggli, D.D.S., and Anna Thompson, M.D. Treatment planning constraints to avoid xerostomia in head and neck radiotherapy: an independent test of QUANTEC criteria using a prospectively collected dataset. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012 Mar 1;82(3):1108-14.
  • Shackleford J.A., Shusharina N., Verberg J., Warmerdam G., Winey B., Neuner M., Steininger P., Arbisser A., Golland P., Lou Y., Paganelli C., Peroni M., Riboldi M., Baroni G., Zaffino P., Spadea M.F., Apte A., Saleh Z., Deasy J.O., Mori S., Kandasamy N., Sharp G.C. Plastimatch 1.6 – Current Capabilities and Future Directions. Int Conf Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2012 Oct;15(WS). Workshop on Image-Guidance and Multimodal Dose Planning in Radiation Therapy.
  • Saleh ZH, Apte AP, Sharp GC, Shusharina NP, Wang Y, Veeraraghavan H, Thor M, Muren LP, Rao SS, Lee NY, Deasy JO, The distance discordance metric-a novel approach to quantifying spatial uncertainties in intra- and inter-patient deformable image registration. Phys Med Biol. 2014 Feb 7;59(3):733-46
  • Rao SD, Saleh ZH* (equal co-authorship), Setton J, Tam M, McBride SM, Riaz N, Deasy JO, Lee NY, Dose-volume factors correlating with trismus following chemoradiation for head and neck cancer. Acta Oncol. 2015 Apr 29: 1-6.
  • Saleh, Z., Thor, M., Apte, A.P., Sharp, G., Tang, X., Veeraraghavan, H., Muren, L. and Deasy, J., 2016. A multiple-image-based method to evaluate the performance of deformable image registration in the pelvis. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 61(16), p.6172.
  • Belanger, M., Saleh, Z., Volpe, T., Margiasso, R., Li, X., Chan, M., Zhu, X. and Tang, X., 2016. Validation of the Calypso Surface Beacon Transponder.Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 17(4).
  • Thor, M., Tyagi, N., Hatzoglou, V., Apte, A., Saleh, Z., Riaz, N., … & Deasy, J. O. (2017). A magnetic resonance imaging-based approach to quantify radiation-induced normal tissue injuries applied to trismus in head and neck cancer. Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology, 1, 34-40.
  • Saleh, Z. H., Jeong, J., Quinn, B., Mechalakos, J., St Germain, J., & Dauer, L. T. (2017). Results of a 10 year survey of workload for 10 treatment vaults at a high throughput comprehensive cancer center. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 18(3), 207-214
  • Liu, Y., Saleh, Z., Song, Y., Chan, M., Li, X., Shi, C., … & Tang, X. (2017). Novel Wavelet-Based Segmentation of Prostate CBCT Images with Implanted Calypso transponders.  International Journal of Medical Physics, Clinical Engineering and Radiation Oncology, 6(03), 336.

Awards and Honors:

2001;Graduate Student Achievement Award, University of Florida
2007:Graduate Student Research Award, Florida Institute of Technology
2008:Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2012:Young Investigators Award, Radiological and Medical Physics Society (RAMPS)
2016-present: European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology (ESTRO)
2011-present:Radiological and Medical Physics Society of New York (RAMPS)
Board Member (2016-2018) & Served as President in 2017