curriculum vitae (.pdf file)

Ph.D. Dissertation

• Mechanisms of intrinsic radiation sensitivity: the effects of DNA damage repair, oxygen, and radiation quality (.pdf file)

Clinical and Research Experience
 

2006-2008	Medical Physics Resident (Supervisors: Gary Luxton, Ph.D., Paul J. Keall, Ph.D.), Stanford University, Department of Radiation Oncology.
2004-2006	Medical Physics Research Assistant (Supervisor: Robert D. Stewart, Ph.D.), Purdue University, School of Health Sciences.
2004	Medical Physics Research Assistant (Supervisor: X. Allen Li, Ph.D.), MCW, Department of Radiation Oncology.

Teaching Experience

Professional Affiliations

• American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
• American Board of Radiology (ABR)
• American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO)
• Radiation Research Society (RRS)
• Health Physics Society (HPS)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Professional Service

Guest Associate Editor for the following journals:

• Medical Physics

Peer reviewer for the following journals:

• Medical Physics
• International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics
• Radiation Research
• Physics in Medicine and Biology
• Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing

President of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the AAPM

Member of the African Affairs Subcommittee of the AAPM

Representative Publications

• Carlson DJ, Keall PJ, Loo BW, Brown JM. Hypofractionation results in reduced tumor cell kill compared to conventional fractionation for tumors with regions of hypoxia. In preparation.
• Antony J, Loo BW, Carlson DJ, Maxim P, Luxton G, Xing L. Dose escalation study based on four-dimensional (4D) imaging for gated and non-gated radiation therapy. Submitted to Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. (2008).
• Sawant A, Venkat R, Srivastava V, Carlson D, Povzner S, Cattell H, Keall P. Management of three-dimensional intrafraction motion through real-time DMLC tracking. Med. Phys. 35: 2050−2061 (2008).
• Carlson DJ, Stewart RD, Semenenko VA, Sandison GA. Combined use of Monte Carlo DNA damage simulations and deterministic repair models to examine putative mechanisms of cell killing. Radiat. Res. 169: 447–459 (2008).
• Carlson DJ, Stewart RD, Semenenko VA. Effects of oxygen on intrinsic radiation sensitivity: A test of the relationship between aerobic and hypoxic linear-quadratic (LQ) model parameters. Med. Phys. 33: 3105–3115 (2006).
• Wang JZ, Stewart RD, Carlson DJ, Jennings K, Guerrero M, Li XA. Reply to 'Comments on the 'Comparison of in vitro and in vivo a/b ratios for prostate cancer" In response to Drs. Daşu and Fowler [letter]. Phys. Med. Biol. 50: L5–L8 (2005).
• Carlson DJ, Stewart RD, Li XA, Jennings K, Wang JZ, Guerrero M. Comparison of in vitro and in vivo a/b ratios for prostate cancer. Phys. Med. Biol. 49: 4477–4491 (2004).

Invited Lectures

• Carlson DJ, Keall PJ, Brown JM. Hypofractionation results in a decrease in tumor cell killing compared to standard fractionation as a result of tumor hypoxia.  Presented at the 49^th Annual Meeting of the AAPM, Minneapolis, MN, July 25 (2007).
• Carlson DJ, Keall PJ, Brown JM. Hypofractionation results in reduced tumor cell kill compared to conventional fractionation for tumors with regions of hypoxia. Presented at the workshop “Radiation Physics and Cancer Biology: Bridging the gap” at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, July 13 (2007).
• Carlson DJ, Stewart RD. Effects of linear energy transfer (LET) on intrinsic radiation sensitivity – tests of the putative mechanisms underlying the cell killing effects of ionizing radiation. Spotlight presentation at the 7^th Annual Symposium on Biomedical Computation at Stanford, Stanford, CA, October 21 (2006).
• Carlson DJ. Mechanisms of intrinsic radiation sensitivity: the effects of DNA damage repair, oxygen, and radiation quality. Presented to the Department of Radiation Oncology at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, July 25 (2006).
• Carlson DJ. Effects of oxygen and particle LET on intrinsic radiation sensitivity. Presented to the School of Health Sciences at Purdue University, W Lafayette, IN, April 18 (2006).
• Carlson DJ. In vitro and in vivo radiation response: applications in radiation oncology physics. Presented to the Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, February 6 (2006).
• Carlson DJ, Stewart RD. Strategies to predict the effect of hypoxia on intrinsic radiosensitivity parameters.  Presented at the 47^th Annual Meeting of the AAPM in Seattle, WA, July 25 (2005).
• Carlson DJ, Stewart RD. Effects of hypoxia on radiation response and implications for biologically based treatment planning.  Presented at the Workshop on Frontiers in Targeted Radiation Therapies at Purdue University in W Lafayette, IN, April 12 (2005).
• Carlson DJ. In vitro and in vivo radiation response: applications in radiation oncology physics. Presented to the School of Health Sciences at Purdue University in W Lafayette, IN, August 31 (2004).

Poster Presentations

• Sawant A, Keall PJ, Srivastava V, Venkat RB, Cattell H, Povzner S, Carlson DJ. Empirical investigation of 3D intrafraction motion management using a generalized methodology for tracking translating, rotating and deforming targets.  Presented as a moderated poster at the 49^th Annual Meeting of the AAPM, Minneapolis, MN, July 24 (2007).
• Carlson DJ, Keall PJ, Brown JM. Hypofractionation results in reduced tumor cell kill compared to conventional fractionation for tumors with regions of hypoxia. Presented at the 13^th International Congress of Radiation Research (ICRR), San Francisco, CA, July 8–12 (2007).
• Carlson DJ, Stewart RD, Sandison GA. Tests of the putative mechanisms underlying the cell killing effects of low and high LET ionizing radiation. Presented at the 53^rd Annual Meeting of the Radiation Research Society, Philadelphia, PA, November 5–8 (2006).
• Carlson DJ, Stewart RD. Effects of linear energy transfer (LET) on intrinsic radiation sensitivity – tests of the putative mechanisms underlying the cell killing effects of ionizing radiation. Presented at the 7^th Annual Symposium on Biomedical Computation at Stanford, Stanford, CA, October 21 (2006).
• Carlson DJ, Stewart RD, Jennings K, Park J. A mechanism-based method to predict LQ radiosensitivity parameters for hypoxia. Presented at the 51^st Annual Meeting of the Radiation Research Society in St. Louis, MO, April 24–27 (2004).
• Greist TM, Stewart RD, Carlson DJ, Jennings K, Park J. Optimal Experimental Designs for the Estimation of LQ Radiosensitivity Parameters. Presented at the 51^st Annual Meeting of the Radiation Research Society in St. Louis, MO, April 24–27 (2004).
• Carlson DJ, Stewart RD, Li XA, Wang JZ, Guerrero M. Can intrinsic radiosensitivity be reliably estimated from survival data for high dose rate irradiation conditions? Presented at the 12^th International Congress of Radiation Research (ICRR 2003) in Brisbane, Australia, August 17–22 (2003).
• Stewart RD, Carlson DJ, Jennings K. The Virtual Cell and Multi-Endpoint Data Analysis. Presented at the 12^th International Congress of Radiation Research (ICRR) in Brisbane, Australia, August 17–22 (2003).