D Wieczorek PhD

D Jay Wieczorek, Ph.D., is a senior physicist at Miami Cancer Institute. Her area of interest is in brain radiosurgery, primarily with Gamma Knife treatment planning and evaluating treatment metrics, in the hope of eventually correlating them with treatment outcomes. Dr. Wieczorek is also currently working on getting the 3D bolus system commissioned for use clinically. Dr. Wieczorek earned her Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering (Health Physics) from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. At Miami Cancer Institute, Dr. Wieczorek is responsible for TrueBeam, TrueBeam STX, and Gamma Knife systems in addition to the Eclipse treatment planning system, Velocity system, and I-131 thyroid ablation and liver embolization treatments. She is also involved in the following systems; Accuray Radixact, CyberKnife, and Varian VariSource HDR. Prior to her work at Miami Cancer Institute and Baptist Health South Florida, Dr. Wieczorek worked as a post-doctoral fellow in medical physics at the University of California in San Francisco, California, and was a visiting research collaborator at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in Livermore, California.