Ranjini Tolakanahalli PhD, DABR

Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Ph.D., is a senior physicist at Miami Cancer Institute. Her area of interest is in precision evaluation in implementing high-quality conventional and adaptive personalized radiotherapy for all cancer patients. Focusing on automation analysis of plan complexity and its effect on deliverability on patients; use of fiducials and 2D tracking to ensure adequate PTV Margins hypofractionated Prostate SBRTs; and analysis of setup errors using CBCT for frame-based stereotactic Gamma Knife treatments for over 150 patient cases.

Dr. Tolakanahalli received her master of science in Medical Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and joined the Radiation Oncology department as a medical physicist in 2007. She later went on to complete her Ph.D. in Medical Physics in 2012 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with the research focused on the use of Chaos theory for respiratory management. Dr. Tolakanahalli later worked as a physicist at Hamilton Health Sciences, Ontario, and served as the head of the Walker Family Cancer Center in Niagara Health, Ontario, and a faculty member at the Physics department at Brock University, Ontario. She has served on the Physics and Radiation safety provincial committees in Ontario. Dr. Tolakanahalli has authored over a dozen papers in peer-reviewed journals and over 40 abstracts and conference proceedings. She is an ad-hoc article reviewer of numerous journals in Medical Physics.