Associate Professor in Residence, Radiation Oncology, UCSF
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faddegon@radonc17.ucsf.edu Box 1708, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-1708 |
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University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, B.Sc., 1977, Physics (honors)
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| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
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1977-80 |
Geophysicist, Amoco Canada, Calgary, Alberta |
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1982-84 |
Sessional Lecturer and Laboratory Instructor, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC |
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1984-86 |
Medical Physics Resident, Ottawa Regional Cancer Center, Ottawa, Ontario |
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1990-92 |
Research Associate, Ionizing Radiation Standards, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario |
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1992-93 |
Medical Physicist, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC |
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1994-98 |
Medical Physicist, Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Center, Toronto, Ontario |
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1994-2000 |
Assistant Member, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario |
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1998-2000 |
Senior Medical Physicist, Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Center, Ontario |
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2000-present |
Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco |
| HONORS & AWARDS | |
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1980 |
National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) scholarship for M.Sc. studies |
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1982 |
NSERC scholarship for Ph.D. studies - declined |
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1986 |
Ontario Cancer Foundation fellowship for Ph.D. studies |
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1988 |
Ontario Graduate Scholarship for Ph.D. studies |
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1989 |
American Association Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Young Investigator's Award, Second Prize |
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1991 |
Farrington Daniels Award (AAPM) |
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1992 |
Runner-up to Sylvia Fedoruk Prize (Canadian Organization of Medical Physics) |
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1996 |
Runner-up to Sylvia Fedoruk Prize (Canadian Organization of Medical Physics) |
| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS | |
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The Automated Low Dose Assay System for Survival Measurements of Mammalian Cells. In Vitro. J. of Tissue Culture Methods 8(3):103 (1983); B. Palcic, B.A. Faddegon, B. Jaggi, and L. D. Skarsgard. |
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The Effect of Misonidazole as a Hypoxic Radiosensitizer at Low Dose. Radiation Research 100(2):340 (1984); B. Palcic, B.A. Faddegon, and L. D. Skarsgard. |
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Computer Aided Design and Verification of Megavoltage Tissue Compensators for Oblique Beams. Medical Physics, 15(5):757 (1988); B.A. Faddegon and P. M. Pfalzner. |
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Pile-up Corrections in Pulsed-Beam Spectroscopy. Nucl. Inst. Meth., B51:431 (1990); B.A. Faddegon. |
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Forward-Directed Bremsstrahlung of 10-30 MeV Electrons Incident on Thick Targets of Al and Pb. Medical Physics, 17(5):773 (1990); B.A. Faddegon, C. K. Ross, and D. W. O. Rogers. |
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Precision Response-Function Estimation, Energy Calibration, and Unfolding of Spectra Measured With a Large NaI Detector. Nucl. Inst. Meth., A301:138 (1991); B.A. Faddegon, L. Van der Zwan, D. W. O. Rogers, and C. K. Ross. |
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Angular Distributions of Bremsstrahlung from 15 MeV Electrons Incident on Thick Targets of Be, Al and Pb. Med Phys 18(4):727 (1991); B.A. Faddegon, C. K. Ross, and D. W. O. Rogers. |
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Re-evaluation of the Total Stopping Power of 5.3 MeV Electrons in Polystyrene. Phys. Med. Biol. 37(4):969 (1992); D. W. O. Rogers and B.A. Faddegon. |
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Measurement of Collision Stopping Powers of Graphite, Aluminum and Copper for 10 and 20 MeV Electrons. Phys. Med. Biol. 37(7):1561 (1992); B.A. Faddegon, C. K. Ross, and D. W. O. Rogers. |
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Comparisons of Thick-target Bremsstrahlung Calculated with EGS and ITS. Nucl. Inst. Meth. A327:556 (1993); B.A. Faddegon and D. W. O. Rogers. |
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BEAM: A Monte Carlo code to simulate radiotherapy treatment units. Med. Phys. 22(5):503 (1995); D. W. O. Rogers, B.A. Faddegon, G. X. Ding, C.-M. Ma, J. We, and T. R. Mackie. |
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Calculation of x-ray spectra for radiosurgical beams. Med. Phys. 22(10):1657 (1995); K. Sixel and B.A. Faddegon. |
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Monte Carlo based phase-space-evolution for electron dose calculation. Med. Phys. 24(2):177 (1997); D. Scora and B.A. Faddegon. |
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Accurate characterization of Monte Carlo calculated electron beams for radiotherapy. Med. Phys. 24(3):401 (1997); C.-M. Ma, B.A. Faddegon, D. W. O. Rogers, and T. R. Mackie. |
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Clinical considerations of Monte Carlo for electron radiotherapy treatment planning. Rad. Phys. and Chem. 53(3):217-227 (1998); B.A. Faddegon, J. Balogh, R. Mackenzie, and D. Scora. |
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Megavoltage imaging with low Z targets: Implementation and characterization of an investigational system. Med. Phys. 25(10): 1910-1918 (1998); O. Z. Ostapiak, P. F. O'Brien, B.A. Faddegon. |
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The flattened area of Siemens linear accelerator x-ray fields. Med. Phys. 26(2):220-228, 1999; B.A. Faddegon, P. F. O'Brien, D. L. D. Mason. |
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Electron spectra derived from depth dose distributions. Med. Phys. 27(3):514-526, July, 2000; B.A. Faddegon, I. Blevis. |
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Description and dosimetric verification of the PEREGRINE Monte Carlo dose calculation system for photon beams incident on a water phantom. Med. Phys. 28(7):1322-1337, 2001; C.L. Hartmann-Siantar, R.S. Walling, T.P. Daly, B. Faddegon, N. Albright, P. Bergstrom, A.F. Bielajew, C. Chuang, D. Garrett, R.K.House, D. Knapp, D.J. Wieczorek and L.J. Verhey. |
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Comparison of beam characteristics of a gold x-ray target and a tungsten replacement target. Med. Phys. 31(1):91, 2004; B. Faddegon, B. Egley, T. Steinberg. |
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Dosimetry of a prototype retractable eMLC for fixed-beam electron therapy. Med Phys. 31:443, 2004; K.R. Hogstrom, R. A. Boyd, J. A. Antolak, M. M. Svatos, B. A. Faddegon, and J. G. Rosenman. |
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A Comparison of Monte Carlo and Fermi-Eyges-Hogstrom Estimates of Heart and Lung Dose from Breast Electron Boost Treatment. Int. J. Onc. Biol. Phys., Volume 61(2):309-317, 2005; J. Coleman, Joy, C. Park, J.E. Villarreal¨˘Barajas, P. Petti, B. Faddegon. |
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Sensitivity of large-field electron beams to variations in a Monte Carlo accelerator model. Phys. Med. Biol. 50 (2005) 769-778; E. Schreiber, B.A. Faddegon. |
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Monte Carlo simulation of large electron fields. Phys. Med. Biol. 50 (2005) 741-753; B.A. Faddegon, E. Schreiber, X. Ding. |
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Final Aperture Superposition Technique applied to fast calculation of electron output factors and depth dose curves. Med. Phys. 32:3286, 2005; B.A.Faddegon, J.E.Villarreal-Barajas. |
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Intraoperative radiation therapy using mobile electron linear accelerators: Report of AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group No. 72. Med. Phys., 33(5):1476-1489, 2006; AS Beddar, PJ Biggs, S Chang, GA Ezzell, BA Faddegon, FW Hensley, MD Mills.. |
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A pulse-rate dependence of dose per monitor unit and its significant effect on wedged-shaped fields delivered with variable dose rate and a moving jaw. Med. Phys., 33:3063-3065, 2006; Bruce A Faddegon, E Garde. |
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Response of intracerebral human glioblastoma xenografts to multi-fraction radiation exposures. Accepted by Int. J. Radiat. Onc. Biol. Phys., May, 2006; Tomoko Ozawa, Bruce A Faddegon, Lily J Hu, Andrew W Bollen, MD, Kathleen R Lamborn, Dennis F Deen. |
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12/8/06 |
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