Colleen Fox, PhD
Appointments/Titles:
Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology and Applied Sciences
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
Education and Training:
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering | Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1997
Ph.D. Engineering Sciences | Dartmouth College, 2009
Residency Therapeutic Medical Physics | University of Michigan, 2012
About Dr. Fox:
Dr. Fox is a medical physicist with commitments to clinical practice, education and research. Dr. Fox is the primary instructor for the graduate level Radiation Therapy Physics course for the Dartmouth PhD Program in Medical Physics, as well as for the Radiation Oncology Medical Residents. She has also initiated Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s participation as a clinical site for Grand Valley State University's Masters of Science in Medical Dosimetry.
Drawing on her engineering and six sigma training, Dr. Fox’s research interests center around workflow optimization and standardization. This includes coordination of departmental data elements with their use throughout the hospital as well as in wider data utilization efforts such as cancer registries, outcomes analysis, planning automation, and decision guide development. She is also a co-chair of our QAQI committee and is working on an efficient process to transfer incident reports between ROILS and the hospital incident learning system.
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Teaching:
RAD-003: Radiation Therapy (W26)