David Gladstone, ScD
Appointments/Titles:
Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
Adjunct Professor, Radiation Oncology and Applied Sciences
Director, Medical Physics Education Program at Dartmouth College
Director, Medical Physics Education and Research at Dartmouth Health
Director, Medical Physics Residency Program
Education and Training:
B.S. Chemistry | University of Denver, 1983
Sc.D. Physical Chemistry | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989
Postdoc Radiation Therapy | Harvard University, 1991
About Dr. Gladstone:
Dr. Gladstone's passion is in discovery, characterization, and implementation of novel technological solutions to address complex clinical challenges. He served as chief of clinical physics at Dartmouth for 25 years and oversaw the growth and sophistication of treatments from point and shoot estimates to image guided tissue delineation and more precise targeting. Dynamic effects such as internal organ motion in real time are now accounted for, and treatment efficacy and increased cure rates have resulted from these efforts. His goal is to exponentially increase my effectiveness in this pursuit through interaction and instruction of the next generation of leaders in the fields of radiation medicine and clinically applied biomedical engineering. Dr. Gladstone's current areas of exploration include: Ultra-High Dose Rate radiotherapy to spare normal tissue, Cherenkov and scintillation imaging to efficiently assure quality of treatment (real time dose verification), Fluorescence based detection of radio-chemically produced reactive molecules to better understand the basis of radiotherapy, and drug eluting spacers to deliver chemotherapy concurrently with low dose rate implants.
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Teaching:
RAD-004: Practicum in Medical Physics