Welcome and Overview
Medical Physics Residency Program Overview
Daniel Johnson, Ph.D., DABR
Medical Physics Residency Program Director
Clinical Assistant Professor
When you join The University of Kansas Cancer Center, you’ll be learning at an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Department of Radiation Oncology provides cancer care services throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area, administering over 4,500 treatment courses annually.
As a lifelong Midwesterner, I’m proud to guide the future professionals as the Director of Medical Physics Residency. With a passion for teaching, I previously served as an Assistant Professor and medical physicist at the University of Oklahoma Stephenson Cancer Center for over a decade. My research interests have included electron beam therapy, accelerated partial-breast irradiation, small animal irradiation systems, additive manufacturing, phantom design, and the optimization and automation of quality assurance.
Within the Department of Radiation Oncology, we emphasize helping our residents become confident and independent while learning under the direct supervision of experienced, board-certified medical physicists.
CAMPEP accredited since 2009, our residency program offers clinical training in therapy medical physics, encompassing proton therapy, HDR and LDR brachytherapy, external photon beam radiotherapy techniques such as 3DCRT, IMRT, SBRT, SRS/SRT, TBI, TSET, and S/IGRT with various image guidance modalities, as well as GammaTile and radiopharmaceutical therapies. Resident progress is assessed through frequent discussions with rotation supervisors and scheduled oral exams.
Our department is staffed with 21 faculty medical physicists, 18 medical dosimetrists, and 5 medical physics residents who support a full range of clinical, research, and educational services, with plans for continued growth. The department boasts a newly renovated 1200 sq. ft. physics research space located adjacent to the main KUCC Radiation Oncology clinic, housing both computational and instrumentation labs.
Medical Physics research is actively funded by multiple NIH grants, industry grants, and KUCC physicist/scientist recruiting grants. Collaborations with the KU Lawrence physics, and engineering departments foster numerous exciting opportunities for both academic research and education.
The Medical Physics group at KU strives for excellence in clinical, educational, and research endeavors, and has a rapidly growing national reputation in many specialties, including proton microbeam therapy, FLASH, multi-modality optimization, treatment planning, dosimetry, instrumentation, Monte-Carlo simulations, QA/QC, and more.
Contact Information
Questions regarding our medical physics residency program should be directed to:
Daniel Johnson, Ph.D., DABR
Medical Physics Residency Program Director
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
The University of Kansas Cancer Center
Tel: 913-588-8499 Fax: 913-588-3663
Email: djohnson49@kumc.edu
Ben C. Lewis, Ph.D.
Medical Physics Assistant Program Director
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
The University of Kansas Cancer Center
Tel: 913-588-2343 Fax: 913-588-3663
blewis15@kumc.edu
June Cho, MS
Educational Program Manager
Medical Physics Residency Program
Department of Radiation Oncology
The University of Kansas Hospital
4001 Rainbow Blvd. MS 4033
Kansas City, Kansas 66160
Tel: 913-574-0406
Email: jcho6@kumc.edu