Gwen Andersen is a Senior Medical Physics Assistant at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Department of Radiation Oncology and a PhD candidate in Medical Physics at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She holds a CAMPEP-accredited MS degree from UML and completed Part One of the American Board of Radiology Therapeutic Medical Physics certification in 2026. With 5+ years of clinical experience and published work on patient-specific quality assurance, Gwen plans to pursue a medical physics residency and achieve full ABR certification, maintaining a focus on translational research. Her principal career goal is to advance the role of multiscale connectomics in radiotherapy plan optimization to mitigate radiation-induced cognitive impairment. Her research activity at MGH and Harvard Medical School spans neuronal radiobiology, mathematical modeling of synaptic network radiosensitivity, and developing support for connectomic reconstructions in TOPAS-nBio, a Monte Carlo simulation toolkit for radiobiological modeling.
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