Rebecca M. Howell, PhD, DABR, FAAPM
Professor
Department of Radiation Physics
Division of Radiation Oncology
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
I am a medical physicist, a tenured Professor, certified by the American Board of Radiology in Therapeutic Radiologic Physics, and a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. I have over 20 years of research and clinical experience in radiation oncology and have authored more than 180 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am extramurally funded Principal Investigator. Most recently, I was awarded a National Cancer Institute R01, Personalized Risk Prediction to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease in Childhood Cancer Survivors. I am the Director of the MD Anderson Late Effects Group. Our research focuses on radiotherapy-related late effects and quantifying dose-response relationships between radiation dose to specific organs and late effects in cancer survivors. Related to my late effects research, I am a member of the Pediatric Normal Tissue Effects in the Clinic (PENTEC) core committee and the PENTEC Cardiovascular and Gastrointestinal/Hepatic Research Teams. Additionally, I am the Director of the MD Anderson Radiation Dosimetry Services, which provides independent peer review of beam output calibrations for external beam radiotherapy machines. Annually, we monitor more than 12,000 beams at over 1,200 radiotherapy centers worldwide. I am also actively engaged in graduate education in mentorship. I am the Director of the Medical Physics Graduate Program at the MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
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