Eric Vandervoort

Dr. Eric Vandervoort holds multiple academic roles: Medical Physicist at The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Physics at Carleton University, and Assistant Professor in the Division of Medical Physics at the University of Ottawa's Department of Radiology. His research focuses on medical physics applications in stereotactic ablative radiosurgery, including accurate modeling of detector responses and evaluating dose delivery uncertainties in advanced systems like CyberKnife and GammaPod.

Key research areas include radiation beam modeling, multileaf collimator calibration, and patient anatomy changes during treatment. Dr. Vandervoort is also involved in prototyping patient immobilization techniques for the GammaPod breast radiotherapy system and developing MR-based dose calculation using Monte Carlo models. He leads projects on in-room image guidance for real-time patient positioning verification.

He contributes to the implementation of new technologies such as the Ottawa Hospital's GammaPod and dedicated MRI-simulation suite, slated for 2018 installation. His work emphasizes precision and safety in radiation therapy, addressing clinical challenges in complex delivery systems.