Jennifer Pursley

Employment

• 2018-present: Physics lead of photon treatment planning
• 2016-present: Treatment planning mentor in the Harvard Medical Physics Residency program
• 2015-present: clinical photon medical physicist at MGH including brachytherapy
• 2014-2019: adjunct Radiation Physics faculty at Suffolk University
• 2013-2015: clinical medical physicist at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, an MGH-affiliated department
• 2010-2013: Harvard Medical Physics Residency Program
• 2007-2010: Postdoctoral research associate at University of Wisconsin-Madison in particle physics

Certification

• Certified by the ABR in Therapeutic Medical Physics, May 2014

Education and Degrees

• B.S.: Gonzaga University, 2002, Physics
• M.A.: Johns Hopkins University, 2005, Physics
• Ph.D.: Johns Hopkins University, 2008, Experimental Particle Physics

Selected Publications

S. Kamran, D.M. McClatchy III, J. Pursley, A.V. Trofimov, K. Remillard, A. Saraf, A. Ghosh, A. Thabet, P. Surphin, D.T. Miyamoto, J.A. Efstathiou. Characterization of an Iodinated Rectal Spacer for Prostate Photon and Proton Radiotherapy. Pract Radiat Oncol. Online ahead of print, doi: 10.1016/j.prro.2021.09.009.

S. Apisarnthanarax, A. Barry, M. Cao, B. Czito, R. DeMatteo, M. Drinane, C.L. Hallemeier, E.J. Koay, F. Lasley, J. Meyer, D. Owen, J. Pursley, S.K. Schaub, G. Smith, N.K. Venepalli, G. Zibari, H. Cardenes. External Beam Radiation Therapy for Primary Liver Cancers: An ASTRO Clinical Practice Guideline. Pract Radiat Oncol. Online ahead of print: doi: 10.1016/j.prro.2021.09.004

J. Pursley, I. El Naqa, N. N. Sanford, B. Noe, J. Y. Wo, C. E. Eyler, M. Hwang, K. K. Brock, B. Y. Yeap, J. A. Wolfgang, T. S. Hong, C. Grassberger. Dosimetric analysis and normal tissue complication probability modeling of Child-Pugh score and Albumin-Bilirubin grade increase after hepatic irradiation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 107(5):986-995 (2020).

N. N. Sanford, J. Pursley, B. Noe, B. Y. Yeap, L. Goyal, J. W. Clark, J. N. Allen, L. S. Blaszkowsky, D. P. Ryan, C. R. Ferrone, K. K. Tanabe, M. Qadan, C. H. Crane, E. J. Koay, C. Eyler, T. F. Delaney, A. X. Zhu, J. Y. Wo, C. Grassberger, T. S. Hong. Protons vs Photons for Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Liver Decompensation and Overall Survival Proton Radiotherapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 105(1):64-72 (2019).

J. Pursley, A. L. Damato, M. A. Czerminska, D. N. Margalit, D. J. Sher, and R. B. Tishler. A comparative study of standard IMRT and RapidArc planning techniques for ipsilateral and bilateral head and neck irradiation. Med. Dosim. 42(1), 31-36 (2017).

J. Pursley, P. Risholm, A. Fedorov, K. Tuncali, F. Fennessy, W. Wells, C.M. Tempany, and R.A. Cormack, “A Bayesian nonrigid registration method to enhance intraoperative target definition in image-guided prostate procedures through uncertainty characterization,” Med. Phys. 39 (11), 6858-6867 (2012).

CDF Collaboration, “Measurement of the W+W- Production Cross Section and Search for Anomalous WWγ and WWZ Couplings in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 201801 (2010). (second author)

CDF Collaboration, “Inclusive Search for Standard Model Higgs Boson Production in the WW Decay Channel,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 061803 (2010). (contributing author)

CDF Collaboration, “Measurement of Resonance Parameters of Orbitally Excited Narrow B0 Mesons,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 102003 (2009). (first author)

CDF Collaboration, “First Observation of Heavy Baryons Σb and Σb*,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 202001 (2007). (first author)