Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Medical Physics

Virginia Commonwealth University

The Ph.D. in Medical Physics offers students course work and research training in physics as it is applied to the diagnosis and treatment of human diseases. The mission of the doctoral program is to serve the commonwealth of Virginia and the nation by helping to meet the demand for competent medical physicists in both the health care delivery and biomedical research settings. The program will prepare students for careers as independent investigators in the field of medical physics and jointly for careers in university departments, research institutes, laboratories and hospitals as trainee clinical medical physicists. Research areas include brachytherapy, hyperthermia, image-guided radiation therapy, intensity-modulated radiation therapy, proton therapy, medical imaging technologies, radiomics, image processing and reconstructions, functional imaging, novel treatment device fabrications, robotics, and 4-D treatment technology development.

School of Medicine