Chief Physicist
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Dr. Podgorsak serves as Chief Physicist in the Department of Radiation Medicine at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, NY, a position he has held since 1998. He also holds an Associate Professor appointment in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo (UB), and he has mentored numerous Master’s and Doctoral students enrolled in UB’s CAMPEP-accredited medical physics graduate program.
Dr. Podgorsak has been supporting a Gamma Knife radiosurgery program since 1998, with his most recent experience being with the Esprit model. He is board-certified in Radiation Oncology Physics by the American Board of Radiology and the American Board of Medical Physics. He is a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and is a member of the American Society for Radiation Oncology, the American College of Radiation Oncology, and the Radiosurgery Society (RSS). He is also Chair of the Board of Trustees for the American Board of Radiology, and he is a member of several AAPM committees.