Retired
San Diego GammaKnife Center
Solana Beach, CA, United States
Steven Goetsch received his Doctorate in Medical Physics from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1983. He had previously received a BS degree in Physics from Michigan State University and an MS in Health Physics from Northwestern University. After working as a Radiation Safety Officer in the Chicago area for four years, he spent five years as a graduate student in Madison, working under Frank Herbert Attix and Paul M. DeLuca, Jr. He served as Chief Physicist, and later Director, of the University of Wisconsin Accredited Dosimetry Calibration Laboratory from 1983 to 1990. He was active in the AAPM, becoming North Central Chapter President and Chapter Representative to the AAPM Board. Dr. Goetsch then moved to Los Angeles where he accepted a position as Hospital Physicist and Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA Medical Center. He began a 32 year involvement with the AAPM Southern California Chapter, becoming Chapter President and then serving for 20 years as Education Chair. Dr. Goetsch moved to San Diego in 1994, becoming the Chief Physicist at the San Diego Gamma Knife Center for the next 26 years. Dr. Goetsch also served as an instructor in the San Diego State University Medical Physics program from 1996 to 2011 and at John Patrick University from 2010 to the present. During his time in San Diego, Dr. Goetsch worked part time in Radiation Oncology programs at Sharp Health, Scripps Health and Palomar Medical Center. He is married to Mona Goetsch and his son David works as a Health Physicist in Southern California.
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