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Ara Alexandrian, Ph.D.

Ara Alexandrian, PhD

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Residency
University of Washington, 2018-2020

Ph.D., Medical Physics
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, 2015-2018

Masters
Oregon State University, 2013-2015

CERTIFICATIONS

Diplomat of the American Board of Radiology (DABR), 2021
Therapeutic Medical Physics

EMPLOYMENT

Adjunct Faculty, 2024-Present
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University

Academic Medical Physicist, 2024-present
Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, Baton Rouge, LA

Assistant Professor, 2020-2024
University of Birmingham at Alabama

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Alexandrian, A., Stanley, D., Covington, E., Liu, H., Cardan, R., Bridges, D., Thomas, E., Fiveash, J., Popple, R. “Accuracy of Dose-Volume Metric Calculation for Small-Volume Radiosurgery Targets.” The International Journal of Medical Physics Research and Practice. 2020. 
  2. Alexandrian, A., Licon, A., Saenz, D., Myers, P., Rasmussen, K., Stathakis, S., Papanikolaou, N., Kirby, N. “An Open-Source Tool to Visualize Potential Cone Collisions While Planning SRS cases.” Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics. 2020. 
  3. Alexandrian, A., Mavroidis, P., Narayanasamy, G., McConnell, KA., Kabat, C., George, R., Defoor, D., Kirby, N., Papanikolaou, N., Stathakis, S. “Incorporating Biological Modeling Into Patient-Specific Plan Verification.” Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics. 2020. 
  4. Alexandrian, A., Meyer, J., Smith, W., Geneser, S., Koger, B., Kalet, A., Young, L., Cao, N., Price, R., Norris, C., Horton, T., et al. “Characterizing a Deformable Registration Algorithm for Surface-Guided Breast Radiotherapy.” Medical Physics. 2019. 
  5. Alexandrian, A., McConnell, KA., Papanikolaou, N., Stathakis, S. “Comparative Performance Evaluation of a New a-Si EPID That Exceeds Quad High-Definition Resolution.” Journal of B.U.ON.: Official Journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology. 2018.Â