Hello and welcome to my website! My name is Mel. I started RemoteCMD doing remote part-time treatment planning while at my full time position at Keesler Air Force Base radiation oncology. When the radiation oncology center closed, December 2015, I took on this endeavor full-time. I am fully licensed and insured. Please read on and take the time to review some of my treatment plans. Ask any questions, I'm only a phone call away. (850.501.5520 text messaging accepted) Also listed on Viber.
A bit about me and my career:
I've been a dosimetrist since 1985 and a CMD since 1989. I went back to school and received my bachelors degree in 2003. WHY...because I felt that I deserved to have it behind my name.
The past 3 decades in radiation therapy have been something I only dreamed of in the eighties. I went from spending my day mostly with my Hewlett Packard calculator to 4D treatment planning! While it puts me in awe, it also makes me thankful. Every change has enabled us to provide the patient population with more cures and less side effects. To understand the depth of growth in our field humbles me.
When I worked in the nineties at West Florida Cancer Center, we entered the world of 3-D treatment planning. We actually kicked the table, could see the anatomy and calculated on different planes! WOW! I remember toiling so hard to learn all facets of the software. Eventually, my colleagues and I put on an AAMD regional meeting to teach others what we learned. Our region meeting had the largest turn out to date at that time. I must say that was an awesome experience for me.
Enter the next decade. I decided to travel and see the country. One of the centers I worked at was Rhode Island Hospital. Working with such an awesome team, I was able to learn Step&Shoot IMRT. The staff was brilliant and I developed an excellent IMRT skillset. As I traveled, I was able to refine that skillset. The following year, I was asked back to RIH. (Two of the dosimetrists passed their boards and became physicists.) The hospital was now using Pinnacle and Eclipse. So... I became an well-versed on sliding window IMRT. (Thank-you Anita and Amanda)
The arrival of 2010 bought a lot of changes for for me. I was offered a position at Keesler Airforce Base to open a brand new radiation center after Hurricane Katrina destroyed their previous center. It sounds strange now but we opened as a paperless environment which was exciting. I had the opportunity to attend the Rapid Arc course and implemented the technique in our department. The VMAT skillset allowed us to institute SBRT and SRS planning techniques.
As a senior level dosimetrist, I can bring these treatment planning techniques to your department. I currently provide 2 service levels: Remote Dosimetry Services , Temporary or PRN and Locum Tenen onsite. Please contact me to discuss these options.
Thanks for stopping by and enjoy reviewing the plans!
Regards,
I've been a dosimetrist since 1985 and a CMD since 1989. I went back to school and received my bachelors degree in 2003. WHY...because I felt that I deserved to have it behind my name.
The past 3 decades in radiation therapy have been something I only dreamed of in the eighties. I went from spending my day mostly with my Hewlett Packard calculator to 4D treatment planning! While it puts me in awe, it also makes me thankful. Every change has enabled us to provide the patient population with more cures and less side effects. To understand the depth of growth in our field humbles me.
When I worked in the nineties at West Florida Cancer Center, we entered the world of 3-D treatment planning. We actually kicked the table, could see the anatomy and calculated on different planes! WOW! I remember toiling so hard to learn all facets of the software. Eventually, my colleagues and I put on an AAMD regional meeting to teach others what we learned. Our region meeting had the largest turn out to date at that time. I must say that was an awesome experience for me.
Enter the next decade. I decided to travel and see the country. One of the centers I worked at was Rhode Island Hospital. Working with such an awesome team, I was able to learn Step&Shoot IMRT. The staff was brilliant and I developed an excellent IMRT skillset. As I traveled, I was able to refine that skillset. The following year, I was asked back to RIH. (Two of the dosimetrists passed their boards and became physicists.) The hospital was now using Pinnacle and Eclipse. So... I became an well-versed on sliding window IMRT. (Thank-you Anita and Amanda)
The arrival of 2010 bought a lot of changes for for me. I was offered a position at Keesler Airforce Base to open a brand new radiation center after Hurricane Katrina destroyed their previous center. It sounds strange now but we opened as a paperless environment which was exciting. I had the opportunity to attend the Rapid Arc course and implemented the technique in our department. The VMAT skillset allowed us to institute SBRT and SRS planning techniques.
As a senior level dosimetrist, I can bring these treatment planning techniques to your department. I currently provide 2 service levels: Remote Dosimetry Services , Temporary or PRN and Locum Tenen onsite. Please contact me to discuss these options.
Thanks for stopping by and enjoy reviewing the plans!
Regards,
Mel Kassab BS. R.T.(R)(T),CMD
