Matthew K. West, PhD – Medical Physicist
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Dr. Matthew West has been a member of many of our patients’ care teams at CTCA at Southwestern Regional Medical Center for seven years.
Among Dr. West’s responsibilities as a medical physicist are ensuring that the hospital’s HDR brachytherapy and Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) equipment function properly and that patients who undergo radiation therapy receive the proper dosages.
The board-certified medical physicist obtained a master’s of science degree and a PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of Missouri. He also studied medical physics and performed supervised, clinical applications of diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy at Rush University in Chicago. Prior to his graduate studies, he attended Southern Illinois University, where he graduated with a bachelor’s of science degree in physics.
Dr. West has held positions as a medical physicist at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois, as an assistant physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and as an assistant medical physicist at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia, Missouri. In addition, he has served as a consulting medical physicist at International Medical Physics Services in San Antonio, Texas and has held research positions at Wide Band-Gap Materials Laboratory and Particulate Systems Research Center in Columbia, Missouri.
He has taught radiological physics to radiology residents at Oklahoma State University’s College of Medicine. Additionally, he has published and presented on TomoTherapy®, HDR brachytherapy, photodynamic therapy and the up-and-coming topic of proton therapy.
Dr. West is a member of numerous professional associations, including the American College of Radiology, the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.