Dr Alex Dunlop PhD

Radiotherapy Physicist

Dr Alex Dunlop works at the Royal Marsden Hospital (RMH) as a radiotherapy physicist who specialises in adaptive radiotherapy techniques, in particular online adaptive radiotherapy (oART). Alex worked on the clinical implementation of the Elekta Unity MR-linac at the RMH which was the first UK centre to treat using MR-guided oART in September 2018.

Alex was also part of the team that developed the world’s first online adaptive solution on an Accuray Radixact platform using the RayStation TPS. Alex is particularly interested in developing protocols that take advantage of online adaptive radiotherapy platforms with a focus on making the workflows as efficient as possible.

Professor Raj Jena

Clinical Professor

Raj Jena is a Professor of AI in Radiation Oncology based at the University of Cambridge Department of Oncology and Cambridge University Hospitals. He is the Lead AI Advisor for Oncology at the Royal College of Radiologists. His research interests focus on clinical image processing, data science and machine learning applications.

He enjoys working at the interface between the clinical, academic and commercial sectors. Following successful collaborations with Siemens and other imaging companies. Raj has had the opportunity to work with thought leaders in medical image analysis, and subsequently led the NHS AI lab funded OSAIRIS project, which developed the first cloud based open-source imaging AI solution to be deployed at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

He is now applying his knowledge of machine learning and image processing to the STELLA project, an international collaboration developing a novel smart radiotherapy unit for low- and middle-income countries.

Dr Josh Mason

Consultant Radiotherapy Physicist

Josh is a Consultant Radiotherapy Physicist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, specialising in external beam treatment planning and brachytherapy. He has more than 15 years experience as a clinical physicist and also completed a PhD in prostate brachytherapy.

He leads a project to implement AI based auto-contouring at Imperial, funded by an Imperial Health Charity Innovation grant. The project included evaluation of commercial systems, governance and safety aspects of implementation, commissioning and automated audits of clinical usage. The auto-contouring system at Imperial is used for all planned external beam, SABR and brachytherapy treatments.

Dr Alison Starke

Principle Radiotherapy Physicist

Alison is a Radiotherapy Physicist currently working in Glasgow. Prior to this, she worked at Barts Health NHS Trust and HCA Healthcare. She completed a PhD in Clinical Engineering, specialising in neural networks, and maintains an active interest in the application of artificial intelligence to radiotherapy practice and research.