March 2009 - April 2009

-              Worked under Chief Medical Physicist, Yagang Wang, MS, DABMP, DABR

-              Assisted CT simulations, treatment planning utilizing XiO RTP software, patient set-up, treatment, and full QA on Siemens ONCOR Linac and High-Art TomoTherapy systems

-              Observed prostate seed implantation surgery including treatment planning utilizing Variseed software and post-op QA checks                                  

 

Volunteer, Cancer Care Center of Las Vegas

October 2007 - January2008

-              Worked with Chief Radiation Oncologist Dr. Navneet Sharda, dosimetrist Darren Markovitz, and technicians

-              Helped troubleshoot DICOM and off-site image acquisition issues

-              Assisted in stereotactic radiosurgeries

-              Simulated mock treatment planning for IMRT using 3D Line software and Siemans Linac

 

Undergraduate Research, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

                                     May 2002 - January 2003          

-          Worked under Dr. Stephanie Tristram-Nagle researching novel lipids

                                     August 2001 - December 2001

-     Worked under Dr. Stephen Garoff researching Marangoni Effect and applications in microgravity; studied surface flow in static contact lines

   

Publications:            Joseph W. Blickenstaff, Van Vo, Henry Hirschberg and Steen J. Madsen, "Photochemical internalization for the delivery of bleomycin in glioma spheroids." (In Preparation)

 

Steen J. Madsen, Van Vo, Even-Angell Petersen, Joseph W. Blickenstaff and Henry Hirschberg, “Photochemical internalization enhances the efficacy of bleomycin in malignant glioma cells.”  Proceedings SPIE vol. 7161, Photonic Therapeutics and Diagnostics V, N. Kollias et al. (2009)

Stephanie Tristram-Nagle, Ruthven N.A.H. Lewis, Joseph W. Blickenstaff, Michael DiPrima, Bruno F. Marques, Ronald N. McElhaney, John F. Nagle and James W. Schneider, “Thermodynamic and structural characterization of amino acid-linked dialkyl lipids.”  Chemistry and Physics of Lipids 134: 29-39 (2005)

 

Presentations:         Joseph W. Blickenstaff, Van Vo, Henry Hirshberg and Steen J. Madsen, “Photochemical internalization for the delivery of bleomycin in human glioma spheroids.”  Fifty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society, Minneapolis, USA (July 2009)

Steen J. Madsen, Van Vo, Even-Angell Petersen, Joseph W. Blickenstaff and Henry Hirschberg, “Photochemical internalization enhances the efficacy of bleomycin in malignant glioma cells.”  BiOS’09, International Symposium on Biomedical Optics, San Jose, USA (January 2009)

Joseph W. Blickenstaff, Van Vo, Henry Hirschberg and Steen J. Madsen, “Photochemical delivery of bleomycin in malignant glioma cells.”  Fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society, Pittsburgh, USA (June 2008)

 

 Steen J. Madsen, Van Vo, Even Angell-Petersen, Joseph W. Blickenstaff, Yi Hong Zhou and Henry Hirschberg, “Photochemical-mediated delivery of macromolecules for the treatment of malignant gliomas,” BIT Life Sciences 1^st Annual World Cancer Congress, Shanghai, China (June 2008)

Joseph W. Blickenstaff, Van Vo, Henry Hirschberg, and Steen J. Madsen, “Photochemical delivery of bleomycin in malignant glioma cells.”  UNLV Division of Health Science’s Annual Interdisciplinary Research Scholarship Day, Las Vegas, USA (April 2008)

 

Memberships:        -     UNLV Student Chapter of the Health Physics Society (Past-President)

-     National Health Physics Society (member)

                                     -     American Association of Physicists in Medicine (member)

 

Awards:                     -     Health Physics Society Annual Conference Student Travel Grant, 2008 and 2009

-     Graduate Assistantship, Health Physics Dept. UNLV, 2007-2009

-     S.U.R.G. (Small Undergraduate Research Grant), CMU, 2000

                                     -     Summer Research Fellowship, CMU, 2000

-     Modern Languages Scholarship, CMU, 2000

 

Interests:                   -     Worked as poker dealer for the World Series of Poker (2006)

-          Worked as part of engineering team at Volkswagen’s second largest factory troubleshooting transmission noise problems in Kassel, Germany (Summer 2001)

-          Attended the Goethe Institut’s four week intensive language course in Berlin, Germany (July 2000)

(This résumé was posted on 26 July 2009.)