Prof Catharine Clark holds a joint post at NPL with University College London Hospital and is an expert in radiotherapy quality assurance and validation. She is a Consultant Radiotherapy Physicist at UCLH and honorary Professor of Translational Radiotherapy Physics at UCL. She has over 25 years’ experience in radiotherapy physics and quality assurance (QA) and has led multiple national and international radiotherapy validation programmes, having published over 90 research papers.
Catharine is the past chair of the Physics Committee and the current chair of the Professions and Partnerships Council for the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) and was past chair of the Global Harmonization Group for QA in clinical trials. She is a managing member of National Institute’s Health and Care Research (NIHR)’s RTTQA (radiotherapy trials QA) group and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM).
Areas of interest
Catharine’s research interests focus on the practical implementation and dosimetric verification of advanced radiotherapy, including the impact of uncertainties in treatment. She has also worked in the development and assessment of quality assurance in radiotherapy trials and developed a credentialing program for trials in the UK.
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