Employment

2022-present: Physics lead of Ethos online adaptive therapy

2018-present: Physics lead of photon treatment planning

2016-present: Treatment planning mentor in the Harvard Medical Physics Residency program

2015-present: clinical photon medical physicist at MGH including brachytherapy

2014-2019: adjunct Radiation Physics faculty at Suffolk University

2013-2015: clinical medical physicist at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, an MGH-affiliated department

2010-2013: Harvard Medical Physics Residency Program

2007-2010: Postdoctoral research associate at University of Wisconsin-Madison in particle physics

Certification

Certified by the ABR in Therapeutic Medical Physics, May 2014

Education and Degrees

B.S.: Gonzaga University, 2002, Physics

M.A.: Johns Hopkins University, 2005, Physics

Ph.D.: Johns Hopkins University, 2008, Experimental Particle Physics

Professional Affiliations

American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), New England chapter (NEAAPM)

  2015: Served as NEAAPM Board-Member-at-Large

  2020-2021: Served as NEAAPM Secretary

  2022-2024: Served as AAPM Newsletter Editor and Chair of the Newsletter Editorial Board

  2023-2025: Served as Chair of the Women's Professional Sub-Committee

  2023-present: Member of Task Group 395 on X-ray based online adaptive RT

American Physical Society (APS)

  2019-2021: Served as APS-GMED (Topical Group on Medical Physics) Member-at-Large

  2021-2022: Served as Chair of the APS-GMED Fellowship Selection Committee

  2021-2025: Served in APS-GMED Chair line (Chair from 2023-2024)

American Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)

  2019-2020: Liver Tumor Clinical Practice Guideline Task Force

  2023-2024: Safety White Paper on Adaptive RT

Selected Publications

N. Depauw, J. Pursley, S.A. Lozano-Calderon, C.G. Patel. Evaluation of Carbon Fiber and Titanium Surgical Implants for Proton and Photon Therapy. Pract Radiat Oncol. In press, available online 2 February 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prro.2023.01.009.

S. Kamran, D.M. McClatchy III, J. Pursley, A.V. Trofimov, K. Remillard, A. Saraf, A. Ghosh, A. Thabet, P. Surphin, D.T. Miyamoto, J.A. Efstathiou. Characterization of an Iodinated Rectal Spacer for Prostate Photon and Proton Radiotherapy. Pract Radiat Oncol. 12(2):135-144 (2022).

S. Apisarnthanarax, A. Barry, M. Cao, B. Czito, R. DeMatteo, M. Drinane, C.L. Hallemeier, E.J. Koay, F. Lasley, J. Meyer, D. Owen, J. Pursley, S.K. Schaub, G. Smith, N.K. Venepalli, G. Zibari, H. Cardenes. External Beam Radiation Therapy for Primary Liver Cancers: An ASTRO Clinical Practice Guideline. Pract Radiat Oncol. 12(1):28-51 (2022).

J.D. Byrne, C. C. Young, J. N. Chu, J. Pursley, M. X. Chen, A. J. Wentworth, A. Feng, A. R. Kirtane, K. A. Remillard, C. I. Hancox, M. S. Bhagwat, N. Machado, T. Hua, S. M. Tamang, J. E. Collins, K. Ishida, A. Hayward, S. L. Becker, S. K. Edgington, J. D. Schoenfeld, W. R. Jeck, C. Hur, G. Traverso. Personalized Radiation Attenuating Materials for Gastrointestinal Mucosal Protection. Adv Sci. 2100510 (2021).

J. Pursley, I. El Naqa, N. N. Sanford, B. Noe, J. Y. Wo, C. E. Eyler, M. Hwang, K. K. Brock, B. Y. Yeap, J. A. Wolfgang, T. S. Hong, C. Grassberger. Dosimetric analysis and normal tissue complication probability modeling of Child-Pugh score and Albumin-Bilirubin grade increase after hepatic irradiation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 107(5):986-995 (2020).

N. N. Sanford, J. Pursley, B. Noe, B. Y. Yeap, L. Goyal, J. W. Clark, J. N. Allen, L. S. Blaszkowsky, D. P. Ryan, C. R. Ferrone, K. K. Tanabe, M. Qadan, C. H. Crane, E. J. Koay, C. Eyler, T. F. Delaney, A. X. Zhu, J. Y. Wo, C. Grassberger, T. S. Hong. Protons vs Photons for Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Liver Decompensation and Overall Survival Proton Radiotherapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 105(1):64-72 (2019).

J. Pursley, A. L. Damato, M. A. Czerminska, D. N. Margalit, D. J. Sher, and R. B. Tishler. A comparative study of standard IMRT and RapidArc planning techniques for ipsilateral and bilateral head and neck irradiation. Med. Dosim. 42(1), 31-36 (2017).

J. Pursley, P. Risholm, A. Fedorov, K. Tuncali, F. Fennessy, W. Wells, C.M. Tempany, and R.A. Cormack. A Bayesian nonrigid registration method to enhance intraoperative target definition in image-guided prostate procedures through uncertainty characterization. Med. Phys. 39 (11), 6858-6867 (2012).

CDF Collaboration, “Measurement of the W+W- Production Cross Section and Search for Anomalous WWγ and WWZ Couplings in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 201801 (2010). (second author)

CDF Collaboration, “Inclusive Search for Standard Model Higgs Boson Production in the WW Decay Channel,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 061803 (2010). (contributing author)

CDF Collaboration, “Measurement of Resonance Parameters of Orbitally Excited Narrow B0 Mesons,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 102003 (2009). (first author)

CDF Collaboration, “First Observation of Heavy Baryons Σb and Σb*,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 202001 (2007). (first author)