Short Curriculum Vitae

Director of Physics Research

Current Committee Memberships

Oversight Committee of the Harvard Medical Physics Residency Program

National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP)

Editorial Board: Physics in Medicine and Biology

Report of Scholarship

Overview:

4 Books edited

20 Book chapters

228 Peer-reviewed articles (19 sole author, 25 first author, 87 senior author)

H-index: 58

Books

“Proton Therapy Physics”: Ed. Harald Paganetti; Taylor & Francis / CRC Press 2012; ISBN-10: 1439836442

“Principles and Practice of Proton Beam Therapy”: (Eds. Indra J Das and Harald Paganetti); Medical Physics Monograph No. 37; Medical Physics Publishing, Madison, W; ISBN:  978-1-936366-43-9 2015

“Proton Beam Therapy”: Harald Paganetti; IOP Publishing 2017; ISBN: 978-0-7503-1370-4 (ebook)

“Proton Therapy Physics” 2^nd edition: Ed. Harald Paganetti; Taylor & Francis / CRC Press 2018; ISBN 9781138626508

Most recent (2018-2019) publications in peer-reviewed journals

1. Botas P; Grassberger C; Sharp G and Paganetti H: Density overwrites of internal tumor volumes in intensity modulated proton therapy plans for mobile lung tumors. Physics in Medicine and Biology 2018 63; 035023
2. Gentile MS; Yeap BY; Goebel C; Gaudet D; Gallotto S; Weyman E; Morgan M; MacDonald SM; Giantsoudi D; Adams J; Paganetti H; Tarbell NJ; Kooy H and Yock TI: Brainstem Injury in Pediatric Patients with Posterior Fossa Tumors Treated with Proton Beam Therapy and Associated Dosimetric Factors. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics 2018 100; 719-729
3. Haas-Kogan D; Indelicato D; Paganetti H; Esiashvili N; Mahajan A; Yock T; Flampouri S; MacDonald S; Fouladi M; Stephen S; Kalapurakal J; Terezakis S; Kooy H; Grosshans D; Makrigiorgos M; Mishra K; Young Poussaint T; Cohen K; Fitzgerald T; Gondi V; Liu A; Michalski J; Mirkovic D; Mohan R; Perkins S; Wong K; Bhadrasain V; Buchsbaum J and Larry K: National Cancer Institute Workshop on Proton Therapy for Children: Considerations Regarding Brainstem Injury. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics 2018 101; 152-168
4. Unkelbach J and Paganetti H: Robust Proton Treatment Planning: Physical and Biological Optimization. Seminars in Radiation Oncology 2018 28; 88–96
5. Ramos-Mendez JA; Perl J; Schuemann J; McNamara AL; Paganetti H and Faddegon BA: Monte Carlo simulation of chemistry following radiolysis with TOPAS-nBio. Physics in Medicine and Biology 2018 63; 105014
6. Giantsoudi D; Adams J; MacDonald S and Paganetti H: Can differences in linear energy transfer and thus relative biological effectiveness compromise the dosimetric advantage of intensity-modulated proton therapy as compared to passively scattered proton therapy? Acta Oncologica 2018 57; 1259-1264
7. Paganetti H and Giantsoudi D: Relative Biological Effectiveness Uncertainties and Implications for Beam Arrangements and Dose Constraints in Proton Therapy. Seminars in Radiation Oncology 2018 28; 256-263
8. Mohan R; Held KD; Story MD; Grosshans D; Capala J; Blakely EA; Boerma M; Bortfeld T; Chang P; Combs SE; Durante M; Formenti S; Fornace Jr AJ; Krishnan S; Limoli C; Paganetti H; Prise K; Stewart R; Tinganelli W; Timmerman R; Vikram B; Weil M and Willers H: Proceedings of the National Cancer Institute Workshop on Charged Particle Radiobiology. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics 2018 100; 816-831
9. Underwood TSA; Grassberger C; Bass R; MacDonald SM; Meyersohn NM; Yeap BY; Jimenez RB and Paganetti H: Asymptomatic Late-phase Radiographic Changes Among Chest-Wall Patients Are Associated With a Proton RBE Exceeding 1.1. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics 2018 101; 809-819
10. Jin Y; Giantsoudi D; Fu L; Verburg J; Gjesteby L; Wang G; Paganetti H and De Man B: Metal artifact reduction for radiation therapy: a simulation study. Proc. SPIE 10573, Medical Imaging 2018: Physics of Medical Imaging, 105730Q
11. McNamara AL; Ramos-Mendez J; Perl J; Held K; Dominguez N; Moreno EB; Henthorn NT; Kirkby KJ; Meylan S; Villagrasa C; Incerti S; Faddegon B; Paganetti H and Schuemann J: Geometrical structures for radiation biology research as implemented in the TOPAS-nBio toolkit. Physics in Medicine and Biology 2018 63; 175018
12. Chen Y; Grassberger C; Li J; Hong TS and Paganetti H: Impact of potentially variable RBE in liver proton therapy. Physics in Medicine and Biology 2018 63; 195001
13. Paganetti H: Proton relative biological effectiveness - Uncertainties and opportunities. International Journal of Particle Therapy 2018 5; 2-14
14. McMahon SJ; Paganetti H and Prise KM: LET-weighted doses effectively reduce biological variability in proton radiotherapy planning. Physics in Medicine and Biology 2018 63; 225009
15. Tucker SL; Xu T; Paganetti H; Deist T; Verma V; Choi N; Mohan R; and Liao Z: Validation of Effective Dose as a Better Predictor of Radiation Pneumonitis Risk than Mean Lung Dose: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Trial. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics 2018 in press; online ahead of print
16. Schuemann J; McNamara AL; Warmenhoven JW; Henthorn NT; Kirkby K; Merchant MJ; Ingram S; Paganetti H; Held KD; Ramos-Mendez J; Faddegon B; Perl J; Goodhead DT; Plante I; Rabus H; Nettelbeck H; Friedland W; Kundrát P; Ottolenghi A; Baiocco G; Barbieri S; Dingfelder M; Incerti S; Villagrasa C; Bueno M; Bernal MA; Guatelli S; Sakata D; Brown JMC; Francis Z; Kyriakou I; Lampe N; Ballarini F; Carante MP; Davídková M; Štěpán V; Jia X; Cucinotta FA; Schulte R; Stewart RD; Carlson DJ; Galer S; Kuncic Z; Lacombe S; Milligan J; Cho SH; Sawakuchi G; Inaniwa T; Sato T; Li W; Solov’yov AV; Surdutovich E; Durante M; Prise K and McMahon SJ: A new Standard DNA Damage (SDD) data format. Radiation Research 2018; online ahead of print
17. Durante M; Paganetti H; Pompos A; Kry SF; Wu X and Grosshans DR: Report of a National Cancer Institute Special Panel: Characterization of the Physical Parameters of Particle Beams for Biological Research. Medical Physics 2018; online ahead of print
18. Botas P; Kim J; Winey BA and Paganetti H: Online adaption approaches for intensity modulated proton therapy for head and neck patients based on cone beam CTs and Monte Carlo simulations. Physics in Medicine and Biology 2019 64; 015004
19. Schuemann J; McNamara AL; Ramos-Méndez J; Perl J; Held KD; Paganetti H; Incerti S and Faddegon B: TOPAS-nBio: An Extension to the TOPAS Simulation Toolkit for Cellular and Sub-cellular Radiobiology. Radiation Research 2019; online ahead of print
20. Paganetti H; Blakely E; Carabe-Fernandez A; Carlson DJ; Das IJ; Dong L; Grosshans D; Held KD; Mohan R; Moiseenko V; Niemierko A; Stewart RD and Willers H: Report of the AAPM TG-256 on the relative biological effectiveness of proton beams in radiation therapy. Medical Physics 2019; online ahead of print
21. Worstell WA; Adams BW; Aviles M; Bond J; Cascio E; Cremer T; El Fakhri G; Ertley CD; Foley MR; Grogg KS; Hamel CJ; Lu H-M; Lyashenko AV; Minot MJ; Paganetti H; Popecki MA; Stochaj ME: First results developing time-of-flight proton radiography for proton therapy applications. Proc. SPIE 10948, Medical Imaging 2019: Physics of Medical Imaging, 109480G