Randall Kimple, Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at UR Medicine and Wilmot Cancer Institute, shared on LinkedIn:
”One of the most exciting parts of my job is the opportunity to build a ‘shiny new thing’ (to quote my friend Wendy Woodward). The energy that comes with growth is infectious! The people we are recruiting want to be part of growing something better. They seek meliora.
I am incredibly excited to announce that Dr. Jacob Scott is joining our radiation oncology faculty this fall as a physician-scientist!
I have gotten to know Dr. Scott through collaborations, work with American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), and as a mentor to some of my own students. Jacob is a radiation oncologist and a mathematician, and he’s spent his career on a question I find genuinely difficult: cancer evolves while we’re treating it, so how do we stay ahead of it? His work brings mathematical modeling and evolutionary theory to that problem, including work on the genomic adjusted radiation dose, which uses a tumor’s own biology to estimate how much radiation that tumor actually needs.
He wants to help us understand how to personalize the dose for each patient and each tumor, rather than treating everyone the same. I think we will find significant synergy between his work and our models. It was his excitement at moving this work into the clinic – to improve the lives of our patients that convinced me he was the right person for my first faculty hire (no pressure Jacob Scott).
Recruiting someone like Jacob is not a solo act. Our search committee, department leadership, faculty who gave up hours to meet candidates, and the staff (especially Katie Rasberry) who ran all the logistics made the case for Rochester, and they made it well. Thank you to everyone who did that work.
What I’m most excited about is what comes downstream. Our residents get a mentor who thinks in a different language. Our physicists and dosimetrists get a collaborator on questions they’ve been circling for years. Our scientists get a colleague who will challenge them to think outside the box. And in time, our patients get treatment plans built on better science!
Welcome to Wilmot Cancer Institute and University of Rochester Medicine, Jacob. We’re glad you’re coming.”
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