Schinkel, Colleen

Medical Physics

Adjunct Assistant Professor

EMAIL: colleen.schinkel@ahs.ca

Biography

Colleen Schinkel obtained a joint undergrad degree in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Western Ontario in 2001. Following that was a move to Edmonton in order to earn an MSc in Atmospheric Physics in 2003 and then a PhD in Medical Physics in 2007, both from the University of Alberta. Colleen then took the opportunity to do a 2-year residency at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, and then worked as a primarily clinical medical physicist at a small 2-Linac satellite cancer center in Columbia, Maryland from 2009-2014. After having enough of the US medical system and their confounding billing activities, Colleen ventured back to Canada to start working at the TBCC in 2014, and has been here since.

Clinical responsibilities: co-lead of external beam cluster and member of SRS cluster

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Selected Recent Publications

Weppler S, Quon H, Schinkel C, Ddamba J, Harjai N, Vigal C, Beers C, Van Dyke L, Smith, W. “Determining clinical patient selection guidelines for head and neck adaptive radiation therapy using random forest modelling and a novel simplification heuristic.” Front. Oncol. 2021 (provisionally accepted).
Weppler S, Schinkel C, Kirkby C, Smith W. “Lasso logistic regression to derive workflow-specific algorithm performance requirements”. Phys Med Biol. 65(19), 195013, 2020.
Weppler S, Schinkel C, Kirkby C, Smith W. Data clustering to select clinically-relevant test cases for algorithm benchmarking and characterization. Phys Med Biol. 65(6), 055014, 2020.
Beers C, Smith W, Weppler S, Schinkel C, Quon H, “Radiation Oncology Device Approval in the United States and Canada,” Cureus 11(4), e4351, 2019.
Weppler S, Quon H, Banerjee R, Schinkel C, Smith, W, “Framework for the quantitative assessment of adaptive radiation therapy protocols,” JACMP, 19(6), 26-34, 2018.

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