Naveed Islam

PhD, MSc, MA
Radiation Medicine

About Naveed Islam

Positions

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Assistant Professor of Oncology
  • Department of Radiation Medicine

Background

Education and Training:

  • 2013-2019 - PhD - Medical Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  • 2013-2016 - MSc. - Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  • 2011-2013 - MA - Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Canada
  • 2006-2011 - Honors BSc. - Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Residency:

  • 2019-2021- Medical Physics Residency Program (Therapeutic Physics), UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA

Honors & Awards:

  • 2020 - Young Investigator Award [1st Place], Penn-Ohio Chapter of American Association of Physicists in Medicine
  • 2020 - Travel Grant Award, Penn-Ohio Chapter of American Association of Physicists in Medicine
  • 2020 - SLAM Competition [1st Place], Penn-Ohio Chapter of American Association of Physicists in Medicine
  • 2019 - Young Investigator Award [1st Place], Penn-Ohio Chapter of American Association of Physicists in Medicine
  • 2018 - SLAM Competition [1st Place], Upstate New York Association of Physicists in Medicine
  • 2018 - Young Investigator Award [Silver], Upstate New York Association of Physicists in Medicine

Publications

Islam, Naveed M., Shada J. Wadi‐Ramahi, Ron Lalonde, Tanvir Baig, Maria diMayorca, David A. Clump, and M. Saiful Huq. "A novel approach to infectious disease control and radiotherapy risk management." Medical Physics (2023).

Vendetti, Frank P., Pinakin Pandya, David A. Clump, Sandra Schamus-Haynes, Meysam Tavakoli, Naveed M. Islam, Jina Chang, Greg M. Delgoffe, Jan H. Beumer, and Christopher J. Bakkenist. "The schedule of ATR inhibitor AZD6738 can potentiate or abolish antitumor immune responses to radiotherapy." JCI insight 8, no. 4 (2023)

Islam, Naveed, Josh Kilian‐Meneghin, Steven deBoer, and Matthew Podgorsak. "A collision prediction framework for noncoplanar radiotherapy planning and delivery." Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 21, no. 8 (2020): 92-106.

Mohatt, Dennis J., Tianjun Ma, David B. Wiant, Naveed M. Islam, Jorge Gomez, Anurag K. Singh, and Harish K. Malhotra. "Technical and dosimetric implications of respiratory induced density variations in a heterogeneous lung phantom." Radiation Oncology 13 (2018): 1-14.

Vijayan, Sarath, Zhenyu Xiong, Chao Guo, Jonathan Troville, Naveed Islam, Stephen Rudin, and Daniel R. Bednarek. "Calculation of Forward Scatter Dose Distribution at the skin entrance from the patient table for fluoroscopically guided interventions using a pencil beam convolution kernel." In Medical Imaging 2018: Physics of Medical Imaging, vol. 10573, pp. 1568-1576. SPIE, 2018.

Islam, Naveed M., Tianjun Ma, and Matthew B. Podgorsak. "The impact of water temperature on absolute dose calibration of photon beams." Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express 3, no. 3 (2017): 035008.