Lee MacDonald, 

Education 

• Medical Physics Residency - University of Toronto (Sunnybrook Hospital), 2020
• PhD, Medical Physics - Dalhousie University, 2018
• MSc, Physics - Dalhousie University, 2014
• BSc, Honours Physics - Mount Allison University, 2012

Research interests

• Adaptive Radiotherapy
  • Varian Ethos and HyperSight Technologies
  • Head and Neck Adaptive Planning Strategies
• Dynamic Trajectory Radiation Therapy
• 4 Pi Radiation Therapy
• Dynamic Collimator Radiation Therapy
• Variable Isocentre Radiation Therapy
• Novel Approaches to Conformal Aperture SRS
• intra-Arc Binary Collimation (iABC)
• Motion Management and Dose Robustness in SRS
• Intra-fraction motion and dose reconstruction simulation

Academic interests

• Radiation Physics
• Treatment Planning Systems
• Dose Optimization Algorithms
• Dosimetric Robustness of Planned Distributions to Motion

Awards and honours

• Innovation Catalyst Fund Awarded 2021 - Nova Scotia Health
• J.R. Cunningham Award – Academic Excellence in Research by a Physics Resident, University of Toronto Department of Radiation Oncology, 2020.
• First Prize - J.R. Cunningham Young Investigators Symposium, COMP/CARO Annual Meeting 2018

Recent publications

• Robar JL, Cherpak A, MacDonald RL, et al. Novel Technology Allowing Cone Beam Computed Tomography in 6 Seconds: A Patient Study of Comparative Image Quality. Practical Radiation Oncology. Published online November 7, 2023. doi:10.1016/j.prro.2023.10.014
• Lincoln JD, MacDonald RL, Syme A, Thomas CG. Static couch non-coplanar arc selection optimization for lung SBRT treatment planning. Phys Med Biol. Published online 2023. doi:10.1088/1361-6560/ace23f
• Anderson, Cheryl, R Lee MacDonald, and Derek Wilke. “Skin/Mucosa Avoidance Radiotherapy (SMART) versus Conventional Volumetric Arc-Based Radiotherapy (VMAT) for the Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer: Dosimetric Feasibility Study.” Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics: e14000. https://doi.org/10.1002/acm2.14000.
• Church C, MacDonald RL, Parsons D, Syme A. Evaluation of Plan Quality and Treatment Efficiency in Cranial SRS Treatment Plans with a Variable SAD. Medical Physics. February 2023, http:// doi:10.1002/mp.16288.
• Lincoln, John D., MacDonald, R. Lee, Little, Brian, Syme, Alasdair, Thomas, Christopher G. Comparison of Anatomically Informed Class Solution Template Trajectories with Patient Specific Trajectories for Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Radiotherapy. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics. August 2022, https://doi.org/10.1002/acm2.13765.
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• MacDonald, R. Lee, John Lincoln, Cody Church, Christopher Thomas, Alasdair Syme, Mean Arc Distance (MAD): A Quantity to Compare Trajectory 4pi Sampling in Single Target Cranial Stereotactic Radiotherapy. Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express. June 2022, https://doi.org/10.1088/2057-1976/ac7c92.
• Lee E, MacDonald R Lee, Thomas CG, Syme A. intra-Arc binary collimation with dynamic axes trajectory optimization for SRS treatment of multiple metastases with multiple prescriptions. Medical Physics, May 7, 2022. doi:10.1002/mp.15689