Mission Statement
The mission of the MS in Medical Physics program at Hofstra University is to impart necessary and sufficient scientific and clinical knowledge in medical physics encompassing therapeutic, diagnostic, nuclear medicine, and health physics applications, and to inculcate requisite elements of critical thinking and professional conduct so its graduates are empowered with the assets of knowledge, intelligence, resourcefulness, scientific enquiry, judgment, character, and ethical conduct as they prepare to pursue higher education in the field or enter the medical physics profession as either residents or junior physicists supervised by qualified medical physicists, or junior research investigators in academia or industry.
Faculty
Jenghwa Chang, PhD
Program Director, Medical Physics
Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
516-321-3136
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Yijian Cao, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
516-463-5013
H. Berliner Hall 205
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Alan I. Hecht, DC
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biology
516-463-5518
Room 130 Gittleson Hall
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Eugenio Silvestrini Hernandez, MS
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
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William O’Connell, DrPH
Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
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Kenneth J. Nichols, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
516-463-7516
Hofstra/Northwell School of Medicine
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Peter K. Taylor, MS
Assistant Director, Medical Physics Graduate Program, Hofstra University
Adjunct Instructor of Physics and Astronomy
570-807-8707
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