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Katelyn Hasse, PhD

Assistant Professor Division of Physics
Department of Radiation Oncology

Meet Dr. Hasse
I am motivated to improve the lives of patients and families today and impact many more in the future

Dr. Hasse is an Assistant Professor at the UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology. She received her bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville before starting her Ph.D. in Medical Physics from the University of California, Los Angeles. During this time, her research focused on obtaining patient-specific pulmonary elasticity distributions from 4DCT scans and utilizing the elastographic information for retrospective functional avoidance treatment planning studies. Subsequently, she completed her Therapeutic Medical Physics Residency at the University of California, San Francisco, where she worked on clinical projects involving automating data analysis for commissioning and quality assurance tasks and using predictive data-driven models to inform patient-specific quality assurance processes. Her clinical interests range from treatment planning and motion management to functional imaging biomarkers, and she also has a strong interest in optimizing clinical processes and efficiency.

Education

Education

2009-2013 University of Tennessee, Knoxville BS Honors Nuclear Engineering
2013-2018 University of California, Los Angeles PhD Biomedical Physics
2018-2020 University of California, San Francisco Therapeutic Medical Physics Residency Radiation Oncology
Professional Experience

Professional Experience

2020-present University of California, San Francisco Assistant Professor Radiation Oncology
2014-2018 University of California, Los Angeles Fellow NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Awards & Honors

2013   Department of Energy NEUP Scholarship Recipient
2012-2013   National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge Scholar
2013   Baccalaureate Honors – Summa Cum Laude
2013-2014   UCLA Dean’s Scholar Award Fellowship Recipient
2015-2018   National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2015   PBM Research Colloquium Best Poster Presentation Award
2019   AAPM Science Council Associate Mentorship Program (SCAMP) Associate
2020   Winter Institute of Medical Physics Early Career Fellowship
Publications https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/katelyn.hasse.1/bibliography/public/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pPOY9KcAAAAJ&hl=en

Recent Significant Publications

Hasse, K., Hsieh, S., O’Connell, D., Neylon, J., Min, Y., Low, D.A., and Anand P. Santhanam. “Systematic feasibility analysis of performing elastography analysis using low dose CT lung image pairs.” Medical Physics. (March 2020).

Hasse, K., O’Connell, D., Neylon, J., Min, Y., Lee, P., Low, D.A., and Anand P. Santhanam.“Feasibility of deriving a novel imaging biomarker based on patient-specific lung elasticity for characterizing the degree of COPD in lung SBRT patients.” Br J Radiol; 91:20180296. (2018).

Hasse, K., Han, F., Neylon, J., Hu, P., Yang, Y., and Anand P. Santhanam.“Estimation and validation of patient-specific liver elasticity distributions derived from 4DMR.” Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express. 4(4): p. 045038. (2018).

Hasse, K. , O’Connell, D. , Min, Y. , Neylon, J. , Low, D. A. and Santhanam, A.“Estimation and validation of patient‐specific high‐resolution lung elasticity derived from 4DCT.” Medical Physics.45: 666-677. (2018)

Hasse, K.,Neylon, J., and Anand P. Santhanam. “Feasibility and quantitative analysis of a biomechanical model-guided lung elastography for radiotherapy.” Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express. 3(2): p. 025006. (2017).

Neylon, J., Hasse, K., Sheng, K., and Anand P. Santhanam. “Modeling and simulation of tumor-influenced high-resolution real-time physics-based breast models for model-guided robotic interventions.” Proc. SPIE 9786, Medical Imaging 2016: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 97860X. (2016).

Hasse, K., Neylon, J., Sheng, K., and Anand P. Santhanam. “Systematic feasibility analysis of a quantitative elasticity estimation for breast anatomy using supine/prone patient postures.” Medical Physics43.3. (2016).

Hasse, K.and Erik B. Iverson. “CHOP: Choppers Having Optimal Performance.”Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Technical Report. No. SNS-106100200-TR0209-R00. (2011).

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