Medical Physics Faculty

Position Overview

Salary range: $165,900 - $242,000. This position includes membership in the Health Sciences Compensation Plan.

Open date: September 17, 2025

Most recent review date: Monday, Oct 13, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time). Applications received after this date will be reviewed by the search committee if the position has not yet been filled.

Final date: Tuesday, Jun 30, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time). Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

The University of California Davis, School of Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology is recruiting a faculty position for an Assistant/Associate Professor in the Health Sciences Clinical Professor series (HSCP), salary commensurate with experience and qualifications. Expectations of a faculty in the HSCP series are primarily clinical and include teaching, service and scholarly and/or creative activities.

Qualified candidates must have a Ph.D. in Medical Physics or a related field of study pertinent to medical physics and be board eligible/certified. For the Associate level, a demonstrated ability to obtain extramural funding is highly desirable. The successful candidate will be expected to participate and/or provide significant leadership in the advanced clinical and research programs in image‑guided IMRT and VMAT, SBRT, radiosurgery, brachytherapy, in vivo dosimetry, and informatics infrastructure development.

The successful candidate will also be expected to teach in our medical physics courses for physicians and physics residents, as well as contribute to continuing medical education efforts for our staff.

The radiation oncology department is located in the NCI Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Sacramento, California. We have full‑member status with the NRG‑Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, an ACGME accredited physician residency training program, and CAMPEP accreditation for our medical physics residency program. There are research affiliations with the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering, Sutter Medical Foundation, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and potential relationships with Cancer Center Network sites.

Our downtown facility has two matched Elekta Versa linacs with Agility MLC, a Tomo Therapy Radixact, and a Gamma Knife ICON all managed by the Elekta Mosaiq EMR system. Treatment planning is performed with Raystation treatment planning system. Ancillary systems include SNC Suncheck, Align

RT and MIM Vista. UC Davis Cancer Center has a very active image‑guided high dose rate (HDR) Brachytherapy (IGBT) suite with Samsung Neurologica Mobile CT, Elekta Flexitron afterloader, and the Oncentra brachytherapy treatment planning system treating gynecological, prostate, lung and skin sites. Our IGBT Special Procedure Suite is located within the department, and it is a substantial asset to our highly regarded brachytherapy programs that serve patients from Northern California and Nevada.

The UC Davis department of Radiation Oncology clinic is committed to providing the most advanced treatment delivery and image‑guided technologies.

Board certified or eligible (A  or CCPM) are required for this position, which includes experience in radiation therapy treatment planning and dosimetry with external beam and sealed source radioactive materials. The successful applicant will join our other faculty on the Approved List of the California Department of Public Health, Radiologic Health Branch as an individual approved to perform Radiation Shielding Design, Therapy Machine Calibrations, and Radiation Protection Surveys in accordance with California Code of Regulations, Title 17, sections 30305(a)(5), 30312(b)(4), and 30312(b)(5).

The department offers a CAMPEP accredited residency in clinical radiation therapy physics and participation in teaching within the training program is expected of all physics faculty. Each year a 50+ lecture series on radiation therapy physics is offered to medical…