Track Record
Dr Beatriz Sanchez-Nieto holds the position of AssociatteProfessor in the Institute of Physics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile.
She obtained her PhD in medical physics from Universidad de Sevilla in Spain under the supervision of Prof. Francisco Sánchez Doblado. During her PhD studies she actively participated in a three European research project related to Total Body Irradiation prior to Bone Marrow Transplantation. Four peer-reviewed papers come out from her PhD thesis as well as a number of presentations at appropriate scientific meetings.
After her PhD thesis she took up a post-doctoral research position at the Joint Department of Physics in the Institute of Cancer Research (UK) to collaborate with Prof. Alan Nahum supervision to work on biological modelling. During that period she was the medical physicist coordinating the dose volume data generation for Medical Research Council (MRC) RTO1 prostate trial. The results of her research were published in international peer-reviewed journals. The main result of this trial was published in the international journal of radiation oncology and physics journal (Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 747–754, 2010) and awarded with the recognition of being the feature article for an online ASTRO/Red Journal CME offering in March 2010. She also wrote the code for the BIOPLAN software which has been requested by and distributed to all over the world (more than 150 users in more than 50 centers). BIOPLAN has been the tool for biological modeling calculation in several publications, and it is referenced in books as “The modern technology on Radiation Oncology” (Vol. 2). J.Van Dyck. Medical Physics Publishing, 2005 and the “Handbook of radiotherapy physics. Theory and practice”. P. Mayles, A. Nahum and JC Rosenwald (Eds). Taylor and Francis, 2007.
In 2000 she moved to Chile and worked as a clinical physicist in one of the most prestigious radiotherapy centres in Santiago. She was in charge of setting up non-standard techniques as total body irradiation, total electron skin therapy, photodynamic therapy and intra-operative radiotherapy. During that period, she also won a research fund to carry out a research project on radiation toxicity of the lung in patients undergoing thoracic irradiation. The main results of this project were recently published in the international journal of radiation oncology and physics journal.
Since being at PUC (2009) she was involved in a DAAD project to develop medical physics in Chile in collaboration with the German Cancer Research Institute/University of Heidelberg. She was the coordinator of medical physics master program (double degree with Heidelberg University) from the starts in March 2012 to August 2017. She is responsible for teaching courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level at PUC.
In the last decade she became interested in the problems related to peripheral photon and neutron dosimetry. In this respect, her expertise in biological modelling is being now applied to secondary cancer generation modelling. This work is being carried out as part of collaboration with the University of Seville.
Dr. Sánchez has been invited speaker and Chairman at a number of ESTRO conferences. She was also a Regional Representative of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering in 2009 and Chair of the Education Committee of the IUPESM World Congress 2015, Otawa, Canada. She has organized more than ten workshops and conferences on behalf AAPM, IOMP, SOCHIRA, and summer schools together with the University of Heielberg. She always managed to attract world well-known speakers, which benefitted attending students from the Latin American region. She acts as a scientific reviewer for the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology and Physics, Radiotherapy and oncology, Physica Medica, Medical physics, etc. She has more than 60 presentations at scientific meetings.
Dr. Sánchez holds the Corporate Grade of Membership of the Council of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (UK) and Chartered Physicist status. She has also been awarded as a Physicist expert in radiation physics by the Spanish Education Ministry. She is a member of the Spanish Society of Medical Physics (SEFM) and the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO). She has published more than 45 papers scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals with a significant impact on the medical physics community.
She has co-directed one PhD thesis, is currently co-supervising another one, and directed16 MSc theses.
She obtained her PhD in medical physics from Universidad de Sevilla in Spain under the supervision of Prof. Francisco Sánchez Doblado. During her PhD studies she actively participated in a three European research project related to Total Body Irradiation prior to Bone Marrow Transplantation. Four peer-reviewed papers come out from her PhD thesis as well as a number of presentations at appropriate scientific meetings.
After her PhD thesis she took up a post-doctoral research position at the Joint Department of Physics in the Institute of Cancer Research (UK) to collaborate with Prof. Alan Nahum supervision to work on biological modelling. During that period she was the medical physicist coordinating the dose volume data generation for Medical Research Council (MRC) RTO1 prostate trial. The results of her research were published in international peer-reviewed journals. The main result of this trial was published in the international journal of radiation oncology and physics journal (Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 747–754, 2010) and awarded with the recognition of being the feature article for an online ASTRO/Red Journal CME offering in March 2010. She also wrote the code for the BIOPLAN software which has been requested by and distributed to all over the world (more than 150 users in more than 50 centers). BIOPLAN has been the tool for biological modeling calculation in several publications, and it is referenced in books as “The modern technology on Radiation Oncology” (Vol. 2). J.Van Dyck. Medical Physics Publishing, 2005 and the “Handbook of radiotherapy physics. Theory and practice”. P. Mayles, A. Nahum and JC Rosenwald (Eds). Taylor and Francis, 2007.
In 2000 she moved to Chile and worked as a clinical physicist in one of the most prestigious radiotherapy centres in Santiago. She was in charge of setting up non-standard techniques as total body irradiation, total electron skin therapy, photodynamic therapy and intra-operative radiotherapy. During that period, she also won a research fund to carry out a research project on radiation toxicity of the lung in patients undergoing thoracic irradiation. The main results of this project were recently published in the international journal of radiation oncology and physics journal.
Since being at PUC (2009) she was involved in a DAAD project to develop medical physics in Chile in collaboration with the German Cancer Research Institute/University of Heidelberg. She was the coordinator of medical physics master program (double degree with Heidelberg University) from the starts in March 2012 to August 2017. She is responsible for teaching courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level at PUC.
In the last decade she became interested in the problems related to peripheral photon and neutron dosimetry. In this respect, her expertise in biological modelling is being now applied to secondary cancer generation modelling. This work is being carried out as part of collaboration with the University of Seville.
Dr. Sánchez has been invited speaker and Chairman at a number of ESTRO conferences. She was also a Regional Representative of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering in 2009 and Chair of the Education Committee of the IUPESM World Congress 2015, Otawa, Canada. She has organized more than ten workshops and conferences on behalf AAPM, IOMP, SOCHIRA, and summer schools together with the University of Heielberg. She always managed to attract world well-known speakers, which benefitted attending students from the Latin American region. She acts as a scientific reviewer for the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology and Physics, Radiotherapy and oncology, Physica Medica, Medical physics, etc. She has more than 60 presentations at scientific meetings.
Dr. Sánchez holds the Corporate Grade of Membership of the Council of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (UK) and Chartered Physicist status. She has also been awarded as a Physicist expert in radiation physics by the Spanish Education Ministry. She is a member of the Spanish Society of Medical Physics (SEFM) and the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO). She has published more than 45 papers scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals with a significant impact on the medical physics community.
She has co-directed one PhD thesis, is currently co-supervising another one, and directed16 MSc theses.