Profile

Live in Leicester, and sometimes Manchester work with many hospitals in the north west of England. Interests – running, cycling, playing the guitar (got played on radio 1 once!), cooking (vegetarian for  a few years now), photography and going for long walks in the countryside.

Work in radiation protection in the healthcare sector. Providing physics support to users of medical lasers, phototherapy equipment and other sources of electromagnetic radiation. This is to protect staff and patients from the adverse effects that can arise if things go wrong!

I provide advice to hospitals management and staff on the safe use of electromagnetic radiation and provide training courses to a wide variety of hospital staff.

I also provide physics support for a photodynamic therapy clinic where we treat patients with skin cancer with a special light sensitive drug and light.

Have done 13 years in radiotherapy so that just about covers the whole electromagnetic spectrum.

Posed photo for a national newspaper!

Check the output pf these!

Using light to kill cancer cells

Check the output of these

Radiotherapy linear accelerator

At the minute working from home – occasional trip out (quite exciting to go somewhere exotic like Preston in these days of lockdown). Surveying laser theatres, Ultraviolet therapy installations, presenting laser safety courses. Doing practical measurements on all sorts of sources of optical radiation