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Mariana  Guerrero
 

Mariana Guerrero Ph.D.

Academic Title: Clinical Assistant Professor
Primary Appointment: Radiation Oncology
mguerrero@umm.edu
Location: UMMC, Gudelsky, SGB12
Phone: (410) 328-7023

Personal History

EDUCATION

Licentiate (B. S.), University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Physics (1989)

Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, Physics (1995)

ACADEMIC HONORS

Honor diploma, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1989).

Regents and Tuition Fellowship, University of California, Irvine (1990-1991).

Regents Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Irvine (Spring 1995).

LANGUAGES

Fluent in English, Spanish and French

CERTIFICATIONS

American Board of Radiology, Certificate in Therapeutic Radiologic Physics, 2006

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1/96 to 10/99: Postdoctoral Fellow, T-11, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545.

9/2001 to 6/2004: Postdoctoral fellow at the Dept. of Radiation Oncology in the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201

7/2004 to 10/2005: Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Radiation Oncology in the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201

1/2006 to 2/2010: Medical Physicist at the Dept. of Radiation Therapy of the Dpt. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 50 Irving St., NW, Washington DC 20422.

11/2009 to present: Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201

Research Interests

- Radiobiological modeling of radiation effects.

- Imaging assessment of radiation response.

- Intensity Modulated and Image-guided Radiation Therapy.

- Portal Dosimetry.

Clinical Speciality

Therapeutic Medical Physics

Publications

M. Guerrero, M., Carlone. "Mechanistic Formulation of a Lineal-Quadratic-Linear (LQL) Model: Split-Dose Experiments and Exponentially Decaying Sources", Med Phys. 37: 4173-81 (2010).

M. Guerrero, "Comparison of fractionation schedules in the large heterogeneity limit", Med Phys. 36(4): 1384-8. (2009).

M. Guerrero, X. Allen Li, "Halftime for repair of sublethal damage in normal bladder and rectum: an analysis of clinical data from cervix brachytherapy", Phys Med Biol. 51: 4063-4071 (2006).

M. Guerrero, X. Allen Li, Lijun Ma, Jeannette Linder, Chad DeYoung, Beth Erickson, "Simultaneous integrated IMRT boost for locally advanced gynecological cancer: radiobiological and dosimetric considerations." Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 62(3):933-9 (2005).

David J. Carlson, Robert D. Stewart, X. Allen Li, Ph.D., Kristofer Jennings, Ph.D.,* Jian Z. Wang, Ph.D. and M Guerrero, Ph.D., "Comparison of in vitro and in vivo alpha/beta ratios for prostate cancer", Phys Med Biol. 2004 Oct 7;49(19):4477-91.

M. Guerrero and X. Allen Li, "Extending the linear-quadratic model for large fraction doses pertinent to stereotactic radiotherapy", Phys Med Biol. 2004 Oct 21;49(20):4825-35.

M. Guerrero, X. Allen Li, M.A. Earl, M. Sarfaraz E. Kiggundu, "IMRT Concomitant Boost for Breast Radiotherapy: a feasibility study", Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2004 Aug 1;59(5):1513-22.

M Guerrero, Li XA, "Analysis of a large number of clinical studies for breast cancer radiotherapy: estimation of radiobiological parameters for treatment planning," Phys Med Biol. 2003 Oct 21;48(20):3307-26.

M Guerrero, Li XA, Ma L. "A technique to sharpen the beam penumbra for Gamma Knife radiosurgery," Phys Med Biol. 2003 Jun 21;48(12):1843-53.

Wang JZ, M Guerrero, Li XA. "How low is the alpha/beta ratio for prostate cancer?" Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2003 Jan 1;55(1):194-203.

M. Guerrero, Robert D. Stewart , Jian Z. Wang and X. Allen Li, "Equivalence of the linear-quadratic and two-lesion kinetic models." Phys Med Biol. 47(17), 3197-209 (2002).