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Robabeh Rahimi Darabad, PhD

Academic Title:

Associate Professor

Primary Appointment:

Radiation Oncology

Additional Title:

PhD, DABR, MBA (mini_Healthcare)

Location:

Department of Radiation Oncology School of Medicine University of Maryland 850 West Baltimore St Baltimore, MD 21201

Phone (Primary):

(410) 369-5318

Fax:

(410) 347-0870

Education and Training

Ph.D., Quantum Information Devices, Osaka University, Japan

Medical Physics Certificate, University of Chicago Graham School

Residency, Medical Physics, University of Miami

Mini-MBA Certificate in Healthcare, University of Arizona

Biosketch

Dr. Robabeh Rahimi earned her PhD in Quantum Information Devices from Osaka University, with her thesis titled "Entanglement Between Electron and Nuclear Spin Systems for Quantum Computing." Following her PhD, she was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellow and later joined the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, Canada. After moving to the US, she received a Certificate in Medical Physics from the University of Chicago and completed her residency at the University of Miami. Dr. Rahimi's clinical expertise focuses on proton therapy, and she has contributed to the commissioning of proton treatment at Inova. She is dedicated to optimizing clinical practice and QA procedures, with research interests in workflow optimization, promoting Good Clinical Proton Practice (GCPP), and integrating quantum computing into radiation oncology. Dr. Rahimi is currently a proton medical physicist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Department of Radiation Oncology.

Highlighted Publications

Rahimi, R., Emert, F. and (2024), Introducing the good clinical proton practice (GCPP) initiative for enhancing proton therapy standards. J Appl Clin Med Phys. e14436. https://doi.org/10.1002/acm2.14436

RahimiR,TaylorM,LiX, etal.Fetal dose assessment in a pregnant patient with brain tumor: A comparative study of proton PBS and 3DCRT/VMAT radiation therapy techniques.J Appl Clin Med Phys.2024;e14394. https://doi.org/10.1002/acm2.14394

Li X, Huang J, Rahimi, et al. A novel approach for Venezia ovoid commissioning with a comprehensive analysis of source positions in high-dose-rate brachytherapy. Brachytherapy. 2023;22(1):93.

Mehta S, Farnia B, Zerda A de la, Rahimi R, et al. Dosimetric effects of the Smit sleeve on high-dose-rate brachytherapy tandem and ovoids plans for patients with locally advanced cervical cancer”, Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy. 2019 Dec; 11(6):584.

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