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CURRICULUM VITAE EBENEZER SUMAN BABU

4 A, 18th East Main Road, Gandhi Nagar East, Vellore – 632 006, TamilNadu, India.

Mobile – 00 91 9655013536 Email: emailstoebi@gmail.com, emailstoebi@cmcvellore.ac.in

ACADEMIC PROFILE   

Master’s Degree in Medical Physics (M.Sc.,) from Anna University, Chennai, India, ( 2002-2004) Bachelor’s degree in Physics (B.Sc.,) from Kamaraj College, Tuticorin, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (Tirunelveli), TamilNadu, India, (1999-2002).

Certified to work as Radiation Safety Officer by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Government of India, Mumbai, India.

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE Name & Address of Employer Christian Medical College, Ida Scudder Road, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India 632 004

Salmaniya Medical Complex, Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Bahrain Salmaniya Medical Complex, Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Bahrain

Christian Medical College, Ida Scudder Road, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India 632 004 NAMCO Charitable Trust‟s Smt. Sundarabai Govardhandas Samsukha Cancer Hospital, Panchavati, Nashik, Maharashtra, India

Position Held

Key Responsibilities

Lecturer

Treatment Planning, Quality Assurance, Dosimetry, Radiation protection, Research and Teaching

Senior Medical Physicist

Senior Medical Physicist (Visiting)

Senior Demonstrator

Medical Physicist and Radiation Safety Officer

Treatment Planning, Quality Assurance, Dosimetry, Project Planning, Research and Teaching Treatment Planning, Quality Assurance, Dosimetry, Research and Teaching Treatment Planning, Quality Assurance, Dosimetry, Radiation protection, Research and Teaching Treatment Planning, Quality Assurance, Dosimetry and Radiation protection

Dates - From/To April 2011 – till date

January 2009 December 2011

August 2008 – November 2008

October 2004 – July 2008

June 2004 – October 2004

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION April 2011 till date (CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL, VELLORE, INDIA)  Presently working as Medical Physicist in the department of Radiotherapy  Commissioned Portal Dosimetry on Varian Clinac Linear Accelerator  Experience with CBCT August 2008 to December 2010 (KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN)  Worked as Senior Medical Physicist in the Department of Radiation Oncology, Salmaniya Medical Complex, Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Bahrain. Our Department is well equipped with a 2100 CD and a 600 CD Varian Linear Accelerators, Eclipse Treatment Planning System, ONCENTRA & PLATO treatment planning systems, Varian Ximatron Simulator, Respiratory Gating (Varian RPM Gating), Philips Brilliance CT Simulator, Pinnacle Planning System, PTW, Scanditronics dosimetry and QA systems.  Worked as Chief Medical Physicist. (January 2009 – February 2010).  Supervised the Medical Physicists on treatment planning procedures  Clinically commissioned Portal Dosimetry on Varian linear accelerator  Developed Departmental Policies and Procedures (DPP) for Medical Physicists  Member of the Departmental Team on Accreditation (Canadian Accreditation)  Co-ordinator for the Weekly Radiotherapy Planning meeting October 2004 to June 2008 (CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL, INDIA)         

Clinically commissioned the Siemens PRIMUS Linear accelerator Brain Lab Multi leaf collimator for SRS and along with the team of Physicists Clinically commissioned Microselectron High Dose Rate Brachytherapy After-loader Machine along with the team of Physicists Clinically commissioned in-vivo dosimetry with semiconductor diodes Treatment planning and Quality Assurance for „state of the art techniques‟ such as Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS), Stereotactic Radiotherapy (SRT) and IMRT. Treatment planning and Quality assurance for Special Techniques such as Total Body Irradiation (TBI) and Total Skin Electron Beam Therapy (TSET) Supervised the Medical physics residents in quality assurance of IMRT and routine quality assurance of Telecobalt unit, Linear Accelerator and HDR unit Taught Radiation Physics for Medical Radiation Technology Course students Taught Biophysics and Radiation Physics for Post Certification B.Sc., Nursing students Taught Physics for Respiratory Therapy and Bachelors in Medical Laboratory Technology students

2004 (June) to 2004 (September) (INDIA) 

Started my career as Medical Physicist and Radiation Safety Officer in the year 2004 at Smt. NAMCO Charitable Trust‟s Smt. Sundarabai Govardhandas Samsukha Cancer Hospital, Nashik, India. The department had a Telecobalt unit and a Microselectron HDR unit.

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PRESENT DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES       

Performing acceptance tests and commissioning of new radiotherapy equipments Treatment Planning in Eclipse Planning System (IMRT, Gated IMRT &3DCRT) and Oncentra Brachytherapy planning system Patient Specific and Machine QA for IMRT Supervision of Daily, Monthly & Annual Quality Assurance of Linear Accelerators, Eclipse Treatment Planning system and Varian Simulator.

Calibration of Photon and Electron Beams Supervising and Training the Resident Medical Physicists Teaching Radiotherapy Physics for M.Sc Medical Physics and B.Sc Radiotherapy technology students, Bio-Physics for P.B.BSc Nursing students.

EXPERIENCE WITH RADIOTHERAPY EQUIPMENTS         

Varian and Siemens Linear Accelerators PTW dosimetry systems for IMRT/IGRT QA, MP3 & Scanditronix Therapy Beam Analyser Eclipse, Pinnacle and Plato Treatment Planning Systems Varian Conventional Simulator and Philips Big Bore CT Simulator Theratron Telecobalt Machine Nucletron HDR Microselectron Brachytherapy Machine PTW Dosimetric and Quality Assurance Detectors and Electrometers Harshaw TLD reader, In- vivo dosimetry using semiconductor diodes and TLDs Fabrication of In-house phantoms and Optical CT Scanner for gel dosimetry

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Principal Investigator in the project on “Investigation of different Gel Dosimeters for Quality Assurance in Radiation Therapy” funded by Fluid Research, Christian Medical College, Vellore.

(On-going) Co-Investigator in the project on “To study the dosimetric characteristics of Gafchromic EBT3 film for dose measurement in radiation therapy and to compare different reading (scanning) methods.

(Completed) Principal Investigator in the project on “Application of Gel Dosimetry as 3D Dosimetry System for IMRT” funded by Fluid Research, Christian Medical College, Vellore. (Completed) Co-Investigator in the project on “Dosimetry of High Dose Rate Brachytherapy using Gel” funded

by Fluid Research, Christian Medical College, Vellore. (Completed)

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TRAINING, WORKSHOP & CONFERENCES Underwent Field training on Rapid Arc radiation therapy treatment technique and hands on training on MapCheck QA analysis software from 5th November to 9th November 2010 at Cancer Care Associates, Fresno, California, USA Completed the Regional College on Medical Physics held during 12-23 November 2007 at RPAD, BARC, Mumbai, India.

SCIENTIFIC PAPERS PRESENTED IN CONFERENCES 1.

In-vivo dosimetry for Total Body Irradiation with diode dosimeter, Ebenezer Suman Babu S, Rabi Raja Singh I, Brindha S, Henry Finlay Godson, and Paul Ravindran B – 26th International Conference on Medical Physics and Radiation Safety, 10-12 November 2005, Chennai, India.

2. Investigation on the Application of Gel Dosimeter Evaluated with Optical Laser CT for Complex Radiotherapy Technique, Ebenezer Suman Babu S, Brindha S, Timothy Peace B S, Ebinezar L and Paul Ravindran B 12th Annual Conference on Medical Physics and Radiation Safety, 23-24 September 2006, Vellore, India.

3. Patient specific dosimetric verification of „Step-and-Shoot Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy, Henry Finlay Godson, Rabi Raja Singh I, Brindha S, Ebenezer Suman Babu S, and Paul Ravindran B 12th Annual Conference on Medical Physics and Radiation Safety, 23-24 September 2006, Vellore, India 4. Validation of Dual Modality 2D IGRT Software for High Precision Radiation Therapy, Timothy Peace, Ebenezer Suman, Finlay Godson, Subhashini John, Selvamani and Paul Ravindran, 29th Annual National Conference of the Association of Radiation Oncologists of India (AROICON 2007), Chennai, India, 28 November – 2 December 2007.

5. A Comparative Study on Normal Tissue Involvement for Various Volumes of Lesions using Two Different Leaf Sizes, Henry Finlay Godson, Subhashini John, Ebenezer Suman Babu S, Timothy Peace B S, Rabi Raja Singh I and Paul Ravindran B, 29 th Annual National Conference of the Association of Radiation Oncologists of India (AROICON 2007), Chennai, India, 28 November – 2 December 2007.

6. Potential Use of an aSi EPID as an In Vivo Dosimeter, Timothy Peace BS, Ebenezer Suman Babu S, Anurupa Mahata, and Paul Ravindran B, Annual Conference of the Association of Medical Physicists of India (AMPICON 2008). 26-29 November, Mumbai, India.

7. Image Guided Respiratory Gated Simultaneous Integrated Boost Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy (Sib-Imrt) After Breast Conservative Surgery For Carcinoma Of The Breast: The Salmaniya Medical Complex Experience, Das Majumdar S. K. M.D.; Shubbar S, M.D. ; Nasser Mohammed, MD; R. Mohan, Ph.D.; Ebenezer S. B, M.Sc.; Basma Al-Najar, M.Sc.; Ramanathan V, B.Sc. The 7th International Jordan Oncology Society Conference, Jordon, 2931 July 2010.

8. Is IMRT Better For Left Sided Postmastectomy Breast Cancer?, Patricia S., Retna J., Ebenezer SB., Finlay HG., Rajesh B., Selvamani B., Subhashini J., "Oncology 2012" an international conference on multidisciplinary management of common cancers, 4-6 May 2012 Kovalam, Kerala, India.

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9. Basic investigations on LCV micelle gel, S B Ebenezer, M K Rafic, B P Ravindran, IC3DDose, 7th international Conference on 3D Radiation Dosimetry, 4-8 November 2012, Sydney, Australia.

10. Are we talking about the same point? Possibility of inter institutional variation in reporting rectal dose in HDR brachytherapy of cancer cervix, Somnath Dey, Balukrishna S, Ebnezer Suman Babu S, Rabi Raja Singh, Selvamani B. 34th Annual National Conference of the Association of Radiation Oncologists of India (AROICON 2012), 29 November – 2 December 2012, Kolkata, India.

11. Impact of respiratory motion on IMRT (Intensity modulated radiotherapy) of the chest wall in post-mastectomy breast cancer patients: A dosimetric study. Judith Aaron, Balukrishna S, Ebenezer, Selvamani B, Young Radiation Oncologists‟ Conference (YROC), Thalassery, Kerala, 2–3 February 2013.

12. Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma of the Trachea - A Dosimetric Study, Aparna M P, Ebenezer Suman Babu, Retna Ponmalar, Paul Ravindran, Selvamani B, Simon Pavamani, Young Radiation Oncologists‟ Conference (YROC), Thalassery, Kerala, 2–3 February 2013.

13. Evaluation of Efficiency of Gated Radiation Therapy Delivery using an in-house Phantom, B Paul Ravindran, Ebenezer Suman Babu S, International Conference on Computers in Radiation Therapy, 6-9 May 2013, Melbourne, Australia.

14. Enhancing the longevity of three-dimensional dose in a diffusion-controlled Fricke gel dosimeter, Ebenezer Suman Babu S, Poornima C G, B Paul Ravindran, Annual Conference of the Association of Radiation Oncologists of India, AROICON 2014, November 2014, Imphal, Manipur, India.

15. Investigation on the role of ultra-violet and gamma irradiation to enhance lower bloom strength gelatin for Fricke gel dosimeters, Ebenezer Suman Babu S, Benedicta Pearlin R, Timothy Peace Balasingh S, Rabi Raja Singh I and B Paul Ravindran, 36th Annual Conference of the Association of Medical Physicists of India (AMPICON 2015), 20-22 November 2015, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

AWARDS/PRIZES WON 1. Second prize for the best abstract entitled “Investigation of an in-house laser CT scanner for reading normoxic gel” by B Paul Ravindran, Brindha S, Brindha S, Timothy Peace S and Ebenezer Suman,” at the DOSGEL-2006, 7-10 August 2006, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada 2. Gold Medal for Best Paper (POSTER) at AMPICON 2015 3. Gold Medal for Best Paper at AROICON 2014 4. Gold Medal and Silver for Best Poster at CMC’s Annual Research Day 2015 5. Silver Medal for Best Poster at CMC’s Annual Research Day 2014

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SCIENTIFIC PAPERS PUBLISHED IN CONFERENCE SERIES 1.

Paul Ravindran, Anurupa Mahata, Ebenezer Suman Babu, “Phantom for Moving Organ Dosimetry with Gel”, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 164 (2009) 012057

2. B. Paul Ravindran, Brindha Subramanian, S. Timothy Peace and S. Ebenezer Suman, “Investigation of an in-house laser CT scanner for reading normoxic gel”, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 56 (2006) 203–206

SCIENTIFIC PAPERS PUBLISHED IN JOURNALS 1. D.Majumdar, S.S.Mohammed, M.A.Nasser, J.Jacob, R. Mohan, S.B.Ebenezer, Basma AlNajar, S.Al-Janahi, V.Ramanathan, S.A. Sabt, R.S. Patnaik, A.Hassan, “Respiratory Gated Simultaneous Integrated Boost Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy (SIB-IMRT) After Breast Conservative Surgery For Carcinoma Of The Breast: The Salmaniya Medical Complex Experience”, The Gulf Journal of Oncology, Issue 10, July 2011. (ISSN.No. 20782101).

2. J. Aaron, B. Sasidharan, S. Ebenezer, B. Thangakunam, B. Antonisamy and B. Selvamani (2015). Impact of breathing on post-mastectomy radiotherapy: a dosimetric comparison between intensity-modulated radiotherapy and 3D tangential radiotherapy. Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice, 14, pp 126-134. doi:10.1017/S1460396915000096.

3. Balasingh S T, Singh I R, Rafic K M, Babu S E, Ravindran B P. Determination of dosimetric leaf gap using amorphous silicon electronic portal imaging device and its influence on intensity modulated radiotherapy dose delivery. J Med Phys 2015;40:129-35 4. Babu SE, Singh IR, Poornima CG, Ravindran BP. Enhancing the longevity of threedimensional dose in a diffusion-controlled Fricke gel dosimeter. J Can Res Ther 2015;11: 580-5.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Professional Body: Association of Medical Physicists of India (AMPI) Membership No: LM 1734

PERSONAL PROFILE Name Father‟s Name Gender & Age Date of Birth Address for Communication

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EBENEZER SUMAN BABU SAM JEYAKUMAR Male & 34 Years 25 September 1981 4 A, 18th East Main Road, Gandhi Nagar East, Vellore-632 006, TamilNadu, India