Meet our Alumni

In 1977 Bob began practicing medical physics in the Cancer Center at the University of Rochester Medical Center. In 1979 he became Director of Medical Physics at Rochester General Hospital, where his areas of interest and expertise broadened to include diagnostic imaging physics and teaching medical physics to physicians. Bob formed Upstate Medical Physics, Inc. in 1983, to provide medical physics services to facilities that could not support their own full-time medical physicist. Since 1989, Bob has been the full-time president of Upstate Medical Physics, the largest private practice diagnostic medical physics group in NY State – leading a group of 10 professionals who serve well over 100 facilities across NY, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has also served as consultant to many major imaging manufacturers, contributing his knowledge of imaging and broad practical experience to the manufacturing sector.

Bob has always believed in the value of being on the leading edge of professional and clinical developments. In 1987, he helped to pilot test the new “ACR Mammography Accreditation Phantom” at several client facilities. In the early 1990’s he became a medical physicist reviewer for phantom images for the ACR-MAP. After more than a decade of work with the ACR and the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors (CRCPD), Bob was appointed to the FDA’s Mammography Quality Standards Advisory Committee. When Stereotactic Breast Biopsy was introduced in the early 1990’s, Bob worked with the American College of Radiology (ACR) to develop the ACR Stereotactic Breast Biopsy Accreditation program and co-authored the SBB QC manual. Bob continues to serve on several key committees of the AAPM, ACR and ACMP.

Bob is an active lecturer, and has been invited to speak at over 100 programs in the last decade across the U.S., in South America and in China. His current special interests include breast imaging, MRI, and cone-beam CT imaging.

For Bob, the most stimulating aspects of his professional life is contributing to quality patient care by helping people to use radiation safely and effectively for imaging. He loves to learn and to teach, bring the benefits of basic science and new technology to the wide variety of facilities we serve. Coming from a large family, Bob sees our staff, our clients and their patients as part of a greater “family” with which we are all connected. He strives to promote the benchmark “treat every patient as you would your dearest family member” through the practice of medical physics at UMP.

Serving the company since 1991, Vicki is most likely the first voice that clients hear when they contact UMP. Her convivial demeanor combined with her 18 years of prior human resource experience help to provide a reasonable understanding and direction when resolving issues, as well as development of trustworthy relationships with our many clients. Aside from the routine financial responsibilities of maintaining the business, Vicki functions primarily in an administrative capacity, and works closely with clients in the development of contracts and scheduling UMP staff visits. While she may not have met them personally, Vicki feels uniquely blessed to have the opportunity to work with so many wonderful people.

Vicki is originally from Philadelphia, PA.

Vicki retired in 2018.

Ron is a native of Syracuse, NY. After receiving his B.S. and B.A. degrees in Physics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Rochester, Ron attended graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his PhD in Physics. His experimental research during graduate studies focused on the fusion of heavy nuclei at low energies. For several years following graduation, Ron worked as a researcher and as a college professor in the countries of Italy and Indonesia, respectively.
During the 1990s Ron was employed as an Assistant Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. His duties there were threefold, being divided equally among teaching the Physics of Nuclear Medicine, performing clinical duties at a few local hospitals (including daily QC checks and weekly therapy dose estimates), and carrying out research in the areas of dosimetry for new radiopharmaceuticals and new methods of imaging radiopharmaceuticals. He has numerous publications in these two research areas as well as holding a patent related to his imaging research. In 1999 he became certified by the American Board of Radiology in Medical Nuclear Physics. Over the past decade Ron worked both as a college professor and as an Electrical Engineer.
Ron joined Upstate Medical Physics in 2010 and specializes in the area of Medical Nuclear Physics. His goal is to help clients streamline their QC activities and associated record keeping as well as to help clients achieve the best performance from their imaging equipment.

Ron retired from UMP in December 2022.

Bob has been working in the radiology field for over 32 years. He has work in a variety of healthcare facilities, from 20 to 700 bed acute care hospitals and a large HMO. His work experiences include staff technologist, Educational Coordinator, Chief Technologist, Radiology Manager, Administrative Director of Medical Imaging, Director of Ancillary and Support Services and Applications Consultant for Kodak. Along with extensive experience in hospital and department operations, development of long and short term planning, including implementation of new modalities. Department design and renovations, Capital Improvement projects are areas which Bob has enjoyed most during his career.

Bob’s knowledge and experience as Application Consultant with DR, CR and PACS equipment has provided additional assistance for clients. Has experience with JCAHO, NYSDOH, FDA and OSHA inspections.

Bob is originally from Worcester, MA.

Bob Retired from UMP in May 2022.

Vikas completed his Bachelor’s and Doctoral degrees in Physics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His doctoral thesis focused on developing high-resolution 3D rotational micro-angiographic systems, which can be easily implemented on clinical C-arm systems. Vikas joined Global Physics Solutions in Columbus, OH as a Diagnostic Medical Physicist in June, 2009, where he gained extensive clinical experience in performing Physics surveys on CT, Radiographic, Fluoroscopic, Mammographic imaging systems, etc. He also served as a certified radiation expert at various hospitals located in Ohio. Vikas obtained his FDA approval under MQSA regulations in October of 2009, and has been performing annual mammography physics surveys and equipment evaluations ever since. He has helped various imaging centers and hospitals successfully accredited by the ACR for mammographic and CT imaging systems.

Vikas joined Upstate Medical Physics in January, 2011. He became certified in Diagnostic Medical Physics by the American Board of Radiology in May, 2012. He has been actively involved in Clinical Dose Optimization Team at various hospitals assisting them in managing radiation dose and image quality effectively. In addition to routine clinical Medical Physics work, Vikas also worked on various research and development projects with major medical imaging equipment/software manufacturers such as Fuji Medical Systems, Carestream Health, Volpara Solutions, Xoran Technologies etc. He has also assisted in development of QC manuals for AccuBoost image guided breast irradiation system and Giotto mammography system. Vikas serves as a committee member and a mentor in UMP’s CAMPEP approved Diagnostic Medical Physics Residency Program.

Vikas is originally from Surat, India. He lived in Buffalo, NY since 2000.

Vikas took a position in New York City in 2019.