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Medical Physics Residency

Medical Physics Residency
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J. Matt Wait, Assistant Program Director, M.S., DABR, DABSNM

Introduction

Matt Wait has been with Kaiser Permanente since October, 2015, and serves the Woodland Hills Medical Center service area. His interests include rad/fluoro, CT, ultrasound display performance, regulatory affairs, process improvements, and clinically-based research.

Education

  • S.M.S. in Medical Physics
    The University of Texas at Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (2014)
  • B.S. in Physics
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2010)

Certifications

  • American Board of Radiology – Diagnostic Medical Physics (2018)
  • American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine (2022)

Professional Organizations and Activities

  • American Association of Physicists in Medicine
  • Committee Member: Government and Regulatory Affairs
  • Committee Member: Government and Regulatory Affairs Policy Sub-Committee
  • Committee Member: Subcommittee on Practice Guidelines
  • Committee Member: Task Group No. 316 – Ultrasound Modality-Specific Display Presentation Consistency

Selected Publications and Presentations

  1. “Acceptance Testing and Performance Evaluation of Personal Dose Monitors (PDMs) of Philips DoseAware System for Real-Time Feedback of Scattered X-Ray Exposure.” American Association of Physicists in Medicine, August 2018.
  2. Wait, J. M. S., Cody, D., Jones, A. K., Rong, J., Baladandayuthapani, V., Kappadath, S.C. Performance Evaluation of Material Decomposition with Rapid-Kilovoltage-Switching Dual-Energy CT and Implications for Assessing Bone Mineral Density. Am J Roentgenol 204, (2015) 1234-1241.
  3. Burk, L. M., Wang, K., Wait, J.M., Kang, E., Willis, M., Lu, J., Zhou, O., Lee, Y.Z. Delayed Contrast Enhancement Imaging of a Murine Model for Ischemia Reperfusion with Carbon Nanotube Micro-CT. PLoS One 10.1, (2015).
  4. “Performance evaluation of material decomposition with rapid kVp-switching dual-energy CT and implications for assessing bone mineral density” (Presenter) Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), December 2014.
  5. Wait, J. M., Tomita H., Burk L. M., Lu, J., Zhou, O. Z., Maeda, N., Lee, Y. Z. Detection of Aortic Arch Calcification in Apolipoprotein E‐Null Mice Using Carbon Nanotube–Based Micro‐CT System. J Am Heart Assoc 2, (2013).
  6. Burk, L. M., Lee, Y. Z., Wait, J. M., Lu, J., Zhou, O. Z. Non-contact respiration monitoring for in-vivo murine micro computed tomography: characterization and imaging applications. Phys Med Biol 57, (2012) 5749–5763.
  7. “Characterization of 129-apoe and b6-apoe mice using contrast enhanced CNT based micro-CT virtual histology” (Poster, Presenter) VUIIS Frontiers of Biomedical Imaging Science, June 2011.