Satish Jaywant , Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Tel:   732-253-3963
Emai:   jaywansm@umdnj.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. from the Bhabha Atomic Research Center/University of Bombay, India

Academic Appointments:

• Associate Professor

Honors/Certificates:

• 1999 – 2002: Group Leader, Stereotactic Radiosurgery/Stereotactic Radiotherapy Program, Princess Margaret Hospital , Toronto , Canada .
• Memberships to AAPM, European ESTRO, and, Association of Medical Physicists of India AMPI (Life).
• Invited International Guest Speaker, International Conference on Medical Physics (ICMP 2004) and Silver Jubilee Association of Medical Physicists of India (AMPI) Conference, New Delhi , India .

Research Interests:

• the application of Integra Radionics stereotactic technology to cranial and extracranial sites with emphasis on the use of PET-CT for imaging and Varian linac based Image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT) for accurate setup verification.
• the use of the XKnife stereotactic technology for Head and Neck cancer sites and pediatrics that include the treatment of retinoblastoma.

Clinical Interests:

• 3D, IMRT, IGRT and application of stereotactic technology in pediatrics.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications for the Recent 5 Years:

1. A Sahgal, BA Miller, H Michaels, S Jaywant , HSL Chan, E Heon, B Gallie, N Laperriere, 2006, "Focal stereotactic external beam radiotherapy as a vision-sparing modality for treatment of peripapillary and perimacular retinoblastoma: Preliminary results", Clinical Oncology.
2. K Emara, DJ Weisbrod, A Sahgal, H McGowan, S Jaywant , H Michaels, D Payne, M Pintilie, NJ Laperriere, ER Simpson, 2004. "Stereotactic radiotherapy in the treatment of juxtapapillary choroidal melanoma: Preliminary results", Int. J. Radiation Oncology Biol. Phys. Vol. 59, No.1, pp. 94 - 100.
3. M Jaywant, EK Osei and S Ladak , 2003. "Stereotactic radiotherapy in the treatment of ocular melanoma: A non-invasive eye fixation device and tracking system", Journal of Applied Clinical Physics Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 2003.
4. MN Tsao, ML Schwartz, M Bernstein, WC Halliday, AW Lightstone, MG Hamilton, S Jaywant and N Laperriere, 2003. "Capillary hemangioma of the cavernous sinus: Report of two cases", J. Neurosurgery 98 (1) 169 – 174.
5. E Szumacher, ML Schwartz, M Tsao, S Jaywant , E Franssen, CS Wong, R Ramaseshan, AW Lightstone, H Michaels, C Hayter and NJ Laperriere, 2002. "Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy for the treatment of vestibular schwannomas: Combined experience of the Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre and the Princess Margaret Hospital",. Int. J. Radiation Oncology Biol. Phys., Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 987 – 991.
6. Satish M. Jaywant , John Waldron, Lee Fairclough, 2001, Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer. “ Procedure Technique Series” published by Radionics.
7. BP Ravindran, L Fairclough and SM Jaywant , 2001. "Phantom dosimetry for conformal stereotactic radiotherapy with a head and neck localizer frame", Phys. Med. Biol. 46 (2001) 1975-1984.
8. L Fairclough, T Larsen and SM Jaywant , 2001. "Immobilization in stereotactic radiotherapy: The Head and Neck Localizer frame",. Medical Dosimetry Vol.26, No.3, 2001.