Tatjana Ivanova, PhD, MSc, DABR

Dr. Tatjana Ivanova is a board-certified radiotherapy physicist and an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology (Physics) at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She joined Columbia University in January 2024, bringing her valuable clinical experience from practicing radiotherapy physics in the United States as well as the United Kingdom. She provides clinical services at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center Campus, and NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester Hospital in Bronxville, NY.

Dr. Ivanova graduated from the CAMPEP-approved Medical Physics residency program at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she trained in a wide range of clinical procedures and techniques and conducted clinical research. After completing her residency, she joined the Department of Radiation Oncology at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, CT, where she offered clinical services and consultations on routine and specialized radiotherapy procedures, including HDR brachytherapy and SBRT treatments.

Before her appointment at Columbia University, she worked as a radiotherapy physicist at North Middlesex University Hospital in London, UK, and as a senior radiotherapy physicist at St Luke's Cancer Centre at Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford, Surrey, UK.

Tatjana holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Patras in Greece and MSc and BSc degrees in Physics from the University of Latvia in Riga. Her professional interests include adaptive radiotherapy, knowledge-based treatment planning, and imaging dose optimization.