MIAMI, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- James G. Schwade, M.D., executive director of CyberKnife Center of Miami, www.cyberknifemiami.com, announced the appointment of Dr. James Hevezi as Chief Physicist for the image guided robotic radiosurgery outpatient facility.

Dr. Hevezi will oversee the technical planning and delivery for the CyberKnife patient treatment operations. An independent practitioner of medical physics, he has practiced for 35 years and is a member of the American College of Radiology Board of Chancellors and serves as Chair of the ACR Medical Physics Commission. He currently holds adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio as Professor of Radiology and Radiation Oncology.

Previously, he served as Director of Medical Physics at the Cancer Therapy and Research Center in San Antonio from 1991- 2005, where he introduced IMRT, Radiosurgical techniques and HDR and LDR Brachytherapy techniques.

Hevezi is Board Certified in Diagnostic Radiological Physics and Therapeutic Radiological Physics by the American Board of Radiology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology (ACR) and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). He serves in leadership positions in the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) and AAPM.

CyberKnife treatment for cancer is precisely targeted image guided robotic radiosurgery that is non-invasive, painless, involves little to no side effects, and may be administered in 1-5 treatments while resuming normal physical activity immediately thereafter.

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