Medical Physicist · Healthcare AI · Radiation Medicine

Bridging medical physics, AI, and clinical research to support safer and more personalized cancer care.

I am a medical physicist with an MSc from the CAMPEP-accredited Medical Physics program at Université Laval and an IAEA Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow. My work combines hands-on experience in radiotherapy dosimetry and quality assurance with AI research in oncology, medical imaging, and multimodal clinical/imaging data analysis.

I graduated with my M.Sc. in June 2026 and am now a Research Professional (part-time, remote) in the lab of Dr. Frédéric Pouliot at CRCHU de Québec, developing machine-learning methods for translational prostate cancer research, and a member of the Fall 2026 cohort of the Quebec Scientific Entrepreneurship Program (QcSE). During my year at the IAEA Dosimetry Laboratory (2025 to 2026), I worked on radiotherapy dosimetry, audit methodology, and quality assurance initiatives, including data analysis for a multi-centre end-to-end brachytherapy dosimetry audit and the development of Python-based software for independent dose evaluation and verification in OSLD/RPLD dosimetry audits. My research focuses on graph neural networks, survival modeling, and multimodal clinical/imaging data integration for cancer prognosis, and I bring three years of healthcare AI industry experience developing deep learning tools for medical imaging applications.

Toronto, Canada

Zahra Khazaei

Education

MSc Medical Physics

CAMPEP-accredited program, Université Laval · Graduated June 2026

IAEA Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow

Now

Research Professional

Dr. Frédéric Pouliot Lab, CRCHU de Québec (remote)

QcSE Fall 2026 cohort · IAEA Dosimetry Lab alumna (2025 to 2026)

Focus

Clinical translation in radiation medicine

Medical physics · Healthcare AI · Multimodal cancer prognosis

What I am doing now

Updated September 2026

Research

Research Professional, CRCHU de Québec

Part-time, remote, in the Laboratoire d'Uro-Oncologie Expérimentale of Dr. Frédéric Pouliot (since September 2026). I develop machine-learning and statistical methods for translational prostate cancer research using clinical, pathology, and molecular data, and extend my patient-similarity graph neural networks to the PROCURE cohort.

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Program

QcSE, Fall 2026 cohort

Selected participant in the Quebec Scientific Entrepreneurship Program, a training program for researchers who want to bring scientific work closer to real-world impact. Supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec.

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Upcoming

IDOS 2026 poster, October 2026

Presenting our analysis of 22 years of IAEA QUATRO radiotherapy audits through quality indicators at the IAEA International Symposium on Standards, Applications and Quality Assurance in Medical Radiation Dosimetry.

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