NADIA OCTAVE

Nadia Octave is a physicist working in a hospital aka a clinical medical physicist. When she is not writing license application or preparing new training for staff, she wears a white hat and goggles on a construction site. She recently joined a newly formed group of physicists in Lévis to take a new challenge in her career: the construction from blueprints to full operation of a new cancer centre at Hotel-Dieu de Lévis, in the Chaudiere-Appalaches region. Before that she was working at Hotel-Dieu of Quebec in radiation oncology. She received her PhD degree from Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse in medical physics and her clinical training at the Curie Institute in Paris, France. Before coming to Quebec, she worked at the Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou in Paris also in radiation oncology and as well as at the French-Vietnamese Hospital in Ho-Chi-Minh, Vietnam. Her research interest involves image guided radiation therapy, adaptive radiation therapy, radiation protection and new clinical tools for brachytherapy. She co-founded the Student Council for the Canadian Organisation of Medical Physicists (COMP) and she is the chair of the COMP women’s committee.