Sabine Bernard

Sabine Bernard

Medical Physicist

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Director, Product Marketing - Treatment Delivery & Imaging at Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company

  • Education

    • Ecole Communale de Profondeville

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    • Université de Namur

      1995 - 1999
      Masters Physics Grande Distinction

      Activities and Societies: Thesis: Quality control of the TPS Cadplan for symetric and asymetric fields using multileaves collimator for a Clinac600.

    • Université de Namur

      1998 - 1999
      Master Physics, Teaching

      Activities and Societies: Equivalent to a Master’s Degree on teaching. Grande Distinction

    • Université catholique de Louvain

      2000 - 2002
      Master Medical Physics Grande Distinction

      Activities and Societies: « DES en Physique Médicale, pour l’obtention du grade d’expert en Radiophysique, UCL (Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgique) ». Equivalent to a Master’s Degree on Medical Physics. The hospital training took place at the radiotherapy department of the « Clinique et Maternite Sainte-Elisabeth », Namur (Belgium). Thesis: Optimization of a breast implant in Brachytherapy PDR. Validation with Monte Carlo simulation and measurements with TLDs and GafChromic films.

  • Experience

    • Clinique et Maternite Sainte-Elisabeth, SORMN, Namur, Belgium

      Jul 1999 - Oct 2002
      Medical Physicist
    • Clinique Courlancy, Reims, France

      Oct 2002 - Sept 2003
      Medical Physicist
    • UCL - RBNT, Woluwe, Belgium

      Sept 2003 - Sept 2004
      PhD Student, Medical Physics

      Research project on new Brachytherapy techniques for the FNRS founding.Related publications :Optimization of a breast implant in Brachytherapy PDR. Validation with Monte Carlo simulation and measurements with TLDs and GafChromic films, S Bernard et al, 2005 Radiotherapy and oncology. 76 n3 326-338.Dosimetric study of a new polymer encapsulated palladium-103 seed, S Bernard et al, 2005 Phys. Med. Biol. 50 1493-1504.

    • Varian Medical Systems

      Jun 2004 - Oct 2017

      Medical Physicist (Application specialist) for Varian Medical Systems - Brachytherapy (Charlottesville, VA, USA). I did more than 200 trainings all around the world for VariSeed, Vitesse, BrachyVision and GammaMed.I also attent international meetings to perform demos of the Brachytherapy products proposed by Varian Medical Systems.- VariSeed – Training -Installation: treatment planning system for the permanent prostate seeds implants. Training usually performed on site and ocasionnaly in classroom at the Crawley (UK) office or Carlottesville (USA) office. The training can include patient tretament on the operation room. I am competent for the loose seed with the Mick applicator, the strands, the ProSeed and the ProLink techniques. I am also able to use different kind of ultra sound machines or tracked stepper.I can train for all the options included in VariSeed : image fusion, post-planning, optimisation, real time (implant view).- BrachyVision – Training - Installation: integrated workspace in Eclipse. The TPS is used for the brachytherapy plannings with HDR, PDR or LDR sources.- GammaMed: on-site or classroom training for HDR or PDR afterloader. The training includes the use of the afterloader, the TPS BrachyVision and the applicators.- VariSource: I am trained in Charlottesville to add the VariSource afterloader on my competence list.- Helpdesk: participation to the helpdesk program in English and French with the NEtvia and the Nortel systems. - Sales&Marketing support : participation to the international meetings (ESTRO, ASTRO, AAPM, ABS, …) and on-site visits for demos. Show less

      • MKT Product Manager TPS

        Jul 2015 - Oct 2017
      • Medical Physicist, Application Specialist, Brachytherapy

        Jun 2004 - Jul 2015
    • CHU UCL Namur

      Nov 2017 - Oct 2018
      Head of Medical Physics Department
    • Varian

      Oct 2018 - now
      • Director, Product Marketing

        Jan 2024 - now
      • Sr. Manager Global Marketing - Treatment Delivery & Imaging

        Feb 2022 - now
      • Senior Product Marketing Manager, Ethos therapy & Noona

        Mar 2021 - Feb 2022
      • Product Marketing Manager, Ethos therapy - Noona - 360 Oncology

        Oct 2018 - Mar 2021
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • PMC-I Certified

      Pragmatic Institute
      Jul 2024
    • Challenger Insight Consultant

      Challenger
      May 2022
      View certificate certificate
    • Corporate Finance Foundations

      LinkedIn
      Feb 2021
      View certificate certificate
    • PMC-II Certified

      Pragmatic Institute
      Aug 2024