Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences
Health Science Ph.D. Alumnus Elected Fellow
A 2021 graduate of the Ph.D. in Department of Health Sciences program, Deborah Schofield has been elected a fellow of The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). The category of fellow honors members who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to research, education, or leadership in the medical physics community. The award was presented at the 2022 AAPM 64th Annual Meeting & Exhibition on July 11, 2022.
Schofield spent the first four years of her career at Duke University conducting research on Department of Defense-funded projects. In 2004, she made the shift to therapeutic medical physics and has spent the last 18 years working in both academic and community hospital programs. While at NSU, Schofield studied under Akiva Turner, Ph.D., J.D., M.P.H.,
Department of Health Science chair and professor, who chaired her dissertation entitled, “Job-Related Attitudes and Burnout Amongst Medical Physicists in the United States.”
Deborah Schofield, Ph.D., PCHCS Department of Health Science alumnus.