Christel Smith, Phd Mba Email & Phone Number

Greensboro, North Carolina, US

Driving product, technology, and design to build novel oncology software solutions that aim to optimize cancer treatment methodologies for both the patients and their clinical care team.

Stockholm, SE

• Led product management and managed product team overseeing the flagship radiation oncology electronic medical record software solution, serving ~4000 cancer clinics globally.
• Defined software roadmap integrating next generation clinical decision support tools and tech stack modernization/SaaS transformation for next-gen oncology practice management.
• Championed continuous agile development, transitioning to tools like Polarion and Jira.
• Established a radiation customer advisory board, collaborating with oncologists to prioritize features and define future oncology software products and workflows.
• Managed relationships with industry standards organizations (IHE-RO, HL7, mCode/Codex) and integrations to large electronic health record systems (Epic/Cerner) to enhance interoperability.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Portfolio management for the proton business unit overseeing R&D investment to prioritize and load projects onto our strategic product roadmap.
• Managing the the Proton Solutions Product Management team and overseeing development of the ProBeam™ proton delivery & imaging system and Eclipse™ proton treatment planning software.
• Managing several external collaborations including collaborative research with several clinical and academic centers

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Portfolio management for the proton business unit overseeing R&D investment to prioritize and load projects onto our strategic roadmap.
• Product Manager for ProBeam™ proton delivery & imaging system and Eclipse™ treatment planning software.
• Managing clinical research collaborations, and clinical applications of proton therapy cancer treatments including development of novel techniques for radio-surgery, treatment planning, and FLASH planning and delivery.
• Leading the Varian collaboration with the Multi-Institutional Proton Cancer registry

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Managing global launch, commercialization, and product life cycle of cloud-based oncology software solutions including InSightive™ Analytics, an analytics solution merging Tableau and the Varian oncology information.
• Generating country-specific marketing and product development strategies to address varying geographical healthcare needs.

San Diego, CA, US

• Worked with an interdisciplinary team of 12 engineers, mathematicians, physicists, and computerscientists to develop new cancer treatments for radiation oncology. We developed an Online Adaptive treatment planning.
• Performed retrospective studies on effectiveness of the new adaptive treatment planning system on previously treated patients. Led to an oral presentation at the 2013 American Association of Physics in Medicine, AAPM.
• Interfaced with hospital physicians and nurses to help refine our cancer treatment technology for realistic clinical workflows.
• Optimized data analysis structure of cancer treatment planning software to cut down computationtime from over an hour to less than 5 minutes. Led to a poster presentation at the 2013 AAPM.

La Jolla, CA, US

• Taught class sizes of 200 - 400 undergraduates majoring in engineering, chemistry, and life sciences.
• Supervised and mentored Teaching Assistants.
• Earned high student evaluations averaging 94.3% in recommend instructor category compared toan average of 70% over all physics instructors by employing creative teaching methods.
• Courses taught in the past include Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Modern Physics, Special and General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics.
• Invited keynote speaker - American Association of University Women Teck Trek Event.

San Diego, CA, US

Financial modeling, strategy, and consulting for private companies in the creation of employee ownership programs. Financial transaction modeling for various buy-out scenarios.

• https://christelsmithart.com
• Original oil paintings and fine art reproductions. Exhibited in small San Diego shows and SD Art Walk, Little Italy.

Tempe, AZ, US

• Conducted frontline research in an interdisciplinary research group
• Published original research in peer-reviewed journals - Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, and Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
• Conference Speaker -The Erice International School on Nuclear Physics, The National Nuclear and Particle Physics School in Canada, American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics, and Lawrence Berkeley National.
• Organized department-wide weekly seminar series for the Cosmology Initiative
• Organized research collaborations with scientists around the world

La Jolla, CA, US

• Published Dissertation, Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Neutrino Physics
• Conducted original research on the particle physics of the early universe and published in peer-reviewed journals - Physical Review Letters and Physical Review D
• Founded, secured funding for, and organized monthly “Women in Physics” meetings, which focused on diversity issues in academia and retaining women in the sciences
• Conference Speaker - Sterile Neutrinos in Astrophysics and Cosmology, American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics
• Seminar Speaker - UCLA Theoretical High Energy Particle Seminar Series, Argonne National Laboratory Theoretical Nuclear Physics Seminar Series, and University of Chicago Astrophysics Seminar Series
• Volunteer for various outreach programs such as Teck Trek, Biobridge, Science gone wild, and Reach for Tomorrow.

Phd, Particle Physics, Nuclear Astrophysics

Bs, Astrophysics

Mba, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Marketing

Ms, Physics