{"id":16412,"date":"2015-02-16T10:56:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T15:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=16412"},"modified":"2022-01-06T12:23:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T17:23:38","slug":"triumphs-challenges-first-year-carleton-spotlight-emily-heath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2015\/triumphs-challenges-first-year-carleton-spotlight-emily-heath\/","title":{"rendered":"Triumphs and challenges of a first year at Carleton: Spotlight on Emily Heath"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Emily Cook, EDC staff writer<\/em><\/p>\n

Getting a new job and being in a new environment can be unsettling. But professor Emily Heath is taking it in stride, making new developments in her cancer research and challenging herself in teaching, all during her first year at Carleton.<\/p>\n

\"Emily<\/a>Heath joined the Physics department in winter 2014, bringing with her a PhD in Medical Radiation Physics from McGill University and four years of teaching experience from Ryerson University. Her move to Carleton also marked the beginning of her collaboration with the Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre at the Ottawa Hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving a collaboration with the hospital is great because that kind of moves my ideas closer to being something that could help patients,\u201d says Heath.<\/p>\n

Currently, her research is focused on a simulation program called 4D Monte Carlo, which uses data from radiation therapy patients to see if they are getting the correct dosage of treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe monitor what comes out of the machine, but we don\u2019t have a way to monitor what got into the patient,\u201d says Heath.<\/p>\n

Being connected with the hospital not only provides access to patients, but it also gives access to the machines used to treat them, which Heath\u2019s program is modeled after.<\/p>\n

But the move to Carleton has also provided Heath with some challenges. This semester, she\u2019s teaching Electricity and Magnetism, a second year course brand new to the department.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I\u2019m relearning the stuff right before I teach it to the students, so that has been challenging,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Despite its difficulties, Heath says she enjoys the challenge and thinks refreshing herself on the topic will help her research. Overall, she says she\u2019s been really encouraged from her time at Carleton.<\/p>\n

\u201c[It] was really nice to be able to discuss a teaching challenge or research challenge with my colleagues,\u201d says Heath about bringing questions to the faculty lunchroom. \u201cThat\u2019s quite different from where I was before, it\u2019s not the same kind of atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n

This past year was one of transition since Heath was still supervising some students at Ryerson, but she says she\u2019s now looking forward to settling into Ottawa.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year I\u2019m dropping some of those connections and starting out being able to spend more time focusing on my Carleton responsibilities, and building up my program here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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