Clinical Advisory Board
CPAC’s Clinical Advisory Board is a group of world renown experts with high credibility in the field. The Board is chaired by Dr. Rock Mackie, Director of Medical Devices, Morgridge Institute for Research, UW-Madison Professor of Medical Physics at the School of Medicine and Public Health and Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering, Co-inventor, Co-founder and former Chairman of TomoTherapy, Inc.
Scientific Advisory Board
CPAC has assembled a team of world renowned experts in the field of accelerator design to provide expertise, guidance and insight in the development of our unique technology.
Dr. Robert W. Hamm
Dr. Robert W. Hamm has been active for more than 40 years, in the development of particle accelerators for physics research and commercial applications, including electrostatic accelerators, linear accelerators and cyclotrons. For 22 years, he was the President and CEO of AccSys Technology, Inc., a successful company devoted to the development and manufacturing of ion linear accelerators for medical, research and industrial applications. The company was bought by Hitachi Ltd. in 2007. Dr. Hamm has over 85 publications in the scientific and engineering literature and has given numerous talks and colloquia worldwide. He has a BS in physics from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, an MS in physics from Florida State University and a PhD in accelerator physics from Texas A&M University. He has served on the Committee for Application in Physics within the American Physical Society and has worked as a visiting scientist in Dubna (JINR), Geneva (CERN) and Canada (Chalk River), and has worked in Saudi Arabia on a mission for the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Dr. Reinard Becker
Dr. Reinard Becker is a former Professor of Applied Physic from the University of Frankfurt, Germany from where he retired in 2005. He is an ion source and ion optics expert. He has been a member in the International Advisory committee of ICIS for two decades. Dr. Becker is the author of simulation programs IGUN, nIGUN, and INTMAG.
Dr. Joe Kwan
Dr. Joe Kwan obtained his PhD in plasma physics from the Univ. of British Columbia, Canada, in 1982. He joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in 1983 and has been working there since then. At present, he is a senior staff physicist in LBNL’s Accelerator and Fusion Research Division and is the deputy head of the Fusion Science and Ion Beam Technology Program within that division. He is also the project director for the construction of an MeV class induction linac for the Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment. His technical experience includes electron and ion sources, electrostatic injectors, induction linacs, and the industrial applications of ion beams for fusion drivers and neutron production.
Dr. William B. Herrmannsfeldt
Dr. William B. Herrmannsfeldt received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics in 1958 from the University of Illinois. He was chairman of the Division of Physics of Beams. Bill's first accelerator experience was on the venerable U of I cyclotron. His thesis, on Electron-Neutrino Angular Correlation Measurements, was the definitive experiment determining the nature of the beta-decay interaction. After spending four years from 1958 to 1962 at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he arrived at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in 1962 at the beginning of the construction of the two-mile linear accelerator. He developed a laser alignment system using a system of large rectangular Fresnel lenses and participated in the design of the injector and of the transport systems for the linac and the beam switchyard. His electron optics and gun design program, EGUN originated during the design of the SLAC injector. Over the years it has evolved into a powerful design tool widely used by many laboratories and industrial concerns around the world.
Bill served two years as Acting Branch Chief for Research and Development (for Accelerator Technology) in the Office of High Energy Physics of the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA, which became the DOE) from 1974 to 1976.
Bill has participated with a variety of panels and studies for the High Energy Physics, Fusion, and Defense Programs in the Department of Energy. He was a member of the Fusion Power Advisory Committee for the Secretary of Energy in 1990. He is presently chairman of the External Review Committee for the Accelerator Production of Tritium project at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Division of Physics of Beams (DPB) from 1991 to 1994.
Dr. Jose Alonso
Dr. Jose Alonso received his PhD from MIT in Nuclear Physics in 1967. Joining the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1972 he was part of the discovery team for Element 106, Sg. He moved to the Accelerator and Fusion Research Division in 1974, where he managed the Bevalac operations programs including pioneering work in relativistic heavy ion physics and hadron therapy with “heavy charged particles” (ions from alphas to argon, with emphasis on neon). He has remained active in the field of hadron therapy, including a recent report on the status of DWA to ESTRO in London, 2011. He is serving on an IAEA mission to Buenos Aires in 2012, to assist in development of proton therapy in Argentina. He also served as Technical Coordinator during the early days of the SNS at Oak Ridge, helping launch this project. After retirement in 2002 he spent 4 years working with the LBNL Physics Division on two of the silicon trackers (SCT and Pixel) for ATLAS at CERN, and spent two years as the Director of the Sanford Underground Lab in South Dakota. He is now working on megawatt compact cyclotron systems for the DAEdALUS project neutrino sources.