Our CyberKnife Physicians

Lee K. McNeely, MD

Board Certified
Radiation Oncologist
Brachytherapy Specialist
Radiosurgery Specialist

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Board Certified – American Board of Radiology – Radiation Oncology, 1990

Dr. McNeely’s clinical practice of radiation oncology includes:

• LDR (low dose rate) brachytherapy
• External beam radiation therapy, including IMRT & IGRT 3D Conformal
• SRS, SRBT, & IGRT Robotic IMRT & 3D conformal with the CyberKnife VSI
• 2,000+ CyberKnife SRS cases – intracranial & extra-cranial applications

• University of Wyoming, 1979
• University of Utah, School of Medicine, 1983
• University of Utah, School of Medicine, Internship, 1983-1984
• Resident, internal medicine, University of Utah, 1984- 1985
• Resident, radiation oncology, University of Utah, 1985-1989
• Fellowship, American Cancer Society, Clinical Oncology, 1988-1989
• Longstanding LDR brachytherapy clinical practice
• Accuray CyberKnife stereotactic system training, Feb 2003

o       Pioneer of clinical application of Synchrony Motion Tracking for Lung and other soft tissue tumors
o       1^st Radiosurgeon to clinically apply benefits of the Cyberknife to robotic IMRT:

o       Malignant & benign brain lesions
o       Functional disorders such as Trigeminal Neuralgia (TGN) & cluster headaches
o       AVMs- Atervenious Malformations
o       Meningiomas, Acoustic Neuromas (Vestibular Schwanomas)
o       GBMs- Glioblastomas metastatic brain tumors
o       Spinal tumors
o       Renal, liver, adrenal, pancreatic, bone lesions and palliation.

• Attends & presents at annual international CyberKnife scientific meetings
• Attends annual ASTRO scientific meetings
• Pioneer in the clinical application of the CyberKnife for renal tumors
• Directed the first physician team launch of the synchrony motion tracking system, permitting the CyberKnife to treat lung tumors subject to patient movement and respiration.
• 20+ years continuous clinical experience in field of radiation oncology
• Dr. McNeely has been involved in multiple research projects, has presented research findings at many international conferences, and has been the lead or contributing source for various research articles in the field of Radiation Oncology.

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C. Kelley Simpson, MD

Board Certified
Radiation Oncologist
Brachytherapy Specialist
Radiosurgery Specialist

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Board Certified – American Board of Radiology – Radiation Oncology, 1994

Dr. Simpson’s clinical practice of radiation oncology includes:

• LDR (low dose rate) brachytherapy
• External beam radiation therapy – both IMRT & 3D IGRT
• SRS, SRBT, & IGRT Robotic IMRT & 3D conformal with the CyberKnife VSI

• Mississippi State, B.S., M.S., 1982
• University of Mississippi, School of Medicine, 1986
• University of Tennessee, Internship, internal medicine, 1986-1987
• University of Colorado, Resident, radiation oncology, 1987-1989
• University of Colorado, Chief Resident, radiation oncology, 1989-1990
• William Beaumont, Fellowship, brachytherapy/hyperthermia, 1992-1993
• Accuray CyberKnife University, radiation oncology training, 2010
• Rocky Mountain Radiation Oncology & Centennial Radiation Oncology, P.C.
• 20 years clinical experience serving the northern Colorado cities of Fort Collins, Loveland, and Greeley.

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Brian Thorndyke, PhD, MS, DABR

Senior Medical Physicist
Board Certified
Post Doctorate – Stanford University

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Dr. Thorndyke brings a wealth of academic, clinical and training expertise in medical hysics, imaging, and computer science, to Colorado CyberKnife

Certified – Therapeutic Radiologic Physics – American Board of Radiology, 2010

• University of Montreal, Quebec, B.S. physics, 1992
• University of Montreal, Quebec, M.S. physics, 1992 – 1995
• University of Florida, M.S., computer science, 1995 – 1997
• University of Florida, PhD, physics, 1997 – 2004
• Stanford University, post doctorate, radiation oncology, 2004 – 2006

o       Emphasis on application of 4D CT & PET CT to IGRT
o       Novel imaging techniques such as optical & FLT-PET
o       Deformable image registration, 4D & Gated PET

• Physics Training Specialist for Accuray, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, 2009 – 2010

o       Customer technical training for CyberKnife physicists, therapists, oncologists, and surgeons.
o       Support for onsite 4D Planning & 4D Commissioning

• Medical Physicist, Oncure Medical Corp., Jacksonville, FL, 2006 – 2009

o       Primary CyberKnife Medical Physicist at CyberKnife Cancer Center
o       Supervised 2 dosimetrists and 5 radiation therapists.
o       Supervised junior physicist and QA at remote CyberKnife center
o       Assisted in commissioning (4) CyberKnife centers in Florida
o       Supported (2) external beam linear accelerator programs.

• Dr. Thorndyke,  is well published, participating in over 50 journals and abstracts pertaining to stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) treatment.
• 3D & 4D rendering and imaging expert