David McDonnell

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About David McDonnell

Agile, result orientated radiation oncology professional with comprehensive clinical background and experience. Working on the ETHOS adaptive radiotherapy solution at Varian Medical Systems in R&D as a senior system quality engineer and clinical customer-in-house for Ethos Adaptive Solutions in a feedback orientated, agile, collaborative, cross-functional scrum team. Responsibilities include design input (requirements/acceptance criteria and test case creation), risk assessment, automation assessment, agile testing and continual clinical customer-in-house feedback with cross-functional development teams. Experience as scrum master in development team. Relevant auditing experience as a former auditor with the Organization of European Cancer Institutes (OECI). Clinical background includes radiotherapy treatment and planning, running radiation oncology department/units, quality systems and risk management in the healthcare setting. Professional interests include adaptive radiotherapy, personalized medicine, patient reported outcome metrics, emerging technology and use of AI in radiotherapy.