Sara N. Lim, Ph.D., DABR

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Sara N. Lim, Ph.D., DABR
Assistant Clinical Professor, Medical Physicist, Brachytherapy Physicist
Clinical Expertise
  • Radiation Oncology
Academic Appointments

Assistant Clinical Professor, Medical Physicist, Brachytherapy Physicist

Clinical Teams
Radiation Oncology

Sara N. Lim, Ph.D., DABR, is an assistant clinical professor and medical physicist at City of Hope, Duarte, CA.

Location

Education & Experience

Board Certifications

  • Licensed Medical Physicist for HDR 192Ir and LDR 125I/131Cs Brachytherapy ABR: Board-certified

Degrees
  • 2017-2020, Medical Physics Residency, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
  • 2015-2017, Medical Physics Post-doc, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
  • 2009-2014, Ph.D. Biophysics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
  • 2004-2008, B.A. Physics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY    
Professional Experience
  • 2024 – present, Assistant Clinical Professor, Medical Physicist, Brachytherapy Physicist, City of Hope, Duarte, California
  • 2022 – 2024, Assistant Professor, Academic Medical Physicist, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
  • 2020 – 2022, Staff Medical Physicist, Pacific Crest Medical Physics, Chico, California

Publications

  • Lim SN, Liu Y, Jawahar A, Mittal B, Thomas T. Anatomic delineation of celiac axis for dosimetric evaluation of adaptive MRI-Linac treatment (submitted)
  • Lim S.N., Sohn JJ, Klawikowski S, Hayes J, Donnelly E and Das IJ. Characterization of brass mesh bolus for use in electron beam therapy (submitted)
  • Yalamanchili A, Sengupta B, Song J, Lim S, Thomas TO, Mittal BB, Abazeed ME, Teo PT. Quality of Large Language Model Responses to Radiation Oncology Patient Care Questions. JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(4):e244630. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.4630
  • Das IJ, Sohn JJ, Lim S, Sengupta B, Feijoo M, Yadav P. Characteristics of a Plastic Scintillation Detector in Photon Beam Dosimetry J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2024 Jan 25: e14209
  • Sohn J.J, Lim S, Das IJ and Poonam Y. An integrated and fast imaging quality assurance phantom for a 0.35T magnetic resonance imaging linear accelerator phiRO 2023 June 22
  • Liu Y., Chou B., Yalamanchili A, Lim S.N., Dawson L.A. and Thomas T.O. Local therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma and role of MRI-Guided adaptive radiation therapy JCM 2023 May 17
  • Parchur A.K., Lim S., Nasief H.G, Omari E.A., Zhang Y., Paulson E.S., Hall W.A., Erickson B. and Li X.A. Auto-detection of the necessity for MRI-guided online adaptive replanning using a machine learning classifier Med Phys 2022 Oct 13
  • Kainz K, Garcia Alvarez J, Zhong H, Lim S, Ahunbay E, Tai A, Erickson B, Lawton C and Li XA. Use of a DVH overlay technique for quality assurance of deformable image registration-based dose accumulation Med Phys. 2022 Jan;49(1):611-623
  • Zhang Y, Paulson E, Lim S, Hall WA, Ahunbay E, Mickevicius NJ, Straza MW, Erickson B and Li XA. A Patient-Specific Autosegmentation Strategy Using Multi-Input Deformable Image Registration for Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Online Adaptive Radiation Therapy: A Feasibility Study. Adv Radiat Oncol. 2020;5(6):1350-1358
  • Chen GP, Tai A, Keiper TD, Lim S, Li XA. Comprehensive performance tests of the first clinical real-time motion tracking and compensation system using MLC and jaws. Med Phys. 2020; 47: 2814-2825.
  • Lim SN, Ahunbay EE, Nasief H, Lawton CAF and Li XA Indications of online adaptive replanning based on organ deformation Practical Radiation Oncology 2019 Aug 22
  • Kainz K, Lim S, Chen GP and Li XA Adaptive Radiation Therapy with PreciseART™: Dose Monitoring, Re-Planning, and Delivery Verification Accuray PreciseART™ Adaptive Radiation Therapy software White Paper (2017)
  • Kainz K, Lim SN, Li XA Automated Tracking of Fractional and Accumulated Doses for Triggering Adaptive Replanning. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2016 Oct 1;96(2S):E669.