Jarod Finlay, Ph.D.
Instructor of Radiation Oncology
Division of Medical Physics

Phone: 215-615-3795
Pager: 215-314-0188
Fax: 215-349-5978
Email: finlay@xrt.upenn.edu
Education
- 1999 B.A. (Physics, Math) Magna cum laude, with Honors in Physics, Alfred University, Alfred, N.Y.
- 1999 M.A. (Physics) University of Rochester, N.Y.
- 1999 Ph.D. Candidate (Physics) University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.
Memberships
- American Society for Photobiology
- Society for Applied Spectroscopy
- Optical Society of America
- Alpha Lambda Delta
- Phi Kappa Phi
Awards and Honors
- National Merit Scholarship 1993
- Sprague Physics Award 1995
- Hal W. Metzger Award in Astronomy 1996
- W. Varick Nevins III and Lillian Texiere Nevins Award 1997
- Natasha Goldowski Renner Prize in Physics 1997
- Alfred University Scholar 1997
- Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention 1997
- Graduate Assistance in areas of National Need 1997
- Honorable mention citation for excellent performance as a recitation instructor 1998
- Certificate of College Teaching in Physics and Astronomy 1998
- Gordon Research Conference on Lasers in Medicine and Biology, Poster presentation 2002
Publications
1. A. Dimofte, J.C. Finlay and T.C. Zhu: "A method for determination of the absorption and scattering properties interstitially on turbid media". Phys. Med. Biol. 50 (10):2291-2311, 2005.
2. T.C. Zhu, J.C. Finlay and S.M. Hahn: "Determination of the distribution of light, optical properties, drug concentration, and tissue oxygenation in-vivo in human prostate during Motexafin Lutetium-mediated photodynamic therapy". J. Photochem. Photobiol. B: Biol79(3): 231-234, 2005.
3. T.C. Zhu, A. Dimofte, J.C. Finlay, D. Stripp, T. Busch, J. Miles, R. Whittington, S.B. Malkowitz, Z. Tochner, E. Glatstein and S.M. Hahn: "Optical properties of human prostate at 732 nm measured in-vivo during Motexafin Lutetium-mediated photodynamic therapy". Photochem. Photobiol. 81(1): 96-105, 2005.
4. J.C. Finlay and T.H. Foster: "Recovery of hemoglobin oxygen saturation and intrinsic fluorescence using a forward adjoint model". Appl. Optics 44(10): 1917-1933, 2005.
5. J.C. Finlay, S. Mitra, M.S. Patterson and T.H. Foster: "Photobleaching kinetics of Photofrin in-vivo and in multicell tumor spheroids indicate multiple simultaneous bleaching mechanisms". Phys. Med. Biol. 49(21): 4837-4860, 2004.
6. J.C. Finlay and T.H. Foster: "Hemoglobin oxygen saturations in phantoms and in-vivo from measurements of steady state diffuse reflectance at a single, short source-detector seperation". Med. Phys. 31:1949-1959, 2004.
7. J.C. Finlay and T.H. Foster: "Effect of pigment packaging on diffuse reflectance spectroscopy of samples containing red blood cells". Optics Lett. 29: 965-967, 2004.
8. J.C. Finlay, S. Mitra and T.H. Foster: "In-vivo mTHPC photbleaching in normal rat skin exhibits unique irradiance-dependent features". Photochem. Photobiol. 75: 282-288, 2002.
9. S. Mitra, J.C. Finlay, D. McNeil, D.L. Conover and T.H. Foster: "Photochemical oxygen consumption, oxygen evolution and spectral changes during UVA irradiation of EMT6 spheroids". Photochem. Photobiol. 73: 703-708, 2002.
10. J.C. Finlay, D.L. Conover, E.L. Hull and T.H. Foster: "Porphyrin bleaching and PDT-induced spectral changes are irradiance dependent in ALA-sensitized normal rat skin in-vivo". Photochem. Photobiol. 73:54-63, 2001.
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