S.F. (Steven) Petit, PhD

‘My main professional passion is to improve healthcare. Through research & technology, with people and strategy’

I am a medical physicist and associate professor at the department of Radiotherapy.

In addition I co-lead the Erasmus MC - Tech2Care program to strengthen the innovation capacity of Erasmus MC.

My areas of expertise include innovation management for workload reduction, resource optimization & AI automation for radiotherapy, head-and-neck cancer and robotics.

I lead the Erasmus MC Tech2Care Innovation program. Tech2Care strengthens the Erasmus MC innovation capacity by focusing on 

1. Improving innovation process and organization
2. Development and implementation of technology to reduced workload and increase job satisfaction.
3. Stimulate adoption and innovation mindsets

Steven Petit passed cum laude the Master Biomedical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology in 2007. He obtained his PhD at Maastricht University in 2010 (MAASTRO Clinic) on radiation therapy and medical imaging, followed by a short term research fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MA. In 2010 Steven embarked on the medical physics program at the Department of Radiation Oncology at Erasmus MC Cancer Institute in Rotterdam. His 4 year medical physics specialization included amongst others a total of 11 months of clinical and research training at Leiden University Medical Center, The Hague based MC Haaglanden, and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, MA.

Since 2014, Steven is a medical physicist and assistant professor at Erasmus MC Cancer Institute in Rotterdam.

• Publications on PubMed
• Researchprofile Erasmus University Rotterdam website

Current

Leader of the Erasmus Tech2Care program. The program strengthens the Erasmus MC innovation capacity by focusing on

1. Improving innovation process and organization
2. Development and implementation of technology to reduced workload and increase job satisfaction.
3. Stimulate adoption and innovation mindsets

Member of the Supervisory board of Spatium Medical. 

Passed

• European Society for Radiation Oncology (ESTRO)
  Various roles, including chair of the eraly career committee (2022-2025)
• Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Member of the Physics of life committee 2019-2022
• Netherlands Commission on Radiation Dosimetry (NCS). Member of the subcommittee MRI QA for RT 2017-2022
• Chairman of the National Hix Radiotherapy user group 2019-2022

Awards

• Bas Mulder award (KWF) for the COMPLETE project € 500.000
• Philips' Pinnacle Student Award 2010 € 3.000 
• Paper selected as highlight under the Editor's Choice column for the Medical Physics Citation and medphys.org websites (2013) 

Grants as PI

• Total of 2.7 M in total (own share) from among others Dutch Cancer Society, EIT Health 2018, Health Holland and Elekta AB