Biography
Reshma Munbodh was born in Mauritius and educated in Mauritius, Scotland and the United States. She is interested in contributing to improvements in the diagnosis, treatment and understanding of cancer primarily through the development and application of innovative imaging and medical image analysis methods. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland with a joint degree in Computer Science and Electronics, she joined the Electrical Engineering Department at Yale University for her doctoral studies in medical image processing and analysis. Her doctoral research addressed image-guided patient setup verification in external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer. She completed her post-doctoral work in the Department of Medical Physics at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer. At MSKCC, she undertook research on the identification of factors contributing to rectal toxicity in the treatment of prostate cancer with intensity-modulated radiation therapy, and received clinical training in Radiation Oncology/Therapeutic Radiologic Physics. She joined the Department of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College in 2008, where she is currently an Assistant Professor and is pursuing her research on cancer.
