Dr. Jerome Meli has a Ph.D. in Atomic Physics from University of Connecticut. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. Previously, he was an Attending Physicist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Chief of Physics at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, CT, and a Radiological Physicist and Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale-New Haven Medical Center. Prior to his career as a medical physicist, he was an Associate Professor of Physics at Fairfield University. Dr. Meli served on several committees of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and has published research in medical physics, primarily in brachytherapy.