Heather Williams is the principal physicist in nuclear medicine at the Christie Hospital in Manchester. In this interview, she speaks about the different aspects of her role and the challenges she faces along the way. That could involve managing clinicians expectations over medical scans or thinking carefully about the best way to explain scan images to patients.
Williams is also passionate about sharing her work with the public, whether that’s on Twitter or through public lectures. She speaks about her motivations for doing this and provides advice for other medical physicists who want to get involved with outreach but perhaps don’t know where to start.
This profile is part of a series of Physics World films produced at The Christie, which we will be sharing on this site over the next few weeks. In the meantime, take a look at our medical physics research updates, as well the careers section of our site, which contains lots of case studies and practical information for physics graduates.
