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David Craft, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Radiation Oncology E-mail: dcraft(at)alum.mit.edu

Education and Degrees:

B.Sc.: Brown University, Mechanical Engineering (solid mechanics), Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research, 2004

Areas of Interest:

Multi-criteria optimization in radiation therapy
Mathematics and statistics

Publications:

Shared data for intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) optimization research: the CORT dataset GigaScience, 2015.

Three-dimensional conformal planning with low-segment multicriteria intensity modulated radiation therapy optimization, Kahn, Craft.  GigaScience, 2015.

Optimization approaches to volumetric modulated arc therapy planningUnkelbach, Bortfeld, Craft, et al, Med Phys, 2015.

Plan averaging for multicriteria navigation of sliding window IMRT and VMAT, Med Phys, 2014.

Multi-criteria optimization methods in radiation therapy planning: a review of technologies and directions. Springer, submitted.

Guaranteed Epsilon-Optimal Solutions with the Minimum Number of Beams for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy, Yarmand, Winey, Craft. PMB (2013)

A hybrid approach to beam angle optimization in intensity-modulated radiation therapy  Bertsimas, Cacchiani, Craft, Nohadani. Computers and Operations Research (2013).

Maximizing dosimetric benefits of IMRT in the treatment of localized prostate cancer through multicriteria optimization planning, Medical Dosimetry, 2013.

Deliverable navigation for multicriteria step and shoot IMRT treatment planning, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2013.

The dependence of optimal fractionation schemes on the spatial dose distribution, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2013.

Exploring Trade-off s between VMAT Treatment Quality and Delivery E fficiency, Salari et al, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2012.

Optimal partial-arcs in VMAT treatment planning, Jeremiah Wala, Ehsan Salari, Wei Chen and David Craft, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2012.

Including robustness in multi-criteria optimization for intensity-modulated proton therapy, Wei Chen, Jan Unkelbach, Alexei Trofimov, Thomas Madden, Hanne Kooy, Thomas Bortfeld and David Craft, 2012 Phys. Med. Biol. 57.

Multicriteria VMAT optimization, to appear in Medical Physics, 2012 Improved planning time and plan quality through multicriteria optimization for intensity-modulated radiotherapy. International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics, 2011

A fast optimization algorithm for multicriteria intensity modulated proton therapy planning. Chen, Herman, Craft, Madden, Zhang, Kooy. Medical Physics, 2010; 37(9).

Simultaneous navigation of multiple Pareto surfaces, with an application to multicriteria IMRT planning with multiple beam angle configurations. Medical Physics 2010;37(2).

Calculating and Controlling the Error of Discrete Representations of Pareto Surfaces in Convex Multi-Criteria Optimization. Physica Medica. 2010.

Multicriteria Optimization in IMRT Treatment Planning For Locally Advanced Cancer of the Pancreatic Head. International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics, 2008;72(4):1208-1214.

Evaluating Target Cold Spots By the Use of Tail EUDs. International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics, 2008;71:880-889.

How Many Plan Are Needed in an IMRT Multi-Objective Plan Database. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2008;53:2785-2796.

An approach for practical multiobjective IMRT treatment planning, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2007;69(5):1600-1607

The tradeoff between treatment plan quality and intensity field complexity in IMRT, Red Journal, volume 67 number 5, April 2007

Local beam angle optimization with linear programming and gradient search. Phys. Med. Biol. -- March 2007 -- Vol. 52, pp. N127-N135.

Dose-volume objectives in multi-criteria optimization (Halabi et al., Phys. Med. Biol. -- August, 2006 -- Volume 51, pp. 3809-3818)

Approximating convex Pareto surfaces in multiobjective radiotherapy planning (Medical Physics -- September 2006 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 3399-3407)

Exploration of tradeoffs in intensity-modulated radiotherapy (2005, Physics in Medicine and Biology)

Maximizing Operating Room and Recovery Room Capacity in an Era of Constrained Resources, Arch Surg. 2006;141:389-395.

Surgeon Profiling: A Key to Optimum Operating Room Use, Arch Surg. 2007;142:365-370

Ph.D. Thesis: Local energy management through mathematical modeling and optimization

Analyzing Bioterror Response Logistics: The Case of Anthrax (May 2005, Management Science, Volume 51, Number 5)

Analyzing bioterror response logistics: The case of smallpox (2003, Mathematical Biosciences, Volume 185 Issue 1)

Emergency response to a smallpox attack: The case for mass vaccination (2002, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)          - Work discussed in the New York Times, July 9, 2002

Emergency Response to an Anthrax Attack (2003, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

A Mathematical Model of the Impact of Novel Treatments on the A-Beta Burden in the Alzheimer's Brain, CSF and Plasma (2001, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology)

Bower, A.F. and Craft, D. (1998) Analysis of failure mechanisms in the interconnect lines of microelectronic circuits. Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures 21 611-630

Books:

Some of Infinity: peaks in the landscape of mathematics, (in progress) 2015.

Urban Foraging, Finding and eating wild plants in the city, Service Berry Press, 2011.

Music:

Return To Their Natural Coast, 2012

Foraging:

My foraging tours schedule at foragelive.com

Life alive sauce

Life Alive, the great veggie cafe that replaced Hollywood video a few years ago on Mass Ave in Cambridge, MA, uses this great sauce on almost all of their rice bowl dishes. This is it!

1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons freshly chopped ginger

1/4 cup garlic, de-centered

2 tablespoons fresh-squeezed lemon juice

1 tablespoon nama shoyu, or tamari, or soy sauce

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

1.5 cups plus 2 tablespoons olive oil


Blend the ginger, garlic, lemon juice, nama shoyu, salt, and 1/2 cup of the olive oil on high.

Add just enough olive oil to get the mixture to turn over. Once the ginger and garlic have broken down into a smooth cream, slowly add the remaining 1 and 1/8 cup olive oil. 

Use this sauce over rice with your favorite foraged items. Like boiled burdock, pokeweed shoots, jersulam artichokes, chestnuts if they ever return, or fiddleheads. 

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Why I love the Charles

Porcini!

Also these almond scented russulas which smell so good but the books say they are inedible. Then they say it is because they taste spicy. I tried them in my mouth, yes, they are spicy, but is that it? Is that why they are inedible..because I like spicy food. I need more data. Will ask the boston mycological club.

Boston magazine interview turns into a Porcini score!

I took a long lunch break today at work to do an interview with a gal from Boston Magazine. Even though I rarely forage around my work, I took her around there anyhow for convenience. We found wild parsnip .. first time I've ever seen that in the city .. and then over by some oak trees some little porcinis. Above, in the frying pan, now, in my stomach.  Also grabbed some pretty good looking chickweed and curly dock, in the collander, and on the way to work some juneberries which are in the pot on the left along with farmers market rhubarb and strawberries.  You'll also see pictured an orange and an apple. Also foraged. It's a little weird how much fruit I find that I guess falls out of bike baskets or something. These guys were lying in the mulch (where I also found a couple wine cap mushrooms, which have been abundant this year) over near my new sort-of-guerrilla garden at MIT (I dug it myself and it's in a weird spot, but, I got permission, so it's not that bad-ass).

This weekend will bring in the cherry/mulberry/juneberry haul, just as I finish the end of my last year's canned fruit, the apricots.

Get out there with your sheets and shake down those super fruit mulberries!

3D Pareto surface foraging

The world needs a nice picture of a 3D Pareto surface. I am always looking for one, so I took the time to make on. This has nothing to do with foraging, but this will at least make the thing available for public use. Hoping a google search for "3D Pareto surface" will have this as  a first hit soon enough.

In terms of FORAGING, my latest trip to California for the wedding of Melissa and Jeff included some nice new finds.   Foraged and ate a bunch of dragon fruits, a lot easier than the other red cactus fruits I've gotten before that require gloves because they are full of prickers.

Then there were the fallen oranges and grapefruits and persimmons. Black walnuts right at the wedding site provided a nice distraction, cracking them open on the rocks right there.  But my favorite item was the olives.  Lots of people grow olive trees, and I stopped at one point in San Bernadino and found about 5 full of olives on the street itself...not in someone's yard.  So I got a whole bunch and have various people (Stef, Helma) curing them for me. I took some home myself but didn't want to get them taken away by California Agricultural rules at the airport, which is why I convinced my California friends to cure them themselves. But I got mine through so am curing a small batch. They should be ready to try in about a month.

And once more, for search engine reasons: 3D Pareto surface.  And buy urban foraging on amazon!

SHOWTIME

I've been busy this summer rehearsing for 3 things: 2 choral performances and a play. Hopefully some of you can get to some of these. They will be cool in different ways so pick your poison. In order of the performances:

Chorus 1: (award winning)Mercury Orchestra sings Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe. This is a haunting, moody piece with hard jazzy voicings, and it should sound great in Sanders Theatre.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 . 8:00 pm. More info here. Advance tickets are $20, $15 for students.

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Play: Rumors, a wacky comedy by Neil Simon. I play the befuddled cop at the end of his rope, at the end of the play.  I get to yell a bit, which is fun. This is going up at the Georgetown Community Theatre, 22 Pleasant St.  Georgetown, MA 01833. You might remember me as Gene Scechi in Back in Your Own Backyard, an original Hanover High School production c.a. 1990. 

THURSDAY, AUGUST 23-26. 23-25 are at 8 pm and 26th is a matinee at 3 pm. Tickets are $10. 

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Chorus 2: This we've been rehearsing for all summer. Calliope is a non-profit chorus/orchestra in Boston, and besides sounding great, they give away proceeds from all of their shows to area non-profits.  They have creative programming, and this summer the concert is "A Mass in Pieces", which is a collage of great pieces from various composers' masses.  Bach, Beethoven, Rossini, Bloch, and more. 

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 7:30 pm, 

First Church, Boston, 66 Marlborough Street.

Mayapples. These are the ones we didn't eat because they are not ripe enough. The ripe ones tasted unbelievably good - sweet like a passionfruit meets a guava. We all swallowed but didn't chew the seeds, and no one suffered any ill effects or feelings.

M & M s

Last week on the vineyard brought a ton of foraging. I'm getting better about picking only things that I know people will like (although my friend Jody didn't seem to like the watercress soup, but everyone else did enough so that we sucked down at least 10 gallons of the stuff). So, for example, I didn't prepare anything "knotweed". I stuck to pokeweed, daisy greens, milkweed, and watercress as the bulk foraged items.

Here are my milkweed pickers.

And here is the haul.

I cut off the white part of the stem and boiled the rest for 10 minutes and.. no bitterness! I think I have, at least for the time being, satisfied myself that it is the white part that has produced the bitterness confusion in the foraging literature.

On the ferry boat home, I got a phone call from a friend in Cambridge saying she had possibly found morels in her back yard. The next day I verified that they were in fact morels and proceeded to eat them for lunch. Thanks Julia!!  So, Cantabridgians, keep your eyes peeled.  Look in your mulch, and even look where the foundation starts and the mulch begins.  The deformed one (which I split into two to make the "haul" look more impressive) was coming right out of such a crack.