Peter Jermain

 Peter Jermain

Email: peter_jermain@uml.edu

Education

PhD (Physics/Medical Physics), UMass Lowell,  2023

MS (Medical Physics), UMass Lowell, 2020

BS (Physics), UMass Lowell, 2017

Honors and Awards

Outstanding Graduate Student Award

  • 2023, Department of Physics & Applied Physics, UMass Lowell

Physics Retreat Award – 2nd Place

  • 2022, MGH Radiation Oncology

Optica Student Paper Award

  • 2022, Optica Foundation

Expanding Horizons Travel Grant

  • 2021, AAPM

Young Investigator Award

  • 2020, NEAAPM

Med Phys Slam – 1st Place

  • 2020, NEAAPM

Outstanding First Year Graduate Student Award

  • 2019, Department of Physics & Applied Physics, UMass Lowell

Young Investigator Award

  • 2019, NEAAPM

Med Phys Slam – 1st Place

  • 2019, NEAAPM

 Graduate Research Award

  • 2018, UMass Lowell

 Educational Grant

  • 2018, American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS)

Professional Interests

Optical Pathology, Radiation Oncology Physics 

Journal Articles

  1. P.R. Jermain, D.H. Kandil, A. Muzikansky, A. Khan, and A.N. Yaroslavsky, “Translational Potential of Fluorescence Polarization for Breast Cancer Cytopathology,” Cancers 15(5), 1501 (2023). 

  2. P.R. Jermain, T.W. Iorizzo, M. Maloney, B. Mahmoud, and A.N. Yaroslavsky, “Design and Validation of a Handheld Optical Polarization Imager for Preoperative Delineation of Basal Cell Carcinoma,” Cancers 14(16), 4049 (2022). 
  3. P.R. Jermain, A.H. Fischer, L. Joseph, A. Muzikansky, and A.N. Yaroslavsky, “Fluorescence Polarization Imaging of Methylene Blue Facilitates Quantitative Detection of Thyroid Cancer in Single Cells,” Cancers 14(5), 1339 (2022).
  4. T.W. Iorizzo, P.R. Jermain, E. Salomatina, A. Muzikansky, and A.N. Yaroslavsky, “Temperature Induced Changes in the Optical Properties of Skin In Vivo,” Sci Rep 11, 754 (2021).
  5. A. N. Yaroslavsky, X. Feng, S. H. Yu, P.R. Jermain, T. Iorizzo, and V. A. Neel, “Dual-Wavelength Optical Polarization Imaging for Detecting Skin Cancer Margins,” J Invest Dermatol. 140(10), 1994-2000 (2020).
  6. X. Feng, A. Muzikansky, A. Ross, M. Hamblin, P.R. Jermain, and A.N. Yaroslavsky, “Multimodal Quantitative Imaging of Brain Cancer in Cultured Cells,” Biomed Opt Express. 10(8), 4237 (2019).
  7. S. Malik, P.R. Jermain, X. Feng, and A.N. Yaroslavsky, “Multimodal Optical Imaging of Renal cells,” Opt Eng. 58(8), 082415 (2019).
  8. P. Rohani, A.N. Yaroslavsky, X. Feng, P.R. Jermain., T. Shaath, and V. A. Neel, “Collagen Disruption as a Marker for Basal Cell Carcinoma in Presurgical Margin Detection,” Lasers Surg Med. 50(9), 902-907 (2018).

Conference Papers

  1. P.R. Jermain, T. W. Iorizzo, B. Mahmoud, M. Maloney, D. Goldberg, and A. N. Yaroslavsky, “Handheld Optical Polarization Imager Delineates Surgical Margins of Basal Cell Carcinoma,” in Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics 2022 (Translational, Microscopy, OCT, OTS, BRAIN), Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2022), paper MS2A.4. Student Paper Award
  2. P.R. Jermain, D. Kandil, A. Khan, and A. N. Yaroslavsky, “Differentiation of Benign and Malignant Breast Cells Using Quantitative Optical Imaging: A Novel Approach,” in Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics 2020 (Translational, Microscopy, OCT, OTS, BRAIN), OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2020), paper MTu4A.3.
  3. X. Feng, P.R. Jermain, A. Muzikansky, A. Ross, M. Hamblin, and A.N. Yaroslavsky, “Quantifying Subcellular Localization of Methylene Blue in Cultured Brain Cells,” in Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science APS/DLS, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2019), paper JTu3A.97.
  4. X. Feng, P.R. Jermain, and A.N. Yaroslavsky, “Multimodal Confocal Imaging of Renal Fine Needle Aspiration Samples,” in Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics Congress 2018 (Microscopy/Translational/Brain/OTS), OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2018), paper MW4A.3.a.