Emily Draeger, PhD, DABR

Dr. Emily Draeger received her B.S. degree in physics from the University of Minnesota, Duluth in 2009. She then pursued her Ph.D. in experimental high energy/nuclear physics at Illinois Institute of Technology. Her work contributed to the Daya Bay Antineutrino Experiment, which was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2014.

After receiving her Ph.D., Dr. Draeger was accepted into the Medical Physics Post-Graduate Certificate program at the University of Pennsylvania, which she completed in 2015. She then completed a post-doctoral position at the University of Maryland, which focused on prompt gamma proton range verification. Her post-doctoral work resulted in several awards, as well as manuscripts and a patent. She then took a position as a research physicist in the Division of Translational Radiation Sciences at the University of Maryland, where she worked on irradiation protocol design for the testing of new therapeutics for cancer treatment and the mitigation of health effects caused by radiation exposure.

After her time at the University of Maryland, Dr. Draeger was accepted into the therapeutic medical physics residency program at Yale-New Haven Hospital, which she completed in 2020. She then joined Yale-New Haven Hospital as a Medical Physicist and Yale University as an assistant professor in 2021. Since joining the department, Dr. Draeger continues to support patient care, resident education, and continues to conduct research, focusing on brachytherapy applications, stereotactic radiosurgery, and Monte Carlo modeling.