Darcy Mason
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDarcy Mason is an experienced medical physicist with over 28 years in radiation oncology and a 17-year track record of professional roles across major Canadian cancer centres. He is the original author and long-time maintainer of pydicom, a widely used open-source Python library for working with DICOM medical images and metadata, bridging clinical practice and software tooling. Darcy combines deep clinical physics expertise with practical software development, improving interoperability and research workflows in medical imaging. Trained in physics and medical biophysics at Western University, he has held senior physicist roles focused on safe, precise radiation delivery and QA. Based in Oshawa, Ontario, he brings a rare mix of hands-on clinical responsibility and sustained open-source impact that benefits both clinicians and developers.
18 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Medical Biophysics, Master's degree, Medical Biophysics at Western University
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
python10
pydicom10
networking10
genomics10
dicom10
sequence-alignment9
phylogenetics9
bioinformatics9
protein-structure9
deidentify8
biopython8
anonymize8
decoding7
jls7
conda7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
darcymason/htmlobj
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
Easily create complex HTML using nothing but Python code
Contributions:3 releases, 8 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 4 months
darcymason/egsnrc
Feb 2021 - Mar 2023
Port of EGSnrc to Python
Contributions:6 reviews, 145 commits, 71 PRs in 2 years 1 month
python
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