September 14, 2009 
Ken Wohlt joined Central Vermont Medical Center's National Life Cancer Treatment Center as the primary physicist to provide comprehensive clinical physics support as part of the radiation oncology team. He has been here for several months overseeing the installation of major medical equipment in the new building.
Ken received his B.A. in mathematics and physics from Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri and his M.S. in nuclear engineering/medical physics from the University of Missouri. While a member of the Air Force on active duty he completed a radiological physics residency program in the areas of medical health physics, diagnostic radiology, therapeutic radiology and nuclear medicine at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Medical Center in Ohio. He is a Certified Radiological Physicist by the American Board of Radiology and is a member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and the American College of Medical Physics. Ken retired from the Air Force Reserve in 2005 as a Lieutenant Colonel.
He worked most recently as a clinical physicist at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. In the early ‘90s Ken provided physics support in design, shielding, equipment evaluation, installation and project coordination for a new $10 million dollar renovation of radiation oncology at Kettering Medical Center in Ohio.
“CVMC provides state of the art treatment of cancer, incorporating some of the most advanced technology available,” noted Wohlt. “The fact that the community's sickest patients will no longer have to endure the burden of travel is a major benefit for this region,” he continued.
“It's hard to put into words the gratification I feel as a member of a cancer center team when a patient arrives in a wheel chair for the first treatment and in subsequent weeks walks out because he or she feels so much better,” said Ken. Ken and his wife Catharina live in Middlesex with their two children Jonathan age 11 and Meghan, age 13.
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