What Northwest Medical Physics Center does

Northwest Medical Physics Center (NMPC) is a nonprofit scientific organization founded in 1969 that provides clinical medical physics and dosimetry services to radiation oncology departments. The organization is headquartered in Everett, Washington, with additional offices in Lynnwood and Silverdale, and is led by President and CEO Darryl Kaurin alongside COO Daniel J. Lewis, CFO Bryan Jackson, CTO Trevor Fitzgerald, and Chairman Emeritus M. Miron Zaini. NMPC emerged from the University of Washington in 1969 and has operated as an independent nonprofit since 1972, serving cancer treatment centers across 50+ U.S. states and territories.

The organization employs more than 50 team members, including medical physicists, dosimetrists, residents, physics assistants, interns, and an office manager. NMPC operates as a vendor-neutral clinical service provider, supporting both Elekta and Varian linear accelerator systems, which allows the group to onboard centers regardless of installed equipment. Its technical service offering centers on treatment planning, dose calculations, quality assurance, and ongoing clinical physics coverage for radiation oncology programs.

NMPC's business model is built on long-term professional service contracts with hospital and freestanding cancer centers. The organization reports approximately 35 active center partnerships, including relationships more than 35 years old, and claims experience at over 70% of Pacific Northwest cancer centers. As a nonprofit, NMPC generates revenue through clinical service fees rather than product sales, licensing, or outside investment, and revenue figures are not publicly disclosed. The organization also runs a CAMPEP-accredited therapy physics residency program established in 2010 and a summer internship pipeline, functioning in part as a training and talent-propagation platform for the radiation oncology physics profession.

Name

Northwest Medical Physics Center

Legal name

Northwest Medical Physics Center

Website

https://nmpc.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1972

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Northwest Medical Physics Center is a nonprofit organization providing clinical medical physics, dosimetry, and treatment planning services to approximately 35 radiation oncology centers across the United States, staffed by 50+ physicists and support professionals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Radiation Oncology Services

NAICS

Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories (62151), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Specialty Outpatient Facilities, Nec (8093)

akta.pro primary industry

Radiation Oncology (HLAKAFAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Radiation Safety, Dosimetry & Regulatory Compliance (Nuclear Medicine) (HLAIAGAJ), Radiation Measurement, Dosimetry & Monitoring Services (Personal/environmental dosimetry, calibration labs) (EUAKAIAH)

Keywords

• Clinical medical physics
• Radiation oncology services
• Dosimetry services
• Radiation shielding design
• Linear accelerator commissioning

Headquarters

HQ city

Lynnwood

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Professional Services: Provides clinical medical physics and dosimetry services to healthcare facilities and radiation oncology departments through professional service contracts. Services include staffing, on-site clinical support, commissioning, and ongoing quality assurance.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Northwest Medical Physics Center provides clinical medical physics and dosimetry services to radiation oncology departments and cancer centers, including qualified physicist and dosimetrist staffing, radiation shielding design, equipment commissioning, annual QA testing, and support for treatment technologies such as IMRT, VMAT, SBRT, brachytherapy, and stereotactic radiosurgery. Services are delivered on-site and remotely as long-term professional engagements that integrate NMPC staff into client clinics.

Product overview

Northwest Medical Physics Center (NMPC) is a nonprofit scientific organization providing clinical medical physics and dosimetry services. The company operates as a single unified service offering rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. Its core services include staffing (placing medical physicists and dosimetrists), shielding (radiation protection design), commissioning (equipment acceptance testing), annual testing (quality assurance), treatment technologies support (IMRT, VMAT, SBRT, brachytherapy, SRS), and diagnostic/health physics services. NMPC also supports education through a CAMPEP-accredited medical physics residency program and summer internship program. The organization serves healthcare facilities across the United States and territories with over 50 team members providing vendor-neutral physics support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Staffing Services Provides qualified medical physicists and dosimetrists to healthcare facilities on a staffing basis to support radiation oncology departments, integrating NMPC staff directly into client clinics.
• Shielding Services Design and evaluation of radiation shielding for medical facilities to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and safety standards.
• Commissioning Services Comprehensive commissioning and acceptance testing of radiation therapy equipment including linear accelerators, treatment planning systems, and imaging devices.
• Annual Testing Services Annual quality assurance testing and performance evaluation of radiation therapy equipment to maintain compliance with regulatory standards.
• Treatment Technologies Services Expertise and support for various radiation treatment technologies including IMRT, VMAT, SBRT, brachytherapy, and stereotactic radiosurgery.
• Diagnostic & Health Physics Services Diagnostic imaging physics services and general health physics support for medical facilities.
• Medical Physics Residency Program CAMPEP-accredited therapy residency program with four residencies for graduates of CAMPEP-accredited graduate medical physics programs, operational since 2010.
• Medical Physics Summer Internship Program 10-week summer internships for students earning or having recently earned a BS in physics or physics-related field, similar to the AAPM internship program.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 50 team members providing comprehensive medical physics services
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Central Washington UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNMPC has partnered with Central Washington University to offer a degree program emphasis in medical physics for undergraduate majors in physics. NMPC physicists participate in the Medical Physics Undergraduate Seminar and provide educational activities.
• Burke MuseumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNMPC participates in the Girls in Science Program at the Burke Museum, providing STEM-based mentorship and activities from 2018-2022.
• Pacific Science CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNMPC physicists participate in the Science Communication Fellowship program at the Pacific Science Center 'Meet a Scientist' program (2017-2020) and Science and Movie community literacy program.
• TechBridge GirlsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNMPC participates in the After-School STEM Community Role Model Program through TechBridge Girls at Highline Public Schools (2018-2019).
• American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNMPC physicists serve in AAPM and the Northwest Chapter as officers, examiners, board members, committee chairs, and more. Active participation in annual meetings and professional symposia.
• American Association for the Advancement of ScienceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNMPC participates in the IF/THEN Ambassador Program for middle school girls (2019-2021) and Family Science Days (2020).
• Eugene Science CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNMPC provides Keynote Scientists for Next Gen STEM virtual summer programming at the Eugene Science Center (2020).
• Association of Women in Science, Seattle ChapterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNMPC participates in the Girls in Engineering, Math, and Science Program with on-site and virtual field trips (2018-2021).

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Landauer (Fortive): A leading global provider of radiation safety and dosimetry services, including personal dosimetry, environmental monitoring, and medical physics consulting — overlaps with NMPC's diagnostic and health physics services at a much larger scale.
• Varian (Siemens Healthineers): A leading radiation therapy equipment manufacturer now part of Siemens Healthineers, increasingly offering service contracts and physics support bundled with its linear accelerators — represents a major potential competitive threat to independent physics groups like NMPC.
• Mirion Technologies: A large radiation detection and measurement company offering dosimetry services, radiation safety consulting, and medical physics solutions through acquired brands (Sun Nuclear, Capintec) — comparable to NMPC's diagnostic and health physics services at broader scale.
• Elekta: A global radiation therapy and radiosurgery equipment manufacturer whose service organization provides physics support, training, and consulting — overlaps with NMPC's vendor-neutral services but tied to Elekta's own installed base.

Emerging players

• Radformation: An emerging radiation oncology automation software company whose tools (e.g., ClearCalc, EZFluence) increasingly compete with manual physics and dosimetry workflows — represents the technology-driven disruption threat to traditional physics service firms like NMPC.
• RaySearch Laboratories: A treatment planning system vendor whose software increasingly incorporates automation features that compete with physicist-led planning workflows — represents technology-enabled competition to traditional medical physics services.

Others

• Standard Imaging: A manufacturer of QA instruments and phantoms for radiation therapy and medical imaging — supplies tools that medical physicists like NMPC use for commissioning and annual testing, making it an adjacent ecosystem enabler.
• IBA Dosimetry: A global provider of dosimetry equipment, QA software, and patient-specific QA solutions for radiation oncology — provides complementary products to clinical physics services firms like NMPC.

Direct peers

• MPRI (Medical Physics Resources, Inc.): A regional independent medical physics consulting group providing clinical physics support, dosimetry, and equipment commissioning services to radiation oncology departments — directly comparable as a smaller independent peer to NMPC.
• Radiological Physics, Inc. An independent clinical medical physics services firm providing radiation oncology physics consulting, treatment planning QA, and equipment commissioning to cancer centers — directly comparable to NMPC's core service portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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