Contributing Authors

Fundamentals of Radiation Oncology, Fourth Edition

Fundamentals of Radiation Oncology, Fourth Edition, brings together contributing authors from leading academic and clinical centers across the United States and internationally, including Moffitt Cancer Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Stanford University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Duke University, and institutions across Turkey, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Kamran Ahmed, MD

Associate Member, Radiation Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL

Berna Akkus Yildirim, MD

Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology; Chief, Prof. Dr. Cemil Taşçıoğlu City Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Musaddiq Awan, MD

Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Hilary Bagshaw, MD

Clinical Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Yasemin Bolukbasi, MD

Professor, Radiation Oncology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey

Mark Buyyounouski, MD, MS

Professor, Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Allan Caggiano, MS

Chief Medical Physicist, Sr., Patricia Lynch Regional Cancer Center, Teaneck, NJ

Bin Cai, PhD

Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Michael Campbell, PhD

Emeritus Professor of Medical Statistics, SCHARR, Division of Public Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Minsong Cao, PhD

Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Jimmy Caudell, MD, PhD

Senior Member, Section Chief, Head and Neck/Endocrine Radiation Oncology; Vice-Chair, Clinical Research, FRadiation Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL

Giordano Cittolin Santos, MD, PhD

Division of Oncology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Michael Cummings, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Olga Maria Doña Lemus, PhD

Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Lei Dong, PhD

Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Timothy Dziuk, MD

Consultant, Radiation Oncology, Texas Oncology, San Antonio, TX*

Jessica Frakes, MD

Associate Member, Radiation Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL

Laura Freedman, MD

Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Miami, Miami, FL

Rachel Ger, PhD

Assistant Professor, Radiation and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Kent Gifford, PhD

Professor, Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Sukhdeep Gill, MS

Radiation Oncology, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster, PA

Dorothy Gujral, MBChB, PhD

Consultant Clinical Oncologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Garrett Harada, MD

Resident, Radiation Oncology, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA

Jeremy Harris, MD, MPhil

Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA

Julian Hong, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Brandon Imber, MD, MA

Assistant Attending, Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Jerry Jaboin, MD, PhD

Professor, Radiation Oncology, Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK

Pooja Karukonda, MD

Radiation Oncology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC

Kaushik Kataki, MBBS, MD

Clinical and Research Fellow (2021–2023), Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of

Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Emily Keit, MD

Resident, Radiation Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL

Vaseem Khatri, MD

Resident, Radiation Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL

Nilufer Kilic Durankus, MD

Instructor, Radiation Oncology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey

Sungjune Kim, MD, PhD

Vice Chair of Research, Director of Preclinical & Translational Research, Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic Alix

College of Medicine and Science, Jacksonville, FL

Ritesh Kumar, MD

Radiation Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

Hien Le, MBBS

Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia

John Leung, MBBS

Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Dodul Mondal, MD, DNB

Director, Radiation Oncology, Max Super Specialty Hospital, Saket, New Delhi, India

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Arash Naghavi, MD, MS

Associate Member, Radiation Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL

Jonathan Paly, DO

Radiation Oncologist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Rahul Parikh, MD, MBA

Professor, Radiation Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

Berrin Pehlivan, MD

Professor, Radiation Oncology, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

Michael Penniment, AM, MBBS

Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Nicolas Prionas, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Barry Rosenstein, PhD

Professor, Radiation Oncology and Genetics & Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

Joseph Salama, MD

Professor, Radiation Oncology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC

Ugur Selek, MD

Professor, Radiation Oncology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey

Duygu Sezen, MD

Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey

Sui Shen, PhD

Professor, Senior Chief of Brachytherapy Physics, Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

Austin Sim, MD, JD

Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH

Neil Taunk, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Erkan Topkan, MD

Professor, Radiation Oncology, Başkent University, Adana, Turkey

Derek Tsang, MD, MSc

Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Matthew Williams, MBChB, PhD

Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Honorary Senior Fellow, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London

Yufan Fred Wu, MD

Chief Resident, Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Eddy Yang, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair, Radiation Medicine, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY

George Yang, MD

Assistant Member, Radiation Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL

Guler Yavas, MD

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Professor, Radiation Oncology, Ankara Etlik City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

Irini Youssef, MD

Radiation Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Hsiang-Hsuan Michael Yu, MD, ScM

Senior Member, Radiation Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL

Dandan Zheng, PhD

Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY