Radiation Oncology Faculty
Leadership
Hak Choy, M.D.
- Professor and Chairman, Nancy B. & Jake L. Hamon Distinguished Chair in Therapeutic Oncology Research
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Lung cancer; bench-to-clinic therapies for concurrent chemoradiation
Steve Jiang, Ph.D.
- Professor, Vice Chair and Medical Physics Director, Barbara Crittenden Professorship in Cancer Research
- Phone: 214-645-8542
- Research: Artificial intelligence in medicine
Robert Timmerman, M.D.
- Professor, Vice Chair & Medical Director, Effie Marie Cain Distinguished Chair in Cancer Therapy Research
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Hypofractionated radiation therapy; stereotactic body radiation therapy
Michael Story, Ph.D.
- Professor, Vice Chair and Radiobiology Director, David A. Pistenmaa, M.D., Ph.D. Distinguished Chair in Radiation Oncology
- Phone: 214-648-5557
- Research: Particle therapy, space radiation, biomarkers of therapeutic response, combined modality therapy
Division of Clinical Radiation Oncology
Hak Choy, M.D.
- Professor and Chairman, Nancy B. & Jake L. Hamon Distinguished Chair in Therapeutic Oncology Research
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Lung cancer; bench-to-clinic therapies for concurrent chemoradiation
Kevin Albuquerque, M.D.
- Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Gynecologic cancers, patient quality of life
Nathan Kim, M.D., Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Clinical and translational research in breast cancer
David Sher, M.D., M.P.H.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Head and neck cancer, outcomes and health services research, cost and comparative effectiveness research
Michael Folkert, M.D., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor & Residency Program Director
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Brachytherapy applications and device development, sarcoma management, image analysis for outcomes prediction
Todd Aguilera, M.D., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Cancer immunology, tumor microenvironment, immunotherapy resistance, immune escape, molecular engineering
Vladimir Avkshtol, M.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
Aurelie Garant, M.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
Kiran Kumar, M.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
Dominic Moon, M.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
Nina Sanford, M.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
Zabi Wardak, M.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Stereotactic radiosurgery, central nervous system cancer
Robert Timmerman, M.D.
- Professor, Vice Chair & Medical Director, Effie Marie Cain Distinguished Chair in Cancer Therapy Research
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Hypofractionated radiation therapy; stereotactic body radiation therapy
Raquibul Hannan, M.D., Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Genitourinary cancer; combined immunotherapy and radiation therapy
Asal Rahimi, M.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Breast cancer, breast SBRT, partial breast radiation, cardiac sparing in breast cancer patients
Ken Westover, M.D., Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Structure-guided drug design for oncology, covalent inhibitors, hypofractionated radiation, lung cancer, mets
Puneeth Iyengar, M.D., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor & Director of Clinical Research
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Lung cancer, cachexia, radiation resistance, tumor metabolism, stromal interactions, immune cachexia regulation
Prasanna Alluri, M.D., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Metastatic breast cancer, treatment resistance mechanisms, molecular cancer therapeutics, radiation-induced cardiac remodeling, epigenetic regulation
Neil Desai, M.D.
- Assistant Professor, Dedman Family Scholar in Clinical Care
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Prostate and bladder cancer, stereotactic body radiation therapy, brachytherapy, bladder preservation
Wen Jiang, M.D., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Suppressive mechanisms of solid tumors on innate immune system, develop novel therapeutic strategies that bridge innate and adaptive immune responses to eradicate solid tumors, develop nanomedicine...
Heidi McKellar
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
Chika Nwachukwu, M.D., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
Dat Vo, M.D., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
Tu Dan, M.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: CNS malignancies, noncoding RNAs, mechanisms of radiation resistance
Division of Medical Physics and Engineering
Steve Jiang, Ph.D.
- Professor, Vice Chair and Medical Physics Director, Barbara Crittenden Professorship in Cancer Research
- Phone: 214-645-8542
- Research: Artificial intelligence in medicine
Yiping Shao, Ph.D.
- Professor
- Phone: 214-645-1274
- Research: Nuclear imaging technology and application for molecular imaging and radiotherapy
Yulong Yan, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor and Computational Physics Director
- Phone: 214-645-7636
- Research: Novel treatment planning technologies; clinic-oriented applications; DICOM; SRS
Andrew Godley, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Physics
- Phone: 214-645-7613
Xuejun Gu, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-648-6543
- Research: Online adaptive radiotherapy; image registration; small animal imaging
Weiguo Lu, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-648-9517
- Research: Next-generation treatment planning, high performance (GPU) computing, adaptive radiotherapy
Jing Wang, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-648-1795
- Research: Cone-beam computed tomography; image-guided radiation therapy;image analysis; tomographic image reconstruction
David Chiu, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-648-6580
Mu-Han Lin, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8587
- Research: Clinical implementation of novel treatment technologies; stereotactic radiotherapy; Monte Carlo simulation
Amir Owrangi, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-648-8366
- Research: MRI-guided radiation therapy; brachytherapy; adaptive radiation therapy
Yang Park, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-648-5467
- Research: CBCT, motion management, open source software
Robert Reynolds, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-648-6421
You Zhang, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-2699
Guanglin Tang
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-648-6064
Paul Medin, Ph.D.
- Professor and Medical Physics Residency Program Director
- Phone: 214-645-8591
- Research: Stereotactic delivery technology and research; tissue tolerance in high-dose, single-fraction delivery
Arnold Pompos, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor and Director of Strategic Expansion Plans
- Phone: 214-645-7663
- Research: Heavy particle interactions; microdosimetry; Monte Carlo simulations
Junjie Wu
- Instructor
Chuxiong Ding, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-648-5059
- Research: Image-guided radiotherapy; stereotactic radiation therapy
Xun Jia, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-648-5032
- Research: 3-D/4-D computed tomography reconstruction; Monte Carlo dose calculations
Strahinja Stojadinovic, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-645-7677
- Research: Preclinical delivery technologies; stereotactic radiotherapy; IMRT QA; brachytherapy
Tom Banks, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-648-9538
Brian Hrycushko, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-7773
- Research: Normal tissue tolerance; stereotactic radiotherapy; radionuclide therapy; brachytherapy
Dan Nguyen
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-648-4868
Chunjoo Park
- Assistant Professor
David Parsons, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-648-9941
Jun Tan, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-648-5058
- Research: Clinical workflow efficiency, plan QA, patient safety, medical imaging, data mining
Chenyang Shen
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-648-3926
Division of Molecular Radiation Biology
Michael Story, Ph.D.
- Professor, Vice Chair and Radiobiology Director, David A. Pistenmaa, M.D., Ph.D. Distinguished Chair in Radiation Oncology
- Phone: 214-648-5557
- Research: Particle therapy, space radiation, biomarkers of therapeutic response, combined modality therapy
Guo-Min Li, Ph.D.
- Professor, The Reece A. Overcash, Jr. Distinguished Chair for Research on Colon Cancer; Director, the Reece A. Overcash, Jr. Center for Research on Colon Cancer; Director of Translational Research
- Phone: 214-648-9955
- Research: Mismatch repair, genome instability, cancer metabolism
Debabrata Saha, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-648-7750
- Research: Tumor modeling for SBRT; role of DAB2IP in prostate cancer; small molecule inhibitors as radiosensitizers
Anthony (Tony) Davis, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-648-6569
- Research: DNA double-strand break sensing, signaling and repair
Shibani Mukherjee, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-648-5160
Zhaogang Yang
- Assistant Professor
Damiana Chiavolini, Ph.D.
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-645-0908
Deepak Gurbani, Ph.D.
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-645-0329
- Research: DNA damage and repair; structure-guided drug design for development of reversible and irreversible inhibitors for different cancer-associated kinases
Janice Ortega Rodriguez, Ph.D.
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-648-9869
- Research: PCNA phosphorylation in cancer initiation and progression; mismatch repair (MMR) role in genomic stability and DNA damage response
Shuai Wang
- Instructor
Narasimha (Kumar) Karanam, Ph.D.
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-648-1412
S M Nashir Udden, Ph.D.
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-648-7480
- Research: BET inhibitor, ESR1 mutation, & endocrine- /radio-therapy resistant breast cancer; Rb mutation & CDK4/6 inhibitor-resistant breast cancer; radio-immune therapy vs treatment-refractory breast cancer...
Liya Gu, Ph.D.
- Professor
- Phone: 214-648-9991
- Research: Mismatch repair, genome instability, cancer metabolism
Benjamin Chen, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-648-1263
- Research: DNA break repair; role of DNA-PKcs; DNA damage responses in stem sell; heavy particle exposure impact on neural stem cells
Asaithamby Aroumougame, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-648-1249
- Research: DNA damage response signaling in development and tumor suppression
Lianghao Ding, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-648-5892
- Research: DNA damage response induced by heavy particles; functional genomics of radiation toxicity; role of microRNA in head and neck cancer
Zengfu Shang
- Assistant Professor
Jinzhen Guo, M.D., Ph.D.
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-648-9869
Huiming Lu, Ph.D.
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-648-4917
- Research: Mechanisms of DNA double-strand break repair; targeting key DNA double-strand break repair proteins for cancer therapy
Janapriya (JP) Saha, Ph.D.
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-648-4917
- Research: DNA double strand break signaling and repair; space/HZE particle radiation-induced DNA damage and response
Medhat Elhalawany, Ph.D.
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-648-9277
- Research: Tumor biology of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Laurentiu (Larry) Pop, M.D.
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-648-9915
