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

David Sher, M.D., M.P.H.
- Professor, Associate Director of Clinical Operations, and Chief of Head & Neck Radiation Oncology Service
- 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.
- Associate Professor, Medical Residency Program Director, and Chief of Gastrointestinal Radiation Oncology Service
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Brachytherapy applications and device development, sarcoma management, image analysis for outcomes prediction

Asal Rahimi, M.D.
- Associate Professor & Chief of Breast Radiation Oncology Service
- 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

Kiran Kumar, M.D.
- Assistant Professor & Chief of Pediatric and Lymphoma Radiation Oncology Services
- Phone: 214-645-8525

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

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

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

Kevin Albuquerque, M.D.
- Professor & Chief of Gynecological Radiation Oncology Service
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Gynecologic cancers, patient quality of life

Raquibul Hannan, M.D., Ph.D.
- Associate Professor & Chief of Genitourinary Radiation Oncology Service
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Genitourinary cancer; combined immunotherapy and radiation therapy

Nathan Kim, M.D., Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Clinical and translational research in breast cancer

Puneeth Iyengar, M.D., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, Director of Clinical Research, and Chief of Lung Radiation Oncology Service
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Lung cancer, cachexia, radiation resistance, tumor metabolism, stromal interactions, immune cachexia regulation

Zabi Wardak, M.D.
- Assistant Professor & Chief of Central Nervous System Radiation Oncology Service
- Phone: 214-645-8525
- Research: Stereotactic radiosurgery, central nervous system cancer

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...

Dominic Moon, M.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-8525

Nina Sanford, M.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

Mu-Han Lin, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor & Director of Treatment Planning
- Phone: 214-645-8587
- Research: Clinical implementation of novel treatment technologies; stereotactic radiotherapy; Monte Carlo simulation

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

Ken (Kang-Hsin) Wang
- Associate Professor

Tom Banks, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-648-9538

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

Jingying Lin
- Instructor

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

Xun Jia, Ph.D.
- Professor & Director of Physics Research
- Phone: 214-648-5032
- Research: 3-D/4-D computed tomography reconstruction; Monte Carlo dose calculations

Andrew Godley, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Physics
- Phone: 214-645-7613

Chuxiong Ding, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-648-5059
- Research: Image-guided radiotherapy; stereotactic radiation therapy

Brian Hrycushko, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-645-7773
- Research: Normal tissue tolerance; stereotactic radiotherapy; radionuclide therapy; brachytherapy

Strahinja Stojadinovic, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-645-7677
- Research: Preclinical delivery technologies; stereotactic radiotherapy; IMRT QA; brachytherapy

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

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

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

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

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

Jinzhen Guo, M.D., Ph.D.
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-648-9869

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

Britta Langen
- Visiting Instructor

Laurentiu (Larry) Pop, M.D.
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-648-9915

Liya Gu, Ph.D.
- Professor
- Phone: 214-648-9991
- Research: Mismatch repair, genome instability, cancer metabolism

Asaithamby Aroumougame, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-648-1249
- Research: DNA damage response signaling in development and tumor suppression

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

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

Damiana Chiavolini, Ph.D.
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-645-0908

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

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...