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Leadership Email 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 Email Professor, Vice Chair and Medical Physics Director, Barbara Crittenden Professorship in Cancer Research Phone: 214-645-8542 Research: Artificial intelligence in medicine Email 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 Email 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 Back to Top
Division of Clinical Radiation Oncology Email 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 Email Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Research: Gynecologic cancers, patient quality of life Email Associate Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Research: Clinical and translational research in breast cancer Email Associate Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Research: Breast cancer, breast SBRT, partial breast radiation, cardiac sparing in breast cancer patients Email Associate Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Research: Structure-guided drug design for oncology, covalent inhibitors, hypofractionated radiation, lung cancer, mets Email Assistant Professor & Director of Clinical Research Phone: 214-645-8525 Research: Lung cancer, cachexia, radiation resistance, tumor metabolism, stromal interactions, immune cachexia regulation Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Research: Metastatic breast cancer, treatment resistance mechanisms, molecular cancer therapeutics, radiation-induced cardiac remodeling, epigenetic regulation Email Assistant Professor, Dedman Family Scholar in Clinical Care Phone: 214-645-8525 Research: Prostate and bladder cancer, stereotactic body radiation therapy, brachytherapy, bladder preservation Email 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... Email Dominic Moon, M.D. Assistant Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Research: Stereotactic radiosurgery, central nervous system cancer Email 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 Email Associate Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Research: Genitourinary cancer; combined immunotherapy and radiation therapy Email Associate Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Research: Central nervous system cancer; stereotactic radiosurgery Email Associate Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Research: Head and neck cancer, outcomes and health services research, cost and comparative effectiveness research Email Assistant Professor & Residency Program Director Phone: 214-645-8525 Research: Brachytherapy applications and device development, sarcoma management, image analysis for outcomes prediction Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Research: Cancer immunology, tumor microenvironment, immunotherapy resistance, immune escape, molecular engineering Email Vladimir Avkshtol, M.D. Assistant Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Email Chika Nwachukwu, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-645-8525 Research: CNS malignancies, noncoding RNAs, mechanisms of radiation resistance Back to Top
Division of Medical Physics and Engineering Email Professor, Vice Chair and Medical Physics Director, Barbara Crittenden Professorship in Cancer Research Phone: 214-645-8542 Research: Artificial intelligence in medicine Email Professor Phone: 214-645-1274 Research: Nuclear imaging technology and application for molecular imaging and radiotherapy Email Associate Professor and Computational Physics Director Phone: 214-645-7636 Research: Novel treatment planning technologies; clinic-oriented applications; DICOM; SRS Email Andrew Godley, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Physics Phone: 214-645-7613 Email Associate Professor Phone: 214-648-6543 Research: Online adaptive radiotherapy; image registration; small animal imaging Email Associate Professor Phone: 214-648-9517 Research: Next-generation treatment planning, high performance (GPU) computing, adaptive radiotherapy Email Associate Professor Phone: 214-648-1795 Research: Cone-beam computed tomography; image-guided radiation therapy;image analysis; tomographic image reconstruction Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-648-6444 Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-645-7773 Research: Normal tissue tolerance; stereotactic radiotherapy; radionuclide therapy; brachytherapy Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-648-8975 Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-648-5467 Research: CBCT, motion management, open source software Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-645-2699 Email Instructor Phone: 214-648-6064 Email 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 Email Associate Professor and Director of Strategic Expansion Plans Phone: 214-645-7663 Research: Heavy particle interactions; microdosimetry; Monte Carlo simulations Email Hang Yu Visiting Assistant Professor Email Associate Professor Phone: 214-648-5059 Research: Image-guided radiotherapy; stereotactic radiation therapy Email Associate Professor Phone: 214-648-5032 Research: 3-D/4-D computed tomography reconstruction; Monte Carlo dose calculations Email Associate Professor Phone: 214-645-7677 Research: Preclinical delivery technologies; stereotactic radiotherapy; IMRT QA; brachytherapy Email Associate Professor Phone: 214-645-7774 Research: Image-guided radiation therapy; stereotactic body radiation therapy Email David Chiu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Phone: 214-648-6580 Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-645-8587 Research: Clinical implementation of novel treatment technologies; stereotactic radiotherapy; Monte Carlo simulation Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-648-8366 Research: MRI-guided radiation therapy; brachytherapy; adaptive radiation therapy Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-648-6421 Email Instructor Phone: 214-648-3926 Back to Top
Division of Molecular Radiation Biology Email 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 Email Professor Phone: 214-648-9991 Research: Mismatch repair, genome instability, cancer metabolism Email 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 Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-648-1249 Research: DNA damage response signaling in development and tumor suppression Email 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 Email Jinzhen Guo, M.D., Ph.D. Instructor Phone: 214-648-9869 Email Instructor Phone: 214-648-1602 Research: DNA-PKcs in ATR-signaling pathway; role of T2609 phosphorylation cluster on the S-phase checkpoint response Email Instructor Phone: 214-648-9869 Research: PCNA phosphorylation in cancer initiation and progression; mismatch repair (MMR) role in genomic stability and DNA damage response Email Instructor Phone: 214-648-9277 Research: Tumor biology of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma Email 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... Email Professor Phone: 214-648-5597 Research: Role of DNA-PK in DSB repair; DSB repair pathway choice; DNA damage response induced by HZE particles Email 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 Email Associate Professor Phone: 214-648-7750 Research: Tumor modeling for SBRT; role of DAB2IP in prostate cancer; small molecule inhibitors as radiosensitizers Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-648-6569 Research: DNA double-strand break sensing, signaling and repair Email Assistant Professor Phone: 214-648-5160 Email Instructor Phone: 214-645-0908 Email 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 Email Instructor Phone: 214-648-4917 Research: Mechanisms of DNA double-strand break repair; targeting key DNA double-strand break repair proteins for cancer therapy Email Instructor Phone: 214-648-4917 Research: DNA double strand break signaling and repair; space/HZE particle radiation-induced DNA damage and response Email Instructor Phone: 214-648-9915 Back to Top
Senior Administration Email Claire Almanza Director, Marketing Content Phone: 214-645-7656 Email Sandy Durr Administrative Manager Phone: 214-645-7609 Email Kajal Desai Assistant VP of Radiation Oncology Services Phone: 214-645-7683 Back to Top
