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
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, 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
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
Junjie Wu, Ph.D.
- Instructor
Mu-Han Lin, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor & Director of Treatment Planning
- Phone: 214-645-5378
- Research: Clinical implementation of novel treatment technologies, stereotactic radiotherapy, Monte Carlo simulation
Chuxiong Ding, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-648-5059
- Research: Image-guided radiotherapy, stereotactic radiation therapy
Brian Hrycushko, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-645-4773
- 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: 214-645-5268
- 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: 214-645-5384
You Zhang, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-2699
Chenyang Shen
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-648-3926
Shu Zhang, Ph.D.
- Instructor
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
Bin Cai, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Phone: 214-645-5398
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, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Research: Biomedical optics, in vivo cell tracking, optical tomography-guided radiation therapy, ultra-high-dose rate irradiation
Tom Banks, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-648-9538
Dan Nguyen, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-648-4868
Chunjoo (Justin) Park, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 214-645-5396
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
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 cell, 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, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
Jinzhen Guo, Ph.D.
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-648-9869
Janice Ortega, Ph.D.
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-648-9869
- Research: PCNA phosphorylation in cancer initiation and progression, mismatch repair (MMR) role in genomic stability, DNA damage response
Britta Langen, Ph.D.
- Visiting Instructor
Laurentiu (Larry) Pop, M.D.
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-648-9915
Zhiwei (George) Zhou, Ph.D.
- Instructor
- Phone: 214-645-0329
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, Ph.D.
- 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, Ph.D.
- 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...
