Category: Department News

Jeff M. Michalski, MD, MBA, the Carlos A. Perez Distinguished Professor and vice chair and director of clinical programs in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been elected president-elect of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) board of directors.

ASTRO is the largest radiation oncology society in the world, with more than 10,000 members who are physicians, nurses, biologists, physicists, radiation therapists, dosimetrists and others who specialize in treating patients using radiation therapies.

I am pleased to announce that Geoff Hugo, PhD has been promoted to Director of the Medical Physics Division within the Department of Radiation Oncology effective July 1, 2021. He served in the role as interim division director since May, 2020 and has done an exceptional job! This role plays a very important part in […]

Taeho Kim, Jin Zhang and Hong Chen have all received 2021 Cycle 1 awards to further their research.

The Department of Radiation Oncology is proud to announce that Carmen Bergom, MD, PhD, has been elected to a 3-year term of the Radiation Research Society (RRS) as a Councilor-at Large.

Washington University School of Medicine’s chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society announces their class of 2021 with Dr. Randall Brenneman as one of their House Officers. Congrats Dr. Brenneman!!

Taeho Kim, PhD, has been selected for funding from the Siteman Investment Program. His proposal, “MRI Augmented X-ray imaging-guided Adaptive RadioTherapy for pancreatic cancer (MAX-guided ART)” will receive funds in the amount of $199,921 direct costs over 2 years, beginning on July 1, 2021.” PI: Taeho Kim, PhD Co-investigators:Henke, Lauren ElizabethHugo, GeoffreySchmidt, MatthewHuang, YiVilla, Umberto […]

Dr. Jeff Michalski, Carlos A. Perez Distinguished Professor, Vice Chair and Director of Clinical Programs, is running for president-elect of ASTRO!
ASTRO’s 2021 official elections are now open. Voting begins at 12:00 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, June 9, 2021, and will remain open until 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, July 9, 2021. Please vote!

Two Siteman Cancer Center Radiation Oncology departments were nationally recognized in 2021 by Professional Research Consultants for excellence in patient care. Barnes Jewish West County Hospital’s Department of Radiation Oncology received a Five Star Award. Barnes Jewish St Peter’s Hospital’s Department of Radiation Oncology received a Top Performer Award!

The Radiation Oncology Residency Programs presented 3 annual awards at our Graduation Celebration (virtual, via Zoom, again this year) on Friday, June 4, 2021. Please join in celebrating the 2020-21 award recipients, who are: Roentgen Resident/Fellow Research Award RSNA Research & Education Foundation “In Recognition of Outstanding Radiological Research” Billy Kennedy, MD Teacher of the […]

Chief Resident, Comron Hassanzadeh, MD, was just honored with a 3-year appointment to NRG Oncology’s New Investigator Committee! Congrats on your achievements Comron!!

Clinical Cancer Research published research conducted by authors Calvin Lewis, Abhay Singh, Fong-Fu Hsu, Dinesh Thotala, Dennis Hallahan and Vaishali Kapoor entitled “Targeting a radiosensitizing antibody-drug conjugate to a radiation-inducible antigen”.

Dr. Comron Hassanzadeh, resident physician, received a 2021-2022 ACRO seed grant to continue his research. Palliative Expeditiously Adaptive Quad Shot Radiation Therapy (PEAQ-RT) is a pilot study looking at consolidating simulation and target identification of Quad Shot radiation using a CBCT-guided, adaptive radiotherapy workflow on the Varian Ethos ring gantry system.

Carmen R. Bergom, MD, PhD, an associate professor of radiation oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, will receive the 2021 Michael Fry Research Award from the Radiation Research Society (RRS). The award recognizes one junior scientist each year who has made extraordinary contributions to the field of radiation research.

Brett Tortelli received an award from the RSNA Research & Education Foundation’s Research Medical Student Grants. This grant provides a $3,000 research stipend to Brett that is matched by the Department of Radiation Oncology for his continued work on cervical cancer.

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Wednesday, April 28, 8:00am CT
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Our inventors were celebrated on April 15 by the Office of Technology Management for their patent and startup achievements.

Olga Pen, PhD, Medical Physics resident, won second place with her entry “Small field dosimetry in MR field – challenges and engineering solutions”. Congrats Olga!

Wednesday, April 21 | 3pm CT
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Highlighted in the ASTROnews Spring ’21 edition is a feature article written by Cliff Robinson, MD, Geoff Hugo, PhD & Phillip Cuculich, MD – “SABR Proposed as Noninvasive Cardiac Radioablation for Improved VT Patient Experience”

Antiño R. Allen, PhD, Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, will present “Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Medical Research” at noon on Monday, April 12 on Zoom.

Dezhuang Ye of the Hong Chen Lab has had her research about focused ultrasound-mediated intranasal brain drug delivery, known as FUSIN, published in Pharmaceutics and highlighted in Washington University in St Louis’ The Record.

From QuadShot News: A hot mes | Zhang, J Clin Invest 2021 We know increased PET-avidity is often a harbinger for more aggressive disease. But what can we do about it? This intriguing translational work from Wash U retrospectively analyzed cervical tumors to search for PET harbingers of tumor genomics. A training cohort (n=67) was […]

Wednesday, March 24 12:30pm – 1:30pm | Virtual event via zoom and streamed live More information & registration here.

Denise Dickey, NP, has been selected as a finalist for the 2021 St Louis Excellence in Nursing Awards. She is only 1 of 3 people selected as finalists within the Oncology category, with 60 finalists overall. Winners will be announced at an April 22 virtual awards celebration. This is a well-deserved honor highlighting the outstanding level of care Denise gives all her patients. Congratulations Denise & good luck!