We are excited to announce that Emily Smith, MD, has been appointed to the 2026-2027 RSS Residents Association Executive Committee! Congratulations, Dr. Smith!

Please join us in celebrating Nataliya Kovalchuk, PhD, for being selected as the 2026 ARRO Global Health Faculty Award recipient in Medical Physics! This award recognizes outstanding contributions to global radiation oncology. Congratulations on this well-deserved honor, Dr. Kovalchuk!

Clinical innovation meets life-changing patient care! Our department was recently spotlighted by People Magazine after successfully treating our first patient in the world’s most compact proton therapy suite! Read the full story here: people.com/boy-7-with-r...

Boy, 7, with Rare Brain Tumor Becomes First Patient to Receive Groundbreaking Proton Therapy Treatment

A seven-year-old boy with a rare a brain tumor was the first patient to be treated with therapy that delivers targeted radiation to his brain

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Please join us in celebrating Xuejun Gu, PhD, and Amy Yu, PhD, for being elected as Fellows of the @aapmhq.bsky.social! The Fellow category honors members who have demonstrated exceptional service and professional impact through the advancement of medical physics. Congratulations!

Meet Angelo, a 7-year-old fighter at Stanford Radiation Oncology. Facing 6 weeks of daily treatment for a brain tumor, he channels his hero, Nick Bosa, of the @sanfrancisco49ers.bsky.social! Wearing his #97 mask and jersey, Angelo brings Bosa-level bravery and heart to every session. #nickbosa

Big news! 🎊 Dr. Laura Attardi has been elected to @nasonline.org! Membership in the #NAS is one of the highest honors in science, recognizing distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Huge congratulations, Dr. Attardi! 👏 #ScienceNews #Stanford #Oncology

Please join us in congratulating Jason Ross, MD, PhD, for receiving the School of Medicine K12 Mentored Career Development Award! This award provides didactic training, mentoring, and career development to prepare junior faculty for independent careers in translation research. Congratulations!

Our team is growing! The Division of Radiation Physics seeks a motivated medical physicist to join the Division as an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in the University Medical Line. For a full description, follow the attached link: facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor or Associate Professor, Medical Physics - Stanford University, California, United States

The Division of Radiation Physics in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Stanford University seeks a motivated medical physicist to join the Division as an Assistant Professor or Associate Profess...

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Shoutout to our residents for representing Stanford Radiation Oncology at last week’s Discovery Days Activity Fair! Our residents pictured are: Zachary White, Emily Smith, and Jennifer Matsui. This fair, hosted by MD Admissions, offered a great opportunity to meet and network with residents.

We are proud to announce the opening of our ultracompact proton therapy facility, the first of its kind in the world. Read more about how Bill Loo, Susan Hiniker, James Rao, and the team are bringing the future of cancer care to the Bay Area: med.stanford.edu/news/all-new... #protontherapy #cancer

Happy National Doctors’ Day to our Radiation Oncology therapy faculty and residents! Thank you for the skill, steadiness, and compassion you bring to patients and families during some of their most challenging times. Wishing you a day of well-deserved recognition and gratitude!

The 2026 Medical Physics Match results are in! Huge congratulations to our newest Medical Physics residents. We’re honored to have you join our team and are eager to get started on this next chapter together. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Yang and Dr. Misa to Stanford Radiation Oncology!

Please join us in welcoming our newly matched residents to Stanford Rad Onc!

Please join us in congratulating Jason Ross, MD, PhD, for receiving the Rosenkranz Aging and Rejuvenation Seed Grant for his proposal “Depleting Myeloid-Biased Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Rejuvenate Aged Immunity and Extend Healthspan”! #StemCells #RadiationOncology

Proton therapy usually requires a facility the size of a football field- but Dr. Bill Loo and the team are shrinking the map. Full story on this breakthrough: www.dotmed.com/news/story/6... #HealthTech #ProtonTherapy #CancerResearch #Innovation

Making proton therapy practical

As centers expand worldwide, innovators are tackling cost, space, staffing, and patient access

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Congratulations, Ruijiang Li, PhD, for being named the Himalaya Foundation Faculty Scholar! This fund was founded with a gift from the Himalaya Foundation to support an early-career faculty member in our department engaged in research involving a promising emerging technology! 🎉

We are incredibly excited to announce that Jason Sheltzer, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, has received the Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Award in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research from the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and Hevolution Foundation!

Please join us in congratulating Nick Trakul, MD, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, for receiving an honorable mention for the Kelley M. Skeff Professionalism Award!

Congratulations to Wilson Mai, MD, PhD, for receiving the 2025 HBMC-RISE Award! These awards celebrate faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars, and residents who have exemplified exceptional mentorship for visiting medical students from Historically Black Medical Colleges (HBMC).

Cristabelle De Souza, PhD, Instructor of Radiation Oncology under the mentorship of Erinn Rankin, PhD, has received the Visiting Research Scholar Award from the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies!

Happy National Dosimetrist Day! 🎉 Today, we celebrate the skilled experts who turn treatment plans into life-saving precision. Thank you, dosimetrists, for your dedication, accuracy, and commitment to patient care. 💙 hashtag#DosimetristDay hashtag#RadiationOncology

We are thrilled to share that Everett Moding, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, has received a MERIT R37 Award from the NIH! This award is a long-term grant for investigators with outstanding research accomplishments and high productivity. Congratulations!

We are proud to announce that Yuyan Jiang, PhD, postdoctoral scholar, has received the NIH Pathways to Independence Award for her project “Lysosome-targeting chimeras degrading immune checkpoint proteins to enhance immunoradiotherapy of head and neck cancer.” Congratulations, Dr. Jiang!

In recent years, integrating predictive models and machine learning into cancer care has revolutionized how healthcare providers approach patient treatment and management. Michael Gensheimer is a leading researcher in this field: www.linkedin.com/pulse/advanc...

Advancements in Predictive Models and Machine Learning in Cancer Care

A New Era of Personalized Treatment In recent years, integrating predictive models and machine learning into cancer care has revolutionized how healthcare providers approach patient treatment and mana...

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Pre-register now for our Symposium on AI Medicine! Early bird pricing will end on July 25. Beginning on Fri. 9/26, the symposium will focus on AI Foundation Models and Agentic AI for Radiation Oncology and Healthcare. Pre-register here: app.smartsheet.com/b/form/43272...

Susan Hiniker featured in Stanford MedPulse: Launched in May 2024 as part of the Stanford Medicine Catalyst program, AVATAR has quickly made a significant global impact by easing treatment sessions and minimizing the need for general anesthesia. pulse.stanfordmedicine.org/contents/406...

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Jason Sheltzer to our department! Dr. Sheltzer comes to us from Yale, and will continue his research in our Division of Cancer Biology.

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Beth Neilsen to our department! She serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor with specific interest in leveraging computational approaches to further personalized cancer treatments through advancing our understanding of cancer evolution. Welcome, Dr. Neilsen!

We are excited to share that Nataliya Kovalchuk, PhD, Clinical Professor of Radiation Oncology in the Division of Medical Physics, has been named Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)! Congratulations, Dr. Kovalchuk, on this well-deserved honor! 🎉👏

🎉 Exciting news! Kathleen Horst, MD, and Elizabeth Kidd, MD, have been named Fellows of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)! Join us in congratulating Dr. Horst and Dr. Kidd on this incredible achievement! We’re proud to have such talent in our community.