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...

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

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...

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.

We are incredibly proud to announce that Iris Gibbs, MD, FASTRO, has received the 2025 ASTRO Mentorship Award. Congratulations, Dr. Gibbs, on this wonderful achievement!

Our Medical Physics Retreat was on 6/28, at Stanford Cardinal Hall! This inspiring event recharged us and discussions flowed naturally, igniting new ideas in advancing medical physics & radiation oncology. Thank you to our keynote speaker, Paul De Jean of Precision X-Ray!

Understanding the intricate interactions between tumors and the immune system is crucial for developing safe and effective treatments. Michael Binkley, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, is focusing on two major aspects of this area of research: www.linkedin.com/pulse/explor...

We are thrilled to share that Anusha Kalbasi, MD, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, was named a member of the 2025 Cancer Research Institute class of Lloyd J. Old STARs! Each of the five awardees will receive $1.25 million in unrestricted funding over five years.

Congratulations to Cristabelle DeSouza, Instructor of Radiation Oncology in the Division of Cancer Biology, for receiving the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance 2025 Mentored Investigator Grant!

🎉 Exciting news from our #MedicalPhysics Residency Program! The Northern California AAPM Chapter just concluded a fantastic 2025 Young Investigators Symposium, bringing residents, postdocs, and students from across the Bay Area to showcase their innovative work in the field 🌟

We are delighted to announce that Agnes Ewongo, MD, MPH, was named a recipient of the 2025 Graduate Medical Education Well-Being Awards. Congratulations, Dr. Ewongo!

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Quynh Le, MD, FACR, FASTRO, our department chair, as a 2025 ASTRO Gold Medal Recipient! The Gold Medal is ASTRO's highest honor bestowed on revered members who have made outstanding contributions to radiation oncology. Congratulations, Quynh! #ASTRO2025

Welcome to Stanford’s Medical Physics Residency Program! In this video, we invite you to explore the exciting world of medical physics and discover how you can make a meaningful impact in patient care. #radiationoncology #medicalresidency #medicalphysics #cancercare www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zfc...

Please join us in celebrating our nurses during National Nurses Week. This national celebration is an excellent opportunity for us to recognize and thank the nurses in our department for the outstanding job they do every day for our patients. Thank you so much for all you do! #nursesweek2025

Happening now #AACR25, A crash course on Pre clinical election FLASH studies by @stanfordradonc.bsky.social ‘s Erinn Rankin

Congratulations to @everettmoding.bsky.social and colleagues for being featured online at the @theaacr.bsky.social for their study “Integrating ctDNA Analysis and Radiomics for Dynamic Risk Assessment in Localized Lung Cancer.” aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...

We are excited to share that Cristabelle De Souza, PhD, instructor of radiation oncology in the Rankin Lab, received the @americancancersoc.bsky.social Society Award for “Best Oral Presentation” at the New England Science Symposium. Congratulations, Doctor De Souza! #radiationoncology #research

Join our team! Our Division of Radiation Physics is seeking a Clinical Assistant Professor or Clinical Associate Professor position in the Clinician Educator line to help bring the first Mevion S250-FIT proton therapy system to the clinic. facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Join the Stanford Rad Onc team! We're seeking a board certified or board eligible radiation oncologist to join as a Clinical Instructor in the Clinician Educator Line, with a clinical focus in CNS and GI cancers. Learn more about the position: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Thanks to the speakers & attendees for making the SCI Retreat a success! With > 350 participants, presenters shared the latest #Cancer Research. View photos here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjC6Rjo #StanfordCancer

THE NEURO-RADIOSURGERY COURSE 2025: This engaging program features lectures from global experts in neuro-radiosurgery, including our very own Xuejun Gu, PhD, and Scott Soltys, MD, covering the latest advancements in imaging, treatment planning and AI-driven innovations. Learn more: www.neurosrs.com

We are thrilled to welcome our new residents to our family! Congratulations to Kathryn Achuck, Nicholas Mullen, Amira Osman-Short, and Sarah Seiter! We’re so excited to have you all join the Stanford family! #RadOnc #Match2025

Join our team! Our Division of Radiation Physics is seeking a Clinical Assistant Professor or Clinical Associate Professor position in the Clinician Educator line to help bring the first Mevion S250-FIT proton therapy system to the clinic. facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

First post on @bsky.app to share that our study made the cover of @theaacr.bsky.social Cancer Research! Congrats Faith Ryu on this beautiful artwork showing the effect of #radiotherapy on #sarcoma evolution. A 🧵 of key findings from the most recent story from the lab. (1/8)

Dr. Billy W. Loo Jr., MD PhD - Stanford Medicine / TibaRay - Curing Cancer In A Flash: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD__... Check out this video featuring our own Billy Loo break down the latest in Flash radiotherapy. #Oncology #Cancerresearch #radiationoncology #Cancernews #stanfordmedicine

Our own Medical Physics Resident alumni and now Medical Physicists, Ramish Ashraf, PhD, passed ABR exam part 3 and are now American Board of Radiology certified! Congratulations to Ramish to becoming an ABR certified Medical Physicist. We can't wait to have you join our teaching mentors! #radonc

We are excited to share Stanford Radiation Oncology’s 2024 annual book! Join us in celebrating the commitment to education that drives excellence in patient care and shapes the future of our field. #RadiationOncology #Cancercare #medicalresidents #Stanford online.fliphtml5.com/mfmjc/cftc/