Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology - (Clinical Scholar Track)
Clinical and research interests focus on thoracic, cutaneous, and gastrointestinal malignancies, stereotactic body radiotherapy, HDR brachytherapy, novel radiosensitizers, development of novel imaging modalities in assessing/predicting treatment response, immunotherapy / immune system function for tumors, treatment of oligometastatic disease, re-irradiation, cancer epidemiology, clinical trials, and outcomes research. I received my Bachelor’s Degree with high honors from Princeton University followed by a Fulbright Fellowship pursuing hepatitis research. Medical degree and doctorate in epidemiology are from the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Public Health in Baltimore, MD, and I also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cancer epidemiology with the World Health Organization in Lyon, France. I completed my internship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York followed by residency at the University of California-San Francisco, where I also served as Chief Resident.