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James B. Yu, MD, MHS, FASTRO

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Assistant Professor Adjunct
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Therapeutic Radiology

94 Woodland St.

Hartford, CT 06105

United States

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Assistant Professor Adjunct

Biography

James Yu, MD, MHS, is a practicing radiation oncologist at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Saint Francis Hospital, Department of Radiation Oncology, in Hartford, CT.

He is a former Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Yale School of Medicine, and former Associate Chief Medical Officer of the Smilow Cancer Hospital and Care Centers. He was most recently the Executive Vice Chair of Columbia University Irving Medical Center Department of Radiation Oncology.

Dr. Yu specializes in treating genitourinary cancers such as kidney, bladder and prostate, central nervous system cancers and cases requiring stereotactic radiosurgery, and has presented and lectured internationally on these subjects. He also treats rectal, breast, and lung cancers at Saint Francis Hospital.

In his academic work, Dr. Yu conducts research on ways to use radiotherapy treatments to improve outcomes for cancer patients. “We need to push the field ever forward and not be satisfied with merely prolonging survival,” says Dr. Yu. “I think radiosurgery will play a role in this. As systemic therapies improve and our ability to control microscopically disseminated disease improves, noninvasive ablative therapies will become ever more important.”

As a former Yale Center for Clinical Investigation scholar and founding member of the Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy, and Effectiveness Research (COPPER) Center at Yale, Dr. Yu’s research centers on the comparative effectiveness of new radiation technologies and how these new technologies are adopted nationally.

Dr. Yu is currently the Deputy Editor-In-Chief of the journal Practical Radiation Oncology and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Oncology - Clinical Cancer Informatics, JNCI, JNCI-Cancer Spectrum, European Urology - Oncology, Journal of Surgical Oncology, and Oncology (Williston Park), and former editorial board member of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

He has published over 350 original manuscripts and co-edited the textbook Pocket Radiation Oncology and Principles of Clinical Cancer Research. He is the radiation oncology co-chair for the Southwest Oncology Group Genitourinary Cancers Committee, and a nationally recognized expert in patient reported outcomes.

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Other Departments & Organizations

Education & Training

MHS
Yale University, Masters of Health Science (2014)
Resident
Yale New Haven Hospital (2009)
Chief Resident
Yale School of Medicine (2009)
Intern
California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA (2005)
MD
University of Michigan Medical School (2004)
BS
Yale University (1999)

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Breast Neoplasms; Central Nervous System Neoplasms; Head and Neck Neoplasms; Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated; Urogenital Neoplasms

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of James B. Yu's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    Fellow

  • honor

    Cancer Prevention and Control Research Prize

  • honor

    Population Research Prize

  • honor

    Seattle Prostate Brachytherapy Fellow

  • honor

    Roentgen Resident Research Award

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Contacts

Mailing Address

Therapeutic Radiology

94 Woodland St.

Hartford, CT 06105

United States

Locations

  • Smilow Cancer Hospital at Saint Francis

    Academic Office

    114 Woodland Street, Ste HRT 138

    Hartford, CT 06105

    Appointments

    860.714.4568