James B. Yu, MD, MHS
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James Yu, MD, MHS, is the Medical Director of Smilow Cancer Hospital Radiation Oncology. A radiation oncologist, Dr. Yu specializes in treating genitourinary cancers such as kidney, bladder and prostate, central nervous system cancers and cases requiring Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery.
“We treat our patients with state-of-the-art, evidence-based care that takes into account not just their medical condition, but their values and goals,” he says. “Using advanced technology, such as the Leksell Gamma Knife® Icon™, we can protect as much of the patient’s brain as possible. This maximizes our patients’ ability to think and function. I tell patients that our treatments try to keep ‘you being you’ for as long as possible.”
A Professor of Therapeutic Radiology at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Yu also 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 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 a Senior Editor 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.
Education & Training
- MHSYale University, Masters of Health Science (2014)
- Chief ResidentYale School of Medicine (2009)
- ResidentYale New Haven Hospital (2009)
- InternCalifornia Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA (2005)
- MDUniversity of Michigan Medical School (2004)
- BSYale University (1999)
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Cancer Prevention and Control Research Prize | Yale Cancer Center | 2017 |
Population Research Prize | Yale Cancer Center | 2013 |
Seattle Prostate Brachytherapy Fellow | American Brachytherapy Society | 2009 |
Young Oncologist Essay Award | American Radium Society | 2008 |
Research and Education Foundation Research Grant | Radiological Society of North America | 2008 |
Roentgen Resident Research Award | RSNA | 2008 |
University of Michigan Medical School Commencement Class Speaker | 2004 |
Departments & Organizations
- Brain Tumor Center
- Center for Biomedical Data Science
- Central Nervous System Radiotherapy
- COPPER Center
- Gamma Knife Center
- Office of Cooperative Research
- Prostate & Genitourinary Radiotherapy
- Prostate & Urologic Cancers Program
- Radiation Oncology
- Radiobiology & Radiotherapy
- Radiobiology & Radiotherapy
- Spine Radiosurgery
- Therapeutic Radiology
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Medicine
- Yale University