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When Linda Poindexter’s employer started a wellness program in 2015 that required employees to undergo certain screening tests, Linda happily participated, having no concerns for her health.
- August 23, 2023
Meet Derek Yach, MBBS, MBChB, MPH. Dr. Yach writes of his lifelong love of swimming, and how after his cancer diagnosis he grappled with the news of potentially never being able to swim again. However, with guidance from his care team, he was able to continue his passion – and reap the mental and physical benefits of resuming exercise.
- August 07, 2023
On August 3rd, 2023, Dr. Faye Rogers hosted the Biomedical Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium.
- July 26, 2023
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven announced that its six Radiation Oncology centers have all been accredited by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) through its APEx-Accreditation Program for Excellence; five are reaccreditations.
- July 20, 2023
The Breast Cancer Specialty Team at Smilow Cancer Hospital in Guilford brings together clinicians whose focus is caring for patients with breast cancer on the Connecticut Shoreline.
- July 19, 2023
Dr. Timothy Robinson on Yale Cancer Answers
- July 19, 2023
The world’s largest society for radiation oncology professionals recently named David Carlson, PhD, DABR, FAAPM, a Fellow of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (FASTRO).
- July 17, 2023
Results from two WHRY studies were recently published in peer-reviewed journals.
- June 29, 2023Source: Red Journal Podcasts
Editor-in-Chief Dr. Sue Yom and Physics Section and Executive Editor Dr. David Carlson, Professor, Vice Chair, and Director of Medical Physics at Yale University, host a discussion of current research frontiers in particle therapy. Our guests (calling in from PTCOG!) are Dr. Tracy Underwood, Senior Physicist at Leo Cancer Care and one of the supervising authors of Proposing a Clinical Model for RBE Based on Proton Track-End Counts, and Dr. Andrea Mairani, Group Leader of Biophysics at Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center and supervising author of Commissioning of Helium Ion Therapy and the First Patient Treatment With Active Beam Delivery.
- June 13, 2023
Luisa Escobar-Hoyos, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor of Therapeutic Radiology, has been named one of five recipients of the 2023 Pew-Stewart Scholars Cancer Research Award.