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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.

On August 3rd, 2023, Dr. Faye Rogers hosted the Biomedical Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium.

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.

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.

Dr. Timothy Robinson on Yale Cancer Answers

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).

Results from two WHRY studies were recently published in peer-reviewed journals.

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.

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.