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Radiation Oncology Team
Members of your child's treatment team will have different roles. One of those specialists will be a radiation oncologist. Other team members will be nurses and radiation therapists. St. Jude uses this multidisciplinary approach to give children with cancer the best chance of survival and the best possible quality of life.
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Thomas E. Merchant, DO, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Chair, Radiation Oncology Department
Baddia J. Rashid Endowed Chair in Radiation Oncology
Chairman, Radiation Oncology Discipline, Children's Oncology Group
Thomas E. Merchant, DO, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Chair, Radiation Oncology Department
Baddia J. Rashid Endowed Chair in Radiation Oncology
Chairman, Radiation Oncology Discipline, Children's Oncology Group
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Pediatric neuro-oncology
- Application of advanced radiotherapy methods for treatment of pediatric cancers
- Mitigation of radiotherapy-related side effects
- Conformal radiation therapy
- Development of guidelines for intensity-modulated radiation therapy and proton beam therapy for treatment of solid tumors
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Thomas E. Merchant, DO, PhD
Radiation Oncology
MS 210, Room QA03105
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Radiation oncology physicians
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Matthew J. Krasin, MD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Improving radiation target definitions for solid tumors and Hodgkin lymphoma while maintaining local disease control
- Defining the relationships between radiation dose, volume treated and late side effects
- Proton beam radiation
- Radiation late effects
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Matthew J. Krasin, MD
Radiation Oncology
MS 210, Room QA03103
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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John T. Lucas, Jr., MD, MS
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
John T. Lucas, Jr., MD, MS
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Research Interests
- Diffusion/perfusion MRI as a measure of radiation change and disease status
- Neuroblastoma
- High grade glioma
- Proteomics
- Clinical trial design/methodology
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John T. Lucas, Jr., MD, MS
Radiation Oncology
MS 210, Room QA03110
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Carmen A. Perez, MD, PhD
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Carmen A. Perez, MD, PhD
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Radiation-induced toxicities and risk mitigation in pediatric cancers
- Radiation-induced second malignancies
- Ependymoma
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Carmen A. Perez, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology
MS 210, Room QA0311
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Christopher Tinkle, MD, PhD
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Christopher Tinkle, MD, PhD
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Reduction of treatment-associated morbidity of children and adolescents with cancer
- Cancer initiation and disease progression
- Treatment resistance
- Therapy-related toxicity
- Brain tumors and sarcomas
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Christopher Tinkle, MD, PhD
Radiation Oncology
MS 210, Room QA03112
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Medical physicists
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Chia-ho Hua, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director of Medical Physics Research, Radiation Oncology Department
Chia-ho Hua, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director of Medical Physics Research, Radiation Oncology Department
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Improving proton therapy targeting accuracy
- Advanced imaging for precision radiation therapy
- Predictive modeling for tumor response and treatment late effects
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Chia-ho Hua, PhD
Radiation Oncology
MS 210, Room QA03101
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Ozgur Ates, PhD, DABR
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Ozgur Ates, PhD, DABR
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Adaptive proton therapy
- Surface guided radiation therapy
- Motion management strategies
- DECT-based proton dose calculations
- Safety and toxicity analysis
- Particle therapy metrology systems
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Ozgur Ates, PhD, DABR
Radiation Oncology
MS 210, Room QA03310
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Andrew J. Boria, PhD, DABR
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Implementing AI-based whole body pediatric auto-segmentation
- Evaluating the safety and effectiveness of proton therapy for children with cancer
- Implementing pulsed reduced dose rate radiotherapy for large-volume recurrent cancer
- Evaluating patient positioning on accuracy of craniospinal pediatric proton therapy
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Andrew J. Boria, PhD, DABR
Radiation Oncology
MS 210, Room QA03107
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Chin-Cheng Chen, PhD, DABR
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Chin-Cheng Chen, PhD, DABR
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Implementing clinical physics workflows, quality assurance measures and adoption of cutting-edge treatment planning techniques
- Developming tailored, patient-specific treatments
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Chin-Cheng Chen, PhD, DABR
Department of Radiation Oncology
MS 210, Room QA03102
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38112
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Christopher Kutyreff
Sr Physicist
Christopher Kutyreff
Sr Physicist
Affiliations
Nurse practitioners
Valerie Groben, RN, MSN, APRN-BC
Nurse Practitioner