The UF Department of Radiation Oncology has announced that Assistant Professor Kathryn Hitchcock, M.D., Ph.D.; Associate Chair for Research Dietmar Siemann, Ph.D.; and Assistant Professor Raymond B. Mailhot Vega, M.D., M.P.H. (below) have been recognized as Exemplary Teachers for 2021-2022 . Faculty…
Announced March 22, 2022, Alexandra De Leo, M.D. (shown right), has been named a recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Resident Educator Award by the Society of Teaching Scholars. This award recognizes Dr. De Leo’s excellence in teaching colleagues and medical students. Designated by program directors, and sponsored by the Society…
Adam L. Holtzman, MD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology, Jacksonville, was appointed Deputy Operations Editor of the International Journal of Particle Therapy (IJPT) on March 1, 2022. In his new role, Dr. Holtzman will lead IJPT’s editorial team and will work in collaboration with Editor-in-Chief, Nancy P.
Transitioning from Cancer Treatment Successful cancer treatments (radiation, chemotherapy and surgery) and the effects of disease often impact cancer patients long after their treatment is over, and may require lifelong follow-up care. Through clinical care, education, counseling, surveillance, and coordination of care, Cancer Survivorship programs utilize a personalized approach to…
In January, the Florida Breast Cancer Foundation (FBCF) awarded two $10,000 Direct Service Grants to benefit UF Health proton therapy breast cancer patients in Jacksonville and Gainesville. Both projects were designed by a UF Health Proton Therapy Institute team led by Associate Professor Julie Bradley, MDÂ (shown right). Lymphedema: Compress…
On February 23, a Jacksonville woman became the 10,000th person to complete proton therapy at the University of Florida Health Proton Therapy Institute (UFHPTI). Dacia Starratt, a 47-year-old native of Jacksonville’s Oceanway neighborhood (shown right), had 32 daily treatments over a 6- to 7-week period for breast cancer. Proton therapy,…
The University of Florida College of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology conducted its 52nd annual Research Seminar February 18-19, 2022 at the Best Western Gateway Grand, Gainesville, Florida. For over 50 years, the seminar’s data-driven research has served as a foundation for innovation within the department and has improved outcomes…
A main component of a groundbreaking cancer treatment system was delivered this weekend to UF Health’s Department of Radiation Oncology. The gantry and magnet, or MRI unit, for the Elekta Unity MR-Linac, which weighs approximately 5.75 tons, was transported by truck and carefully lowered by crane into the Radiation Oncology…
In collaboration with Novartis, the UF Health Radiation Oncology and Genitourinary Oncology teams will begin screening eligible patients for the PSMAfore trial, which examines a new highly targeted, systemic radiopharmaceutical therapy for men with castrate-resistant prostate cancer. Men with metastatic prostate…
Melanoma in the eye presents special challenges. Thanks to the work of UF radiation oncologists and ophthalmologists, high-resolution ultrasound and plaques implanted with radioactive seeds can be the difference between sight and blindness: Read more at UF Health.
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