Radiation Oncology

An American Society of Radiation Oncology survey has shined a spotlight on the impact prior authorization has on providers and patients.

Neha Vapiwala, MD, FACR, FASTRO, FASCO, has been named president-elect of the American Society for Radiation Oncology.

American Society for Radiation Oncology selected 48 members to receive ASTRO fellow designation.

A higher proportion of women faculty members in academic radiation oncology treated cancer types associated with the female gender compared with men faculty, according to study results.

Jonathan T. Yang, MD, PhD, has been appointed associate vice chair for clinical research and developmental therapeutics in the department of radiation oncology at NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center.

Indrin Chetty, PhD, has been appointed as the new vice chair of research at Cedars-Sinai Cancer.

The contributions Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, FASCO, FASTRO, has made in the breast cancer research arena are vast, with more than 400 published articles in JAMA, The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine, to name a few.

Daphne Haas-Kogan, MD, MBA, has been appointed chair of the department of radiation oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and chief of enterprise radiation oncology for Mass General Brigham.

Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD, has been appointed director of Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health.

Michael J. Zelefsky, MD, has been appointed director of brachytherapy for NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center.