Congratulations to Dr. Stephanie Terezakis on being named Department Head of Radiation Oncology! Thank you, Dr. Kathryn Dusenbery for your excellent and strong leadership of the department over the past 21 years!! Stephanie Terezakis Katie UMN Medical School

Big shout out to our resident, Dr. Easwaran, who, in addition to curing cancer for her day job, volunteered in our ICU over the holidays. @UMNRadOnc

Heading back to MN after a great NRG Oncology meeting. Great to catch up with a lot of old colleagues in person and discuss the latest in clinical trials and translational research. Looking forward to FL in 6 months!

Fantastic job by our LSSURP student Jessica O. who presented work on custom 3D printer brachy applicators that she helped developed. Great to have you in the clinic and lab this summer! ⁦@DavidMedPhys⁩ ⁦⁦University of Minnesota MD-PhD Program⁩

Some great rad bio and CNS work being presented by Lindsey Sloan Lindsey Greenlund, MD and soon to be Dr. Braman #ASTRO22 @UMNRadOnc Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota

The #GORTEC PembroRad trial is out Annals of Oncology Concomitant pembrolizumab and #radiotherapy for locally advanced head neck cancer #hncsm TL/DR: pembro-RT less toxic but not more efficacious Full text: annalsofoncology.org/article/S0923-…

I am so very excited to welcome Dr. Yvonne Mowery, who will be joining us UPMC Hillman Cancer Center University of Pittsburgh later this year. Dr. Mowery is an accomplished #physicianscientist and #radonc whose work focuses on developing novel radiosensitizers and animal models of #HNSCC. Currently, she

In my 10+ years of co-survivorship, doing life with Dr. Glaucomflecken through 2 separate cancers, 1 SCA and fighting off his death with 10 mins of #CPR, only ONE (1) of the medical professionals we interacted with has ever asked how I was doing. Meet Roger. authors.elsevier.com/a/1giY02p-l5Vhe

PROSPECT study: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…. A number of insightful threads out there already re: trial results and future directions especially in the context of TNT and increasing demand for organ sparing approaches in locally advanced #rectalcancer. Krishan Jethwa Prajnan Das, MD, MS, MPH

We are so excited to welcome Yvonne Mowery and look forward to her expanding on her already incredible work, including an early phase trial of #SBRT + #DDRi + #Immunotherapy in #hnscc that is currently recruiting! University of Pittsburgh

Reminder for IDHmutant glioma homozygous deletion CDKN2A/B makes it grade 4 (WHO CNS-5) journals.lww.com/co-neurology/A…

Some excellent recent papers discussed by the HN editors in this month’s Red Journal oncoscan. Enjoy! Free link here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hPVL_8CJj1c… Dr. Danielle Margalit Christina Henson, MD Christopher Wilke Lachlan McDowell IJROBP - The Red Journal

I am thrilled to announce that our #radonc faculty member and #physicianscientist Ravi Patel has just received his first R01!! I am so very proud of this amazing scientist and clinician. UPMC UPMC Hillman Cancer Center University of Pittsburgh Pitt Health Sciences Robert Ferris, MD, PhD

I am thrilled to announce that we have treated our first SCINTIX patient on the RefleXion Medical X1 in #radonc UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. This represents one of the first patients in the world to be treated using this tracer guided delivery of #radiation to treat cancer and the culmination of