• Construction pictures of the new Department of Radiation Medicine. (3/21/07) (53.8 MB)
  See pictures of new equipment being delivered here.
  
  View architect renderings 1 & 2 of the waiting room of the new Dept.
  
  
• Dept. chair, Dr. Thomas to present at 2007 Northwest Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons annual meeting. (5/31/07)
  
• Holman Pathway Chief Resident awarded N.L. Tartar Research Fellowship. (5/30/07)
  
• Dr. Thomas to co-present at department of orthopedics & rehabiliation medicine grand rounds, October 1st, 2007.
  
• Department's initiatives to  increase diversity are cited. (5/25/07)
  
• Dr. Thomas is shown at the Thymic Neoplasm Workshop held at the Hudson Hotel on March 16, 2007 in New York City. (5/3/07)
  
• Department represented at Annual SMA Gala. (5/1/07)
  
• Department Postgraduate 2007-08 RSNA Research Grants Receive 100% Success. (4/24/07)
  
• Dr. Thomas lobby's Oregon senators at Capitol Hill for ASTRO Advocacy Day 2007. (4/17/07)
  
• Cancer Prevention & Control Seminar Series, April 25, 2007. (4/16/07)
  
• ASRT Education and Research Foundation Awards Varian Radiation Therapy Student Scholarship to RTT program trainee. (4/2/07)
  
• DR. MCDONALD, RESIDENT PHYSICIAN, IS PI OF RECENTLY FUNDED MRF GRANT. (3/20/07)
  
• Holman Pathway Resident receives 5th ASCO Merit Award. (3/14/07)
• Thai Society of Vascular & Interventional Radiology colleagues visit the Department in March 2007. (3/12/07)
  
• Dr. Glazer presented a joint seminar, on behalf of the Department's of Molecular and Medical Genetics and Radiation Medicine.(3/2/07)
  
• Department research on thymic neoplasms is accepted for presentation. (2/23/07)
  
• DR. FUSS PROGRAM LEADER IN IGRT, IS CO-PI OF RECENTLY FUNDED R-01 GRANT. (12/26/06)
  
• Faculty member to address 12th Annual Women's Health Conference on April 28, 2007.(12/13/06)
  
• Faculty member invited to address the 12th World Conference on Lung Cancer in September 2007. (12/6/06)
  
• Holman Pathway Resident receives 4th ASCO Merit Award.
  (11/29/06)
• Recent photo's of the Peter Kohler Pavilion tram construction. (10/23/06)
  
• A NEW RECORD for OHSU! 15 abstract to be presented at the annual ASTRO meeting.
  
• Resident Alumnus, Dr. Kurt Straube, visits Dept.(11/16/06)
  

• Dr. Indrin Chetty will be a Visiting Faculty Scholar on July 16, 2007.
  
• Dr. James Baleter was a visting Faculty on March 30, 2007.
• Dr. Lisa Kachnic will be a Visiting Faculty Scholar on May 15, 2007.
• Dr. Zhenrong Cui, Ph.D., presented “New applications in using synthetic dsRNA for tumor therapy” on Feburary 12th.  View his presentation here.
• Dr. Cui is shown here with Dr. Kaurin, displaying a permanent Department plaque of appreciation that includes his engraved name imperpituity.
• Dr. Gerbail T. Krishnamurthy, M.D., presented "Quantification of global and regional liver and gallbladder function..." on Feburary 13th.
• Dr. David Raben, MD, presented “The Evolving Role in Targeted Therapy and Radiation in Cancer Management” on Feburary 15th.
• Dr. David Raben was a Visiting Faculty Scholar on February 15, 2007.
• Yue Cao, PhD was a Visiting Faculty Scholar to the Dept on Monday, December 11, 2006.
  
• Dr. Amod Saxena was a Visiting Faculty Scholar on Thursday, December 7, 2006.
• Li-Chung Ku, PhD, from the Division of Medical Physics, gave a lecture on October 30, 2006, in our Department.
• (Grace) Ge Zeng, PhD, from the Division of Medical Physics, gave a lecture on October 27, 2006, in our Department.
• Dr. Sung-Yong Park from the National Cancer Center in S. Korea visited in October 2006.
  
• Dr. AJ Mundt was a Visiting Faculty Scholar to the Department on Tuesday, December 12, 2006.
• Dr. Bradley Prestidge will be a Visiting Faculty Scholar on Monday, November 20, 2006.
• Mr. Robert Koffie was a Visiting Scholar to the Department recently.
• Dr. Steven Jiang from the Harvard medical physics group, was Visiting Faculty Scholar in our Department.
  
• Dr. Joseph Rajendran to be Visiting Faculty Scholar to Dept. in Jan. 2007.
• Dr. Alpaslan Mayadagli, leader from leading Istanbul radiation oncology center spoke to Dept.
• Dr. Robert Ullrich spoke on "GENOMIC INSTABILITY & RADIATION-INDUCED MAMMARY CANCER."
• Samuel Wang, MD, PhD, presented on the topic, "A COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF ADJUVANT CHEMORADIATION THERAPY FOLLOWING SURGERY FOR GASTRIC ADENOCARCINOMA."
• Dr. Chandan Guha spoke on "Preparative Irradiation for Liver Cell Transplantation."
• Peter M. Glazer, MD, PhD will be Visiting Faculty on April 2007.
• Dr. Martin Fuss spoke on "Stereotactic Radiation Therapy for Spinal and Paraspinal Tumors."
  
• Dr. Mohan spoke on "TNF-alpha regulated ROS signaling acts as a potential bystander mediator in radiation-induced genomic instability."
• Dr. C.D. Fuller,MD,PhD-C spoke about "Image-Guided Positional Verification for IMRT."
• Dr. Balter talked about "Dynamic Models in Radiation Therapy."
• Dr. Pena talked about "Radiation Protection by Synthetic Cytokine Analogs."
• Dr. Mack Roach was a Visiting Faculty Scholar to the Department.
• Dr. William Regine was a Visiting Faculty Scholar to the Department.  
• Dr. Todd J. Scarbrough visited the Department in July 2006 to present "Image Guided Radiation Therapy: Overview, Data, & Examples".

 2006      2007

• Dr. Thomas invited to serve as Visiting Professor at University of Pennsylvania in April 2008.
  
• Housestaff provide educational form at Oregon Society of Radiation Oncology (OROS) May 2007 meeting in Bend.
  
• Faisal Siddiqui, PhD selected to present proffered oral presentation at the  2007 ASTRO Image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT II) Symposium.
• Dr. Fuss to present profered oral presentation at the  2007 ASTRO Image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT II) Symposium.
  
• Faculty member will be giving a presentation at Portland State University.
  
• Faculty member invited to Austrian Society of Radiation Oncology.
  
• Two abstracts will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, April 14-18, 2007.
• Dr. Sam Wang will present Grand Rounds for the Dept of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Thursday,  10/18/07.
• Faculty to participate in "Breaking Down Barriers" program on June 11th, 2007.
• Dept. faculty are co-authors of multiple abstracts at American Psychosocial Oncology Society.
• Dept. faculty member invited to address Lion's Club.
• Dr. Hung novel radioprotection work selected for presentation at the fall 2006 ASTRO Translational Research meeting.
• Dr. Ian A. Crocker will be a Visiting Faculty Scholar to the Department.
• Faculty member served as a visiting professor at UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology.
• Dr. Holland's work to be presented at 2006 American Head and Neck Society annual meeting.
• Record number of OHSU submissions to ASTRO 2006.
• Dr. Hoffelt discussed Cybernife use for GI tumors @ RSNA meeting.
• Faculty member presented data on Prostate Seed Motion @ ASTRO.
• Dr. Arthur Hung presented at the 91st RSNA.
• SEER database analysis to be presented @ international surgical oncology forum.
• Faculty member co-authors major review on pancreatic cancer.
• Dr. Hung presented "Questionable Dosimetric Benefit of the Rectal Balloon" at RSNA 2005.
• Dept. is represented at Paris meeting of ESTRO.
• Dr. Hoffelt presents data on CyberKnife for Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer.
• Dr. Hung talks at the 16th International Prostate Cancer Update Symposium.
  
• Dr. Hoffelt will lecture at the 32nd Annual National Meeting of the Association of Community Cancer Centers.
• Dr. DePaula presents at the 88th Annual American Radium Society.
• Staff to present at Oregon Academy of Otolaryngology.
• Staff to give talk at Medicine Grand Rounds.
• Staff to give talk on spinal cord compression.
• Dept has record number of presentations accepted for ASCO.
• Faculty member to present original data @ Robotic Radiosurgery Course.
• OHSU student to present at national meeting.
• Faculty to present at local conference.
  
• Faculty to deliver Department of Family Medicine Grand Rounds.
  
• Click here to go to past presentations.

• Phase 3 prostate cancer RTOG-9413 study is updated in Inj Rad Oncol Biol Phys.
• Dr. Thomas co-authors editorial on sequencing & timing of chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer.
  
• Drs. Sanghvi & Thomas co-authors article on interface of rheumatology and cancer medicine.
  
• Faculty co-authors article in the May 2007 issue of the American Journal of Surgery.
  
• Ethnic Disparities in Conditional Survival of Patients with Non-small Cell Lung Cancer.
  
• Phantom investigation of 3D motion-dependent volume aliasing during CT simulation for radiation therapy planning.
  
• New publication by Drs. CD Fuller and TJ Scarbrough titled: Fiducial Markers in Image-guided Radiotherapy of the Prostate.
• Imaging3 and Oregon Health & Science University to Partner as First Luminary Site for the Dominion.
• Chair Emeritus authors chapter in 2nd edition of Treatment Planning In Radiation Oncology.
  
• Faculty member co-authors chapter in 2nd edition of Gunderson & Tepper's Clinical Radiation Oncology.
  
• Faculty co-authors article in Seminars in Oncology.
• Dr. Thomas co-authors review on Adhesion Molecules in Radiotherapy.
  
• Dr. Fuss is senior/lead author of trio of IGRT-based original articles in Fall 2006.
• Faculty co-authors editorial on multidisciplinary care for esophagus cancer.
• Dept. Attending Co-Authors Secondary Analysis of RTOG-9413.
• IGRT program publishes on gall bladder IMRT experience.
• Department faculty co-author theoretical radiotherapy approach for the treatment of choroidal melanoma.
• Department faculty co-author Pancoast tumor review in Nature Clinical Practice Oncology.
• Department Faculty Co-Edits Special Edition of JCO.
• Faculty co-authors article for future edition of oncology periodical.
• Dr. Charles R. Thomas serves as Co-guest Editor for national publication.
• Dr. Thomas co-authors a review of staging laparoscopy of pancreatic cancer.
• Faculty member co-authors review on pancreatic cancer.
• HIV+ Anal Cancer manuscript is co-authored by Dept. faculty.
• Faculty co-authors report on clinical trial accrual in minority ethnicity patients.
• Dr. Canning authors PET for Head and Neck cancer article.
• Dr. Thomas co-authors "Gastric cancer: Standards for the 21st Century."
• Faculty co-authors article in Dermatologic Clinics of North America.
• Dept co-authors novel IGRT article in major journal.