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SBRT Expert Team
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SBRT Center of Excellence Team
SBRT and Radiosurgery have great potential but must be executed with care, caution and in a highly coordinated teamwork environment. Phone: (310) 825-9775
Meet Our SBRT Expert Team
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Phillip J. Beron, MD Dr. Beron is a board-certified radiation oncologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His professional career spans private and academic practice. Dr. Beron specializes in treatment of all cancer types with emphasis in the treatment of breast cancer. He is an experienced brachytherapist (implant physician) and performs prostate, GYN, and breast implants. He is trained in partial breast radiation techniques such as Mammosite. |
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Christopher King, MD, PhD Dr. King is an Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Urology at UCLA. He received his medical degree from Boston University, and completed his residency training in radiation oncology at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Dr. King also holds a PhD in Astrophysics from Yale University. Dr. King specializes in the treatment of genitourinary cancer and has pioneered the use of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for the treatment of prostate cancer. |
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Tania Kaprealian, MD Dr. Tania Kaprealian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She completed her medical degree and residency training in Radiation Oncology at the University of California in San Francisco. Subsequently she practiced at the American University of Beirut Medical Center where she was an Assistant Professor and Program Director in their Department of Radiation Oncology before joining the UCLA Radiation Oncology Department. |
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Patrick Kupelian, MD Although he specializes in genitourinary malignancies, he an internationally known expert in the development and evaluation of cutting edge technologies in Radiation Oncology for a variety of anatomic sites. He has pionneered high-dose hypofractionated radiation therapy for prostate cancers. He has also played a significant role in the introduction and implementation of multiple image guidance techniques in radiotherapy. He has authored more than 140 research papers, over 250 abstracts, multiple review papers and book chapters. He is Board certified in Radiation Oncology. (more) |
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Percy Lee, MD His expertise includes intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), as well as SBRT and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) where highly focused radiation is concentrated on localized tumors. These approaches minimize radiation to surrounding normal tissue, thereby reducing side effects and improving tumor control. Dr. Lee is focused on developing novel functional image-guided radiation therapy approaches and discovering new molecularly targeted anti-angiogenic drugs for cancer therapy. (more) |
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Michael T. Selch, MD Dr. Selch received his B.S. degree in biological sciences from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and completed his M.D. degree at the University of California in Los Angeles. He completed an internship in Internal Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and then a residency in Radiation Oncology at UCLA. After completion of residency training, he joined the UCLA faculty as an adjunct assistant professor. |
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Michael Steinberg, MD, FASTRO, FACR, FACRO Chair, UCLA Department of Radiation Oncology. Dr. Steinberg has specific expertise in the treatment of tumors of the GU system, breast and head and neck. He specializes in the use of technically advanced treatment modalities such as Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) and brachytherapy for the treatment of malignancy. Dr. Steinberg has been influential in providing input regarding health policy and economic issues on behalf of patients and his specialty through his various leadership roles in radiation oncology. (more) |
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Nzhde Agazaryan, PhD, DABR Dr. Agazaryan is the Director of Clinical Medical Physics at the UCLA Radiation Oncology. He is an Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Biomedical Physics Graduate Program. His appointment in the Department of Radiation Oncology involves research, teaching and clinical practice. His research and clinical interests include stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS/SRT), stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), small field dosimetry, image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT), functional image-guided radiotherapy, gated radiotherapy, eye plaque brachytherapy. (more) |
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Minsong Cao, PhD DABR Dr. Cao received his Ph.D. in Medical Physics from Purdue University in 2007. Prior to joining UCLA, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Indiana University. He is certified by the American Board of Radiology in radiation therapy physics. His research interests include image guidance in radiation oncology, functional and physiological imaging and stereotactic body radiation therapy. |
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Phillip Chow, MS DABR Phillip Chow graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1990. While attending graduate school in Astrophysics, he began working as a Medical Dosimetrist in 1992. He received his certification from the Medical Dosimetrist Certification Board (MDCB) in 1995. He then moved to Bangor, Maine in 1996 where he worked for two years as a Certified Medical Dosimetrist before being offered a position at Kaiser Permanente in Southern California. |
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Chul Lee, MS, DABR Chul Lee has been working as a medical physicist at UCLA Radiation Oncology since January 2006. He obtained Master's degree in Medical Physics from Medical College of Ohio in December 2005. Prior to coming to UCLA, he worked as a researcher in radiochemistry laboratory for ten years at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. |
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Steve Tenn, PhD DABR Stephen Tenn joined the UCLA Department of Radiation Oncology in November of 2008. He received his PhD from the UCLA Biomedical Physics Graduate Program in 2007. His dissertation project focused on the accuracy of image guidance and gated radiotherapy using the Novalis Radiosurgery system. After completing his PhD Dr. Tenn left UCLA for a one year post doctoral fellowship at the Stanford University Department of Radiation Oncology. |
