Three physician residents and three medical physics residents were named winners of the Emory Department of Radiation Oncology's 26th Annual Resident Research Day.
September 27, 2022
Three physician residents and three medical physics residents were named winners of the Emory Department of Radiation Oncology's 26th Annual Resident Research Day. C. David Fuller, MD, PhD, a professor of radiation oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, proctored the event, held on September 26 at Emory's Health Sciences Research Building.
Resident Research Day is held each year to give residents the opportunity to present research they have been working on with a faculty mentor. Participating residents give a 10-minute presentation to an audience of Winship faculty, staff, and peers.
This year's physician resident awardees are:
- David Qian, MD, PhD (First Place)
"Automated interpretation of fax medical records as structured data elements to improve clinical workflow"
Mentor: Zach Bercu, MD, RVPI and Jeremy Ackerman, MD, PhD - Neal McCall, MD (Second Place)
"Impact of Radiation Dose to the Immune Cells in Unresectable or Stage III Non‐Small Cell Lung Cancer in the Durvalumab Era"
Mentor: Kristin Higgins, MD - Jacob Wynne, MD (Third Place)
"Unpaired image correction for quantitative cone‐beam computed tomography"
Mentor: Xiaofeng Yang, PhD, DABR and Ashesh Jani, MD, MSEE, FASTRO
This year's medical physics resident awardees are:
- Chih‐Wei Chang, PhD (First Place)
"Early in vivo Radiation Damage Quantification for Pediatric Craniospinal Irradiation Using Longitudinal MRI for Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy"
Mentor: Jun Zhou, PhD; Bree R. Eaton, MD; Xiaofeng Yang,, PhD - Shadab Momin, PhD (Second Place)
"Enhanced cardiac substructures sparing through knowledge based planning"
Mentor: Jiahan Zhang, PhD - Yang Lei, PhD (Third Place)
"Deformable CT Image Registration via a Deep Learning"
Mentor: Xiaofeng Yang, PhD, DABR