Associate Professor
Washington University in St Louis
I am a physician that treats gastrointestinal malignancies in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Washington University in St. Louis. I currently serve as Chief, GI Oncology Service and Chief, MR Clinical Service in the Department of Radiation Oncology. I also serve as co-leader for both the lower and upper GI focus groups at Siteman Cancer Center. My clinical research focuses on nonoperative and adaptive radiation therapy to improve outcomes in GI cancers, especially rectal, pancreas, gastric and liver tumors. I served as the principal investigator for multiple investigator-initiated trials. These included trials evaluating short course radiation followed by multi-agent chemotherapy for nonoperative management of rectal adenocarcinoma (NORMAL-R), full-dose gemcitabine/abraxane with concurrent MRgRT in locally advanced pancreas cancer, MR guided adaptive radiation therapy in gastric adenocarcinoma, adaptive palliative radiation therapy without the traditionally requisite CT simulation scan and a clinical trial where we obtained first-in-world images with a novel ring-gantry imaging system that has the image quality and potential for adaptive radiation therapy in CT based radiation therapy units.
