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Sue S. Yom

M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Departments of Radiation Oncology & Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

1600 Divisadero Street, Box 1708
San Francisco, California 94143-1708
Phone: 415-353-9893
Fax: 415-353-9883
Email: yoms@radonc.ucsf.edu

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Professional Focus

Dr. Yom is a radiation oncologist who specializes in the treatment of head and neck, skin and thoracic cancers. She is particularly interested in emerging radiotherapeutic and biologic techniques aimed at reducing the toxicities of treatment. In head and neck and skin cancer, she has studied a variety of issues related to chemoradiation and combined modality treatments, technical aspects of radiation delivery, and radiation-related prognostic factors and post-treatment management. Specifically in lung cancer, she has been involved in efforts to quantify the risks of pneumonitis and esophagitis resulting from concurrent treatment with chemotherapy and radiation and established parameters for using intensity-modulated radiation therapy in the treatment of locoregionally advanced lung cancers. She is experienced with many rare tumor types in the head and neck, cutaneous, and thoracic regions.

Dr. Yom is currently participating in a number of studies at UCSF addressing a variety of issues related to image-guided radiation, patients’ quality of life, and combinations of novel systemic agents with radiation therapy. She is especially interested in improved clinical and translational prognostic models in order to provide more efficacious and individualized therapy. She is committed to UCSF’s tradition of technical innovation and provides consultation for her patients drawing from a wide range of radiotherapy techniques, to produce the best individualized plan for each patient. It is hoped that the reduction of toxicities, both through technical and biologic means, will improve quality of life and potentially enable physicians to deliver more intelligently targeted radiation and chemotherapy doses in search of a better chance of cure. She believes in multidisciplinary management and a unified, team-oriented approach to patient care.

Education

1987-1991	Rice University	BA	French
1993-2003	University of Pennsylvania	Ph.D.	English
1995-2002	University of Pennsylvania	M.D.	Medicine
2002-2003	MD Anderson Cancer Center	Intern	Medicine/Surgery
2003-2007	MD Anderson Cancer Center	Resident	Radiation Oncology

Professional Experience

2007-Present	UCSF	Assistant Professor	Radiation Oncology
2009-Present	UCSF	Assistant Professor	Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Awards & Honors

1992	Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, National Mellon Foundation
1995	Benjamin Franklin Medical Scholar Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
2001	Seed Grant Research Program, American Medical Association Foundation
2004	Biostatistics and Trial Design Workshop, Cancer Education Consortium
2005	International Travel Grant, Women Against Lung Cancer (now National Lung Cancer Partnership)
2005	ASTRO Fellowship, Korean American Society for Therapeutic Radiology & Oncology
2006	Jesse H. Jones Fellowship in Cancer Education, for excellence in cancer education at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
2006	A. Lavoy Moore Endowment Fund, for excellence in lung cancer research at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
2006	Travel Award, Radiation Therapy Oncology Group
2006	Eleanor Montague Distinguished Resident Award in Radiation Oncology, American Association of Women Radiologists
2006	Travel Award, ASTRO Health Services/Outcomes Symposium
2006	Brachytherapy Fellowship, American Brachytherapy Society
2007	LORHAN Fellows Travel Grant, ASTRO Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Symposium
2007	ASCO/AACR Workshop on Methods in Clinical Cancer Research
2008	Joan F. Giambalvo Memorial Scholarship, AMA Women Physicians Congress
2009	Best Doctors in America ®

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications:

Xie J, Yoon YW, Yom SS, Chung JM. Norepinephrine Rekindles Mechanical Allodynia in Sympathectomized Neuropathic Rat. Analgesia 1995;1(2):107-113.

Rosenthal DI, Yom SS, Liu L, Machtay M, Algazy K, Weber RS, Weinstein GS, Chalian AA, Miller LK, Rockwell K Jr, Tonda M, Schnipper E, Hershock D. A Phase I Study of SPI-077 (Stealth® Liposomal Cisplatin) Concurrent with Radiation Therapy for Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer. Investigational New Drugs 2002;20(3):343-349.

Yom SS, Busch TM, Friedburg JS, Smith D, Wileyto EP, Mick R, Glatstein E, Hahn SM. Serum Cytokine Elevations in Mesothelioma Patients Treated with Pleurectomy or Extrapleural Pneumonectomy and Adjuvant Intraoperative Photodynamic Therapy. Photochemistry and Photobiology 2003; 78(1):75-81.

Yom SS, Rosenthal DI. Does concurrent postoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy in head and neck cancer improve patient outcome? Nature Clinical Practice Oncology 2004;1(1):14-5.

de Crevoisier R, Ammor A, Court B, Wibault P, Chirat E, Fizazi K, Theodore C, Yom SS, Haie-Meder C. Bladder-Conserving Surgery and Interstitial Brachytherapy for Lymph Node Negative Transitional Cell Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder: Results of a 28-year Single Institution Experience. Radiotherapy and Oncology 2004;72(2):147-157.

Yom SS, Rashid A, Rosenthal DI, Weber RS, El-Naggar AK. Comparative Genetic Analysis of Intestinal and Seromucinous Sinonasal Adenocarcinomas: Distinct and Common Alterations from Primary Colorectal Carcinomas. Modern Pathology 2005;18(3):315-319.

Yom SS, Machtay M, Biel MA, Sinard RJ, El-Naggar AK, Weber RS, Rosenthal DI. Survival impact of planned restaging and early surgical salvage following definitive chemoradiation for locally advanced squamous cell carcinomas of the oropharynx and hypopharynx. American Journal of Clinical Oncology 2005 Aug;28(4):385-392.

Yom SS, Rosenthal DI, El-Naggar AK, Kies MS, Hessel AC. Merkel Cell Carcinoma of the Tongue and Head and Neck Oral Mucosal Sites. Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology and Endodontology 2006;101(6):761-768.

Yom SS, Morrison WH, Ang KK, Rosenthal DI, Perkins GH, Wong P-F, Garden AS. Two-Field Versus Three-Field Irradiation Technique in the Postoperative Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 2006;66(2):469-476.

Yom SS, Liao Z, Liu H, Liu HH, Tucker SL, Hu C-S, Wei X, Wang X, Wang S, Mohan R, Cox JD, Komaki R. Initial Evaluation of Treatment-Related Pneumonitis in Advanced-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Treated with Concurrent Chemotherapy and Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 2007;68(1):94-102.

Yom SS, Frija EK, Mahajan A, Chang E, Klein K, Shiu A, Ohrt J, Woo SY. Field-in-Field Technique with Intrafractionally Modulated Junction Shifts for Craniospinal Irradiation. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 2007;69(4):1193-1198.

Huang K, Xia P, Chuang C, Weinberg V, Glastonbury CM, Eisele DW, Lee NY, Yom SS, Phillips TL, Quivey JM. Intensity-modulated chemoradiation for treatment of stage III and IV oropharyngeal carcinoma: the University of California-San Francisco experience. Cancer 2008;113(3):497-507.

Vitolo V, Millender LE, Quivey JM, Yom SS, Schechter NR, Jereczek-Fossa BA, Milani F, Orecchia R, Xia P. Assessment of Carotid Artery Dose in the Treatment of Nasopharyngeal Cancer with IMRT Versus Conventional Radiotherapy. Radiotherapy and Oncology 2009;90(2):213-20.

Jin H, Tucker SL, Liu HH, Wei X, Yom SS, Wang S, Komaki R, Chen Y, Martel MK, Mohan R, Cox JD, Liao Z. Dose-Volume Thresholds and Smoking Status for the Risk of Treatment-Related Pneumonitis in Inoperable Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Definitive Radiotherapy. Radiotherapy and Oncology 2009;91(3):427-32.

Hwang AB, Bacharach SL, Yom SS, Weinberg VK, Quivey JM, Franc BL, Xia P. Can Positron Emission Tomography (PET) or PET/Computed Tomography (CT) Acquired in a Nontreatment Position Be Accurately Registered to a Head-and-Neck Radiotherapy Planning CT? International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 2009;73(2):578-84.

Cheung J, Aubry JF, Yom SS, Gottschalk AR, Celi JC, Pouliot J. Dose recalculation and the Dose-Guided Radiation Therapy (DGRT) process using megavoltage cone-beam CT. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 2009;74(2):583-92.

Beadle BM, Jhingran A, Yom SS, Ramirez PT, Eifel PJ. Patterns of Regional Recurrence After Definitive Radiotherapy for Cervical Cancer. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 2009 Jul 4. [Epub ahead of print]