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Julian Hong, M.D., M.S.

Assistant Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology

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Dr. Julian Hong specializes in the treatment of genitourinary malignancies. He has expertise in modern radiation therapy techniques including intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), image guided radiation therapy (IGRT), and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT).

Dr. Hong’s oncology informatics lab focuses on the development and implementation of computational tools in the clinic to provide personalized, precision cancer care for patients. His research program combines clinical domain knowledge with data science expertise to generate insights from real world data, develop actionable artificial intelligence-based tools, and evaluate the benefit of these advances in patient care. Dr. Hong is also jointly appointed in the Bakar Computational Health Sciences and is a core faculty member of the UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health.

Dr. Hong serves on the NRG Cancer Care Delivery Research Committee, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Big Data Subcommittee, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium and Informatics Summit Scientific Program Committees, and American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) CancerLinQ Leadership Council.

Education

2004-2008	Stanford University	BS	Biomedical Computation
2007-2009	Stanford University	MS	Bioengineering
2010-2014	University of Wisconsin-Madison	MD	Medicine
2014-2015	Yale-New Haven Medical Center	Intern	Internal Medicine
2015-2019	Duke University Medical Center	Resident	Radiation Oncology

Professional Experience

2019- present

University of California, San Francisco

Assistant Professor

Radiation Oncology

Awards & Honors

2009	American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)/Science Program for Excellence in Science
2011	National Student Research Forum Excellence in Radiology Research Award
2012	Herman and Gwendolyn Shapiro Excellence in Student Research Award
2014	University of Wisconsin Dylan Cappel Memorial Scholarship in Oncology
2018	Google Kaggle NCAA March Madness Machine Learning Competition, 3rd Place of 934
2019	Travel Award, NRG Oncology
2020	The New England Journal of Medicine Travel Scholarship, Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Learning Health Systems
2020	Best of American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)
2020	American Cancer Society, Individual Research Award
2021	Highest Rated Improvement Initiatives – UCSF Health Improvement Symposium, University of California, San Francisco
2021	Bio-IT World Conference & Expo Innovative Practices Award, Cambridge Healthtech Institute
2021	Publication Award, Radiation Oncology Institute
2021	Annual Symposium Distinguished Poster, American Medical Informatics Association
2021	Conquer Cancer Foundation, Career Development Award
2021	UCSF Computational Cancer Research Award
2021	American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), Early Career Development Award to End Prostate Cancer
2022	Prostate Cancer Foundation Challenge Award
2022	American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Press Program

Research

NIH: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/julian.hong.1/bibliography/public/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=II0SNMYAAAAJ&hl=en

Hong lab: https://honglab.ucsf.edu