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Alon Witztum, DPhilAssistant Professor
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Professional Focus
Dr. Witztum is an Assistant Professor at the UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology. He received his DPhil in Oncology from the University of Oxford, UK and completed his residency at UCSF. His clinical interests are in data driven innovation, toxicity/outcome modelling, and clinical automation. He explores these themes using traditional data analysis, scripting, and machine learning techniques.
Education
| 2012 |
University of Warwick |
Masters (MPhys), Bachelors (BSc) | Physics |
| 2014 |
University of Pennsylvania |
Masters (MMP) | Medical Physics |
| 2018 |
University of Oxford |
Doctorate (DPhil) | Oncology |
| 2019 | University of California, San Francisco | Residency | Radiation Oncology |
Professional Experience
| 2019-Present | University of California, San Francisco | Assistant Professor | Radiation Oncology |
Awards and Honors
| 2014 | MRC/Gray Institute DPhil Scholarship |
| 2015 | MRC Supplementary Funding Award |
| 2015 | Santander Academic Travel Award |
| 2016 | 2nd Place Talk Award, Oxford Annual Oncology Student Symposium |
| 2017 | 1st Place Young Investigator Award, AAPM Spring Clinical Meeting |
Recent Significant Publications :
Witztum A, George B, Warren S, Partridge M, Hawkins MA. Unwrapping 3D complex hollow organs for spatial dose surface analysis. Med Phys. 2016 Nov; 43(11):6009. PMID: 27806596
Jones KC, Witztum A, Sehgal CM, Avery S. Proton beam characterization by proton-induced acoustic emission: simulation studies. Phys Med Biol. 2014 Nov 07; 59(21):6549-63. PMID: 25322212.
Dorsey JF, Sun L, Joh DY, Witztum A, Kao GD, Alonso-Basanta M, Avery S, Hahn SM, Al Zaki A, Tsourkas A. Gold nanoparticles in radiation research: potential applications for imaging and radiosensitization. Transl Cancer Res. 2013 Aug 01; 2(4):280-291. PMID: 25429358.