The Department of Radiation Oncology Annual Faculty retreat took place on November 14th, 2026 at Millberry Union on the Parnassus campus. The morning kicked off with a special presentation and workshop on “Making Every Minute Count in Clinical Teaching” by two faculty from the Weill Institute for Neuroscience. Lunch was followed by research presentations and a final guest presentation. See full agenda here and some photo highlights below!

“Making Every Minute Count in Clinical Teaching” presentation and workshop. (right) Dr. Carmen Kilpatrick, MD UCSF Department of Behavioral Sciences and Psychiatry (left) Dr. Tammy Duong, MD Vice Chair for Medical Education – UCSF Department of of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Drs. Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff and Ke Sheng – Afternoon Opening Remarks

Dr. Mekhail Anwar, MD, PhD Professor in Residence “Making Personalized Dosimetry A Reality with Wearable, Networked, Chip-Scale, Single Gamma Photon Sensors”

Dr. Qihui Lyu, PhD Assistant Professor in Residence, “Intraoperative Boron Neutron Capture Therapy Using Miniaturized Neutron Source for Glioblastoma”

Dr. Lauren Boreta, MD Assistant Professor “Conformal Treatment of Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis”

