Cardiothoracic Radiation Oncologist at Washington University in St. Louis, Researcher in Thoracic Oncology, and Tarheel for life
Joined March 2013
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Outstanding talk at #ASTRO2023 by @lauren_henke on advancing online CT guided adaptive radiotherapy, including testing its feasibility on C-arm linacs! @APrice_BeamOn @UHhospitals @WashURadOnc @JoshuaSchiffMD
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Great group at #SNOSTORM2023 sharing knowledge & learning how best to deliver #cardiac #radioablation to patients all around the world! Thanks for joining us in St Louis!
@stopstormEU #epeeps
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Registration is NOW OPEN for the SNOSTORM2023 conference on Sep 28-29, 2023. Hear from leaders in the field about treating ventricular tachycardia with noninvasive cardiac radioablation!
✅ Schedule & Registration: bit.ly/43D0RLI
#EPeeps #radonc
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"Sorry I think I have to take this unscheduled call from an anonymous number because if I miss it I think they will automatically deny payment for my patient's radiation. Five minutes. It's a US thing."
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🫀⚡️SAVE THE DATE! SNORAD & STOPSTORM are teaming up again for a great SNOSTORM conference on cardiac radiotherapy Sep 28-29 in St. Louis!
#epeeps #CRAforVT #radiateVT #SNOSTORM
@DoctorPhillEP @SBRT_CR @joostverhoeff @gdhugo @samsonpp @WashUCardiology @WUSTLmed @WashURadOnc
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Published today: ascopubs.org/doi/pdfdirect/1…
🧵2/ Metastasis-directed Tx to the 🫁 has limited trial evidence (surgery or SABR). Whilst convenient, popular during #COVID19, there is reluctance for single fraction fraction 🥊 SABR for perceived toxicity. @TROGfightcancer SAFRON II randomised n=90 with 133 🫁 mets to 1 vs 4fx SABR
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Proud of @JoshuaSchiffMD for not only knocking it out of park (honestly his baseline) presenting our in silico work evaluating #adaptiveSBRT for ultra-central thorax NSCLC but also having already made this into a @VarianMedSys funded, Ph I clinical trial (NCT05785845)! #ESTRO23 – at Vienna, Austria
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Does Pseudoprogression occur after spine met SBRT?
Yes, 16% of time after SBRT
· Transient ↑ signal abnl centered @ treated lesion followed by signal improvement on FU MR imaging not attributable to systemic therapy
doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20220266
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Do osteolytic spine mets "stabilize" after RT? frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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One “medical director” denied 121 THOUSAND claims in 2 months.
That’s ~ 350 claims an hour.
They’re supposed to review the medical record. This is illegal. Do something.
@Hickenlooper @laurenboebert @MichaelBennet @GovofCO
propublica.org/article/cigna…
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Does WBRT “age” the brain?
Anatomic surface-based deep learning to estimate brain age w/MRI before & after WBRT
WBRT aged brain 9x faster than controls
WBRT hippos aged 9x faster than HA-WBRT
SRS alone NOT diff compared to controls
academic.oup.com/neuro-oncol…
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This SPECTACULAR phase III randomized clinical trial was once thought impossible to complete. How did they do it? By inviting a medical anthropologist (Jenny Donovan at @QuinteTBristol) to help design and lead the study. nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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Thrilled to share this new work just released in @JNCI_Now:
Medicaid expansion is associated with an increase in 2-yr OS for children with cancer.
Largest benefit was for kids from neighborhoods with lowest SES.
academic.oup.com/jnci/advanc…
Many thanks to @drdavidpalma for discussing oligomet management (past, present and future!) during our Resident Education Conference today!
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This Coach K interview on #WRAL…blaming Final 4 loss on referees (said he would have switched one out), then saying there was “a lot of hoopla” around his last home game at Cameron which he referred to as “a crushing defeat”.
Um, whose doing was that exactly?