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This list of medical specialty colleges in the United States includes medical societies that represent board certified specialist physicians. The American Medical Association maintains a list of societies represented in its House of Delegates, while the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine maintains a list of osteopathic ...
Although Alaska, Delaware, and Wyoming are the only states that lack independent medical schools, Delaware is served by the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia through the Delaware Institute of Medical Education and Research, [3] and Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming are all served by the University of ...
A radiation oncologist is a specialist physician who uses ionizing radiation (such as megavoltage X-rays or radionuclides) in the treatment of cancer.Radiation oncology is one of the three primary specialties, the other two being surgical and medical oncology, involved in the treatment of cancer.
The American College of Radiology (ACR), founded in 1923, is a professional medical society representing nearly 40,000 diagnostic radiologists, radiation oncologists, interventional radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians and medical physicists.
1987 – The Department of Radiation Oncology was established. 1988 – I. David Goldman, M.D., now director of Albert Einstein Cancer Center at Yeshiva University, became director of VCU Massey Cancer Center. 1993 – The Schools of Medicine and Basic Health Sciences merged.
Gynecologic oncology; Oncology: ON Medicine Radiation oncology – pertains to the use of radiation therapy (the medical use of ionizing radiation) as part of cancer treatment to control malignant cells (not to be confused with radiology). Cancer and other malignant diseases, often grouped with hematology. Ophthalmology: OPH Surgery Anterior ...
Nancy J. Tarbell, M.D. - C.C. Wang Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Samuel O. Thier, M.D. - President of Brandeis University from 1991 to 1994, the President of the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1994 to 1996 and Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy at Harvard University.
Radiation oncologist: Doctor who treats cancer with radiation. Sub-specialities in Oncology: Neuro-oncologist: Doctor who treats cancers of the brain. Ocular oncologist: Doctor who treats cancers of the eye. Head & Neck oncologist: Doctor who treats cancers of oral cavity, nasal cavity, oropharynx, hypopharyx and larynx. Thoracic oncologist ...