 Department of Radiation Oncology
Message from the Chair
Chairman: Bruce G. Haffty, M.D. Professor
Welcome to the website of the Department
of Radiation Oncology of UMDNJ-Robert
Wood Johnson Medical School and the
Cancer Institute of New Jersey and our departmental newsletters
are available here.
The Department of Radiation
Oncology is an integral part of Robert
Wood Johnson Medical School, Robert
Wood Johnson University Hospital andthe
Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ), and we share the missions
of the University, Hospital and Cancer Institute in providing excellence
in patient care, research, and education of the clinicians of the
future.
The Department consists
of three divisions: Clinical
Radiation Oncology, Radiation
Physics and Radiation cancer
Biology. The clinical department is located within Robert
Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick of New Jersey.
Our administrative and research facilities occupy over 3000 square
feet of laboratory space in CINJ.
The clinical department
provides patients a wide range of radiation
oncology services that include external beam radiotherapy (IMRT,
IGRT and 3D conformal), Tomotherapy, radiosurgery and brachytherapy
(interstitial, intracavitary, HDR and LDR). Proton Beam Radiation
will be implemented in the near future. Our goal is to deliver high
quality medical care and services to patients, to conduct clinical,
translational and basic scientific research, to provide educational
opportunities to patients, health care workers, and the community.
Through our mission and goals we seek to improve treatment and outcomes
of cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy.
In our treatment clinic
at RWJUH, we have two Varian 21EX linear accelators equipped with
on-board imagers (OBI), one Tomotherapy unit, one Philips AcQsim
CT simulator, one Varian Acuity CBCT simulator, one Varian VariSource
HDR unit, eighteen Varian Eclipse/Somavision treatment planning
workstations (with IMRT), one PET/CT workstation, and two Radionics
radiosurgery treatment planning workstations. For more detailed
information about the equipment in our department, please click
here.
The department is committed
to training the next generation of radiation oncologists, physicists,
dosimetrists and radiation therapists. In July 2006, we opened New
Jersey's only ACGME (the
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) approved
radiation oncology residency program. The current educational
programs in our department include radiation oncologist residency
program and medical dosimetrist program.
Research is an important
mission of our department. We currently are active in collaborations
with faculty at Rutgers University in medical physics and transformational
mathematics. Several of our faculty have ongoing basic science programs,
participated by graduate students from UMDNJ and Rutgers University.
Clinical, translational and basic science research is actively pursued.
Besides
providing radiation therapy services to patients at Robert
Wood Johnson University Hospital and the Cancer Institute
of New Jersey in New Brunswick, our radiation oncologists also see
patients at Robert
Wood Johnson University Hospital and the Cancer Institute of New
Jersey facility in Hamilton, New Jersey.
The radiation oncologists
in our department are part of Robert
Wood Johnson University Medical Group. Click here
for more information about Robert Wood Johnson University Medical
Group.
Please
feel free to contact us for more information.
May 22, 2008
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