Sharad Goyal , M.D. Radiation Oncologist

Education:

• BA            University of Virginia
• MS            University of Virginia
• MD            University of Virginia
• Residency   Robert Wood Johnson Medical School - UMDNJ

Research Interests:

• Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation
• Image Guided Radiotherapy
• Hypofractionation

Clinical Interests:

• Breast & Genitourinary malignancies

Academic Appointments:

• Instructor, (2008 - present)
• Chief Resident, (2006 - 2008)

Committees:

• Breast Cancer Services Leadership Team ( RWJ University Hospital )
• Scientific Review Board, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
• Education Sessions Subcommittee of the Education Council (ASTRO)
• Professional Development Committee (ASCO)
• Career Development Committee (ASCO)

Honors:

• Certificate of American Board of Radiology (Board Certified)
• UMDNJ Career Development Travel Award (2008)
• American Brachytherapy Socienty (ABS) HDR Brachytherapy Fellowship (2008)
• ACR Grant ($20,000) to develop a Radiation Oncology Practice Quality Initiative (2007)
• AACR/ASCO Methods in Clinical Cancer Research (2007)
• RSNA Roentgen Resident Research Award (2007)
• Peer Reviewer, ASCO Medical Oncology Self Evaluation Program (2007)
• ACRO Annual Meeting Travel Award (2007)
• BEST 100 Fellowship Award (2007)
• NMCR Oncology Fellow Scholarship (2005&2006)
• Graduated from a 4 year Joint MD-MS in Clinical Investigation program (2002)
  
  

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications for the Recent 5 Years:

1. Goyal S , Osusky K, Gabel M, Yue NJ , Narra V. A Novel Method of Island Blocking in Whole Abdominal Radiotherapy using a Modified Electronic Tissue Compensation Technique. Accepted by Medical Dosimetry .
2. Goyal S , Khan AJ, Vicini F, Beitsch P, Lyden M, Keitsch M, Haffty BG. Factors Associated with Optimal Cosmetic Results in Patients Treated With Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI) by the American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBS) MammoSite ® Breast Brachytherapy Registry Trial. Annals of Surgical Oncology . 2009; xx(xx):xxx-xxx.
3. Goyal S , Parikh RR, Green C, Schiff D, Yang Q, Moran M, Haffty BG. Clinicopathologic significance of ERCC-1 expression in patients treated with breast conserving surgery and radiation therapy. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics . 2009; xx(xx):xxx-xxx.
4. Haffty BG, Choi DH, Goyal S , et al. Breast Cancer in Young Women: Incidence of BRCA 1/2 Mutations Across Racial Groups. Annals of Oncology . 2009; doi:10.1093/annonc/mdp051.
5. Goyal S, Cohler A, Camporeal J, Narra V, Yue NJ. Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy for Orbital Lymphoma. Radiation Medicine . 2008 Dec; 26(10): 573-581.
6. Goyal S & Haffty BG. Responses to concurrent radiotherapy and hormone-therapy and outcome for large breast cancers in post-menopausal women: Bollet MA, Kirova YM, Antoni G, et al (Institut Curie, Paris) Radiother Oncol 85:336-345, 2007. Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly . 2008: 19(3), 257-258.
7. Yue NJ, Kim S, Lewis B, Jabbour S, Narra V, Goyal S, Haffty BG. Optimization of Translational Corrections to Compensate For Rotational and Deformable Target Deviations in Image Guided Radiotherapy. Medical Physics . 35 (10): 4375-4385, 2008.
8. Goyal S, Yue NJ et al. Improvement in Dose Homogeniety with Electronic Tissue Compensation Over IMRT and Conventional RT In Whole Brain Radiotherapy. Radiotherapy & Oncology . 2008 Aug; 88(2): 196-201.
9. Goyal S, Kearney T, Haffty BG. Current Application and Research Directions for Partial Breasts Irradiation. Oncology. 21 (2007): 449-461.
10. Goyal S, Prasad D, Harrell FE, Matsumoto J, Rich T, Steiner L. Gamma knife surgery for the treatment of intracranial metastases from breast cancer. Journal of Neurosurgery . 103 (2005): 218-223.
11. Chevalier RL, Goyal S, Kim A, Landau D, LeRoith D. Renal tubulointerstitial injury from ureteral obstruction in the neonatal rat is attenuated by IGF-1. Kidney International . 57 (2000): 882-90.
12. Chevalier RL, Goyal S, Thornhill BA. EGF improves recovery following relief of unilateral ureteral obstruction in the neonatal rat. Journal of Urology, 162(1999): 1532-6.
13. Chevalier RL, Goyal S, Wolstenholme JT, Thornhill BA. Obstructive nephropathy in the neonate are attenuated by exogenous epidermal grouth factor. Kidney International. 54 (1998): 38-47.

Book Chapters :

1. Jardines L, Goyal S , Fisher P, Weitzel J, Royce, M. Breast Cancer Overview. Cancer Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach . 12 th edition. CMPMedica: New York (In Press).
2. Jardines L, Goyal S, Royce M. Stages 0 & I Breast Cancer. Cancer Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach . 12 th edition. CMPMedica: New York (In Press).
3. Jardines L, Goyal S , Royce M. Stage II Breast Cancer. Cancer Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach . 12 th edition. CMPMedica: New York (In Press).
4. Jardines L, Goyal S , Royce M, Jaiyesimi I. Stages III & IV Breast Cancer. Cancer Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach . 12 th edition. CMPMedica: New York (In Press).
5. Goyal S & Zannis V. Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation. Kuerer's Breast Surgical Oncology . Kuerer H (ed), 1 st Edition. McGraw-Hill: New York , NY (In Press).
6. Goyal S & Jabbour S. Gastric Cancer. Handbook of Radiation Oncology . Haffty BG, Wilson LD (eds), 1 st Edition. Jones and Bartlett: Boston , MA (2008).

Presentations at Scientific Meetings:

1. Optimal Time for Initiation of Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI) Using 3-D Conformal Radiotherapy (3D-CRT) – Preliminary Analysis of CINJ 040801. American Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) , Chicago , IL , 2009.
2. Clinicopathologic significance of ERCC-1 expression in patients treated with breast conserving surgery and radiation therapy. American Radium Society . Vancouver, April 2009.
3. Evaluation of Acute Toxicity in Patients Treated With Concurrent Bevacizumab & Radiotherapy. American Radium Society . Vancouver, April 2009. (Poster Presentation)
4. Factors Associated with Optimal Cosmetic Results in Patients Treated With Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI) by the American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBS) MammoSite ® Breast Brachytherapy Registry Trial. Society of Surgical Oncology . Phoenix , AZ , March 2009.
5. A Historical Overview of the Radiotherapy in Breast Cancer. Presented with Eli Glatstein, MD. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Chicago, IL , May 2008. 
6. Improvement in Dose Homogeniety with Electronic Tissue Compensation Over IMRT and Conventional RT In Whole Brain Radiotherapy. 2008 Annual Retreat on Cancer Research in New Jersey . Piscataway, NJ , May 2008. (Poster Presentation)
7. Dynamic Multileaf Collimation (dMLC) with Fluence Modulation for Whole Brain Radiotherapy. American Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) , Los Angeles , CA , November 2007. (Poster Presentation).
8. A Historical Overview of the Treatment of Prostate Cancer.  Presented with Anthony D'Amico, MD & Svetlana Jezdic, MD.   Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology .   Chicago , IL , June 2007
9. Gamma knife surgery for the treatment of intracranial metastases from breast cancer. Doctoral Student Research Forum . Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, University of Virginia , Charlottesville , VA , May 2002.