 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 UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School, Robert Wood Johnson University
Hospital and the 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.
September 12, 2008
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