Resident Accolades

Many of our residents publish in peer-reviewed journals, present at national meetings, serve in national leadership roles, and have been awarded grants. Congratulations to our current medical residents (and recent graduates) on their recent publications and awards!

Radiation Oncology Residents, 2025-2026

Return to the main Residency Program page

  •  

    Jean-Baptiste SR, Feigenberg, Dorsey JF, Kao GD. Personal and Prognostic: Liquid Biomarkers for Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treated With Radiation Therapy. Seminars in Radiation Oncology. 2021 Apr. 

    Dove A.P., Manole B.A., Wakefield D.V., Doubrovin M., Shulkin B.L., Merchant T.E., Davidoff A.M, Furman W.L., Krason M.J., Lucas Jr. J.T. Managing Local-Regional Failure in Children with High-risk Neuroblastoma: A Single Institution Experience. Pediatric Blood and Cancer. Sep 2018. 

    Dove APH, Cmelak A, Darrow K, McComas KN, Chowdhary M, Beckta J, Kirschner AN. The use of low-dose radiotherapy in osteoarthritis: a review. International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics. 2022 April. 

    Dhuri, K., Bechtold, C., Quijano, E., Pham, H., Gupta, A., Vikram, A., & Bahal, R. Antisense Oligonucleotides: An Emerging Area in Drug Discovery and Development. Journal of Clinical Medicine 2020, 9(6):2004.

    Kaplan, A., Pham, H., Liu, Y., Oyaghire, S., Bahal, R., Engelman, D., Glazer, P. M., Ku80-Targeted pH-Sensitive Peptide–PNA Conjugates Are Tumor Selective and Sensitize Cancer Cells to Ionizing Radiation. Molecular Cancer Research 2020, 

    McComas KN, Laird D. Residents across the globe: a call for education, advocacy, and collaboration. Advances in Radiation Oncology. 2022 Aug. 

    McComas KN, Darrow K, Yock A, Shinohara ET. Online adaptive radiotherapy and opportunity cost. Advanced in Radiation Oncology. 2022 Accepted

    Lucas JT, Faught AM, Hsu CY, Wilson LJ, Guo Y, Li Y, Khan R, Becksfort JB, LeVine DA, Ismael Y, Darrow K, Moskvin VP, Pirlepesov F, Klimo P, Elijovich L, Indelicato DJ, Boop FA, Merchant TE. Pre- and posttherapy risk factors for vasculopathy in pediatric patients with craniopharyngioma treated with surgery and proton radiation therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2022 May. 

    Darrow K, Luo L. Look (biopsy) before you leap. International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics. 2023. 

    Kline Quiroz K, Byrd H, Lockney N. Pathophysiology of radiation fibrosis syndrome. Current Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Reports. 2023. 

    Gracie J, Fortune CE, Morris CG, Leach DF, Mendenhall WM. Radiation treatment for cancer of the anal margin. American Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2023. 

  •  

    • MOBILE: Mitigating Osteoarthritis by Intervention with Low-Dose Irradiation to Extremities
      • Investigators: Dr. Austin Dove (PI), Dr. Austin Kirschner, Dr. Tony Cmelak, Dr. Ryan Whitaker, Dr. Ashwin Shinde
    • VMAT: Vertebral Bone Marrow in Lung Cancer Attention Trial
      • Investigators: Dr. Evan Osmundson (Co-PI), Dr. Neil Newman (Co-PI, former resident), Dr. Austin Dove
    • Utilization of 18F-FGln PET/CT Imaging in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma.
      • Investigators: Dr. Dakim Gaines, Dr. WK Rathmell, Dr. BI Rini. 2020.
    • The relationship between tumor hypoxia, tumor recurrence, and radiation necrosis in patients with brain metastases undergoing stereotactic radiosurgery for local control. 2022
      • Investigators: Dr. Jill De Vis, Dr. Evan Osmundson, Dr. MJ Donahue.
    • TESSERACT: Trial in ES-SCLC Enhancing Response to Atezolizumab and Chemotherapy with Total Body Irradiation.
      • Investigators: Dr. Ryan Whitaker, Dr. Dakim Gaines, Dr. Evan Osmundson, 2020.
    • IST-370: Phase I/II Clinical Trial Evaluating the Role of Selinexor in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer Treatment (SELECT).
      • Co-Investigator: Dr. Ryan Whitaker
    • SICARIO: Phase I/II Trial of Split-Course Adaptive Radioimmunotherapy for the Treatment of Oligometastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer using Biologically-Adaptive Radiotherapy.
      • Investigator: Dr. Ryan Whitaker 
    • NIH NLM T15 Training Grant, to pursue Masters in Clinical Bioinformatics, 2022 - 2024
      • Dr. Samuel Jean-Baptiste
    • NIH R21, $250,000 Direct Costs, 2022
      • Dr. Jill De Vis
    • AACR-Clinical Oncology Research (CORE) Training Fellowship, 2923 $100,000
      • Dr. Ha Pham
    • ASTRO Advocacy Day Travel Grant Recipient
      • Dr. Kyra McComas, Dr. Jayden Gracie
    • Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) Grant Total $5,000
      • Dr. Austin Dove
    • ​​​ECOG-ACRIN Travel Scholarship Award, 2023
      • Dr. Samuel Jean-Baptiste
    • ACRO Travel Scholarship Award, 2024 - 2025
      • Dr. Jayden Gracie
    • ASCO Conquer Cancer Merit Award, 2025
      • Dr. Jayden Gracie