Alon Witztum, PhD
Assistant Professor
Radiation Oncology
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Early Career Investigator Innovation Award, AAPM Practical Big Data Workshop, 2021
• SLAM Competition Winner, AAPM Norther California Chapter, 2019
• Young Investigator Award, AAPM Northern California Chapter, 2019
• Young Investigator Award, AAPM Spring Clinical Meeting, 2017
• Annual Fund Travel Award, Brasenose College, University of Oxford, 2017
• Runner Up, Best Talk Award, Oncology Student Symposium, University of Oxford, 2016
• MRC Supplementary Funding Award, University of Oxford, 2015
• Santander Academic Travel Award, University of Oxford, 2015
• MRC/Gray Institute DPhil Scholarship, University of Oxford, 2014

Education & Training

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• Residency Physics Residency University of California, San Francisco 06/2019
• Doctorate (DPhil) Oncology University of Oxford 04/2018
• Masters (MMP) Medical Physics University of Pennsylvania 05/2014
• Masters (MPhys), Bachelors (BSc) Physics University of Warwick 07/2012

Websites

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• Research Group (caddilab.com)

Publications (14)

Top publication keywords:
Machine LearningRadiotherapy, Intensity-ModulatedRadiotherapy DosageQuality Assurance, Health CareROC CurveWhole-Body IrradiationRadiotherapy Planning, Computer-AssistedPrinting, Three-DimensionalLife Cycle StagesRadiation DosageDuodenumRadiation OncologyEnvironmentTungstenGreenhouse Gases

• Best practice guidelines for use of reference points in radiation oncology information systems to aggregate longitudinal dosimetric data.
  Practical radiation oncology 2024 Witztum A, Jourani Y, Hirata EY, McNutt T, Purdie TG, Brock KK, Hong DS, Howard ME, Krauze AV, Balter PA, Stockham AL, Covington E, Xiao Y, Popple R, Mayo CS
• Green Horizons in Oncology: A Blueprint for Environmentally Sustainable Radiation Therapy Facilities.
  Seminars in radiation oncology 2024 Baniel CC, Sabol RA, Nieto R, Scholey J, Witztum A, Chuter R, Pollom E, Gandhi S, Wang K, Mishra KK, Lichter KE, Park C
• Quantification of the environmental impact of radiotherapy and associated secondary human health effects: a multi-institutional retrospective analysis and simulation.
  The Lancet. Oncology 2024 Lichter KE, Charbonneau K, Lewy JR, Bloom JR, Shenker R, Sabbagh A, Chino J, Rodrigues A, Hearn J, Grover S, Sheu RD, Witztum A, Qureshi MM, Yom SS, Anand C, Thiel CL, Mohamad O
• Tungsten Filled 3-Dimensional Printed Lung Blocks for Total Body Irradiation.
  Practical radiation oncology 2023 Capaldi DPI, Gibson C, Villa A, Schulz JB, Ziemer BP, Fu J, Dubrowski P, Yu AS, Fogh S, Chew J, Boreta L, Braunstein SE, Witztum A, Hirata E, Morin O, Skinner LB, Nano TF
• Tracking and Reducing SF6 Usage in Radiation Oncology: A Step Toward Net-Zero Health Care Emissions.
  Practical radiation oncology 2023 Lichter KE, Bloom JR, Sheu RD, Zalavari LT, Leung K, Collins A, Witztum A, Chuter R

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• Operational Ontology for Oncology (O3): A Professional Society-Based, Multistakeholder, Consensus-Driven Informatics Standard Supporting Clinical and Research Use of Real-World Data From Patients Treated for Cancer.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2023 Mayo CS, Feng MU, Brock KK, Kudner R, Balter P, Buchsbaum JC, Caissie A, Covington E, Daugherty EC, Dekker AL, Fuller CD, Hallstrom AL, Hong DS, Hong JC, Kamran SC, Katsoulakis E, Kildea J, Krauze AV,…
• Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Radiation Therapy Using Life Cycle Assessments: A Critical Review.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2023 Lichter KE, Charbonneau K, Sabbagh A, Witztum A, Chuter R, Anand C, Thiel CL, Mohamad O
• Quality Assurance for AI-Based Applications in Radiation Therapy.
  Seminars in radiation oncology 2022 Claessens M, Oria CS, Brouwer CL, Ziemer BP, Scholey JE, Lin H, Witztum A, Morin O, Naqa IE, Van Elmpt W, Verellen D
• Prospective Clinical Validation of Virtual Patient-Specific Quality Assurance of Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Radiation Therapy Plans.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2022 Wall PDH, Hirata E, Morin O, Valdes G, Witztum A
• Use of Receiver Operating Curve Analysis and Machine Learning With an Independent Dose Calculation System Reduces the Number of Physical Dose Measurements Required for Patient-Specific Quality Assurance.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2020 Hasse K, Scholey J, Ziemer BP, Natsuaki Y, Morin O, Solberg TD, Hirata E, Valdes G, Witztum A
• Integration of AI and Machine Learning in Radiotherapy QA.
  Frontiers in artificial intelligence 2020 Chan MF, Witztum A, Valdes G
• Unwrapping 3D complex hollow organs for spatial dose surface analysis.
  Medical physics 2016 Witztum A, George B, Warren S, Partridge M, Hawkins MA
• Proton beam characterization by proton-induced acoustic emission: simulation studies.
  Physics in medicine and biology 2014 Jones KC, Witztum A, Sehgal CM, Avery S
• Gold nanoparticles in radiation research: potential applications for imaging and radiosensitization.
  Translational cancer research 2013 Dorsey JF, Sun L, Joh DY, Witztum A, Kao GD, Alonso-Basanta M, Avery S, Hahn SM, Al Zaki A, Tsourkas A