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Strahinja Stojadinovic, Ph.D.

Strahinja Stojadinovic, Ph.D.

Co-director of the Gamma Knife Training Program

Professor

School
Medical School
Department
Radiation Oncology
  • Biography

    Strahinja Stojadinovic, Ph.D., is a Professor in UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Department of Radiation Oncology and faculty in the Department’s Division of Medical Physics & Engineering. He is the Department’s lead physicist for the stereotactic Gamma Knife service and is a co-director of the UT Southwestern Gamma Knife Training Program. He is a board-certified therapeutic medical physicist by the American Board of Radiology (ABR) and licensed by the Texas Medical Board (TMB) to practice clinical medical physics.

    Dr. Stojadinovic's academic background includes a bachelor's degree in experimental physics from the University of Belgrade in Serbia. He subsequently earned his Ph.D. in experimental solid-state physics from Kent State University. Following his doctoral studies, Dr. Stojadinovic completed a postdoctoral fellowship in radiation oncology at Washington University in Saint Louis and his medical physics residency training at Virginia Commonwealth University before joining UT Southwestern.

    Dr. Stojadinovic has established a distinguished record of significant contributions across a broad spectrum of radiotherapy research since joining UT Southwestern. His interests encompass the development and utilization of preclinical irradiation systems, brachytherapy, patient-specific quality assurance, stereotactic radiosurgery, and the application of artificial intelligence in radiotherapy. 

    At UT Southwestern Dr. Stojadinovic has had extensive teaching experience. He served as Associate Director of the Department of Radiation Oncology’s Clinical Medical Physics Residency Program from 2018 to 2021. His teaching portfolio encompasses contributions to the Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) Training Program, the Postdoctoral Certificate Program, the Radiation Oncology Medical Residency Program, and the former Radiation Therapy Program. Dr. Stojadinovic's course lectures have spanned a wide range of topics in radiation therapy physics. He currently serves as the Physics Director and lecturer for the internationally recognized Gamma Knife Training Program. He also serves as a reviewer for prestigious publications including the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Medical Physics, and Physics in Medicine and Biology.

  • Education
    Undergraduate
    University of Belgrade (1998), Experimental Physics
    Graduate School
    Kent State University (2004), Experimental Physics
  • Research Interest
    • Brachytherapy
    • Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
    • Preclinical radiotherapy delivery techniques
    • Radiotherapy quality assurance (QA)
    • Stereotactic radiosurgery
  • Publications
    Spectroscopic parametrization of dose-dependent changes in EBT3 film
    Pecić S, Vićić M, Kurij L, Belča I, Stojadinović S, Dević S Radiation Physics and Chemistry 2024 Oct 223
    Where Does Auto-Segmentation for Brain Metastases Radiosurgery Stand Today?
    Kim M, Wang JY, Lu W, Jiang H, Stojadinovic S, Wardak Z, Dan T, Timmerman R, Wang L, Chuang C, Szalkowski G, Liu L, Pollom E, Rahimy E, Soltys S, Chen M, Gu X Bioengineering 2024 May 11
    Modeling gamma knife radiosurgical toxicity for multiple brain metastases
    Hsu EJ, Yan Y, Timmerman RD, Wardak Z, Dan TD, Patel TR, Vo D, Stojadinovic S Radiotherapy and Oncology 2023 Nov 188
    Machine characterization and central axis depth dose data of a superficial x-ray radiotherapy unit
    Xiong Z, Zhong Y, Banks TI, Reynolds Jr. RR, Chiu T, Tan J, Zhang Y, Parsons D, Yan Y, Godley A, Stojadinovic S Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express 2023 Jan 9
    Physical wedge as a tool for radiochromic film calibration
    Pecić S, Vićić M, Belča I, Stojadinović S, Nidžović B, Kurij L, Dević S Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik 2023
    Ensemble learning for glioma patients overall survival prediction using pre-operative MRIs
    Yang Z, Chen M, Kazemimoghadam M, Ma L, Stojadinovic S, Wardak Z, Timmerman R, Dan T, Lu W, Gu X Physics in medicine and biology 2022 Dec 67
    Dose kernel decomposition for spot-based radiotherapy treatment planning
    Chen M, Yang Z, Wardak Z, Stojadinovic S, Gu X, Lu W Medical physics 2022 Feb 49 1196-1208
    Deep-learning and radiomics ensemble classifier for false positive reduction in brain metastases segmentation
    Yang Z, Chen M, Kazemimoghadam M, Ma L, Stojadinovic S, Timmerman R, Dan T, Wardak Z, Lu W, Gu X Physics in medicine and biology 2022 Jan 67
    Oxygen-Sensitive MRI: A Predictive Imaging Biomarker for Tumor Radiation Response?
    Arai TJ, Yang DM, Campbell JW, Chiu T, Cheng X, Stojadinovic S, Peschke P, Mason RP International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2021 Aug 110 1519-1529
    A general algorithm for distributed treatments of multiple brain metastases
    Chen M, Wardak Z, Stojadinovic S, Gu X, Lu W Medical physics 2021 Apr 48 1832-1838
  • Honors & Awards
    • Outstanding Educator, School of Health Professions
      (2018)
    • Outstanding Educator, School of Health Professions
      (2015)
    • Recipient of the 2008 Medical Device Grant Program, National Instruments
      (2008)
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) (2006)
    • American Physical Society (APS) (2001)
    • American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) (2008)