Yulong Yan, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Computational Physics Director Professor School Medical School Department Radiation Oncology Graduate Programs Biomedical Engineering Biography Yulong Yan, Ph.D., FAAPM, is a Professor of Radiation Oncology and Director of Computational Physics in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He is faculty in the Department’s Division of Medical Physics & Engineering. Dr. Yan earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China. He subsequently earned his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at Southeast University in Nanjing, China. Following his doctoral studies, Dr. Yan completed both his medical physics fellowship and residency training at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Yan holds several committee roles within the Department of Radiation Oncology. These include consulting and coaching on DICOM, serving on the Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Based Image Segmentation and Database Steering Committees, and contributing to the Medical Record Committee. He has been Chair of Communications and IT Committee for the Southwest Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) since 2014. As an educator, Dr. Yan has been actively involved in teaching and mentoring within the Department of Radiation Oncology. He serves as an instructor and mentor providing clinical training for medical physics residents and postdoctoral fellows. He also delivers yearly lectures for the Medical Physics Certificate Program, as well as for medical residents, continuously contributing to the education of residents, postdoctoral fellows, and instructors since 2013. Dr. Yan has served as an associate editor for the prestigious Medical Physics and Journal of Clinical Medical Physics. He is also an active reviewer of numerous other high-impact journals, including the Journal of Applied Medical Physics and The International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Physics, and Biology. Education Undergraduate Nanjing Univ of Aero and Astro (1985), Electrical Engineering Graduate School Nanjing Univ of Aero and Astro (1988), Electrical Engineering Graduate School Southeast University (1997), Biomedical Engineering Research Interest Artificial intelligence in medicine DICOM and informatics Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) Real-time location system Stereotactic radiosurgery Virtual clinical trials Publications ART2Dose: A comprehensive dose verification platform for online adaptive radiotherapy Lin J, Chen M, Lai Y, Trivedi Z, Wu J, Foo T, Gonzalez Y, Reynolds Jr. RR, Park C, Yan Y, Godley A, Jiang S, Jia X, Lin MH, Pompos A, Lu W Medical physics 2024 Jan 51 18-30 Bony structure enhanced synthetic CT generation using Dixon sequences for pelvis MR-only radiotherapy Liang X, Yen A, Bai T, Godley A, Shen C, Wu J, Meng B, Lin MH, Medin P, Yan Y, Owrangi M, Desai N, Hannan R, Garant A, Jiang S, Deng J Medical physics 2023 Dec 50 7368-7382 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 Preliminary Evaluation of PTV Margins for Online Adaptive Radiation Therapy of the Prostatic Fossa Morgan HE, Wang K, Yan Y, Desai N, Hannan R, Chambers E, Cai B, Lin MH, Sher DJ, Wang J, Wang AZ, Jiang S, Timmerman R, Park C“, Garant A Practical Radiation Oncology 2023 Jul 13 e345-e353 Ensemble learning and personalized training for the improvement of unsupervised deep learning-based synthetic CT reconstruction Olberg S, Choi BS, Park I, Liang X, Kim JS, Deng J, Yan Y, Jiang S, Park JC Medical physics 2023 Mar 50 1436-1449 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 Combining Serial and Parallel Functionality in Functional Lung Avoidance Radiation Therapy Vicente EM, Modiri A, Kipritidis J, Yu KC, Sun K, Cammin J, Gopal A, Xu J, Mossahebi S, Hagan A, Yan Y, Owen DR, Mohindra P, Matuszak MM, Timmerman RD, Sawant A International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2022 Jun 113 456-468 Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Enabled Total Body Irradiation (VMAT-TBI): Six-year Clinical Experience and Treatment Outcomes Zhang-Velten ER, Parsons D, Lee P, Chambers E, Abdulrahman RE, Desai NB, Dan T, Wardak Z, Timmerman R, Vusirikala M, Patel PA, Simms-Waldrip T, Aquino V, Koh A, Tan J, Iqbal Z, Zhang Y, Reynolds Jr. RR, Chiu T, Joo M, Hrycushko B, Ouyang L, Lamphier R, Yan Y, Jiang SB, Kumar KA, Gu X Transplantation and Cellular Therapy 2022 Feb 28 113.e1-113.e8 Virtual bronchoscopy-guided lung SAbR: Dosimetric implications of using AAA versus Acuros XB to calculate dose in airways Kinkopf P, Modiri A, Yu KC, Yan Y, Mohindra P, Timmerman R, Sawant A, Vicente E Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express 2021 Nov 7 Accelerated Hypofractionated Image-Guided vs Conventional Radiotherapy for Patients With Stage II/III Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer and Poor Performance Status A Randomized Clinical Trial Iyengar P, Zhang-Velten E, Court L, Westover K, Yan Y, Lin MH, Xiong Z, Patel M, Rivera D, Chang J, Saunders M, Shivnani A, Lee A, Hughes R, Gerber D, Dowell J, Gao A, Heinzerling J, Li Y, Ahn C, Choy H, Timmerman R JAMA Oncology 2021 Oct 7 1497-1505 Results 1-10 of 92 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last Honors & Awards Fellow of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (FAAPM) (2018) Outstanding Thesis Award, Nanjiang University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (1985) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) (2002) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2001-2012)