Education

Medical School
SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse (2011)
Internship
Loma Linda University Medical Center (2012), Surgery
Residency
Allegheny General Hospital (2013), Radiation Oncology
Residency
UT Southwestern Medical Center (2016), Radiation Oncology

Publications

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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, Phys Med Biol 2022 Dec 67 24
Hearing Preservation After Intervention in Vestibular Schwannoma.
Yancey KL, Barnett SL, Kutz W, Isaacson B, Wardak Z, Mickey B, Hunter JB, Otol Neurotol 2022 09 43 8 e846-e855
Neutrophilia and post-radiation thrombocytopenia predict for poor prognosis in radiation-treated glioma patients.
Hsu EJ, Thomas J, Maher EA, Youssef M, Timmerman RD, Wardak Z, Lee M, Dan TD, Patel TR, Vo DT, Front Oncol 2022 12 1000280
Primary Tumor Fluorine-18 Fluorodeoxydglucose (18F-FDG) Is Associated With Cancer-Associated Weight Loss in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) and Portends Worse Survival.
Olaechea S, Gannavarapu BS, Alvarez C, Gilmore A, Sarver B, Xie D, Infante R, Iyengar P, Front Oncol 2022 12 900712
Socioeconomic and demographic determinants of radiation treatment and outcomes in glioblastoma patients.
Hsu EJ, Thomas J, Timmerman RD, Wardak Z, Dan TD, Patel TR, Sanford NN, Vo DT, Front Neurol 2022 13 1024138
Corynebacterium glutamicum as an Efficient Omnivorous Microbial Host for the Bioconversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass.
Mhatre A, Shinde S, Jha AK, Rodriguez A, Wardak Z, Jansen A, Gladden JM, George A, Davis RW, Varman AM, Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2022 10 827386
Dose kernel decomposition for spot-based radiotherapy treatment planning.
Chen M, Yang Z, Wardak Z, Stojadinovic S, Gu X, Lu W. Medical physics 2022 49(2):1196-208
Vestibular Schwannoma Tumor Size and Growth Rate Predict Response with Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery.
Killeen DE, Tolisano AM, Isaacson B, Kutz JW, Barnett S, Wardak Z, Hunter JB Journal of neurological surgery Part B, Skull base 2022 83(1):11-8.
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 RD, Dan T, Wardak Z, Lu W, Gu X, Phys Med Biol 2021 Dec
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 R, Desai NB, Dan T, Wardak Z, Timmerman R, Vusirikala M, Patel P, Simms-Waldrip T, Aquino V, Koh A, Tan J, Iqbal Z, Zhang Y, Reynolds R, Chiu T, Joo M, Hrycushko B, Ouyang L, Lamphier R, Yan Y, Jiang SB, Kumar KA, Gu X, Transplant Cell Ther 2021 Nov