Michael Folkert, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Graduate School

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005), Nuclear Engineering/radiological Sciences

Medical School

Harvard Medical School (2009)

Internship

Mount Auburn Hospital (2010), Internal Medicine

Residency

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2013), Radiation Oncology

Clinical Research Fellowship

Cornell/Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2013), Clinical Research

Chief Resident

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2014), Radiation Oncology

• Brachytherapy
• Charged-particle therapy
• Esophageal cancer
• Image analysis and outcomes modeling
• Image-guided and navigational interventional technology
• Interventions for Toxicity Reduction
• Intraoperative radiation therapy
• Ocular tumors
• Oligometastatic disease
• Primary and metastatic lesions of the spine
• Rectal Cancer
• Sarcoma
• Stereotactic body radiation therapy

Featured Publications

Femoral Fracture in Primary Soft-Tissue Sarcoma of the Thigh and Groin Treated with Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy: Observed versus Expected Risk.

Folkert MR, Casey DL, Berry SL, Crago A, Fabbri N, Singer S, Alektiar KM Ann. Surg. Oncol. 2019 Jan

Rectal radiation dose-reduction techniques in prostate cancer: a focus on the rectal spacer.

Leiker AJ, Desai NB, Folkert MR Future Oncol 2018 Jun

Predictive modeling of outcomes following definitive chemoradiotherapy for oropharyngeal cancer based on FDG-PET image characteristics.

Folkert MR, Setton J, Apte AP, Grkovski M, Young RJ, Schöder H, Thorstad WL, Lee NY, Deasy JO, Oh JH Phys Med Biol 2017 Jul 62 13 5327-5343

Dosimetric comparison of rectal-sparing capabilities of rectal balloon vs injectable spacer gel in stereotactic body radiation therapy for prostate cancer: lessons learned from prospective trials.

Jones RT, Hassan Rezaeian N, Desai NB, Lotan Y, Jia X, Hannan R, Kim DWN, Hornberger B, Dubas J, Laine AM, Zelefsky MJ, Timmerman RD, Folkert MR Med Dosim 2017 Jul

Multi-objective radiomics model for predicting distant failure in lung SBRT.

Zhou Z, Folkert M, Iyengar P, Westover K, Zhang Y, Choy H, Timmerman R, Jiang S, Wang J Phys Med Biol 2017 May 62 11 4460-4478

Endoluminal and Interstitial Brachytherapy for the Treatment of Gastrointestinal Malignancies: a Systematic Review.

Gottumukkala S, Tumati V, Hrycushko B, Folkert M Curr Oncol Rep 2017 Jan 19 1 2

Stereotactic ablative body radiosurgery (SABR) or Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT).

Folkert MR, Timmerman RD Adv. Drug Deliv. Rev. 2016 Dec

Predicting distant failure in early stage NSCLC treated with SBRT using clinical parameters.

Zhou Z, Folkert M, Cannon N, Iyengar P, Westover K, Zhang Y, Choy H, Timmerman R, Yan J, Xie XJ, Jiang S, Wang J Radiother Oncol 2016 May

Remote location interstitial brachytherapy with patient stabilization and subsequent transport to an outpatient center for treatment is safe and effective for the treatment of gynecologic malignancies.

Tumati V, Folkert MR, Lawson S, Wise E, Wolcott S, Richardson D, Carlson M, Kehoe S, Lea J, Abdulrahman R, Albuquerque K Brachytherapy 2016 Mar

Review of treatment options for oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer.

Folkert MR, Timmerman R Clin Adv Hematol Oncol 2015 Mar 13 3 186-93

 Featured Books

Chapter 15: Contouring Guidelines for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma. In Target Volume Delineation and Field Setup: A Practical Guide for Conformal and Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy

Goodman K.A., Folkert M.R. (2013). Berlin Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Brachytherapy. In Pocket Oncology

Folkert M.R., Zelefsky M.J. (2013). Philadelphia, Pa., USA, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins-Wolters Kluwer

Interstitial Brachytherapy for Liver Tumors: Practical Issues. In Radiation Therapy for Liver Tumors: Fundamentals and Clinical Practice

M.R. Folkert, B.A. Hrycushko (2017). Switzerland, Springer International Publishing

Chapter 8: Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) or Alternative Fractionation Schedules. In Increasing the Therapeutic Ratio of Radiotherapy

Laine A., Wardak Z., Folkert M.R., Timmerman R.D. (2017). Cham, Switzerland, Springer Nature

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma. In Target Volume Delineation for Conformal and Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy

Romesser P.B., Folkert M.R., Goodman K.A. (2015). Switzerland, Springer International Publishing

• 2016-2017 ARRO Educator of the Year Award
  (2017)
• 2014 American Brachytherapy Society Resident Travel Grant Award
  (2014)
• 2013 ASTRO Resident Clinical /Basic Science Research Award (Physics)
  (2013)
• ASCO Pain and Symptom Management (Merit) Award
  (2013)
• “Best of ASTRO” Presentation Recognition
  (2013)
• New York Roentgen Society “Best of ASTRO 2011” Award, CNS
  (2011)
• MIT Karl Taylor Compton Prize
  (2005)

• American Radium Society (2016)
• Connective Tissue Oncology Society (CTOS) (2014)
• American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) (2012)
• American Brachytherapy Society (ABS) (2011)
• Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) (2010)
• American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) (2005)