David Sher, M.D.

Vice Chair of Clinical Operations and Quality, Medical Director of Radiation Oncology, Chief of Head and Neck Radiation Oncology Service

Professor

Endowed Title: Barbara Crittenden Professorship in Cancer Research
Schools: Medical School
Departments: Radiation Oncology

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Education

Medical School: Harvard Medical School (2003)
Internship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (2004), Internal Medicine
Residency: Harvard/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital (2008), Radiation Oncology

Publications

A Simulation-Free Radiation Therapy Workflow Using Synthetic Computed Tomography Generated from Diagnostic Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Personalized Hippocampal-Sparing Whole-Brain Treatment: Chen L, Iqbal Z, Lu W, Shen C, Dan T, Dohopolski M, Wardak Z, Sher D, Badiyan S, Timmerman R, Parsons D, Godley A, Jiang S, Lin MH Practical Radiation Oncology 2026 Jul 16 e332-e341
Feasibility, Workflow, Dosimetry, and Positron Emission Tomography Signal Trends in Lung Cancer Treated With Biology-Guided Radiation Therapy: Lin CS, Shen C, Banks T, Prasad R, Badiyan S, Westover K, Zhang Y, Godley A, Pompos A, Dan T, Garant A, Oz O, Sher D, Timmerman R, Jiang S, Choi MG, Cai B International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2026 Jul 125 970-980
Toward universal dose prediction: A multi-scale, multi-objective framework for sequential boost radiotherapy: Maniscalco AM, Zhong X, Domal S, Lin YC, Sher D, Lin MH, Jiang S, Nguyen D Medical physics 2026 Jun 53
Proton versus photon therapy for oropharyngeal cancer: Sher DJ The Lancet 2026 May 407 1916-1917
Body Mass Index and Nutritional Status With Immunotherapy Response in Head and Neck Cancer: Gabra L, Nitsch A, Wang Y, Liu YL, Truelson JM, Myers LL, Tillman B, Day A, Stankova L, Moon D, Sher D, Farzal Z, Swiatowiec N, Hughes R, Cao Y, Sumer BD JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery 2026 May 152 523-529
Adapt-on-demand: Enabling flexible and scalable adaptive radiotherapy through workflow automation: Domal S, Choi MG, Visak J, Li R, Li T, Teo BK, Zhao X, Schmidt M, Laugeman E, Parsons D, Park YK, Badiyan S, Sher D, Lin MH Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2026 May 27
Clinical implementation and evaluation of a patient-specific surface-guided clearance mapping system for collision avoidance and noncoplanar beam planning: Wang S, Chambers E, Li R, Gonzalez YA, Zhong X, Iqbal Z, James K, Cleaton J, Sher D, Godley A, Parsons DD Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2026 May 27
Intrafractional Motion and Margin Assessment for Cone Beam Computed Tomography Guided Online Adaptive Radiation Therapy in Head and Neck Cancer: Liao CY, Domal S, Yarlagadda P, Tomagan JM, Parsons D, Wang J, Avkshtol V, Jiang S, Moon D, Sher D, Lin MH Advances in Radiation Oncology 2026 May 11
Clinical Implementation of Simulation-Free Palliative Radiation Therapy: Consensus Recommendations From a Modified Delphi Study: O'Neil M, Tan VS, Schuler T, Abraham CD, Boeke S, Huynh E, Kavanagh BD, Nelissen KJ, Roderick S, Sher D, Shinde A, Versteijne E, Wong S, Palma DA Advances in Radiation Oncology 2026 Apr 11
In Reply to Wang et al: Moon DH, Sher DJ International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2026 Mar 124 873