Yang Kyun Park, Ph.D. Director of Treatment Delivery Associate Professor School Medical School Department Radiation Oncology Biography Yang Kyun Park, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He is part of the Division of Medical Physics and Engineering. Dr. Park earned a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering and a Master of Science in Radiation Applied Life Science from Seoul National University in South Korea. He attended graduate school there as well and received a Ph.D. in Radiation Applied Life Science. Dr. Park completed his postdoctoral research under the guidance of Gregory C. Sharp, Ph.D., and Brian A. Winey, Ph.D., in medical physics at Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard Medical School, where he also served as an instructor after being promoted. Dr. Park is certified by the Texas Medical Board with a medical physics license and by the American Board of Radiology in therapeutic radiologic physics. Education Undergraduate Seoul National University (2005), Nuclear Engineering Graduate School Seoul National University (2007), Medical Physics Graduate School Seoul National University (2011), Medical Physics Research Interest CBCT scatter correction for adaptive proton therapy Motion management in radiotherapy Workflow automation in radiotherapy Publications Human-like intelligent automatic treatment planning of head and neck cancer radiation therapy Gao Y, Kyun Park Y, Jia X Physics in medicine and biology 2024 Jun 69 Image quality characterization of an ultra-high-speed kilovoltage cone-beam computed tomography imaging system on an O-ring linear accelerator Kim E, Park YK, Zhao T, Laugeman E, Zhao XN, Hao Y, Chung Y, Lee H Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2024 May 25 Implementation and evaluation of an intelligent automatic treatment planning robot for prostate cancer stereotactic body radiation therapy Gao Y, Shen C, Jia X, Kyun Park Y Radiotherapy and Oncology 2023 Jul 184 Evaluation of fan-beam kilovoltage computed tomography image quality on a novel biological-guided radiotherapy platform Zhuang T, Gibbard G, Duan X, Tan J, Park Y, Lin MH, Sun Z, Oderinde OM, Lu W, Reynolds Jr. RR, Godley A, Pompos A, Dan T, Garant A, Iyengar P, Timmerman R, Jiang S, Cai B Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology 2023 Apr 26 Prospective study of artificial intelligence-based decision support to improve head and neck radiotherapy plan quality Sher DJ, Godley A, Park Y, Carpenter C, Nash M, Hesami H, Zhong X, Lin MH Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology 2021 Jul 29 65-70 Surface guided motion management in glottic larynx stereotactic body radiation therapy Zhao B, Park YK, Gu X, Reynolds Jr. RR, Timmerman R, Sher DJ Radiotherapy and Oncology 2020 Dec 153 236-242 Convolutional neural network based proton stopping-power-ratio estimation with dual-energy CT: A feasibility study Lee HH, Park YK, Duan X, Jia X, Jiang S, Yang M Physics in medicine and biology 2020 Nov 65 Evaluation of an a priori scatter correction algorithm for cone-beam computed tomography based range and dose calculations in proton therapy Andersen AG, Park YK, Elstrøm UV, Petersen JB, Sharp GC, Winey B, Dong L, Muren LP Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology 2020 Oct 16 89-94 Dosimetric evaluation of synthetic CT generated with GANs for MRI-only proton therapy treatment planning of brain tumors Kazemifar S, Barragán Montero AM, Souris K, Rivas ST, Timmerman R, Park YK, Jiang S, Geets X, Sterpin E, Owrangi A Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2020 May 21 76-86 Beam angle optimization using angular dependency of range variation assessed via water equivalent path length (WEPL) calculation for head and neck proton therapy Kim J, Park YK, Sharp G, Busse P, Winey B Physica Medica 2020 Jan 69 19-27 Results 1-10 of 42 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last Honors & Awards Science Council Session Award, 64th Annual Meeting, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) (2022) Teaching Faculty of the Year, Medical Physics Residency Program in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UT Southwestern (2021) Teaching Faculty of the Year, Medical Physics Residency Program in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UT Southwestern (2020) Best Oral Presentation Award, The 5th Korea-Japan Joint Meeting on Medical Physics, Jeju, Korea (2008) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Korean Association of Medical Physicists in North America (KAMPiNA)
