Yang Kyun Park, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments 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 MedicalDataHandler, a research-oriented graphical user interface for DICOM data management Maniscalco A, Park YK, Godley A, Lin MH, Jiang S, Nguyen D Medical physics 2026 Jan 53 A Clinical Workflow for Evaluating Dose to Organs at Risk After Biology-Guided Radiation Therapy Delivery Banks TI, Shen C, Godley AR, Park YK, Prasad R, Ravikiran M, Badiyan SN, Dan T, Garant A, Timmerman R, Jiang S, Cai B Cancers 2025 Dec 17 Establishing an Electron FLASH Platform for Preclinical Research in Low-Resource Settings Zhou B, Guo L, Lu W, Rahman M, Zhang R, Chirayath VA, Park YK, Stojadinovic S, Garza M, Wang KK Radiation 2025 Dec 5 An automated daily QA strategy for dosimetry and imaging guidance check of a novel PET/CT ring gantry linac Ghimire S, Park YK, Gibbard G, Tan J, Banks TI, Shen C, Prasad R, Zhuang T, Godley A, Jiang SB, Cai B Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2025 Dec 26 Evaluation of treatment planning feasibility of a positron emission tomography (PET)–Linac system for spine stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) Zhang H, Yan S, Peng H, Banks T, Prasad R, Park YK, Godley A, Cai B, Shen C Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2025 Dec 26 Development and clinical implementation of an MRI-only planning workflow featuring deep learning-based synthetic CT for prostate cancer external beam radiotherapy Deng J, Liang X, Iakovenko V, Meng B, Wu J, Lu W, Hannan R, Desai N, Yang D, Garant A, Park YK, Lin MH, Jiang S, Godley A Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2025 Sep 26 Establishing a Safety Net in X-Ray-Based Online Adaptive Radiation Therapy: Early Detection of Planning Deficiencies Through Upstream Physics Plan Review Iqbal Z, Park YK, Parsons D, Godley A, Jiang S, Sher D, Badiyan S, Timmerman R, Lin MH International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2025 Jul 122 865-872 Automatic, machine-agnostic, convolution-based beam, and fluence modeling for Monte Carlo independent dose calculation Chen M, Lin J, Park Y, Lin MH, Pompos A, Godley A, Lu W Medical physics 2025 Jul 52 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 Results 1-10 of 59 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)
