David Parsons, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Associate Director of the Medical Physics Residency Program Assistant Professor Schools Medical School Departments Radiation Oncology Biography Download Curriculum Vitae David Parsons, Ph.D., received his Ph.D. from Dalhousie University in 2017 under the supervision of James Robar, Ph.D. He then completed his clinical training at UT Southwestern Medical Center's Medical Physics Residency Program. Upon completion of residency he accepted a faculty position at UT Southwestern Medical Center. His research interests include image guidance in radiotherapy, motion management, novel treatment techniques and the use of Monte Carlo simulation in radiotherapy. Research Interest Adaptive radiation therapy Image-guided radiation therapy Monte Carlo simulation Motion management in radiation therapy Novel treatment techniques in radiation therapy Surface-guided radiation therapy Publications 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 A Comparative, Multiobserver Analysis of Nodal Contouring Methods in Pelvic Online Cone Beam-Based Adaptive Radiation Therapy Wang E, Dohopolski M, Yen A, Shi JJ, Hrycushko B, Parsons D, Liu Y, Iqbal Z, Albuquerque K Advances in Radiation Oncology 2026 Feb 11 Personalized Ultra-Fractionated Stereotactic Adaptive Radiotherapy (PULSAR) for Patients with Lung Tumors and Severe Pulmonary Disease Westover KD, Li R, Tanner S, Aliru M, Lin MH, Cai B, Parsons D, Visak J, Gonzalez Y, Gill A, Zhang Y, Badiyan SN, Iyengar P, Timmerman R Journal of Clinical Medicine 2026 Feb 15 Pediatric Treatment Planning Parsons D 2026 Jan 309-335 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 DD, Godley A, Jiang SB, Lin M Practical Radiation Oncology 2026 Medical Physics Adaptive Radiotherapy (MPART) Fellowship: Bridging the Training Gap in Online Adaptive Radiotherapy Cai B, Parsons D, Lin MH, Nguyen D, Godley AR, Pompos A, Desai K, Badiyan S, Sher D, Timmerman R, Jiang S Healthcare (Switzerland) 2025 Dec 13 Ablative Preoperative Single-Fraction Radiation Dose Escalation Among Patients With Breast Cancer: A Phase 1 Nonrandomized Clinical Trial Rahimi A, Leitch M, Dogan B, Liu Y, Alluri P, Arbab M, Li X, Parsons DD, Kim DW, Wandrey N, Farr D, Seiler S, Unni N, Nguyen A, Wooldridge R, Chiu TD, Lu W, Stojadinovic S, Visak J, Nwachukwu C, Patel I, Morgan H, Bahrami S, Stein M, McArthur HL, Sahoo S, Timmerman R JAMA Network Open 2025 Nov 8 Clinical Implementation of PSMA-PET Guided Tumor Response-Based Boost Adaptation in Online Adaptive Radiotherapy for High-Risk Prostate Cancer Li R, Lin MH, Nguyen NC, Su FC, Parsons D, Salcedo E, Phillips E, Domal S, Garant A, Hannan R, Yang D, Afaq A, Lee M, Oz OK, Desai N Cancers 2025 Sep 17 Feasibility and Impact of a Radiation Therapy Technologist-Driven Workflow for Cone Beam Computed Tomography Guided Partial Breast Adaptive Radiation Therapy Parsons D, Domal S, Chambers E, Salazar D, Visak J, Arbab M, Holgado F, Li X, Okoro C, Wandrey N, Iqbal Z, Alluri P, Cai B, Keen H, Cleaton J, Godley A, Sher D, Badiyan S, Rahimi A, Lin MH International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2025 Jul 122 893-901 Results 1-10 of 65 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last Honors & Awards Canadian Institutes of Health Research Doctoral Research Award (2014-2017) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Association of Physicists in Medicine (2017) American Brachytherapy Society (2019) American Society for Radiation Oncology (2018) Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (2017)
