Aurelie Garant, M.D. Director of Brachytherapy Program Associate Professor School Medical School Department Radiation Oncology You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Aurelie Garant, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Director of the Brachytherapy Program at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Certified by both the American Board of Radiology (ABR) and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Dr. Garant joined UT Southwestern in 2018. Dr. Garant earned her medical degree from Université Laval in Canada and completed her radiation oncology residency training at McGill University Health Centre. She followed this with a fellowship in advanced radiation oncology at Mayo Clinic. At UT Southwestern, Dr. Garant specializes in primary brachytherapy adaptive radiation for hybrid PET linac-based technologies, such as RefleXion, which she led an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) trial for U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. Her research interests include 3D printed applications in radiation oncology, re-irradiation for recurrent pelvic malignancies, advanced prostate cancer, renal cell carcinoma, and organ preservation in rectal cancer. She actively conducts research on existing medical devices including the UroLift System and Ion robotic bronchoscopy surgical system, as well as novel brachytherapy applicators, which she has received funding for. Dr. Garant has been the recipient of numerous awards including a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Kidney Cancer SPORE Career Enhancement Program Award, the Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology (ARRO) Educator of the Year, and Texas Super Doctors, Rising Star Award. She has authored a chapter in Campbell-Walsh-Wein Urology and is on the editorial board for Frontiers in Oncology. Education Medical School Université Laval, Canada (2012) Residency McGill University Health Centre (2017), Radiation Oncology Fellowship Mayo Clinic (2018), Advanced Radiation Oncology Research Interest 3D printed applications in radiation oncology Advanced prostate cancer Applications in oncology and robotic bronchoscopy Medical device research, including UroLift System and Ion robotic bronchoscopy surgical system Organ preservation in rectal cancer Primary brachytherapy adaptive radiation for hybrid PET linac-based technologies, such as RefleXion Re-irradiation for recurrent pelvic malignancies Renal cell carcinoma Publications Optimising local treatment decisions for rectal cancer Jethwa KR, Aujla KS, Garant A The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2024 Sep 9 779-781 Performance deterioration of deep learning models after clinical deployment: a case study with auto-segmentation for definitive prostate cancer radiotherapy Wang B, Dohopolski M, Bai T, Wu J, Hannan R, Desai N, Garant A, Yang D, Nguyen D, Lin MH, Timmerman R, Wang X, Jiang SB Machine Learning: Science and Technology 2024 Jun 5 BIOGUIDE-X: A First-in-Human Study of the Performance of Positron Emission Tomography-Guided Radiation Therapy Vitzthum LK, Surucu M, Gensheimer MF, Kovalchuk N, Han B, Pham D, Chang D, Shirvani SM, Aksoy D, Maniyedath A, Narayanan M, Da Silva AJ, Mazin S, Feghali KA, Iyengar P, Dan T, Pompos A, Timmerman R, Öz O, Cai B, Garant A International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2024 Apr 118 1172-1180 F-SHARP: a Phase I/II trial of focal salvage high-dose-rate brachytherapy for Radiorecurrent prostate cancer Solanki AA, Yoo RK, Adams W, Davicioni E, Mysz ML, Shea S, Gupta GN, Showalter T, Garant A, Hentz C, Farooq A, Baldea K, Small W, Harkenrider MM BJU international 2024 Feb 133 188-196 The role of the radiologist in the prostate cancer multidisciplinary conference Costa DN, Nguyen N, Garant A, Meng X, Courtney KD, Shah RB, Pedrosa I Abdominal Radiology 2024 Bony structure enhanced synthetic CT generation using Dixon sequences for pelvis MR-only radiotherapy Liang X, Yen A, Bai T, Godley A, Shen C, Wu J, Meng B, Lin MH, Medin P, Yan Y, Owrangi M, Desai N, Hannan R, Garant A, Jiang S, Deng J Medical physics 2023 Dec 50 7368-7382 The Crying Need for a Better Response Assessment in Rectal Cancer Amintas S, Giraud N, Fernandez B, Dupin C, Denost Q, Garant A, Frulio N, Smith D, Rullier A, Rullier E, Vuong T, Dabernat S, Vendrely V Current treatment options in oncology 2023 Nov 24 1507-1523 Organ sparing treatment for penile cancer using a 3D-printed high-dose-rate brachytherapy applicator Lee HH, Chiu TD, Hrycushko B, Xiong Z, Hudak S, Woldu S, Mauck R, Corwin T, Meng X, Margulis V, Desai N, Folkert MR, Garant A Brachytherapy 2023 Sep 22 580-585 Phase 2 Trial of Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy for Patients with Primary Renal Cancer Hannan R, McLaughlin MF, Pop LM, Pedrosa I, Kapur P, Garant A, Ahn C, Christie A, Zhu J, Wang T, Robles L, Durakoglugil D, Woldu S, Margulis V, Gahan J, Brugarolas J, Timmerman R, Cadeddu J European urology 2023 Sep 84 275-286 Preliminary Evaluation of PTV Margins for Online Adaptive Radiation Therapy of the Prostatic Fossa Morgan HE, Wang K, Yan Y, Desai N, Hannan R, Chambers E, Cai B, Lin MH, Sher DJ, Wang J, Wang AZ, Jiang S, Timmerman R, Park C“, Garant A Practical Radiation Oncology 2023 Jul 13 e345-e353 Results 1-10 of 46 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last Books Featured Books Surgical Techniques in Rectal Cancer. In Neoadjuvant Radiotherapy Vuong T, Garant A. (2018). New York, Springer Current Therapy in Colon and Rectal Surgery. In Cancer of the Rectum: Neoadjuvant Therapy Vuong T, Garant A, Niazi T (2016). Amsterdam, Elsevier Sciences Honors & Awards Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology (ARRO) Educator of the Year (2023) RefleXion Medical Investigator Grant (2023) Texas Super Doctors, Rising Star Award (2020-2023) NIH Kidney Cancer SPORE Career Enhancement Program Award (2019) UT Southwestern Leaders Emerging in Academic Departments (LEAD) Course: Class of 2019 (2019) American Brachytherapy Society Prostate LDR/HDR Scholarship (2018) Reviewer (by invitation), International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics (2018) John D. Earle Radiation Oncology Fellowship Fund, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN (2017-2018) McGill University Residency Program Award, Scholar (2015-2016) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Brachytherapy Society (ABS) (2018) American Brachytherapy Society (ABS) Annual Meeting Organization (2023) American Brachytherapy Society (ABS) Education Committee (2022) American Brachytherapy Society (ABS) Standard, Quality, and Safety Council (2023) American College of Radiology (ACR) In-Training (TXIT) Examination (2021) American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) (2018) American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Working Group (2021) The European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) (2013)
