Daniel Yang, M.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor Endowed Title Dedman Family Scholar in Clinical Care School Medical School Department Radiation Oncology Graduate Programs Biomedical Engineering You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Daniel Yang, M.D., Assistant Professor, is a radiation oncologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center focused on genitourinary cancer. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Yang earned his medical degree from Yale School of Medicine. He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Research Fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School and a Leadership Innovation Fellow at Yale Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology. Dr. Yang completed his residency in radiation oncology at Yale New Haven Hospital and served as chief resident during his training. During his residency, his research focused on machine learning applications to advance clinical oncology data quality, for which he received an ASCO Young Investigator Award. His research interests also include clinical informatics and using real-world data to improve cancer patient care. Education Medical School Yale School of Medicine (2017) Internship California Pacific Medical Center (2018), Internal Medicine Residency Yale New Haven Hospital (2022), Radiation Oncology Chief Resident Yale New Haven Hospital (2022), Radiation Oncology Publications Extracranial Palliative Radiation Therapy for Renal Cell Carcinoma Kwon YS, Hsu E, Stein M, Christie A, Garant A, Desai NB, Wang A, Yang DX, Yen A, Miljanic M, Courtney KD, Hammers H, Zhang T, Arafat W, Qin Q, Cole S, Brugarolas J, Timmerman R, Hannan R Advances in Radiation Oncology 2025 Oct 10 Extracranial Palliative Radiation Therapy for Renal Cell Carcinoma Kwon YS, Hsu E, Stein M, Christie A, Garant A, Desai NB, Wang A, Yang DX, Yen A, Miljanic M, Courtney KD, Hammers H, Zhang T, Arafat W, Qin Q, Cole S, Brugarolas J, Timmerman R, Hannan R Advances in Radiation Oncology 2025 Oct 10 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 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 Clinical Implementation of PSMA-PET Guided Tumor Response-Based Boost Adaptation in Online Adaptive Radiotherapy for High-Risk Prostate Cancer Li R, Lin M, Nguyen NC, Su FC, Parsons DD, Salcedo E, Phillips E, Domal S, Garant A, Hannan R, Yang DX, Afaq A, Lee M, Oz OK, Desai NB Cancers 2025 Sep 17 Dose-Volume Predictors of Radiation Pneumonitis After Thoracic Hypofractionated Radiation Therapy Sasse A, Oh P, Saeed N, Yang DX, Hayman TJ, Knowlton CA, Peters GW, Campbell A, Laird J, Housri N, Park HS Practical Radiation Oncology 2024 Mar 14 e97-e104 Harnessing stereotactic precision in the fight against primary kidney cancer: time for a randomised trial? Yang DX, Hannan R The Lancet Oncology 2024 Mar 25 267-269 Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for primary renal cell carcinoma Yang DX, Kwon YS, Timmerman R, Hannan R Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology 2024 Jan 44 Outlook of AI in medical physics and radiation oncology Yang DX, Avesta A, Choi R, Aneja S 2023 Aug 145-164 Aging a Decade in a Day: Age Cutoff Bias in Adjuvant Therapy Allocation for Early-Stage Breast Cancer Talcott WJ, Cain DM, Yang D, Mougalian SS, Evans SB International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2023 Jul 116 747-756 Results 1-10 of 23 1 2 3 Next Last Honors & Awards Dedman Family Scholar in Clinical Care (2024) Young Investigator AwardAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology (2021) Farr ScholarYale School of Medicine (2017) James L. and Evelyn Ribbs Hutchinson Scholarship (2016) Scholar-in-Training AwardAmerican Association for Cancer Research (2016) Howard Hughes Medical Research Fellowship (2015) Inaugural Leadership Innovation FellowshipYale Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology (2015) Award for Academic Excellence and AchievementAmerican Society for Clinical Pathology (2014) Oncology Trainee Travel AwardAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology (2014) Howard Hughes Summer Medical Fellowship (2013) William and Alice Hinckley Fund Scholarship (2012-2017)
