Daniel Yang, M.D. 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 Chief Resident Yale New Haven Hospital (2022), Radiation Oncology Residency Yale New Haven Hospital (2022), Radiation Oncology Publications 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 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 Comparing Detection Schemes for Adversarial Images against Deep Learning Models for Cancer Imaging Joel MZ, Avesta A, Yang DX, Zhou JG, Omuro A, Herbst RS, Krumholz HM, Aneja S Cancers 2023 Mar 15 Factors associated with the use of adjuvant radiation therapy in stage III melanoma King AL, Lee V, Yu B, Mirza FN, Zogg CK, Yang DX, Tran T, Leventhal J, An Y Frontiers in Oncology 2023 Feb 13 Using Adversarial Images to Assess the Robustness of Deep Learning Models Trained on Diagnostic Images in Oncology Joel MZ, Umrao S, Chang E, Choi R, Yang DX, Duncan JS, Omuro A, Herbst R, Krumholz HM, Aneja S JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics 2022 6 Prevalence of Missing Data in the National Cancer Database and Association with Overall Survival Yang DX, Khera R, Miccio JA, Jairam V, Chang E, Yu JB, Park HS, Krumholz HM, Aneja S JAMA Network Open 2021 Mar 4 Results 1-10 of 19 1 2 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)
