Malgorzata “Margaret” Kozak, M.D.

Assistant Professor

School: Medical School
Department: Radiation Oncology

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Biography

Margaret Kozak, M.D., Assistant Professor, earned her bachelor’s degree from UCLA and medical degree from the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. Following that, she did an internship in internal medicine at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and a residency in radiation oncology at Stanford University.

Before joining UT Southwestern's Department of Radiation Oncology, Dr. Kozak was on faculty at the University of Iowa.

Education

Medical School: University of Central Florida College of Medicine (2015)
Internship: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (2016), Internal Medicine
Residency: Stanford University (2020), Radiation Oncology

Publications

Cone Beam Online Adaptive Radiation Therapy: A Promising Approach for Gastric Mucosa-Associated Lymphoid Tissue Lymphoma?: Zhong X, Rahman M, Simmons A, Li X, Kozak M, Desai N, Timmerman R, Godley A, Cai B, Parsons D, Kumar KA, Lin MH Advances in Radiation Oncology 2025 Feb 10
Conjunction Junction, Preserve the Function: Nonoperative Management of Head and Neck Rhabdomyosarcoma: Kozak MM, Kumar KA International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2025 Jan 121 10-11
Less than whole uterus irradiation for patients with locally advanced cervical cancer: Hui C, Ewongwo A, Mendoza MG, Kozak MM, Jackson S, Fu J, Kidd E Radiotherapy and Oncology 2024 May 194
Modern Radiation Treatment Planning Parameters and Outcomes in Pediatric Tectal Gliomas: Khan Q, Bowar B, Ismael H, Gainey J, Myers B, Dlouhy B, Hyer D, Grafft A, Khan M, Buatti JM, Kozak MM Advances in Radiation Oncology 2024 Apr 9
Spatially Resolved Single-Cell Assessment of Pancreatic Cancer Expression Subtypes Reveals Co-expressor Phenotypes and Extensive Intratumoral Heterogeneity: Williams HL, Costa AD, Zhang J, Raghavan S, Winter PS, Kapner KS, Ginebaugh SP, Väyrynen SA, Väyrynen JP, Yuan C, Navia AW, Wang J, Yang A, Bosse TL, Kalekar RL, Lowder KE, Lau MC, Elganainy D, Morales-Oyarvide V, Rubinson DA, Singh H, Perez K, Cleary JM, Clancy TE, Wang J, Mancias JD, Brais LK, Hill ER, Kozak MM, Linehan DC, Dunne RF, Chang DT, Koong AC, Hezel AF, Hahn WC, Shalek AK, Aguirre AJ, Nowak JA, Wolpin BM Cancer research 2023 Feb 83 441-455
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Is Associated with Altered Immune Cell Infiltration and an Anti-Tumorigenic Microenvironment in Resected Pancreatic Cancer: Costa AD, Väyrynen SA, Chawla A, Zhang J, Väyrynen JP, Lau MC, Williams HL, Yuan C, Morales-Oyarvide V, Elganainy D, Singh H, Cleary JM, Perez K, Ng K, Freed-Pastor W, Mancias JD, Dougan SK, Wang J, Rubinson DA, Dunne RF, Kozak MM, Brais L, Reilly E, Clancy T, Linehan DC, Chang DT, Hezel AF, Koong AC, Aguirre AJ, Wolpin BM, Nowak JA Clinical Cancer Research 2022 Dec 28 5167-5179
Incidence of Brain Metastases in Women Treated With Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer: Implications for Screening: Kozak MM, Karl J, von Eyben R, Guo F, Gutkin P, Horst K Clinical breast cancer 2022 Dec 22 e916-e921
Initial clinical applications treating pediatric and adolescent patients using MR-guided radiotherapy: Kozak MM, Crompton D, Gross BA, Harshman L, Dickens D, Snyder J, Shepard A, St-Aubin J, Dunkerley D, Hyer D, Buatti JM Frontiers in Oncology 2022 Nov 12
Locoregional and Distant Outcomes in Women With cT1-3N1 Breast Cancer Treated With Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy With or Without Adjuvant Radiotherapy: Kozak MM, von Eyben R, Gutkin PM, Vemuri M, Jacobson CE, Karl JJ, Walck E, Marquez C, Horst KC Clinical breast cancer 2021 Aug 21 373-382
Prospective randomized trial of email and/or telephone reminders to enhance vaginal dilator compliance in patients undergoing brachytherapy for gynecologic malignancies: Kozak MM, Usoz M, Fujimoto D, von Eyben R, Kidd E Brachytherapy 2021 Jul 20 788-795