Charles Hsu

Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology - (Clinical Scholar Track)

Clinical and research interests focus on thoracic, cutaneous, and gastrointestinal malignancies, stereotactic body radiotherapy, HDR brachytherapy, novel radiosensitizers, development of novel imaging modalities in assessing/predicting treatment response, immunotherapy / immune system function for tumors, treatment of oligometastatic disease, re-irradiation, cancer epidemiology, clinical trials, and outcomes research.

I received my Bachelor's Degree with high honors from Princeton University followed by a Fulbright Fellowship pursuing hepatitis research. Medical degree and doctorate in epidemiology are from the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Public Health in Baltimore, MD, and I also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cancer epidemiology with the World Health Organization in Lyon, France. I completed my internship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York followed by residency at the University of California-San Francisco, where I also served as Chief Resident.

Research Interest
Clinical and research interests focus on thoracic, cutaneous, and gastrointestinal malignancies, stereotactic body radiotherapy, HDR brachytherapy, novel radiosensitizers, development of novel imaging modalities in assessing/predicting treatment response, immunotherapy / immune system function for tumors, treatment of oligometastatic disease, re-irradiation, cancer epidemiology, clinical trials, improving quality of life for patients, and outcomes research.
Offering Research Opportunities
Yes
Prerequisite Courses
Data Collection, proficiency in Excel / RedCap / STATA/ SAS/R or other statistical analysis packages
Majors Considered
Basic Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics
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