UCLA Journal of Radiation Oncology December First Edition - Flipbook - Page 17
UCLA RADIATION ONCOLOGY JOURNAL
CLAYTON SMITH, M.D.
Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, Dr. Smith grew up an avid
skier and developed an interest in medicine during grade school.
He attended the University of Notre Dame and graduated with a
degree in Anthropology. His immersive experiences working with
doctors and living with host families in India and Mexico solidified
his interest in becoming a physician with a plan to participate in
global research projects. He attended medical school at Georgetown University and conducted quality of life research on patients
undergoing stereotactic body radiation therapy for prostate cancer. Between his third and fourth year of medical school, he had
the opportunity to partake in the Medical Research Scholars Program at the National Institutes of Health developing a machine
learning algorithm for the detection of prostate cancer on MRI.
MATT FARRELL, M.D.
Dr. Farrell grew up in Sacramento. He studied film and creative
writing at Stanford University and earned a Master of Fine Arts in
Creative Writing at the University of Oregon, writing a collection
of short stories for his thesis and teaching undergraduate courses
for two years. Realizing that much of his creative work explored
illness and, more specifically, oncology, he began pursuing a career in medicine. Dr. Farrell attended medical school at Oregon
Health & Science University, where he conducted small cell lung
cancer research and led classes in narrative medicine. Dr. Farrell
stayed in Portland for his preliminary year in internal medicine
at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center. After, he moved to LA
with his wife, a fellow physician, to join the UCLA Radiation Oncology Residency Program.
17