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UCLA RADIATION ONCOLOGY JOURNAL
YU GAO, Ph.D.
Dr. Gao was born in China, and came to the United States for graduate school after receiving her bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics. During graduate school, she developed a strong interest
in the translational research of applying advanced imaging techniques for cancer diagnosis, which led her to pursue a Ph.D. in
biomedical physics at UCLA. Her Ph.D. work focused on advanced
diffusion-weighted MRI sequence development as well as applying diffusion MRI for tumor treatment response assessment. Now
staying at UCLA as a physics resident, her research interests include MR guided radiotherapy and online adaptive radiotherapy.
ERIC MORRIS, Ph.D.
After serving as a first responder for the Peace Corps, Dr. Morris
pursued a Ph.D. in Medical Physics in his home state of Michigan
at Wayne State University. At the Henry Ford Cancer Institute, he
pioneered research to integrate cardiac substructures into treatment planning. Dr. Morris was able to generate a deep learning
model to automatically segment clinical scans for improved radiation sparing of sensitive cardiac substructures. He is an active
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) member,
serving on the student and trainee subcommittee, as well as the
working group for student and trainee research.
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