Radiation Oncology

The Department of Radiation Oncology is committed to conducting cutting-edge research, delivering high-quality cancer care, and training tomorrow’s physicians, medical physicists, and radiation therapy healthcare professionals.

Welcome to Radiation Oncology

As part of Emory University School of Medicine and Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, the Department of Radiation Oncology is leading the way in research of innovative radiotherapy technologies and treatment options, providing advanced, personalized clinical care by world-class doctors and cancer care professionals, and robust training programs for the next generation of radiation oncology specialists.

The Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology is Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil.

About Us

Education and Training

To train radiation oncologists and medical physicists to be leaders in our field, we offer two residency programs. In addition, we also host training programs in dosimetry and radiation therapy.

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Research

Research benefits our patients. Investigative research and discoveries in our laboratories fuel advances in cancer biology, medical physics, biomedical imaging and more.

Patient Care

The Emory Department of Radiation Oncology is committed to using the latest technologies in order to provide highly individualized treatment for our patients.

Radiation oncologist Dr. Sagar Patel with a patient.

Divisions

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University

The Department of Radiation Oncology is part of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Georgia's only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center.

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Department News

More Department News

Emory medical physics research featured at AAPM Annual Meeting August 4, 2025

Researchers from the Department of Radiation Oncology shared their latest discoveries at the 67th annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in Washington D.C., July 27-30, 2025.

Emory medical physicists gathered at the 2025 AAPM Annual Meeting

New technique identifies potential new treatment targets in hard-to-treat cancers July 3, 2025

Kyle Miller, PhD, and collaborators have developed a novel technique called BLOCK-ID that identifies key proteins involved in replication stress in aggressive cancers, revealing four promising new treatment targets.

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Jagsi elected to National Academy of Medicine October 21, 2024

Winship researcher and physician Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in health and medicine, for pioneering research in disparities in cancer outcomes and within the medical profession.

Dr. Reshma Jagsi in lobby of Winship at Emory Midtown.

Winship News

Emory’s Center for New Medicines announces first cohort of therapeutic projects Aug. 27, 2025

The Center for New Medicines, which aims to harness the plethora of discoveries from across the Emory ecosystem to accelerate them into the early stages of drug development, has selected its inaugural cohort of eight therapeutic research projects.

From bench to breakthrough Jul. 30, 2025

Read how cutting-edge health innovations, including therapeutics, tools and technologies, developed by Emory researchers are saving lives around the globe.

New study uncovers how prostate cancer becomes deadly and offers hope for new treatments Jul. 24, 2025

The findings, published in Nature Genetics, offer critical insights into why some prostate cancers become resistant to therapy and how that shift could be blocked.