Clinical faculty
Mitchell S. Anscher
Douglas W. Arthur
Michael Chang
Laurie Cuttino
Michael Hagan
Christopher R. Johnson
Drew Moghanaki
Tony Mustain
Michelle Proper
Shiyu Song
Elisabeth Weiss
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Dr. Anscher received his B.S. from Stanford University in 1977, and his M.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in 1981. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at St. Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury, Connecticiut in 1984, and his residency in radiation oncology at Duke University in 1987. He is board certified in both internal medicine and radiation oncology. He was on the faculty at Duke University School of Medicine from 1987-2006. His clinical interests focus on the treatment of patients with genitourinary malignancies, especially prostate cancer. He has expertise in the use of both external beam radiation therapy and brachytherapy. His research interests include clinical trials in prostate cancer, as well as laboratory and clinical research into the prevention and treatment of normal tissue injury after cancer therapy. |
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Dr. Arthur received his M.D. in 1989 from Wake Forest University’s Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and completed his residency training in radiation oncology at the VCU School of Medicine in 1994. He completed his training with a clinical fellowship at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. His clinical and research interests include brachytherapy, management of breast and genitourinary malignancies, and soft tissue malignancies. |
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Dr. Cuttino holds a bachelor’s degree from Clemson University in chemical engineering with a minor in physics. She received her medical degree from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, where she completed an internship in internal medicine and residency training in radiation oncology. She was named Chief Resident in her final year of training. Dr. Cuttino has also completed a brachytherapy rotation at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and was awarded a fellowship in prostate brachytherapy from the American Brachytherapy Society. Her research focuses on accelerated partial breast irradiation. Her clinical interests include brachytherapy and stereotactic radiosurgery. Dr. Cuttino sees patients with all tumor types at Henrico Doctors' Hospital. |
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Dr. Hagan is a graduate of West Point and completed his medical training at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. His postgraduate medical education included an internship in internal medicine at Baylor and a radiation oncology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Hagan also holds graduate degrees in nuclear engineering and biophysics from the University of Illinois, and he studied as a fellow of the Atomic Energy Commission at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago. As a senior investigator, Dr. Hagan was chief of cellular radiation biology at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland where he authored numerous articles on the biological repair of radiation injury. His laboratory efforts at the Massey Cancer Center are directed toward the improvement of cancer control through the use of radiation treatment. Although Dr. Hagan specializes in the treatment of genito-urinary cancers, his published works have reported treatment improvements for cancers of the breast, lung and colon, and the bladder and prostate. |
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Dr. Johnson is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the VCU School of Medicine. He received his pathology and radiation oncology training at VCU (1983–86). His clinical interests and investigations focus on alternative schedules of radiation therapy for the treatment of malignancies of the head and neck. He is the medical director of radiation oncology at the Massey Cancer Center at Hanover Medical Park. |
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Dr. Moghanaki is a graduate of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and completed his clinical training in radiation oncology at the University of Pennsylvania. His clinical training includes an internship in general surgery at Vanderbilt University. He received his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from California Polytechnic State University, and during medical school was a recipient of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute research fellowship to study the biology of breast cancer progression and metastases. He holds a masters degree in public health from UCLA, and his academic areas of interest include clinical trial development, community outreach, and palliative care. Dr. Moghanaki currently sees patients at the Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Massey Cancer Center at Stony Point, and Massey Cancer Center at the Medical College of Virginia. |
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Mr. Mustain received his bachelor’s degree at the College of William and Mary and earned his M.B.A. at Virginia Commonwealth University. As practice administrator, Mr. Mustain is responsible for operational and financial management and the strategic development of the radiation oncology practice. |
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Dr. Proper received her bachelor degree in genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2003. She completed her internship at Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She went on to complete her residency at the University of Colorado at Denver and was named chief resident in her final year. Her prior research activities included evaluating the response of liver tumors over time after stereotactic body radiation therapy and the normal liver tissue response to radiation. She has also looked at the outcomes of solid pediatric cancers and decreasing late effects to the brain of pediatric patients. Her current clinical interests include central nervous system tumors, pediatric cancers and stereotactic body radiation therapy. She treats patients with stereotactic radiosurgery in the brain and stereotactic body radiation therapy for early stage lung and liver cancers, as well as for metastatic cancer. |
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Dr. Song received his M.D. in China and joined the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center as a research fellow in 1989. He participated in research projects to study new approaches for cancer therapy, including radioimmunotherapy and photodynamic therapy. He then received his Ph.D. in cancer biology from the University of Wisconsin, where he studied the mechanism of carcinogenesis by tumor viruses. He completed his internship at Marshfield Clinic/St. Joseph Hospital, Wisconsin and his residency training in radiation oncology at the University of Wisconsin Hospital. His clinical interests include head and neck cancers, lymphomas, lung cancer, and tumors of the central nervous system. His clinical research involves application of new technology such as IMRT and combined therapies in the management of head and neck cancer. |
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Dr. Weiss received her M.D. in Germany in 1990 and her medical doctorate degree in 1991. She completed her residency training in radiation oncology in 1997 after attending programs in Berne, Switzerland, as well as Wuerzburg, Tuebingen and Goettingen, Germany. She was on the faculty at Goettingen University from 1997 to 2009 and received an academic teacher’s degree in 2004. Since 2004 she has been performing research at VCU Department of Radiation Oncology and joined the clinical faculty in 2008. Her clinical interests include treatment of lung cancer, benign diseases and CNS tumors. She has special expertise in stereotactic body radiotherapy and respiration management. Her research interests include clinical trials in lung cancer, as well as translational research into four-dimensional aspects of radiotherapy and development of image guided adaptive radiotherapy. |
