Radiation oncology faculty welcome Hu

Dr. Yida Hu, a medical physicist in radiation oncology with an interest in clinical techniques for radiation therapy dosimetry and IGRT, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of radiation oncology.

After receiving the B.S. in mechanical-electronic engineering in 2000 and the Ph.D. in mechanical-electronic engineering in 2006 from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Hu did medical physics research training in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Pennsylvania from 2007-10. Hu completed his clinical residency training with the CAMPEP accreditation in the Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, in 2012.

As an active member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, Hu serves as a therapeutic physicist certified by the American Board of Radiology. He has authored and coauthored 15 articles in peer-reviewed publications and more than two dozen peer-reviewed proceedings and abstracts.