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Rafe McBeth

Director of Artificial Intelligence, University of Pennsylvania Department of Radiation Oncology Rafe McBeth, PhD, DABR, is an Innovation Faculty member at the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I), the…

Dongming Xu

Division Head of Thoracic Imaging, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Dongming Xu, MD, PhD is an Innovation Faculty member at the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I), Assistant Professor of…

Tessa Cook

Vice Chair of Practice Transformation, Perelman School of Medicine Tessa Cook, MD, PhD is an Innovation Faculty member at the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I) and Associate Professor…

Eva Berlin

Eva Berlin, MD is an Innovation Faculty member at the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I) and Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at…

Farouk Dako

Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute (LDI) Farouk Dako, MD, MPH is an Innovation Faculty member at the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I), an Assistant Professor of Radiology in…

Surbhi Grover

Professor, Radiation Oncology, Perelman School of Medicine Adjunct faculty, Universities of Botswana, Witwatersrand, Pretoria, and Cape Town Surbhi Grover, MD, MPH is the Director of the Program in Global…

Pioneering Radiation Oncology Episode Payment

Project Description Whereas payment for radiotherapy treatment has historically been fee-for-service, Penn Medicine has pioneered episode-based payment: bundling payments for radiation services within a defined period of care as…

RadComp: Radiotherapy Comparative Effectiveness

Project Description Nearly 3 million women are living with breast cancer in the United States. Radiotherapy plays a major curative role in the treatment of breast cancers. Because of…

Direct and Spillover Impact of Utilization Management Policy on Uptake of Hypofractionated Radiation in Early-Stage Breast Cancer

Project Description Breast cancer accounts for the largest portion of cancer-related spending in the United States. Prior work has shown that while hypofractionated radiation following breast conservation surgery is…

Comparative Effectiveness of Proton Therapy Versus Photon Therapy as Part of Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy for Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer

Project Description The use of concurrent chemoradiotherapies is a standard curative treatment for many cancers but is associated with substantial morbidity including hospitalizations during treatment. PC3I researchers conducted a…