Jean L. Nakamura, MD

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, A.B., 1993, Biological Sciences
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, M.D., 1998, Medicine
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Internship, 1999, Internal Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, Postdoctorate, 2002, Neuro-Oncology
University of California, San Francisco, Residency, 2003, Radiation Oncology

• 1998-1999
  Medical Intern, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• 1999-2003
  Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, UCSF
• 2001-2002
  Research Fellow, UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center
• 2003-2005
  Clinical Instructor, Department of Radiation Oncology, UCSF
• 2005-2007
  Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, UCSF
• 2007-present
  Assistant Professor In Residence, Department of Radiation Oncology, UCSF

• 1990
  Illinois State Scholar
• 1990
  National Merit Scholarship
• 1993
  Graduated with General Honors from The University of Chicago College in the Biological Sciences
• 1995
  Student Summer Research Award, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine
• 1998
  Catherine Dobson Prize for Best Oral Presentation given at 52nd Annual Senior Scientific Session by a Non-PhD Student in the Area of Clinical Investigation Research done in Medical School
• 1998
  University of Chicago Departmental Award for Outstanding Performance in the General Field of Radiation Oncology
• 2001
  Radiological Society of North America Roentgen Award for Resident Research for the paper, "Dose conformity of gamma knife radiosurgery and risk factors for complications"
• 2002
  Radiological Society of North America Roentgen Award for Resident Research for the paper, "Inhibition of PI3 kinase causes cell death through a PKB dependent mechanism and growth arrest through a PKB independent mechanism"
• 2002
  American Brain Tumor Association Basic Research Fellowship Award
• 2004
  American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology Basic Science Travel Grant to the 46th Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA
• 2008
  Irene Holmes Perstein Award, UCSF

• A. Panner, J.L. Nakamura, A. T. Parsa, P. Rodriguez-Viciana, M. S. Berger, D. Stokoe, and R. O. Pieper. mTOR-independent translational control of the extrinsic cell death pathway by RalA. Mol. Cell Biol 2006 Aug
• J.L. Nakamura. The role of EGFR in the pathogenesis of glioblastoma multiforme. Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets. 2007 Apr; 11(4): 463-72.
• J.L. Nakamura, D.A. Haas-Kogan, R.O. Pieper. Development of a co-culture model to measure glioma invasion. Int J Rad Oncol Biol Phys 2007 ; 69(3): 880-6.
• N. Kased, K. Huang, J.L. Nakamura, A. Sahgal, D.A. Larson, M.W. McDermott, P.K. Sneed. Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for brainstem metastases: the UCSF experience. J Neuro-Oncology 2008 Jan; 86(2): 195-205.
• J.L. Nakamura, E. Garcia, R.O. Pieper. S6K1 plays a key role in glial transformation. Cancer Res 2008 Aug; 68(16): 6516-23.
• D.W. Golden, K.R. Lamborn, M.W. McDermott, S. Kunwar, W.M. Wara, J.L. Nakamura, P.K. Sneed. Prognostic Grading for Radiosurgical Treatment of Brain Metastases: Is One System Adequate? J Neurosurgery 2008 Dec (109): 77-86.
• N. Kased, D.K. Binder, M.W. McDermott, J.L. Nakamura, K. Huang, M.S. Berger, W.M. Wara, P.K. Sneed. Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases from Primary Breast Cancer. Int J Rad Oncol Biol Phys 2009 Apr 2.
• L. Ma, A. Sahgal, C. Chuang, M. Descovich, P. Petti, V. Smith, L. Verhey, N. Barbaro, M. McDermott, K. Huang, J. Nakamura, P. Sneed, D. Larson. Functional Relationship between the volume of a near-target peripheral isodose line and its isodose value for Gamma Knife Radiosurgery. Radiosurgery 2010, Vol. 7, pp.75-83.