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Helen Diller Family Compr Cancer Ctr
VERNON SMITH, PHD

Adjunct Professor, Radiation Oncology, UCSF

CONTACT

smith@radonc17.ucsf.edu
(415) 353-8670 (office), 353-8900 (Asst)
(415) 353-8679 (fax)

Box 0226, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0226

EDUCATION

University of Bristol, England, B.S., 1961, Physics
University of London, England, M.S., 1964, Radiation Physics
University of California, Berkeley & San Francisco, Ph.D., 1990, Bioengineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1961-1966

Hospital Physicist, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, England

1967-1970

Hospital Radiation Physicist, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

1968-1996

Research Associate, ERDA Laboratory of Radiobiology, (UCSF)

1970-1978

Supervising Hospital Radiation Physicist, UCSF

1967-1971

Clinical Instructor in Physics (Radiology), UCSF

1971-1976

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics (Radiology), UCSF

1976-1993

Adjunct Associate Professor, Physics Division, Department of Radiation Oncology, UCSF

1993-present

Adjunct Professor, Physics Division, Department of Radiation Oncology, UCSF

HONORS & AWARDS

1958-1961

United Kingdom State Scholarship

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Verhey, L, Smith V., Serago, C. Comparison of Treatment Modalities for Radiosurgery Based on Dose-Volume Histogram Analysis, Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys., 40(2): 497-505, 1998.

Smith, V., Verhey, L., Serago, C. Comparison of Treatment Modalities for Radiosurgery Based on Complication and Control Probabilities, Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys., 40(2): 507-513, 1998.

Seung SK., Sneed, PK., McDermott, MW., Shu HK., Leong SP., Chang, S., Petti, P., Smith, V., Verhey, L., Wara, W., et al. Gamma knife radiosurgery for malignant melanoma brain metastases: Relationship of Dose and Pattern of Enhancement to Local Control, Cancer Journal from Scientific American. 4(2):103-9, 1998.

Flickinger, J.C., Kondziolka, D., Lunsford, L.D., Pollock, B.E., Yamamoto, M., Gorman, D.A., Sneed, P., Larson, D., Smith, V., McDermott, M.W., Miyawaki, L., Chilton, J., Morantz, R.A., Young, B., Jokura, H., Licsak, R. A Multi-Institutional Analysis of Complication Outcomes After Arteriovenous Malformation Radiosurgery, Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys., 44(1): 67-74, 1999.

Miyawaki, L., Dowd, C., Wara, W., Goldsmith, B., Albright, N., Gutin, P., Halbach, V., Hieshima, G., Higashida, R., Lulu, B., Pitts, L., Schell, M; Smith, V., Weaver, K., Wilson, C., Larson, D. Five year results of LINAC radiosurgery for arteriovenous malformations: outcome for large AVMS. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys., 44(5):1089-106; 1999.

Ojemann, SG., Sneed, PK., Larson, DA., Gutin, PH., Berger, MS., Verhey, L., Smith, V., Petti, P., Wara, W., Park, E., McDermott, MW. Radiosurgery for Malignant Melanoma: Results in 22 Patients, J. Neurosurg. (Suppl 3) 93: 62-67, 2000.

Nakamura JL, Verhey LJ, Smith, V, Petti PL, Lamborn KR, Larson DA, Wara WM, McDermott MW, Sneed PK: Dose conformity of Gamma Knife radiosurgery and risk factors for complications., Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 51(5):1313-19; 2001.

Larson DA, Prados M, Lamborn KR, Smith V, Sneed PK, Chang S, Nicholas KM, Wara WM, Devriendt D, Kunwar S, Berger M, McDermott MW. Phase II study of high central dose Gamma Knife radiosurgery and marimastat in patients with recurrent malignant glioma. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys.; 54(5):1397-404; 2002.

Nakamura JL, Pirzkall A, Carol MP, Xia P, Smith V, Wara WM, Petti PL, Verhey LJ, Sneed PK.: Comparison of intensity-modulated radiosurgery with gamma knife radiosurgery for challenging skull base lesions. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys.;55(1):99-109; 2003.

Bond, J., Smith, V, Yue, N., Knisely, J. Comparison of an Image Registration Technique Based on Normalized Mutual Information with a Standard Method Utilizing Implanted Markers in the Staged Treatment of Large Arteriovenous Malformations, Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys.;57(4):1150-1158; 2003.

10/15/04

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