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Helen Diller Family Compr Cancer Ctr
WILLIAM M. WARA, MD

Professor, Pediatrics and Radiation Oncology, UCSF

CONTACT

(415) 353-9807 (appts)
(415) 353-7182 (fax)

Box 1708, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-1708

additional websites:

UCSF Physician Referral Directory
EDUCATION

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, AB, 1964, Biology
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, MA, 1965, Biology
University of California, Irvine, CA, MD, 1969, Medicine

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1969-1970

Intern, University of California, Los Angeles County General Hospital, Los Angeles, CA

1970-1973

Resident, Division of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, CA

1970-1973

Fellow, HEW Therapeutic Radiology, University of California San Francisco, CA

1973-1974

Clinical Instructor, Division of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, CA

1974-1977

Assistant Professor in Residence, Division of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, CA

1977-1983

Associate Professor, Division of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, CA

1979-1983

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, CA

1983

Fellow, Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Fellowship, American Cancer Society, Royal Marsdan Hospital, London, England

1983-present

Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, CA

1998-2000

Interim Chairman, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, CA

2000-present

Chairman, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco

HONORS & AWARDS

1960

National Merit Scholarship Semi-finalist

1967

Lederle Research Fellowship

1967

Research Award of the University of California, Irvine, CA

1968

Mayo Clinic Trainee Fellowship

1975-1977

American Cancer Society, Junior Clinical Faculty Fellowship

1980

Volunteer of the Year, San Francisco Unit of the American Cancer Society

1983

Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Fellowship (American Cancer Society, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, England with H.J.G. Bloom, M.B.)

1983

Volunteer Recognition Award (10 year), American Cancer Society

1987-1991

American Cancer Society-National Council for Research, NY-Atlanta Member

1989

Honorary Member of The Texas Radiological Society

1989

Fellow, American College of Radiology (FACR)

1991

Hospice by the Bay Award

2000

Linse Bock Visiting Professor, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(Since 2001)

Levin VA, Lamborn K, Wara W, Davis R, Edwards M, Rabbitt J, Malec M, Prados M: Phase II Study of 6-thioguanine, procarbazine, dibromodulcitol, lomustine, and vincristine chemotherapy with radiotherapy for treating malignant glioma in children. Neuro-Oncology, 22-28,2000.

Haas-Kogan DA, Fisch BM, Wara WM, Swift PS, Farmer DL, Harrison MR, Albanese C, Weinberg V, Matthay KK: Intraoperative radiation therapy for high-risk pediatric neuroblastoma. Int. J. Radiation Oncology, Biol. Phys. 47:985-992, 2000.

Prados MD, Wara WM, Sneed PK, McDermott M, Chang SM, Rabbitt J, Page M, Malec M, Davis RL, Gutin PH, Lamborn K, Wilson CB, Phillips TL, Larson DA: Phase III trial of accelerated hyperfractionation with or without difluromethylornithine (DFMO) versus standard fractionated radiotherapy with or without DFMO for new diagnosed patients with glioblastoma multiforme. Int. J. Radiation Oncology, Biol. Phys., 49:71-77, 2001.

Bertucio CS, Wara WM, Matthay KK, Ablin AR, Johnston JO, OÍDonnell RJ, Weinberg V, Haas-Kogan DA: Functional and clinical outcomes of limb-sparing therapy for pediatric extremity sarcomas. Int. J. Radiation Oncology, Biol. Phys., 49:763-769, 2001.

Goodman KA, Sneed PK, McDermott MW, Shiau CY, Lamborn KR, Chang S, Park E, Wara WM, Larson DA: Relationship between pattern of enhancement and local control of brain metastases after radiosurgery. Int. J. Radiation Oncology, Biol. Phys. 50:139-146, 2001.

Hoffman R, Sneed PK, McDermott MW, Chang S, Lamborn KR, Park E, Wara WM, Larson DA: Radiosurgery for brain metastases from primary lung carcinoma. Cancer Journal, 7:121-131, 2001

Pirzkall A, McKnight TR, Graves EE, Carol MP, Sneed PK, Wara WM, Nelson SJ, Verhey LJ, Larson DA: MR-spectroscopy guided target delineation for high-grade gliomas. Int. J. Radiation Oncology, Biol. Phys. 50:915-928, 2001.

Barker FG, Simmons ML, Chang SM, Prados MD, Larson DA, Sneed PK, Wara WM, Berger MS, Chen P, Israel MA, Aldape K:EGFR overexpression and radiation response in glioblastoma multiforme. Int. J. Radiation Oncology, Biol. Phys. 51:410-418, 2001.

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. Radiation Oncology, Biol. Phys.51:1313-1319, 2001.

Pirzkall A, Nelson SJ, McKnight TR, Takahashi MM, Li X, Graves EE, Verhey LJ, Wara WM, Larson DA, Sneed PK: Metabolic imaging of low-grade gliomas with three-dimensional magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Int. J. Radiation Oncology, Biol. Phys. 53:1254-1264, 2002.

Smyth MD, Sneed PK, Ciricillo SF, Edwards MS, Wara WM, Larson DA, Lawton MT, Gutin PH, McDermott MW: Stereotactic radiosurgery for pediatric intracranial AVMs:UCSF experience. Jrn of Neurosrg 97:48-55, 2002

Larson DA, Prados M, Lamborn KR, Smith V, Sneed PK, Chang S, Nicholas KM, Wara WM, Devriendt D, Kunwar S, Berger M and McDermott M: Phase II study of high central dose gamma knife radiosurgery and marimastat in patients with recurrent malignant glioma. Int. J. Radiation Oncology, Biol. Phys. 54:1397-1404, 2002

Nakamura JL, Pirzkall A, Carol MP, Xia P, Smith V, Wara WM, Petti PL, Verhey LJ,and Sneed PK: Comparison of intensity -modulated radiosurgery with Gamma Knife radiosurgery for challenging skull base lesions. Int. J. Radiation Oncology, Biol. Phys. 55:99-109, 2003

Haas-Kogan D, Missett BT, Wara WM, Donaldson SS, Lamborn KR, Prados M, Fisher PG, Huhn SL, Fisch BM, Berger MS, Le QT: Radiation therapy for intracranial germ cell tumors. Int. J. Radiation Oncology, Biol. Phys. 56:511-518, 2003.

Ware ML, Larson DA, Sneed PK, Wara WM, McDermott MW: Surgical resection and permanent brachytherapyfor recurrent atypical and malignant meningioma. Neurosurgery, 54:55, 2004.

Larson DA, Suplica JM, Chang SM, Lamborn, KR, McDermott MW, Sneed PK, Prados MD, Wara WM, Nocholas MK, Berger MS: Permanent iodine 125 brachytherapy in patients with progressive or recurrent glioblastoma multiforme. Neuro-Oncology (6), 2004.

11/15/04

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